Bloody Twine

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D-Shift is ready for sale.

D-Shift is ready for sale.

I wrote this book back between 2017 and 2018. I was still kind of out of my head back then, but what came out of this writing during that time was a strange literary wonder that I only barely remember writing.

Back then, when it was first published on Amazon, it had poor editing, poor proofreading, and terrible cover art, and it was limited to Amazon.

I rereleased this on November 29th of this year, and now it has professional editing, proofreading, and a fantastic cover.

It’s now being sold everywhere (online anyway). I’m talking Walmart, Target, Barnes and Nobles, Amazon, and various other bookstores and sites.

This book was definitely not my typical genre. It is a young-adult, science-fiction, teen romance that is wholesome and clean. That’s like the exact opposite of the blood-soaked horror I normally write, but it stands as one of my favorite books of all time, because like I said, I was out of my head when I wrote it.

I chalk it up to that 1000 monkeys on typewriters in a burning building during an earthquake kind of thing.

Here is the description for it:

THE EXPLOSION CHANGED EVERYTHING!

Nancy Clark is an athletic, pretty, seventeen-year-old girl who’d simply wanted to bike down Bitter Creek Road on a normal sunny Saturday when the unthinkable occurred: The Breckenridge Institute of Discovery exploded as she was biking past it.

The government-funded research complex vaporized in a ball of blue light, and she was knocked off her bike from the blast. Injured and in shock, she bikes home, only to discover that no one, no one anywhere, remembers the existence of the Institute.

To make matters worse, she wakes up every single day to discover she’s shifted to a new, daily, parallel universe where the human race is different each time. In one universe, everyone’s an elf, and in the next, they’re spider-hybrids. Each new day brings about a new challenge as she tries to adapt to the human race’s new look: part bird, part snake, part jellyfish, part plant, cyborgs, or even vampires!

With her best friend, Rain Fischer, an eccentric young genius, by her side, Nancy and Rain must solve the mystery of why Nancy’s the world’s first dimensionaut, and more importantly, how to stop her shifting for good.

This mystery of bizarre science gone wrong is only complicated by the presence of Danny Princeton, the biggest loser, dork, and social outcast in school. Danny needs advice on how to get a girl, and Nancy takes it upon herself to help him with that monumental task in spite of her dimensional shifting. She feels she needs to because she wronged Danny, and she feels genuinely sorry for how she’d treated him in the past.

Will Nancy ever stop shifting, and will she be able to help Danny find that special someone?

D-Shift is a young adult, science-fiction, teen romance that anyone can enjoy.

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JILL S. SMITH'S SUMMER VACATION

Dorky Jill S. Smith visits both Heaven and Hell during her summer vacation.

I've been gone for a while, mainly to publish some books, but now I'm back, and now I'm ready to put forth this quirky, juicy little tale involving a horny college student who can't get laid on account of the fact that she's a giant dork, so a summer vacation to Hell, then to Heaven, and then back again is in order.

You can catch this wonderful little comedy in the Your Bundle of Fear section at bloodytwine.com.

Here's an excerpt:

This man was indeed tall, at least six-foot-five, a full foot taller than Jill. He wore his grey business suit well, along with a white button-up dress shirt, a red tie, and fine black dress shoes. His hands were covered by fine grey velvet gloves. He had well-sculpted short black hair in a business cut, but she could not see his face because he wore a mask...

You can read this and other great stories (mostly horror) at bloodytwine.com.

Note: The images for this post were generated via artificial intelligence courtesy of OpenAI.

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THE VENUS ROSE

Adeline leads her new inductee to the Venus Rose.

The Venus Rose.

New Story Up! This little semi-erotic short involves the regaining of youth, beauty, and fertility, all from the "benevolence" of a giant alien plant.

You can catch this disturbing diva drama in the Your Bundle of Fear section at bloodytwine.com.

Here is an excerpt:

Michelle turned and carefully lowered the white hood over Chastity’s head, revealing the young woman’s face and bald head. Chastity was in a white robe with gold filigree along the hems, so seeing her true face exposed had to be a shock for the ‘older’ woman. The young and mentally-unstable bald woman was drooling and glazy-eyed, so the tranquilizer was definitely doing its work…

You can read this and other great short horror stories on bloodytwine.com.

Note: The image for this story and this post was generated via artificial intelligence courtesy of OpenAI and modified courtesy of Canva.com.

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OUT OF TIME

Margriss has the realization of a lifetime.

New story up! This dark little horror gem proves there's more than one way to be "out of time."

You can read this nasty little tale in the Your Bundle of Fear section at bloodytwine.com.

Here is an excerpt:

Margriss reached up and ran her hand along 4H12B5’s cranial dome. The plasti-steel dome that made up the top part of the young female’s head was transparent, the small pink brain clearly visible within that dome, that dome a replacement of skull that began just above the eyebrows. There were quick flashes of brightly-colored lights along the small pink brain, as the nano-coating over that brain was reacting to Margriss’s immediate instructions...

You can read this and other great short horror stories at bloodytwine.com.

Note: The image for this story was generated via artificial intelligence courtesy of OpenAI and modified courtesy of Canva.com.

