Death Inc. 8

Death Inc. 8, the newest installment of Edward Morris’s mind-bending alt-history tour de force, is finally up. Hey, it’s still Friday, right?

This is the best one yet. This ride just keeps getting better.

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Angela perpetrates mischief

Angela Still, Mercury Retrograde Goddess of Slush, has a humorous piece up on StarLit. And she didn’t even tell anybody!

This is hilarious.

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New Death, Inc. up

Merry Christmas! We’re slipping one last thing under the tree: the next installment of Death, Inc. by Edward Morris. This is the best one yet.

“Hopefully they stop,” was her final word on the matter, mostly. “It’s been, what, a good couple of months now and no more have come in? Maybe your Storyteller got tired. Maybe this whole thing is just your brain trying to make some sense out of an insane situation, which is, Schiya Myelnik–” She only ever said my whole name when she was trying to get me to listen. “A sane response.“

Catch it here.

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Death, Inc. is taking the week off

After a week of polling, Edward Morris has a fantastic denouement in store for Death, Inc. But we aren’t quite ready to publish the next installment.

Check back with us next week for Canvas Seven.

Trust us: it’ll be worth the wait.

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Free fiction from Leona Wisoker on AlienSkin

One of the lines in Leona’s bio notes that her work is “fuelled equally by coffee and conviction”. Mind Games, up on AlienSkin this week, is definitely over-caffeinated and more than a little creepy. But don’t take my word for it.

Go read.

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Better late than never…

Installment 6 of Death, Inc.: Book Zero of There Was a Crooked Man is live.

Don’t forget to vote on the polls, if you haven’t already! This is your chance to set the course of the story.

Poll #1

Poll #2

Poll #3

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Death, Inc. by Edward Morris: Canvas Five Up

Just in time to darken your Friday: Canvas Five of Death, Inc. by Edward Morris, Book Zero of his mind-blowing There Was a Crooked Man series, is live on the website.

Next week, we’ll be running a couple of short polls here on the blog, courtesy Ed, who says, “Hey, if Harlan Ellison can write in the window of a bookstore…” Stop by and help determine where the story goes after next week’s installment.

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Death, Inc.: This week’s installment is live

Here’s one more thing to be thankful for: the fourth installment of Edward Morris’s Death, Inc. is live on the Mercury Retrograde site.

 

Like the one I pursue, I’m making it now. Not Death, then, but merely a cog in Death’s great machine, minor Tödtengel who must be as fearsome to behold as Azrael his father, Baron Saturday, Thoth, Hermes, all the names for the Eternal Bouncer who brings you your coat.

But maybe Death was just the first human to die. Maybe others swelled His ranks, and eased His burden…

 

Thank Hermes for Edward Morris.

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Web Manna: WebFictionGuide.com

When you’ve got a reading habit, you’ve got to feed it. WebFictionGuide.com understands. They very graciously listed Edward Morris’s ongoing serial novel Death, Inc. on their site–and a cool site it is. The site covers fiction that’s available online, searchable by category, length, format, whether or not it’s complete–you name it, they’ve got a variable for it. And because it’s actually curated by a team of editors and reviewed by members, the listings there are worth looking at.

Thanks for the listing, guys.

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Death, Inc. by Edward Morris: Installment 3 live

If things are getting weird in Powersburg, we’re going to have to come up with a new word for what’s coming into the County Morgue. But the Assistant Coroner tells it better than I do:

The end of the goddamn Jordan kid’s tattoo, this one, just breaks off. There should have been a Chapter Two. I mean, yeah, yeah, Roger Zelazny said that every good short story is like the first chapter of a novel that’s never been completed, and that’s true, but …

My God up in Heaven, am I criticizing these things? Like they’re stories? Like they’re Art?

I’m thinking some kind of consensual fetish-cult, some kind of weird closed-doors cabal of people from all walks of life who try to top the other one’s skin-prick’d tale, they…

Oh I need to sleep. Rich is letting me handle these. He doesn’t know how much unpaid time I’m putting in. Doesn’t. Know. At. All.

Not much, anyway. I’ve been putting them together, down in Pathology, on sheets of plain films. No one monkeys in my fridge. I keep it locked. The plain films hang there in hanging file folders, like
a…

Like a book. Like a goddamn book by Ilse Koch. What is this place doing to my head? My morality? All those five thousand goddamn ethics classes at Med School?

Yes, it’s true: it’s Friday, and the next installment of Death, Inc. by Edward Morris, Book Zero of There Was a Crooked Man, is live.

Hold on, Powersburg. And the rest of you, read on…

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