Jake Bible Fiction

  • Friday Night Drabble Party!

    Hello!

    It is Friday which means it is time to Party!

    You ready for some Drabble goodness? Yes, you are!

    Quick announcement first: Blood Cruise is available in audiobook! Huzzah!

    Blood Cruise FixBen Clow’s plans are set. Drop off kids, pick up girlfriend, head to the marina, and hop on best friend’s cruiser for a weekend of fun at sea. But Ben’s happy plans are about to be changed by a tentacled horror that lurks beneath the waves. International crime lords! Deep cover black ops agents! A ravenous, bloodsucking monster! A storm of evil and danger conspire to turn Ben Clow’s vacation from a fun ocean getaway into a nightmare of a blood cruise!

     

     

     

    Doesn’t that sound like ten kinds of awesome! The narrator totally rocks this production, by the way. You have got to check this one out.

     

     

    Now, onto the micro-fiction!

    Enjoy!

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    Gleeful Bloodlust
    By
    Jake Bible

    The champion stood over her fallen opponent.

    “Submit,” she said, her voice amplified by the external loudspeakers on her mech. “Submit and you keep your machine.”

    “Bite me,” the opponent replied, his voice thick with pain as he lay helpless inside his crushed cockpit. “Do your worst, but I won’t submit.”

    “You’re a fool,” the champion said.

    “But I’m not a coward,” the opponent replied.

    “Brave means nothing when you are dead,” the champion sighed as she raised a two-ton foot and brought it down squarely on the cockpit.

    The crowd roared with gleeful bloodlust. The match was won.

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    Cheers!

    Disclaimer: We will, we will, rock you!

  • Friday Night Drabble Party!

    So, it is Friday once again.

    Usually that means some free micro-fiction, but unfortunately that isn’t going to happen this evening. Way too much going in life and work and all that to get to the 100 words of magic.

    But, hey, that doesn’t mean y’all can’t party without me!

    Break out that word processor and see what 100 words you can come up with. Play, have fun, get wordy with it, yo! And, if you feel inspired, share that stuff and put a link in the comments below. Or even cut and paste your 100 words of goody goodness for all to see! Seriously, let my forum be your canvas.

    Or some other mixed metaphor.

    Hope y’all have a great weekend!

    Oh, and don’t forget to get your tickets to the Authors For Action: Kill The Bill event! Help fight HB2!

    Cheers!

  • Writing In Suburbia #36: All The Promises Will Be Broken

    This week I talk about all the promises you will hear from other writers, from editors, from publishers, from anyone and everyone in the industry, and why those promises mean nothing. Not until the signature is on the contract!

    I also talk about the Authors For Action: Kill The Bill event! Go get tix now!

    Enjoy!

    RSS- http://jakebible.libsyn.com/rss

    iTunes- https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/writing-in-suburbia/id334464270?mt=2

    Stitcher- http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=87204&refid=stpr

  • Friday Night Drabble Party!

    It’s Friday!

    There be a Drabble in your immediate future. Huzzah!

    Before that happens, just wanted to let everyone know that I’ll be in Rutherfordton, NC for the MayFest Super Signing! I’ll be there with great authors such as Beth Revis, John Hartness, Brian Rathbone, Darin Kennedy, Gail Martin, Matthew Saunders, and more! Come on out if you can!

    Now, on to 100 wonderful words!

    Enjoy!

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    The Botanical Apocalypse
    By
    Jake Bible

    The vines worried at the manhole cover, their tips spreading, thinning, working their way under the edge, looking for leverage. With a strength that should not have existed, the cover was lifted, shifted, pushed and moved to the side, barely a clang heard through the empty, abandoned street.

    The air below –precious carbon dioxide– was intoxicating. The vines had found them. On they crept, their verdant brilliance muted to a boring grey as the sewer’s shadowed environs encompassed them.

    The last humans cowered. They huddled in the dank alcoves of their ineffectual refuge. The botanical apocalypse had found them finally.

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    Cheers!

    Disclaimer: A black thumb might be a good thing.

  • Friday Night Drabble Party!

    Howdy!

    Time for another great Party! 100 words of awesome to get this weekend started!

    Hey, know what else is awesome and will include words? This!

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    Local Asheville area authors, including Sara Gruen, Charles Frazier, Beth Revis, Jamie Mason, and myself, are banding together to help fight the disgusting law passed by the NC legislature. You may have heard of it. HB2. Come on out on May 18th and help us make a difference. All proceeds from tickets sales after costs will be divided among the ACLU of NC, Campaign for Southern Equality, Tranzmission, and Equality NC and their efforts to repeal HB2 and overcome the harm it has caused in our community.

    That’s some powerful stuff right there. Support if you can, please.

    Now, on with the drabble!

    Enjoy!

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    Indeed
    By
    Jake Bible

    It was the biggest break of his life, a thousand people waiting to hear his story.

    “Gobble hap, munbutt,” Jeffery Holt said. “Goobsham boggnock.”

    The silence was brutal. Not a peep or sniffle from the audience. The moderator gave Jeffery an encouraging smile. Jeffery smiled back and pushed on.

    Fifteen minutes later he finished. “Nunkik morga wapp,” Jeffrey said and closed the book.

    The audience burst to their feet, the applause wild and raucous.

    The moderator gripped Jefferey’s hand, pumping it up and down.

    “Bun noof farble,” the moderator cheered.

    Jeffery smiled from ear to ear. Bun noof farble, indeed.

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    Cheers!

    Disclaimer: Bun noof farble, indeed.