Short Story Contest / Marathon #5: Risico by Ian Fleming

Quick and Dirty Summary:

Are you kidding? This is Bond, James Bond. Okay. Here goes.

This is a short story from Ian Fleming's Quantum of Solace.

The players:

James Bond – super spy

Kristatos – double dealing pirate who smuggles opium

Columbo – pirate with a heart of gold

The beautiful Bond girl – does her name really matter?

The places:

London, Venice, coast of Italy

What the heck happened?

James Bond is hired to stop opium coming out of Italy. Kristatos agrees to help but his price is for James Bond to kill Columbo, a pirate who knows a little too much about the opium business.

James figures out the double cross, and  . . . it’s all Bond from there.

Great read! Ian Fleming at the top of his form.

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Prizes:

Third Runner Up: $5 Gift Certificate to Silver Publishing.

First and Second Runners Up: Free copies of Dark Angel, All the Stars

Grand Prize Winner:

A story a day in June from the First Time For Everything Dreamspinner Press Daily Dose.

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Short Story Contest / Marathon, Story #4: You Never See Apaches by Elmore Leonard

Quick and Dirty Summary:
Angsman is a cowboy who's seen a few round ups, and even more fools.

Ed Hyde  is a man with a map that leads to gold hidden in a place out in nowhere, marked by a stone sombrero.

Billy's a young cowboy with more dreams than brains.

They all head deep into Apache territory with a map, dreams of gold, and absolutely not enough idea of what Apaches will do if you spill blood in their territory.

Classic Elmore Leonard western story!

This is a story in the Story Contest. Leave a comment and you'll be entered in the drawing to win a short story a day from Dreamspinner Press!

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Short Story Contest / Marathon: Lord Arthur Savile's Crime by Oscar Wilde

Quick and Dirty Summary:
Groom to be gets a palm reading that says he'll commit murder in his future.

To spare his soon to be bride, he makes good on the prediction.

Is it murder or destiny?

A short story with a huge twist of irony.

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Short Story Contest / Marathon: 1922 by Stephen King

Quick and Dirty Summary:

Farmer doesn’t want to sell a hundred acres to hog butchering company. Farmer’s wife wants to sell and move to the city.

Farmer kills wife. Son helps.

Farmer and son’s lives go all to hell.


My favorite line: "I think it was the coming of daylight, which always seems to dispel the worst of our horrors."

Good read!

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Short Story Marathon / Contest. . . The Fear by Anton Chekhov

Quick and Dirty Summary:

Married guy is scared because he thinks he doesn't know anything about life.

His wife cheats with his best friend,
Married guy is right. . . he's clueless and stuck in a loveless marriage.
Classic Chekhov. . . awesome read!


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