Encounters Magazine #10
Issue #10 of Encounters Magazine contains my Science Fiction naughty story, TARGET PRACTICE. Warning #adultcontent! #FREE download http://www.blackmatrixpub.com
The story is about an asteroid heading for impact with Earth. That’s where the cliché of apocalyptic asteroids takes a left curve, because when astronauts divert the incoming rock, it changes direction to head back to us, and keeps doing so. Two things prevented the story being accepted straight away. One was a sex scene between the two arguing astronauts. They’d had a hit and miss romantic history before the mission and I liked the idea of them making up during a fight. Some people didn’t though most readers in the critique group of the British Science Fiction Association did. Thanks guys. Second, was that I’d used Chinese astronauts and technology to go up to rescue Earth. An American publisher couldn’t see the future being Chinese, but that was before the current moon mission with a Chinese rover on its surface!
I’ve been paid for this story and yet it is a free download on pdf for anyone. Not sure how they make their money.
All I want to do as a writer is to have zany ideas and transfer them to you via stories. I don’t want to get involved in arguments with Wikipedia police or with moderators at Linkedin. The latter say my post about Wikipedia censuring the ARIA page for its lack of ‘notable’ references does not belong in a discussion thread because it possesses a link to my blog page about the issue. They say it belongs in promotion even though it isn’t about promotion! Ugh, no wonder I lean towards anarchism – anything to get away from drowning in bureaucracy.
Better news is that the largest writers’ circle on the planet offered to host a showcase page for me at http://bit.ly/KQm6lK Feel free to take a peep.