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Man, I'm getting really tired of the AI slop YouTube shorts where the cat brings home some random animal to nurse and take care of, so I decided to make my own images. I think it was the baby kangaroo that did it for me, so here's my take:

Look what my cat brought home!

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ORIENTATION

Emily attends orientation for her new, very-permanent job.

New story up! This one is about a young woman who moves to another country to live out her dream job and the corporate-socialist utopia she was promised.

You can catch this little gem in the Your Bundle of Fear section at bloodytwine.com.

Here's an excerpt:

Emily grinned as she looked around the shining white apartment that was now all hers. This fresh and untouched living space was in the newly-constructed Cordon-Talent building, and here she was, and here she would be for…who knew how long…

You can read this and other great short horror stories at bloodytwine.com.

Note: The image for this post was generated by artificial intelligence courtesy of SendFame.com and modified courtesy of Canva.com.

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MATING SEASON

Maggie's looking for a man to wind her biological clock.

New story up! This dark comedy is for all you freaks with a fetish for the spider ladies and black widows (not of the Marvel Comics variety, mind you, more like the suck out your guts and leave your withered cocooned body behind kind).

You can read this new nasty little gem in the Your Bundle of Fear section at bloodytwine.com. Here's an excerpt:

Linus was at least ten years older than her, a younger millennial, not Gen-Z like herself. He was a somewhat attractive white guy with a shock of short brown hair and dark brown eyes, and he had a beard-and-mustache combo, a short beard-and-mustache combo, and that facial hair gave him a manlier look than, she imagined, he would normally possess. He had on those big dumb dork glasses, but he was still good looking. He was fit but not really muscular, but that was okay, too. He’d do all the same...

You can read this and other great short horror stories at bloodytwine.com.

Note: The image for this story was generated via artificial intelligence courtesy of OpenAI and modified courtesy of Canva.com.

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Q.C. CLEANERS

You have a cleaning job with your clones in 2nd-Person POV!

New story up! This nasty little dark-comedy involves clones, cleaning, and one very horny housewife, all on the short-term horror of melting into pink proto-genetic fluid! This story is written in 2nd-Person POV to give it that quirky "lived-in" feel.

You can read this darkly funny tale in the Your Bundle of Fear section at bloodytwine.com.

Here's an excerpt:

You see, you work for Q.C. Cleaners, owned by cleaning magnate Quincy Corman. Your three “brothers” are actually your three clones, though they have no knowledge of this. In fact, you can remember quite clearly the company process of extracting a bone sample from your right femur, the drawing of your blood from your left arm, and the shaving off of a slice of your skin from your right hip for your D.N.A…all for the explicit purpose of creating your clones…

You can read this and other great short horror stories at bloodytwine.com.

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THE HARROWING OF JOSH AND AMY

Josh and Amy have a harrowing experience in Hell.

New story up! In this nasty little segue into eternal torment, a young couple who are absolutely terrible to each other end up dying and going to Hell...where they're punished by their own insecurities and deepest, darkest fantasies!

You can catch this unhappy summer vacation in the Your Bundle of Fear section at bloodytwine.com.

Here's an excerpt:

It was his car. His little blue 2006 Toyota Celica was destroyed. It had crashed into that telephone/power pole he had thought he’d avoided. The front end of the car had caved in, that front end was wrapped around that pole, the windshield a cracked mess, but it was the figures in the car that caught his eye…

You can read this and other great short horror stories at bloodytwine.com.

Note: The image for this story was generated via artificial intelligence courtesy of OpenAI and SendFame.com and modified courtesy of SendFame.com and Canva.com.

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THE BOOK OF CHAINS

Billy decides to help Frances steal the cursed Book of Chains.

New story up! This one is set in 1955, and Billy is a greaser with a hot rod who has a chance encounter with Frances, a beautiful blonde who stepped right out of the mid-1940s. Frances needs Billy to steal the Book of Chains, a book with pages from the legendary Necronomicon, a book pieced together by a modern day necromancer!

You can read this new tale of horror in the Your Bundle of Fear section at bloodytwine.com.

Here's an excerpt:

There was a simple wooden chair about twenty feet in front of him, but that wasn’t what held his attention. What kept his eyes locked was the corpse of a man in a grey three-piece suit sitting in that chair, the face a withered grey husk with hollowed-out eyes and wisps of white hair upon its leather-stretched skull…

You can read this and other great short horror stories at bloodytwine.com.

Note: The image for this story was generated by artificial intelligence courtesy of OpenAI and modified by Canva.com.

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SOUTH SPRING RIDGE

Helen and Jack lead the survivors of Shame through abandoned South Spring Ridge.

New The Bell, the Book, and the Candle chapter is up: South Spring Ridge. In this dark little tale, the leader of the survivors of the Shame, Helen, must work with Jack in order for their little group to make it through abandoned South Spring Ridge.

You can read this new chapter in The Bell, the Book, and the Candle section at bloodytwine.com.

