short story Archives - Russell Cordner

Going Masq-Free on Medium

admin — Fri, 02 Apr 2021 05:05:20 +0000

No, this is not some crazy anti-mask rant. Apologies if you were anticipating one. I wear masks all the time.

However, in a much more exciting corner of the world my short story The Masq is now available on Medium for free.

You can read it here.

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New Short Story: The Streamer

admin — Thu, 23 May 2019 03:42:15 +0000

My latest short story is now available at Amazon and other online retailers.

Peepr is the hottest new online video platform. And Reywood Foster is quitting his miserable day job to become a full-time streamer. Of course, gaining followers and becoming an online sensation isn’t as easy as one, two, three.

Or is it?

When Foster initiates an open chat session for people to ask him anything, viewer Methisto makes him an offer that is impossible to turn down.

Follow the escalation in this 17k-word story, a cautionary tale for the YouTube page.

Check out The Streamer page for links an an excerpt.

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short adventures group giveaway

admin — Wed, 24 Apr 2019 12:00:48 +0000

There aren’t too many short story giveaways I’ve come across, so I was pleased to join this one on Prolific Works.

Follow this link to download my story The Acid Trip Prophecy and many other sci-fi short reads for FREE!

The event runs April 25th through May 24th. (That’s 2019, of course.)

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the masq is free for three

admin — Sat, 20 Apr 2019 00:44:19 +0000

That’s right, The Masq short story is three for three days on Amazon. The campaign runs from Sunday to Tuesday.

Specifically: Sunday, April 21, 2019, 12:00 AM PDT to Tuesday, April 23, 2019, 11:59 PM PDT.

It’s three-month stint in Kindle Unlimited will have run its course in May and I will not be re-enrolling it the program.

Instead, I will be putting the story up on other platforms, such as Barnes & Noble, Kobo, 24 Symbols, etc. (I’m still on the fence regarding Smashwords).

However, I’m not abandoning the Kindle Unlimited, and my upcoming novella The Humid will be available through Kindle Unlimited. It releases April 14 and is available for pre-order on Amazon. (The ebook can be pre-ordered, the paperback version cannot.)

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the power of one little review

admin — Wed, 13 Mar 2019 16:15:51 +0000

My wrists and eyes are burning as I wrap up this final-ish edit of my novella The Humid, so I took a short break to see how my short story, The Masq, is doing on Amazon.

Not great. Not even good, actually.

But I’m neither surprised nor disappointed. It’s a short story, and the only written work by an unknown author, on a website with nearly fifty million books.

I clicked my way over to Goodreads, just to see if there had been any activity there. Two people gave it a rating, four stars and five stars. That made me grin.

But what made me smile was the review that one of them left.

Short, interesting and beautifully written.
This was much more than short story.

This was much more than a review. It made the pain in my arms secondary, and galvanized me to get this edit finished. Thank you, random guy who read my book.

There are only two periodicals where I plan to submit my novella, so perhaps The Humid will be available on Amazon fairly soon.

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