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My One Lonely Stitch …

By Robert Swartwood on October 11, 2009

… is now live at Fifty-Two Stitches, which publishes one horror flash fiction piece a week. My story “Dead Weight” can be found here. It can also be found in the annual anthology edited by Aaron Polson, along with fifty-one other stitches. Wanna win a free signed copy? Sure you do. First go read the story and then come back and see below.

Okay, so that creature in the cabin? It doesn’t have a name, and it really wants a name. So to appease its vicious hunger, in the comments section leave the name you think it would like best. I’ll keep this mini-contest open until Friday, October 16 at midnight here on the east coast, when I’ll pick a random winner.

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  • http://www.tracylucaswriting.blogspot.com Tracy Lucas

    Hmm. Will have to chew on this one for a bit.

    But before I leave to do so, I must say… I find this line fabulous: “toward the horizon that marks the border between our world and theirs. ”

    Nicely wrought.

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  • Amanda Spedding

    Food, indeed!

    I’ve always liked the name ‘Trevor’ for things that go slither in the night.

    Great story!

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  • Jonny Kelly

    Nice story, very weirdly written and atmospheric.
    I’ll go for “The Repulsive Thing from another Planet”.
    Sounds like a B-movies wet dream, even though the story didn’t feel very B-movieish I still like it.

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  • Robert Swartwood

    Thanks for the kind words, everyone :-)

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  • http://www.womenofmystery.net Kathleen Ryan

    Congrats on “Dead Weight” appearing in Fifty Two Stitches — the site and the anthology. Considering “the eight,” it makes me think of the infinity symbol, or the “lemniscate.” “The lemniscate represents the cycles of infinity and creation, as one universe grows into and becomes another” (as per:http://www.tween-the-shadows.com/magick/symbols_magick/infinity_symbol.php).
    I enjoyed “Dead Weight.” Nicely written story, Robert!

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  • http://www.MadelineMora-Summonte.com Madeline

    Nice and creepy – perfect for October. Good one, Robert!

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  • http://www.tracylucaswriting.blogspot.com Tracy Lucas

    I’m gonna go with “Grendan”.

    (Half Grendel from lore of old, half Brendan the soccer-mom raised yuppie.)

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  • http://www.abrokenlaptop.wordpress.com Mercedes

    I’d call it Ega, which is a slavic word for “lazybones” or “sluggard”. And then I would run.

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  • http://www.tracylucaswriting.blogspot.com Tracy Lucas

    LOL, Mercedes. Nice.

    If Swartwood doesn’t use that, you should. :)

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  • Anna

    Creepy! I’d name it George.

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  • http://www.kevinhosey.net Kevin Hosey, Speculative Fictionist

    Well, I came up with a great name for the creature. But I like it so much I’m going to use it in my own story. LOL.

    Great story, Robert. I enjoyed it very much.

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  • http://benwhite.com Ben White

    I’m going with Raev, the Hebrew word for ‘hungry.’

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  • http://charlesgramlich.blogspot.com Charles Gramlich

    Great story. As for a name, what about “Maw?” A little double twist on that name.

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  • Lisa

    Bertha :-D

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