Here's an excerpt:

A swarm of large black bugs came up from the pit, roaring upward on tiny fluttering wings, and the four of them were engulfed a second later. Helen panicked as she swatted the menacing insects off of her, feeling the painful nips and bites on her arms and bare legs. She backed out of the darkness of the abandoned building and followed Blane and Marcos out into the sunlit street. She brushed the bugs off of her before they could take large chunks of her skin with them, and in the light of day she could tell exactly what it was she was dealing with...

You can read the other chapters of The Bell, the Book, and the Candle at bloodytwine.com.

Note: the image for this story was created via artificial intelligence courtesy of OpenAI and modified courtesy of Canva.com.

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THE LAST STANFORD

Rebecca is drawn to a haunted young man in more ways than one.

Rebecca Roms from "Becca's Night Out" and "Anarchy Road" is back, and now she must cleanse the Smithson's house of a vile supernatural evil. The Smithsons bought the last Stanford, a house designed by the notorious mad occultist/architect Cornelius Stanford. Cornelius Stanford actually died in that house, and well...

Rebecca has four extra lives this time, but she's also attracted to her client, Lane, who's nineteen, a virgin, and a giant dweeb. Why is she attracted to him? Even she doesn't really understand why, but this makes the situation anything but simple.

You can read this story in the Your Bundle of Fear section at bloodytwine.com.

Here's an excerpt:

This child’s eyes were not quite aligned horizontally, the lips wrong, curved on one side and straight on the other, the face angular in a way where the chin was too long, too narrow, one arm longer than the other, the hands too big, adult-sized…

You can read this novelette and other short horror stories at bloodytwine.com.

Note: The image for this story was generated via artificial intelligence courtesy of OpenAI and modified courtesy of Canva.com.

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GitM: Chapter 15

Skippy sets up Jane with his cousin, Happy.

New Goblins in the Mist is up! Chapter 15 is here!

Dulp gets dragged by Skippy and Jenny to the library in the South Quarter to visit the hyperactive Jane. Skippy's plan?...Set up Jane with his cousin, Happy.

You can read this chapter in the Goblins in the Mist section at bloodytwine.com.

Here's an excerpt:

So, I got a really good sketch of Jane, I contacted Happy via the Communications Extraction Language Line Crystal (technically a telephonics crystal, but because it’s enchanted with a translator, it’s now a C.E.L.L. telephonics crystal, or C.E.L.L. “phone” for short). Jenny ’ported Jane’s sketch to Happy, and then Jane and Happy got to talking…

You can read all fifteen chapters of Goblins in the Mist at bloodytwine.com.

Note: The image for this chapter was generated via artificial intelligence courtesy of Canva.com.

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GitM: Chapter 14

Dulp has to put up with a naked and mud-covered Plain Jane.

It turns out Plain Jane isn’t plain at all…but she’s a really annoying chatterbox.

New Goblins in the Mist is up! In Chapter Fourteen, Dulp is "convinced" by Jenny to escort his four daughters back to their hutch in the South Quarter.

Along the way, they come across Plain Jane in the South Quarter Square. Jane is naked, mud-covered, and tied to a pole thanks to the very miffed duo of Tall Sally and Akira the Blade.

Skippy discovers why the gobs think Jane is so ugly. Jane is actually a "plainer," a half-goblin/half-halfling, and because goblins think halflings are tremendously ugly, all of the gobs avoid her like the plague!

Skippy discovers that Jane is actually drop-dead gorgeous, and this invokes the ire of a very jealous Jenny!

You can read this new chapter in the "Goblins in the Mist" section at bloodytwine.com.

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RORY

Jack, Maria, and a young James head toward the town of Rory.

In this latest chapter from The Bell, the Book, and the Candle series, a young James the Riftwalker completes his origin story as Jack, Maria, and James all travel to the dead-ridden town of Rory, all while being pursued by a cabal of vampires.

You can find this chapter in The Bell, The Book, and The Candle Series section at bloodytwine.com.

Here's an excerpt:

“James stuck with us for obvious reasons…We were pursued that whole time by a cabal of vampires. They couldn’t best Jack, and I think they were afraid of him, so they followed and waited. They tried to get at James and I several times, and they never stopped their hounding…until we reached Rory…”

You can read this and other great short horror stories on bloodytwine.com.

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SARSAPARILLA

Betty's sarsaparilla has bite, the poisoned kind.

New story up! This tiny tale of terror isn't very long, but it sure is satisfying. Enter the roaring twenties with Betty, whose sarsaparilla does the job of making her some quick cash, and all the boys are just dying for it, mainly because it's laced with arsenic.

You can read this little gem of comeuppance for a real snake in the grass in the Your Bundle of Fear section at bloodytwine.com.

Here's an excerpt:

The sarsaparilla was in the ice bucket, several bottles of it, one from Big Lenny’s, the rest from Clancy’s, and that one from Big Lenny’s?…That was the killer. All one had to do was pop the crown cap, pour in the arsenic, and lever the cap back on. Sure, the cap was a little bent, but all you had to do was grab the bottle for him, remove the cap, and give the boy a drink…Easy as apple pie...

You can read this and other great short horror stories for free on bloodytwine.com.

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