I’ve always wanted to write and illustrate a graphic novel. But that would be a lot of work. Too much for someone as uninspired and unartistic as yours truly. So I figured why not give one of the AI machines … Continue reading Rainy Season, AI-Imagined
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BOOK | FICTION | LITERARYTHE GRADUATE by Charles WebbRATING: ★ ★ ★ ★ When The Graduate, a book published in 1963 by recently deceased author Charles Webb, popped up as a Kindle Unlimited recommendation the other day, I thought to … Continue reading The Graduate by Charles Webb – A Review
A thread of mystery flows through the story. I think the author would shine writing thrillers full of secrets, crimes, and heart-pounding scenes. Brindley has a Navy SEAL vigilante title: The Good Kill. While I haven’t read that book, I’m sure the action is well done. Continue reading RAINY SEASON – A Review by Whispering Stories
An enchanting, expertly written little novel that will linger in my mind for some while – a bit like the cigarette smoke that metaphorically permeates the book itself. Highly recommended. – Rose Auburn Continue reading RAINY SEASON – A Review by Rose Auburn
Merry’s is some of the best writing I’ve read in a while. Like Faulkner, she creates a fictional world unto its own, Faulkner’s set as a struggling Mississippi town, Merry’s as a struggling seaside town in Ireland… Continue reading WE ALL DIE IN THE END by Elizabeth Merry – A Review
So, I was thick into the development of the follow-up novel to THE GOOD KILL (any guesses what follow-up title will be?) when of a sudden it seemed like End Times had finally started to throw down with the Covid-19 pandemic and cult daddy trump’s horrific death-inducing response to it.
With the Killian Lebon storyline as dark and violent as it is, and with all the research into the real-life examples of darkness and violence it takes to bring it out fictionally, I just thought it best for my mental stability to shelve all the pretend mayhem for a while seeing how there was far too much of it going on within our apocalyptic twilight zone of a reality.
But of course I could not not write so I immediately began looking internally for a story that would be able to transport me away to a better place.
Continue reading “A Turn From the Worst”You just have to go on when it is worst and most helpless -there is only one thing to do with a novel [or anything important**] and that is go straight on through to the end of the damn thing. Ernest Hemingway to F. Scott Fitzgerald in a 1929 letter from France, courtesy the New York Times archive #alonetogetherwiththelostgeneration *Even though it says Straight On Through and not Break On Through, I wonder how many first thought of the Doors… **IMO Continue reading Straight On Through*
At least according to the Big Think article The Books You Read Really Make You Who You Are: “The takeaway from all [the studies] is that no matter the culture, humans are intimately attached to stories. They’re part of our makeup as a species. Stories can literally transport us into the mind and body of a character. They can move us toward empathy or action. Nothing has the power to inform, change our minds, unlock our potential, or transform us and our society in the most powerful and profound ways. Now, we’re starting to unlock the neuroscience behind this and … Continue reading We are what we… read?
Bubble Bath Twelve — is exceptional. I got so very and happily lost within that wonderful, beautiful tale and I regretted it when finally finding myself at its end… Continue reading A GATHERING OF BUTTERFLIES by Sean C. Wright – A Review
The novel is not for the squeamish. You can’t tell this type of story without violence and blood. However, the action is so intense you must keep reading. Mr. Brindley excels at diving deep into the psyche of each character, setting up plotlines that intricately weave a cohesive story… Continue reading THE GOOD KILL – A Review by Gina Rae Mitchell
Originally posted on Kitty Marie's Reading Corner:
The Good Kill: A Killian Lebon Novel (Amazon Link) Author : Kurt BrindleyPublished By : PROSOCHEYear Published : 2019Genre / Tags : Action, Suspense, Adult Fiction, Dark FictionMood : Gritty, yet having the feel of an action… Continue reading THE GOOD KILL – A Review by Kitty Marie
This is a fun, breezy read of a book that delivers on exactly what the author set out for it to do, and that is, essentially, to have it be a fun, breezy read of a book… Continue reading THE TELEPORTER by Lee Hall – A Review
Originally posted on Life in Books:
Title: The Good Kill: A Killian Lebon Novel Author: Kurt Brindley Number of Pages: 404 pages Publisher: Prosoche Publication Date: May 1, 2019 Purchase: Amazon My Rating: 4.5/5 stars Synopsis from Goodreads: A former… Continue reading THE GOOD KILL – A Review by Peyton Hammond
So yeah, with a title like that you shouldn’t be surprised when finding that it’s a gritty, grimy, nasty, corrupt, vulgar tale of a story that thoroughly explores the deep dark levels of depravity to which our inhumane human-ness is capable of descending… Continue reading THE DEVIL ALL THE TIME by Donald Ray Pollock – A Review
Originally posted on The Writing Wave:
Today there’s an undertone of social injustices plaguing our world with a threatening yet taboo sense of doom that seems unspeakable by most. Discussions on suicide, PTSD and human trafficking have either seemed hushed… Continue reading THE GOOD KILL — A Review by Imani Amour
THE DISTANT SOUND OF VIOLENCE by Jason Greensides is a hauntingly atmospheric tour de force with its stark and captivating descriptions of English life during the Nineties and beyond set in, on, and around the mean streets of London… Continue reading THE DISTANT SOUND OF VIOLENCE by Jason Greensides — A Review
But I tell you what, I love Christopher Buehlman’s monsters like no man should ever love a monster… Continue reading THE LESSER DEAD by Christopher Buehlman — A Review
For years my barely read first novel INSIDE THE SKIN (formerly The Sea Trials of an Unfortunate Sailor) had been pegged at 15 meager but oh so appreciated and loved Amazon reader reviews… about However, as of today there are … Continue reading I’ve been got…
1977
He drove to a secluded, leafy spot, and looked at Cocoa covertly when they stopped. She patted her blonde wig, contrasting her chocolate skin, and popped her gum, pretending not to notice him pulling out a pair of nylons. Cocoa slammed his head against the steering wheel before he could act. He was out cold. Cocoa handcuffed him to the steering wheel. Vice arrested The Pantyhose Strangler. However, his car remains where he intended to assault and kill his fourth prostitute.
This abandoned car is oh, I don’t know, maybe a half mile or so from my humble yet lovely abode and it’s been parked right there for as long as I’ve lived in my said humble yet lovely abode, which has been oh, I don’t know, maybe eighteen years or so.
Every time I pass the beautiful, wabi-sabi of a relic on one of my walks, I always think to myself, I bet there’s a heck of story to go along with that thing…
And I also always tell myself that one of these days Ima gonna write my own story about it.
Continue reading “There’s a story here somewhere…”
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