Negative Space: fiction
- Annual 1—The Ultimate Chapter in the First RAC Challenge
- Uh… Something about Newt Gingrich, by Everyone
- Chapter 10: I got those Tampa Bay Buccaneers Blues
- by Mark Rosendorf; title by Marc “The Jazz” Singer
- Chapter 11: The Truth That Could Have Been Anywhere Else
- by Rob Rogers; title by Mark Rosendorf; Hair Care Products by Vidal Sassoon
- Chapter 12: Point of Departure or Divine is Easy, Comedy is Hard
- by Bill “Now Look” Keir; title by Rob “Roy” Rogers
- Chapter 13: The Ultimate Funeral
- by Dan “No relation to Igor” Sikorski; title by Bill Keir
- Chapter 14: Sing a Song of Six Packs
- by Chad Imbrogno; title by Dan Sikorski
- Chapter 15: Don’t Be a PRICK
- Narcoleptic Dogs Press Presents… RAC Challenge Chapter 15: Don’t Be a PRICK by Matt Rossi; title by Chad “Please don't hurt me” Imbrogno, whose pleas for Mercy will be in vain… heh.
- Chapter 16: If I wasn’t such an evil, evil man… Cheese Cheese
- by Wayne “Poet” Parillo; title by Matt “My state should be sold to the British” Rossi
- Chapter 17: MEMOREX Trackball Program Disk: If used incorrectly, then the world will be conquered
- by Jerry Stratton; title by Wayne “Poet” Parillo
- Chapter 18: Ghost, Ghost, Gander
- by Drizzt; title by Jerry Stratton
- Chapter 19: Screaming Dreams of wReam (I Have No Nose, And I Must Sneeze)
- by Arsenal, the Lone Warrior; title by Drizzt
- Chapter 20: When the sky hits your eye like a big pizza pie, it HOITS!
- by wReam; title by Arsenal
- Chapter 21: Stretching the World Wide Web or Brain Fever
- by Mike Friedman; Title by wReam
- Chapter 22: Not a real good jumping on point for new readers.
- by Frank W. Patnaude, Jr.; Title by Michael Friedman
- Chapter 23: Is That a Pack of Sugarless Gum in Your Pocket, or Are You Just Glad to See Me?
- by Michael Mendoza; Title by Frank W. Patnaude, Jr.
- Chapter 2: Gunshots and Grapefruits
- by Daniel Warren; title by Henry Broaddus.
- Chapter 3: Ducks and Delirium
- by Michael Kelly; title by Daniel Warren
- Chapter 4: Thrown Out Stealing
- by Jerry Franke; title by Michael Kelly
- Chapter 5: Into the Swamp, or How Can I Love You When You Killed Me Last Night?
- by Aaron Levitz; title by Jerry Franke
- Chapter 6: Two Question Marks and an Apostrophe or Picnic of the Damned
- by Scott Cederlund; title by Aaron Levitz
- Chapter 7: I Lost My Spleen in Sausalito
- by Augie De Blieck Jr.; title by Scott Cederlund
- Chapter 8: If This is Tuesday, It Must be Belgium
- by Kirk Ambrose, P.D.Q.; title by the Immortal Augie De Blieck Jr.
- Chapter 9: A Farewell to Arms (and a few legs)
- by Marc “The Jazz” Singer; title, and my snappy new nickname, by Kirk “Bierce, comma” Ambrose
- Erewhon
- Samuel Butler’s Erewhon is a challenge to Darwin and a challenge to socialism. It holds its bite against the latter, but has become more of a prophecy of the future with regards to the former: Butler took Darwin’s theory, applied it meticulously to machines, and forecast the computer.
- FireBlade Coffeehouse Texts
- Texts available in RTF, PDF, and HTML format.
- FireBlade Fiction
- Works by a number of authors, including James Barrie, Lewis Carroll, Oscar Wilde, and Alexandre Dumas.
- FireBlade Serials Department
- Various serials from the dawn of Internet time.
- A Fistful of Barrie
- Peter Pan and other works of J. M. Barrie combined into one file for use on a portable device.
- A Fistful of Carroll
- These poems and stories combined into one file for easy use on an iPhone or other portable device.
- A Fistful of Dumas
- All of the Three Musketeers. One file. This one’s gonna be big.
- A Fistful of Wilde
- These poems and stories combined into one file for easy use on an iPhone or other portable device.
- Inspirational fantasy fiction
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The Dumasian world of Gods & Monsters is also inspired by Dunsany, King, and many others. These books that should inspire you when you need to create interesting adventures and characters.
- Lewis Carroll
- On-line text for all of Lewis Carroll’s Alice books and his Sylvie & Bruno books, as well as more of his poetry and writings.
- Men Not Afraid
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Relive those thrilling days of neveryear with the monthly adventures of Captain Samantha Smith.
- Order of the Astronomers
- Follow the adventures of Sam Stevens, Gralen Noslen, Will Stratford, and Charlotte Kordé as they delve into the abandoned castle of the Order of the Astronomers. Start here if you’re new to the game or to role-playing games in general.
- The Picture of Dorian Gray
- “From the point of view of form, the type of all the arts is the art of the musician. From the point of view of feeling, the actor’s craft is the type.”
- Rec.Arts.Comics Challenge!
- The purpose of RAC Challenge! is to have fun and to exercise creativity. Participants pursue these goals through their construction of a chapter in an ongoing story written in the tradition of super-hero comics. RAC Challenge! is based on DC Challenge!, a now defunct title which operated according to a similar rotation of authors.
- Red and Sloppy Meat is Delicious
- once upon a time i was running through the forest…
- Samuel Butler
- Samuel Butler wrote a brilliant piece of satire in 1872 called Erewhon.
- The Selfish Giant
- “Every afternoon, as they were coming from school, the children used to go and play in the Giant’s garden.”
- Weblog killed the paperback star
- Are blogs, twitter, and other forms of mass online communication undermining the need for fiction?
More Information
- Sylvie and Bruno• (paperback)
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Ignore the editorial review on Amazon; as usual, modern reviewers assume that because it has faeries and nonsense, it’s for children; ignoring the discussion of then-modern politics and market science. Note that as far as I can tell, this contains only the first book, not both of them. (Lewis Carroll)
- Possession: A Romance• (paperback)
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Jumping between nineteenth century poets and the twentieth century scholars studying those poets, this is a richly detailed romance and mystery. (A.S. Byatt)
