essie spencer

Well, Stuntman was finally finished and, today, appeared on the Shortbread Stories website. You can read it at:

http://www.shortbreadstories.com/story-stuntman.htm

although you need to register with the site (which is free – and you get access to the 350+ other stories on there, too).

This is very exciting for me – my first publicly available story. What was even more exciting – for a short time it was the highest rated story on the Shortbread site!!!! Members can rate stories from 1 to 5 stars, the overall rating for any story being the average. Stuntman had been rated 5 stars by 1 reader, giving it an average of 5 stars and thrusting it to the top of the table!!! Sadly, though, some swine seems to have rated it with 0! Meaning my average is now 2.5, which I’m guessing gets rounded down to 2! Not entirely sure how they managed to rate it 0, though.

Just goes to show that you can’t please everyone – and anyone who expects anything different is clearly insane

OK, I started writing my next story tonight called “Stuntman”. It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything here, so I’ve had a lot of time to mull it over and I’m hoping that it’s going to be a simple case of execution – see if I can’t get it done in a couple of days. Although, things do have a habit of getting in the way. Going to work, for example.
Anyway, I’m going to post it on www.shortbreadstories.com when I’m done. I’ve read a few stories on there – some are a bit dull – some are bloody fantastic! One to note, in particular, is “The Pianist”. This is an incredible piece of work. Time to dig deep and try and up my game!

I’m just about to finish my first short story, so now it’s time to start thinking about a new one. I found this site http://www.shortbreadstories.com that is dedicated to short stories. It’s a community thing where anyone can post any old shite and the community will cast judgement. Sounds interesting. I’ve not read anything on there just yet, but will have a scout around and see if I can’t put up something half decent.