Rollin' Out that Fiction!

A dead body blocks entrance or exit to an apartment building. Sailors eat bruised apples and smoke cigarettes as their ship sinks. A young man tries to hitchhike to see his dying father. A young girl finds that she needs to cut something off any time she gets stuck.

What do they have in common? In this collection of short vignettes, Electric Sheep Press' Amelia Shackelford (Spelly Scribe) explores a variety of troublesome situations, how to get out of them, and what happens when you just can't.


Exit Wounds is available on Amazon Kindle for just $0.99. Something to hold you over till we release the next chapters of oSWAT and Fighting Fire! Check it out. Let us know what you think!

Fighting Fire: Fuel is free for the next two days

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Days after moving from Texas to California, fifteen year-old Alex Parker's family is killed in a botched police raid. Days later, officers involved with the raid start dying in freak accidents. Alex was kicked out of three different schools in Texas for alleged hacking. Could she be behind the killings?
FUEL, the first installment of FIGHTING FIRE sets the stage.

Good people make bad decisions, and we all know what paves the road to hell.

Defcon Short Story Contest

We entererd the Defcon Short Story Contest. Our story is called In too Deep and can be found here. If you like it vote for us in the peoples choice poll!

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TopFic: 3D Printers is out!

TopFic:3D printers is a short read about the fictional issue of using 3D printers to make weapons! It is available on Amazon now as a Kindle download.

TopFic: 3D Printers

#3 - Remedies for the Supernaturally Afflicted: Evicting the Blob and Dating a Succubus

We have a very special edition of “Remedies for the Supernaturally Afflicted” for you today! While we only have two questions for you, we feel that they’ll more than suffice. Both questions hail from our own favorite city of Atlanta, Georgia (whatcanwedoforya?), and both have, let’s just say, some... legal ambiguities...

1. I have a big problem. And i mean BIG. My house has been taken over by what i can only describe as a "The Blob." 

So, I just moved into my first house, everything was going great until i got all moved in and finally got a chance to use the shower. I saw something work its way out of the drain, then it popped the screen and a reddish, gooey tentacle came out and made straight for my foot. 

So I make it out of the shower and the thing* kind of went back in the drain.  I went underneath the house and he was all up in the crawl space, I barely made it out of there too.  i found out later that before i bought the place, nobody was in there for over a year. So, i'm thinking he's just like a squatter, except he's a The Blob, so then i call the cops. 

Well, the cops tell me they really can't do anything if he's not being violent at the moment -it's not like they can taser the dude and drag him out in cuffs - so he's got to be legally evicted. First, i'm thinking: why are they treating him like a regular squatter, right? So the next day i call my agent, which leads to the lawyer telling me to go downtown and get everything documented…and it turns out that in the time the house was empty, The Blob moved in and he paid the fucking property tax for 2012! there's a check for $1,900 signed "The Blob" in county fucking records!

So I'm begging you guys, please help me. there's no way this guy gets "squatters rights" and there's no way i'm giving up my house, but I'm not staying there for fear that he absorbs me at night or something.

Sincerely,

Sleepless in Atlanta

"Come at me, Bro!"

Another Taste...

A little while ago, we gave you a taste of things to come, the first chapter in ESP's flagship novel oSWAT... We threw a lot at you in just a few pages' worth of material... With scenarios like a baffling brush war in South America and a monstrous killing machine, powered by the mind of a child, you probably came away with more questions than answers.

But have no fear! You're gonna come away from the next chapter with even more questions! And whaddaya know? The second taste's free, too. We are some seriously benevolent pushers.

2. SPIN, RITA, SPIN

Ten years later...

“Are you ready for them, Ms. Arrington?” he asks me, a wry smile creeping up the right side of his face.

“Mr. Bennett-Dyson, after that speech, I feel like you’ve handed me the Keys to Press City,” I laugh. The CEO of The Shining Corporation is a tall man with thick gray hair, a winning smile, and a smooth tongue. At least, that’s how he’s always appeared to me in our SoReal meetings. I assume reality is pretty close to projection. You don’t get to be the head of the world’s largest, most profitable corporation hiding behind a mask  and blundering over words.

“I should hope so!” He pats me on the shoulder and joins his security detail. He could just fade out, as most people do when leaving a SoReal session, but Asher Bennett-Dyson prefers to make an exit. I think “fading out” in any sense of the phrase is probably against his religion.

More coming soon! Chapter 1 is already available on Amazon at oSWAT: The Games Children Play

#2 - Remedies for the Supernaturally Afflicted: The Superhero Edition

We’ve noticed a trend in the questions coming across our supernatural law expert’s desk in the past few weeks. We’ve seen a great decline in issues with zombies, virtually no vampires or werewolves. We did get one very interesting question about the Blob, but we’ve gotten so many questions concerning issues with superheroes that we’ve decided to dedicate an entire issue of Remedies for the Supernaturally Afflicted to these issues. Maybe it has something to do with the impending release of Iron Man 3. Maybe it’s all a coincidence. We may never know, but what we do know is demand. And we’re more than happy to supply...

1. A superhero in a gold and red suit (I can’t say for sure, but I think it was [NAME REDACTED]) got into a fight with a self-proclaimed super villain. The “hero” threw my car at the “villain.” While that stopped the fight, I am now stuck riding the bus to work…

On Foot in New York

It's this guy, isn't it? You may not have a case...