Sunday shortie.
Believe it or not I am suddenly bone achingly cool.
How to be impossibly bone-achingly cool? Me? I’m a jerk, yes? I know that. But I am going to The Moon. By proxy, yep, but I’m off. See you later suckers.
There’s a Canadian artist whose ambition is to get writers on The Moon. Wackjob thinking, yes? I like it though. She’s bootlegging some space on a lunar lander module due to go up in July, and it contains, among other things, an anthology by a Canadian compiler. Can’t really remember how I got involved in this, but I did, and the digitised version is going the THE MOON! And my story is going with it!
I’m going to the Moon. I’ve been excited by this possibility since being electrified by Apollo 11 in 1969. And now I’m going!
I’m chairdancing here. I’m so excited. Something I wrote will end up ON THE MOON! Just how cool am I? How cool is that?
Funnily enough, it’s a frothy bit of jokey sci-fi nonsense about aliens coming to Earth. Certain irony there, is there not?
But I wrote it, and somebody thinks it deserves a one-way trip to the Moon. Bloody hell.
You can find my story, ‘Why I hate being the dog,’ in this anthology. Do me a favour, nip over to Amazon, and leave a review of the anthology. Lots of people put in lots of hours here, and all the proceeds go to a good cause that’s very close to my heart.
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Thanks so much for the shout out. My daughter Shebat Legion produced Klarissa Dreams Redux with proceeds going to Cancer research. Your delightful short sc fi story is in the book which will be going to the moon as will 62 authors and many of my paintings. What a treat for all of us. Stay well Duncan and keep writing those humorous short stories. The world certainly needs them.
Paradoxically, I write my funniest stuff when the Black Dog is on my back. The inspiration for ‘Why I hate being the dog’ came at about four in the morning when I was as a very low ebb indeed, and I still think it’s a laugh riot.
Having a bit of a tough time right now (not all cancer related) so thank you for your kind words. Did I tell you a schoolteacher (now ex schoolteacher) took one of my shorts and made it a part of recommended text to ‘Illustrate the art of the author.’ I was ever so chuffed by that.