Jake Bible Fiction

  • Friday Night Drabble Party!

    Welcome back, y’all!

    How do these Fridays keep happening? Where do they all come from? It’s like every week there’s another Friday. Crazy.

    HEY! Sorry, didn’t mean to yell, but HEY!

    Have you read Galactic Vice? If you have then please do me a favor and leave a review. It can be one or two words even. Here are some suggestions: “AMAZING!”, “GROUNDBREAKING!”, “ORGASMIC!”

    Okay, maybe not that last one…

    Anyhoo, reviews are how authors stay alive these days. If you forget to review your favorite author then they shrivel up like shrinky dinks and become husks of their former selves. And as much fun as that would be to watch, just like watching shrinky dinks in the oven, most authors don’t enjoy shriveling. Something to do with the thymus gland or whatever.

    REVIEW GALACTIC VICE!

    Here’s a pic you can click for ease and convenience of travel to Amazonland:

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    Now, on with the drabble!

    Enjoy!

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    The Image
    By
    Jake Bible

    “Can we cry alone and be our better selves?” Missy asked, her eyes locked onto the image before her. “Can we be solitary creatures and improve upon our basic beings?”

    “Uh…” Craig mumbled, unsure of where she was going with all that.

    “I mean, look at this,” Missy continued, nodding at the image. “It’s excruciating. The inner turmoil I feel demands that I be alone.”

    “I’m not seeing…” Craig began, but gave up. The image wouldn’t let him finish.

    “Maybe we should break up?” Missy suggested.

    “I can’t… I won’t…” Craig stuttered.

    The image watched them, mocked them, ruled them.

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    Cheers!

    Disclaimer: REVIEW OR DIE!

  • Friday Night Drabble Party!

    Happy Friday, y’all!

    Is your Friday a freezing hellscape of wind and stupid weather? Mine is! Over 50 degrees yesterday and now it isn’t even 30? END TIMES, PEOPLE! END TIMES!

    Speaking of end of times, and beginning of times, you should check out Brian Walton’s Recursion series.

    “The Recursion Event Saga is a time travel thriller told chronologically in 5 parts. each taking you to unique settings, times, and characters. From 1950s Paris to a post-apocalyptic future, lives and fates collide in ISD Agent Molly Gardner’s desperate fight to hold together the threads of history, and to solve the riddle of her life.

    A war-correspondent searching for his dead wife, a young screenwriter with a love for the paranormal, a time-traveling double agent, and a girl who’s lived multiple lives—all play a part in the century-spanning saga.

    This week only (1/30-2/2) get books 1-3 of the Recursion Event Saga for 99c each, and escape through time today… or yesterday.“

    Sounds cool, right? Check it out!

    Something else to check out? Autographed novels! I am now signing and shipping books directly to you! To YOU!

    Also, don’t forget about Galactic Vice! And sign up for the mailing list!

    Now, on with the Drabble! Huzzah!

    Enjoy!

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    Really Upset
    By
    Jake Bible

    “I can’t find my wallet,” the man sobbed. “I can’t find my wallet!”

    “Should we help?” Melissa whispered to Jeff. “He looks really upset.”

    “He lost his wallet,” Jeff said as the couple walked on. “I’d be upset too.”

    “IT WAS MY LIFE!” the man shrieked.

    “Jeff…” Melissa hissed.

    “Fine,” Jeff said, returning to the man as Melissa waited. “Hey, buddy, can I–.”

    The knife slash was swift.

    “Did you take it?” the man asked, Jeff’s throat spewing blood.

    Melissa screamed.

    The man smiled down at Jeff. Then he picked up something from the sidewalk. “Oh, wait, here it is.”

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    Cheers!

    Disclaimer: Watch the hands.

  • Writing In Suburbia #59: Fear And Loathing In 2018!

    Happy New Year, y’all!

    In this episode I switch things up a little: I chose theme music! I have also added show notes! Check ’em out.

    I chat about the ups and downs of income as a pro writer and my fear of what 2018 could be like if there aren’t more ups. I also chat about a certain PLAGIARIST in our midst who has stolen Roak: Galactic Bounty Hunter and tried to make it his own. Full on prose theft, y’all. The guy is a scumbag. Pure and simple.

    So, have a listen as I lay out some fears and some loathings.

    Cheers!

    Show notes-

    Books mentioned:

    Galactic Vice by Jake Bible

    The Four Horsemen- Alpha Contracts by Chris Kennedy and Mark H. Wandrey

    Titan’s Wrath by Rhett Bruno

    Theme music: “Whiskey on the Mississippi” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
    Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
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  • Friday Night Drabble Party!

    Here we are again! Friday Night Drabble Party time!

    I have something great to announce before we get into the drabbletastic entertainment!

    Galactic Vice is here!

    Corruption. Greed. Lust.
    Sins undercover Galactic Vice Detective Etch Knowles faces every day.

    Politicians on the take. Underground gambling. Sex trafficking.
    Another day at the office for Galactic Vice Lieutenant Angie McDade.

    Shaking down hustlers. Offering “protection” to bar owners. Cheating at tile games.
    Galactic Vice Detective Kalaka doesn’t exactly play by the rules.

    A cargo barge filled with corpses. A potential war between crime syndicates. Traitors within the Galactic Vice.
    These are the nightmares the three must face. Using all of their resources and experience they will fight to keep each other alive even it means bending rules, busting heads, and breaking laws.

    But tossing regulations to the side and going rogue may not save them from an investigation that has doom and downfall written all over it.

    Can they solve the case before it becomes their last? Or will the operation fail and end up ripping their lives and Jafla Base apart…

     

    Doesn’t that sound AWESOME?

    Check it out!

    Now, on with the drabble!

    Enjoy!

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    Reminisced
    By
    Jake Bible

    The man sat against the wall, his body wrapped in several old, tattered blankets.

    He stared out at the rubble and ruin that had once been a great city and reminisced.

    The magnificent buildings that had towered above the citizens as they hustled to and fro from lives that were on a never ending repeat cycle. The steam and smoke of industry that had once settled over the rooftops. The sounds, so many sounds, that filled the ears to almost bursting.

    It had been glorious.

    A scrape on scorched concrete made the man close his eyes.

    It was his time.

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    Cheers!

    Disclaimer: Galactic Vice!

  • Friday Night Drabble Party!

    Hello, party people!

    Another year is almost upon us! Good riddance to 2017! Seriously…

    So, not gonna ramble on too much, just wanted to give you a heads up that Black Box Inc. is now available as an audiobook! Get it on Audible or iTunes. You choose. CHOOSE!

    Click the pic and get to listening, yo!

    Now, on with the Drabble!

    Enjoy!

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    Sundown
    By
    Jake Bible

    The trail continued to wind down the mountain, a cascade of shadows hiding the bend far ahead of the hikers.

    “I thought sundown wasn’t until six?” Max said. “Oh, God…”

    “Chill. We just follow the trail,” Bill replied.

    “Is this the right trail?” Marilynn asked.

    “What?” Max exclaimed.

    “I mean,” Marilynn said in a slow voice. “Shouldn’t the setting sun be in front of us?”

    The howl filled the twilight. The hikers froze.

    “We’re all gonna die!” Max screamed as he began running blindly down the trail.

    “We’ll have to carry him, won’t we?” Bill asked.

    Marilynn nodded and sighed.

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    Cheers! And HAPPY NEW YEAR, y’all!

    Disclaimer: One is never truly lost…