Hello lovelies! Thank you for stopping in to read about my new Short Story Bundles available as a digital download from my Etsy shop Wild Mountain Thyme Publications.
This is a bundle reimagining three tales by Hans
Christian Andersen entitled TIN AND OTHER TALES. These poems and stories were inspired by a
biographical film of Rudyard Kipling, Malcolm
Pryce’s terrific Aberystwyth Noir crime series written in the style of
Raymond Chandler and set in an alternate reality version of Aberystwyth, Wales
where Druids are the mafia, and my obsession with the both The Wizard of Oz and
murder ballads.
In this bundle you will find the following stories and
poems:
Tin: A retelling of The
Steadfast Tin Soldier told in the style of Gunga Din by Rudyard Kipling.
The Princess and the P.I.:
The Princess on the Pea told in the style of crime noir, based on The Maltese
Falcon by Dashiell Hammett.
The Ruby Slippers:
A mash-up of Andersen’s The Red Shoes and the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz told
in the style of a 17th century murder ballad.
You can see the cover art here depicting the poem Tin:
If you would like to take a look inside you can read a small scene from The
Princess and the P.I below:
The
Princess and the P.I.
Jack Sprat was long and bony with a cigarette perpetually smouldering between his yellow fingers. He had a metabolic disorder that meant he couldn’t digest fat which kept him whippet-thin with a hungry look in his eyes. It didn’t pay to look too hungry in this business, so he lost a lot of clients.
Sprat had fallen into a bottle when
his old lady split with the Knave of Tarts. Elsie never met a meal she didn’t
like, and the Knave was a feeder. It was
a match made in Heaven, but it left Jack Sprat in Hell.
He had a little office down a back
alley no one ever visited in the Kingdom of Parterre. Even the neon sign was on
the verge of giving up as it sleepily blinked ‘Sprat Investigations.’ He was a
detective. A dick. A gumshoe. A private investigator. And he was broke.
It was a Tuesday and Sprat poured
himself a shot of whisky for breakfast and folded the latest eviction notice
into the shape of an aeroplane. There came the faintest of knocks on the door.
He shouted to his secretary to answer it, but then he remembered that he’d
fired her last week when she demanded a salary, so he downed the whisky in one
gulp and went to answer it himself.
He opened the door and there was a dame shivering in the rain which was no surprise as it was always raining in the Kingdom of Parterre. That’s why it was so green. The dame stood there dripping on the welcome mat in her wool coat. She lifted her head, and her blue eyes met his bloodshot ones.
I hope this has whetted your appetite. If you fancy
buying them just pop along to my shop at the link below or click on the green link on the side of this blog:
Thanks and happy reading!
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