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My website, www.frankburton.co.uk, features the full text of my novella, "About Someone."
A History of Sarcasm:
The Blurb:
“Sometimes stories that I’ve used to mythologize my childhood resurface in my mind as actual memories … Perhaps if you tell a story enough times, it will become the truth.”
This admission by Mark Greensleeves, the compulsive liar in the story, "Some Facts About Me," sums up Frank Burton’s sharp, surreal and subversive short story collection, "A History of Sarcasm." The seventeen stories in this collection blur the boundaries between fact and fantasy through a series of obsessive characters and their skewed versions of reality. Among them are a man who insists on living every aspect of his life in alphabetical order, a girl who believes she is receiving secret messages through the TV, a paranoiac who is pursued by an army of giant lobsters, and an academic who turns into a cat.
Funny, dark and relentlessly off the wall, this collection brings together the best of Frank Burton’s published work with some brand new stories.
The Stories:
Aabehlpt
(First published in Etchings)
The Illusion of Security
The Day She Melted
(First published in Polluto)
Voom and Bloom
(First published in Polluto)
Some Facts About Me
The Opening
(First published in The Beat)
The Wondering
(First published in Twisted Tongue)
The World
Joost
(First published in Etchings)
M
A History of Sarcasm
(First published in Etchings)
The Point
(First published on laurahird.com)
Walter Walks Sideways
(First published in Skive Quarterly)
Multiple Stories
Monica Gets Messages
The Irony
The Nature of Human Happiness
Exposures
I'm working on a series of short stories called Exposures, which I'm posting on my blog. Read them, tell me what you think.
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Nov 27 2009 7:09 AM
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Nov 17 2009 4:11 AM
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Nov 7 2009 3:52 PM
sending your page some love!
thanks for the friendship! so glad to meet you!
we have a new rockin' tune up on our page "Rock-n-Roll Star" ....come check it out and let us know what ya think!
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Nov 6 2009 10:21 PM
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Oct 30 2009 4:45 PM
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Oct 28 2009 6:04 PM
Poem 162 of 230, WalkaboutsVerse
(please see my blog):
TEES TO TYNE: FIRST IMPRESSIONS - SUMMER 2001
Where traditions are not so rare;
Sea, country and works scent the air;
A multitude of monuments,
Planted tubs and patterned pavements.
The longish pedestrian malls;
The remnants of defensive walls;
Historic buildings are a gauge
Of the respect for heritage.
Wheat, rape and pines in the fields;
Estuaries guarded by shields;
Long sandy beaches and wide scenes;
Romantic-ruin go-betweens.
Rivers in parts licked by trees,
Or fringed by boat clubs, wharfs, gantries,
And crossed by practical delights -
Varied spans, forming pleasing sights.
Fine churches headed at Durham;
Football kits ad infinitum;
Kept castles - one for study;
Masonry behind masonry.
And, with moulding-works out that way,
It’s somewhere for a longer stay..?
(C) David Franks 2003
Oct 23 2009 3:05 PM
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Oct 13 2009 7:11 PM
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Always looking for artists and writers to contribute to The Roadhead Journal. Also, want to invite you to subcribe and enjoy the ride and the read in the Myspace Roadhead Blog
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Oct 9 2009 12:16 PM
Oct 7 2009 10:46 PM
So nice to meet you!
Feel free to email me anytime,
I would love to hear from you.
Thanks for the friendship!!!
Horror & Hugs,
Michelle Lundy
Erotic Horror
Artist & Author
P.S. If you would like to check out some of my work, feel free to stop by my photo albums & blog. And don't forget to vote on your favorite cover art design for my current novel in the works, Inside a Vampire's Mind: Salvation (see blog for details).
Sep 29 2009 12:58 AM
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don't forget to check
www.jesterpress.com
for updates on our comics or convention appearances.
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Sep 24 2009 12:42 PM
If you'd like a taste of my fiction, I've posted links to some of my short stories that are available on the web on my MySpace profile page!
Yours in Dark Arts,
John
Sep 22 2009 11:01 PM
Sep 22 2009 8:50 PM
what i mean is that someone whose life is not traumatized and brutalized as a regular sequence of every day events unconsciously seeks the camouflage and shelter of apathy and banality from the reality of such devastating anguish and terror ...but the spirit of young people who are used as sex slaves in the systematized global industry of human trafficking is now reaching out to the human fellowship in hope and desperation and through technology ...
it is scary when humanity turns a blind eye to this horror ...its like ignoring genocide whilst it is happening ...
what i am asking is that if you hear the cry of these young people who are existing in an environment of torture and brutality each and every day that you then please do not turn away from them ...
please reach deeply into your heart and soul and join a movement that challenges modern slavery in the 21st century ...
-Colin
Sep 22 2009 7:45 PM
I hope you'll check out my work in
WADE

....OF AQUITAINE, available at most online booksellers including the
Amazon
paperback, the Amazon
Kindle (electronic) edition, or the signed
copy at benparris.com
Sep 22 2009 7:16 PM
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Sep 22 2009 6:11 PM