Thanks to the efforts of my covers-and-conversion squad (Tara and Will), I have a new InCryptid short for your reading pleasure—and it's the longest one yet. "Sweet Poison Wine" is the story of Jonathan and Fran's honeymoon, which goes precisely as smoothly as you'd expect, given that it's the two of them.
You can download this, and earlier free stories, here:
Please download and read locally, for the sake of my server.
This post will also serve as the discussion post, if anyone wants to talk about the story once they're done. Thanks again to everyone for reading, and for those of you who were able to chip in to the recent tip jar. The prizes begin to flow!
omg, thank you. I just (like JUST, as in, "snuck away from my desk to hide in the supply closet" JUST) finished reading Midnight Blue-Light Special. I NEED MORE JUST STICK THE IV IN MY ARM PLZ.
Many, many thanks to you and your cover and conversion squad. I'm so happy to have something to read on the bus home! Now counting the hours until I actually get on the bus for home...
Loved it. Your ability to seamlessly weave the fantastic and the mundane is, as usual, a thing of beauty. I do hope that some day you'll be able to sell these short stories as a book I can put on the shelf, because I'd love to have them more accessible.
Jonathan and Frances Healy are rapidly turning into the Nick and Nora of monster hunters. I am this close to actually buying Westward Weird just to read "The Flower of Arizona"; I am enjoying them so much. Especially Fran. Where does she hide her throwing knives?
Loved it! A fun read that demanded to be devoured in a single sitting, with the added bonus that it was just the right length (one beer, one coffee mug of pretzels) to finish off the evening. More mice! Yay! (Are we ever going to get a tale told from the murine viewpoint? That'd be a ~strange~ story, I'd bet.)
YAY! Thank you. Husband Miles and I just read it in parallel over our dinner this evening. He was having a rough time at work yesterday and I told him about the story as a lovely thing to look forward to and I waited to read it until he could.
Marvelous. Many bits that made me laugh out loud and we happily traded lines we really really enjoyed.
I was a bit confused - they had lunch with the tiramisu and then went back to the hotel for a "nap", did other honeymoonish expected things and THEN fell asleep, and then they are next woken up in the middle of the night. Well, I suppose honeymoonish activities might go long enough to miss dinner, or just might make you sleep that soundly.
I am not familiar with shipping tunnels...
Jonathan Healy, you are a colder man than I thought!
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Loved it. Your ability to seamlessly weave the fantastic and the mundane is, as usual, a thing of beauty. I do hope that some day you'll be able to sell these short stories as a book I can put on the shelf, because I'd love to have them more accessible.
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Loved it! A fun read that demanded to be devoured in a single sitting, with the added bonus that it was just the right length (one beer, one coffee mug of pretzels) to finish off the evening. More mice! Yay! (Are we ever going to get a tale told from the murine viewpoint? That'd be a ~strange~ story, I'd bet.)
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And yes, eventually, but it won't be as funny as people think.
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Marvelous. Many bits that made me laugh out loud and we happily traded lines we really really enjoyed.
I was a bit confused - they had lunch with the tiramisu and then went back to the hotel for a "nap", did other honeymoonish expected things and THEN fell asleep, and then they are next woken up in the middle of the night. Well, I suppose honeymoonish activities might go long enough to miss dinner, or just might make you sleep that soundly.
I am not familiar with shipping tunnels...
Jonathan Healy, you are a colder man than I thought!
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