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Posted By : Thirdy Lopez - 6/15/2008 9:07 PM
Hi, guys. NiteBlade, a spec fic site is holding a poll and asking readers to vote for their favorite poem and story that has previously been featured on their site.  I've written a collection of haiku called IMAGINARIUM and a story entitled MAGIC BEANS for Niteblade. I don't ask people to vote for my stories or poems and expect them to do what i tell them to, so if you've got 5 minutes of spare time, do head on over to the site...
 
 
There are links to the stories and poems. If you enjoy IMAGINARIUM and MAGIC BEANS, then place your votes. :) If my writing leaves a bad taste in your mouth, then you can vote for someone else's poem and story. No problemo. I won't leave carcasses of dead animals on your porch or spit in your coffee. lol 
 
I forgot to mention, the poems and stories with the highest number of votes will be featured in a print anthology.


Aurelio Rico Lopez III aka "Thirdy" has had fiction featured in COLD FLESH (Hellbound Books), THE BLACKEST DEATH I, II, and III (Black Death Books), SPORTY SPEC: GAMES OF THE FANTASTIC (Raven Electrick Ink), STAR-SPANGLED ZOMBIE (Maniac Press), RAW MEAT (Sideshow Press), SHADOW BOX (Brimstone Press), TRIP THE LIGHT HORRIFIC (RAGE machine Books), DEAD MEN (AND WOMEN) WALKING (Bards and Sages), and THE BOOK OF SHADOWS VOL. I (Brimstone Press).  His poems have appeared in Mythic Delirium, Star*Line, Dark Animus, Goblin Fruit, Scifaikuest, Electric Velocipede, Sybil's Garage, The Horror Express, Down In the Cellar, and elsewhere.


Posted By : RHFay - 6/16/2008 2:06 PM

Uh-oh, Thirdy, we're competing against each other. Well, at least our poems are. That's the downside of appearing in many of the same places.

This is a terrible situation for me, because I want to support my friends, but I also really want to be in that anthology. I wish I could be a bit more laid back about it. I admire your attitude about the whole thing.

Well, "Corpse-Candles" was still in the lead last I checked, so how 'bout I say right now go vote for Thirdy's poem and story!

The story is an effectively ironic twist on the "Jack and the Beanstalk" fairy tale, and the poem is a cute piece (a collection of speculative haiku).  I especially like the bit about the physician's unique patient, but then again I'm partial to dragons.


"I'm going to do what the warriors of old did. I'm going to recite poetry!" 
 
Richard H. Fay - Azure Lion Productions 

Posted By : Thirdy Lopez - 6/17/2008 12:59 AM
Heya, Richard. I don't doubt for a moment that Corpse Candles will be in the anthology. :)

I'm glad you liked Magic Beans and my haiku collection. Thanks for the plug, by the way. LOL

Best of luck to you!

- Thirdy


Aurelio Rico Lopez III aka "Thirdy" has had fiction featured in COLD FLESH (Hellbound Books), THE BLACKEST DEATH I, II, and III (Black Death Books), SPORTY SPEC: GAMES OF THE FANTASTIC (Raven Electrick Ink), STAR-SPANGLED ZOMBIE (Maniac Press), RAW MEAT (Sideshow Press), SHADOW BOX (Brimstone Press), TRIP THE LIGHT HORRIFIC (RAGE machine Books), DEAD MEN (AND WOMEN) WALKING (Bards and Sages), and THE BOOK OF SHADOWS VOL. I (Brimstone Press).  His poems have appeared in Mythic Delirium, Star*Line, Dark Animus, Goblin Fruit, Scifaikuest, Electric Velocipede, Sybil's Garage, The Horror Express, Down In the Cellar, and elsewhere.


Posted By : erazmus - 9/27/2008 7:44 PM
Best of luck to both of you!

Mike


Michael D. Turner
"Psyched Up" in _Turn the other Chick_-ed. E. Friesner-Baen books
www.baen.com
"Dutchman Rescue"in Continuum SF #6
www.continuumsciencefiction.com/orders.htm

"An Incident at Black Tongue Tavern" in _Bash Down the Door and Slice Open the Badguy_ from Fantasist Enterprises:

www.fantasistent.com/books/anthologies/BASH.php
"Pink Plastic Flamingos" in Big Pulp
www.bigpulp.com/m.html
"Stains" in Tales of the Talisman 3-1 www.zianet.com/hadrosaur/index.html
"Morning Coffee" in Every Day Fiction
www.everydayfiction.com/morning-coffee-by-michael-d-turner/
"The Jewel Below" in Flashing Swords
flashingswords.sfreader.com/issues/issue8/vol2-iss8-05.htm
"Happy Landings" in Every Day Fiction
www.everydayfiction.com/happy-landings-by-michael-d-turner/
"Teller of Tales" in Every day Fiction
www.everydayfiction.com/teller-of-tales-by-michael-d-turner/
Read "Silver Shells" In Every Day Fiction
www.everydayfiction.com/silver-shells-by-michael-d-turner/


Posted By : Firlefanz - 9/28/2008 4:13 AM
Mike is right: Best of luck for both of you!

:-)


- Call me Firle.

Hannah Steenbock

Mystical Adventures
Sphaira

"Something New Under the Sun" in - Antipodean SF, Issue 119, Story 06
"Minkus, the Masterful Magic-Mender" in - AlienSkin Magazine, May 2008, Featured Fiction
"Der Weg nach Eridani" in Earth Rocks 3/2007 (pdf)
"Die arische Frau" in Pandaimonion - Die Formel des Lebens


Posted By : Thirdy Lopez - 9/29/2008 9:27 AM
Thanks, guys. Great news! Rich and I made the cut, and we both have works featured in the anthology. :)


Aurelio Rico Lopez III aka "Thirdy" has had fiction featured in COLD FLESH (Hellbound Books), THE BLACKEST DEATH I, II, and III (Black Death Books), SPORTY SPEC: GAMES OF THE FANTASTIC (Raven Electrick Ink), STAR-SPANGLED ZOMBIE (Maniac Press), RAW MEAT (Sideshow Press), SHADOW BOX (Brimstone Press), TRIP THE LIGHT HORRIFIC (RAGE machine Books), DEAD MEN (AND WOMEN) WALKING (Bards and Sages), and THE BOOK OF SHADOWS VOL. I (Brimstone Press).  His poems have appeared in Mythic Delirium, Star*Line, Dark Animus, Goblin Fruit, Scifaikuest, Electric Velocipede, Sybil's Garage, The Horror Express, Down In the Cellar, and elsewhere.


Posted By : Firlefanz - 9/29/2008 10:44 AM
Yay! Congrats, that's the best outcome possible!

:-)


- Call me Firle.

Hannah Steenbock

Mystical Adventures
Sphaira

"Something New Under the Sun" in - Antipodean SF, Issue 119, Story 06
"Minkus, the Masterful Magic-Mender" in - AlienSkin Magazine, May 2008, Featured Fiction
"Der Weg nach Eridani" in Earth Rocks 3/2007 (pdf)
"Die arische Frau" in Pandaimonion - Die Formel des Lebens