{"id":40,"date":"2014-12-28T01:59:27","date_gmt":"2014-12-28T01:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ehub45.webhostinghub.com\/~keithe9\/eliseforieredie.com\/?page_id=40"},"modified":"2023-12-31T20:25:22","modified_gmt":"2023-12-31T20:25:22","slug":"more","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/eliseforieredie.com\/?page_id=40","title":{"rendered":"STORIES & MORE (and some free reads!)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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FREE READ: The Orderly<\/a> is a horror story based on a newspaper article. A nursing home in California was closed down for mistreating its patients, but the state locked the doors with helpless people still inside. With staff gone and a holiday weekend approaching, a brave cook and janitor stayed the weekend to keep everyone alive. In Mysterion Magazine<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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FREE READ (AND LISTEN): “Raptor Boy”<\/a>  a YA story about a young man fighting neo-Nazi pagans in a northern Minnesota town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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FREE LISTEN: My story “You Go Back,” about a demon set loose in P.T. Barnum’s American Museum, is up at The Gallery of Curiosities<\/a>, a weird and wonderful fiction podcast. This story also appears in the anthology Strange Tales V<\/a>, edited by Rosalie Parker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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FREE READ: A flash fiction piece “Heard” appears in  Metaphorosis Magazine<\/a>. “Heard” was inspired by the speculative articles and reports about cloning baby mammoths. The story also appears in a Metaphorosis anthology, Metaphorosis: Best of 2016<\/a>, available in paperback and e book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 FREE READ: And, if you are a fan of the Oz books you might enjoy this free read over at The Nonbinary Review<\/em>. The Love Magnet<\/a> <\/em>is a modern take on what might have happened to the Shaggy Man of Oz today, if he showed the wrong sort of person his famous magic talisman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One of my favorite horror stories “Backwater Saints” is about a failed rock musician and his undead lead singer. You can buy it at the Alban Lake Store<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If you are looking for short plays, especially for young people, a few of mine appear in ORIGINAL MIDDLE SCHOOL SCENES AND MONOLOGUES<\/a>, edited by Kent R. Brown<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And the AUDITION ARSENAL SERIES<\/a>, published by Smith and Kraus has two of my monologues included in it. \u00a0One–in the Monologues for Women in Their Twenties<\/em><\/strong> edition–has a piece from La Llorona and Other Tales of the American Southwest<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. \u00a0The other–in the Monologues for Men in Their Thirties<\/em><\/strong> edition–has a piece from a play called The Last Stand of the Comanche Rider<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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