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.

This is part of the short story contest. Here’s what you could win:

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.

What you can do to be in the May 31^st drawing:

Leave a comment on today’s short story.

How easy is that?

Short Story Contest and Marathon . . . Win a Short Story Everyday in June

Special Offer For Love Romances Cafe fans. . .
If you stopped by today (May 23rd) from Love Romances Cafe, leave a comment and let me know, and you'll be entered to win thirty stories in the month of June! How easy is that?

May 28^th: The release of Dark Angel, All the Stars, part 2 of my Immortal Pleasures series.

June 1^st: The release of my short story “The Moon House” in First Time For Everything, a Daily Dose Anthology from Dreamspinner Press.

Release dates. . . that must mean a contest, right?

Yeah!  It does. Here goes.

I’ve been falling behind on my short story reading.

This month, I’m committing to reading twenty short stories.

All you have to do to enter the contest is leave a comment on my blog for that day’s short story. Each commenter’s name will be entered once.

On May 31^st, I’ll pick four names from the commenters.

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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