The Trouble with Chartreuse – Just Published at The Bloomin’ Onion
New Twisted Literary Fiction Hot Off The Virtual Presses
New Twisted Literary Fiction! My short story The Trouble with Chartreuse has just been published by the bodacious editors at The Bloomin’ Onion. The Trouble with Chartreuse tells the tale of Sharky Clemens, the movie he is making, blocked creativity, and hemorrhoids.
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Mash the big orange button, and you’ll be whisked away to The Bloomin’ Onion, a delightfully fragrant ‘Zine and a publishing first for Yours Truly. Not only will you find my New Twisted Literary Fiction story The Trouble with Chartreuse, but also a host of excellent reading on offer. There are oodles of great stories at The Bloomin’ Onion, featuring a new story each week. Plus, how about a FREE read? That’s right, My Lovelies, NO paywalls. W00T! What are you waiting for?
Together, we stand. Resistance and change depend on folks coming together. Fascist grifters disguising themselves as patriots are trying to grab all the power they can get their mitts on. To get that power, they are trying to divide us into smaller and smaller groups. And now they have started a war in Iran to distract us. It’s a cheap magician’s trick. Don’t fall for it. Believe what you see with your own eyes. Stand together!
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We need stories now more than ever, stories crafted by human beings, not computers. So, how will you know when a new story breaks? Glad you asked, Friends. Read On! Drum roll and… Meanwhile, don’t miss any upcoming stories. You can stay tuned for all the latest by following the MEF blog:
And finally, with your indulgence, allow me a blatant book plug. Yes, I know, pesky artists wanting to get paid for their work. Will they never learn? Well, probably not. Even writers need to eat. So how about a dose of flash fiction? Thanks!
Broken Luggage Collected Flash Fiction
Broken Luggage: Two dozen flash fiction tales of love lost and love found, of darkness at the end of life, and light at the beginning.
A man's life condensed into the broken luggage that will contain it. A young woman alone in the Sonoran Desert. Memories of dangerous eggs, thunderstorms, and a gunshot man. A character tours his self-made hell. Another steps from between the pages. Parables of sand and migration A labyrinth into new love, and the remembrance of love past. These two dozen flash stories tell swift tales of love lost and love found, of darkness at the end of life, and light at the beginning.
Marco Etheridge is a writer of fiction, an occasional playwright, and a part-time poet. He lives and writes in Vienna, Austria. His stories have been published in reviews, journals, and magazines in Canada, Australia, the UK, and the USA. Broken Luggage gathers twenty-four of his best flash stories into one collection. A man’s life condensed into the broken luggage that will contain it. A young woman alone in the Sonoran Desert. Memories of dangerous eggs, thunderstorms, and a gunshot man. A character tours his self-made hell. Another steps from between the pages. Parables of sand and migration A labyrinth into new love, and the remembrance of love past. These two dozen flash stories tell swift tales of love lost and love found, of darkness at the end of life, and light at the beginning. Unforgettable characters struggle against the tides and pressures of an impersonal world, and against the burdens they carry within. There is joy and despair, defiance and acceptance. The inhabitants of these pages learn who they are, and sometimes, who they are not. Welcome, Reader, to the world of Broken Luggage.
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Marco Etheridge is a writer of prose, an occasional playwright, and a part-time poet. He lives and writes in Vienna, Austria. His work has been featured in over one hundred reviews and journals across Canada, Australia, the UK, and the USA. His story “Power Tools” has been nominated for Best of the Web for 2023. “Power Tools” is Marco’s latest collection of short fiction. When he isn’t crafting stories, Marco is a contributing editor for a new ‘Zine called Hotch Potch. In his other life, Marco travels the world with his lovely wife Sabine. Website: https://bro.uxw.mybluehost.me/