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JABE STAFFORD

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Ales, Agents & Alchemy - Debut urban fantasy novel seeking new publisher.
Perception Thief - (Free) In Four Star Stories Magazine
The Allure Of Contrast And Change In Short Stories - (Free) In Four Star Stories Magazine
Force Of Good - (Free) In Flash Fiction Magazine
Dead Next Door - In Cloaked Press's Fall Into Fantasy anthology.

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    One Page Worlds - Godship Sacrifice
    Jabe Stafford
    • Nov 20, 2019
    • 3 min

    One Page Worlds - Godship Sacrifice

    A whole world on a single page! The short story morsels of One Page Worlds are flash fiction adventures of all flavors. Every Wednesday will feature a complete story in one page, or the first page of what could be a novel or novelette. Sharing the fun and geekery is the best part of writing! Please tweet or comment with your guesses on what genre, character, and job is central to each tale. Enjoy touring new universes each week with One Page Worlds! * * * * * The goddess’s wo
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    One Page Worlds - Jimmy Cracks Skulls
    Jabe Stafford
    • Jun 19, 2019
    • 2 min

    One Page Worlds - Jimmy Cracks Skulls

    A whole world on a single page! The short story morsels of One Page Worlds are flash fiction adventures of all flavors. Every Wednesday will feature a complete story in one page, or the first page of what could be a novel or novelette. Sharing the fun and geekery is the best part of writing! Please tweet or comment with your guesses on what genre, character, and job is central to each tale. Enjoy touring new universes each week with One Page Worlds! * * * * * Whoever buried m
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    One Page Worlds - Screen-Side Sleuth
    Jabe Stafford
    • May 29, 2019
    • 3 min

    One Page Worlds - Screen-Side Sleuth

    A whole world on a single page! The short story morsels of One Page Worlds are flash fiction adventures of all flavors. Every Wednesday will feature a complete story in one page, or the first page of what could be a novel or novelette. Sharing the fun and geekery is the best part of writing! Please tweet or comment with your guesses on what genre, character, and job is central to each tale. Enjoy touring new universes each week with One Page Worlds! * * * * * Reina Mertens ra
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    One Page Worlds - Dating Site Deities
    Jabe Stafford
    • Apr 10, 2019
    • 2 min

    One Page Worlds - Dating Site Deities

    A whole world on a single page! The short story morsels of One Page Worlds are flash fiction adventures of all flavors. Every Wednesday will feature a complete story in one page, or the first page of what could be a novel or novelette. Sharing the fun and geekery is the best part of writing! Please tweet or comment with your guesses on what genre, character, and job is central to each tale. Enjoy touring new universes each week with One Page Worlds! * * * * * “Can I shoot you
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    One Page Worlds - Certified Master Taster Zombie
    Jabe Stafford
    • Jan 30, 2019
    • 2 min

    One Page Worlds - Certified Master Taster Zombie

    A whole world on a single page! The short story morsels of One Page Worlds are flash fiction adventures of all flavors. Every Wednesday will feature a complete story in one page, or the first page of what could be a novel or novelette. Sharing the fun and geekery is the best part of writing! Please tweet or comment with your guesses on what genre, character, and job is central to each tale. Enjoy touring new universes each week with One Page Worlds! * * * * * “I am the only z
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    An Orchard Witch's Lover
    Jabe Stafford
    • Dec 19, 2018
    • 3 min

    An Orchard Witch's Lover

    A whole world on a single page! The short story morsels of One Page Worlds are flash fiction adventures of all flavors. Every Wednesday will feature a complete story in one page, or the first page of what could be a novel or novelette. Sharing the fun and geekery is the best part of writing! Please tweet or comment with your guesses on what genre, character, and job is central to each tale. Enjoy touring new universes each week with One Page Worlds! * * * * * It never felt ri
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    Griffin-Shit Alchemy
    Jabe Stafford
    • Nov 28, 2018
    • 2 min

    Griffin-Shit Alchemy

    A whole world on a single page! The short story morsels of One Page Worlds are flash fiction adventures of all flavors. Every Wednesday will feature a complete story in one page, or the first page of what could be a novel or novelette. Sharing the fun and geekery is the best part of writing! Please tweet or comment with your guesses on what genre, character, and job is central to each tale. Enjoy touring new universes each week with One Page Worlds! * * * * * “Domesticated Gr
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    Brick Spitfire
    Jabe Stafford
    • Nov 21, 2018
    • 2 min

    Brick Spitfire

    A whole world on a single page! The short story morsels of One Page Worlds are flash fiction adventures of all flavors. Every Wednesday will feature a complete story in one page, or the first page of what could be a novel or novelette. Sharing the fun and geekery is the best part of writing! Please tweet or comment with your guesses on what genre, character, and job is central to each tale. Enjoy touring new universes each week with One Page Worlds! * * * * * Eyes. Two of the
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    One Page Worlds - Genie Of The Hotdog Stand
    Jabe Stafford
    • Aug 22, 2018
    • 2 min

    One Page Worlds - Genie Of The Hotdog Stand

    A whole world on a single page! The short story morsels of One Page Worlds are flash fiction adventures of all flavors. Every Wednesday will feature a complete story in one page, or the first page of what could be a novel or novelette. Sharing the fun and geekery is the best part of writing! Please tweet or comment with your guesses on what genre, character, and job is central to each tale. Enjoy touring new universes each week with One Page Worlds! * * * * * You could say I
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    One Page Worlds - Dead Giveaways
    Jabe Stafford
    • Jul 11, 2018
    • 3 min

    One Page Worlds - Dead Giveaways

    A whole world on a single page! The short story morsels of One Page Worlds are flash fiction adventures of all flavors. Every Wednesday will feature a complete story in one page, or the first page of what could be a novel or novelette. Sharing the fun and geekery is the best part of writing! Please tweet or comment with your guesses on what genre, character, and job is central to each tale. Enjoy touring new universes each week with One Page Worlds! * * * * * Dead Giveaways -
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    Dictomancy - Everyday Wordplay
    Jabe Stafford
    • May 30, 2018
    • 1 min

    Dictomancy - Everyday Wordplay

    Spread laughter and positive energy with wordplay! Dictomancy - Everyday Wordplay is a Wednesday blog series that features rare, bizarre, and absurd words and their meanings. Work one of these words into your day and spark some laughter and curiosity! Schlacht - schlacht n [Ger, literally “battle, slaughter”; cf Ger Schlachtfest a festival held at the time of pig slaughtering] esp WI A drinking party. 2001 DARE File cWI (as of c1950s), My father often referred to a sort of d
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    Dictomancy - Everyday Wordplay
    Jabe Stafford
    • May 23, 2018
    • 1 min

    Dictomancy - Everyday Wordplay

    Spread laughter and positive energy with wordplay! Dictomancy - Everyday Wordplay is a Wednesday blog series that features rare, bizarre, and absurd words and their meanings. Work one of these words into your day and spark some laughter and curiosity! Rimption - rimp*tion n Also rempshion, remption, rimpshion, rimtion chiefly Appalachians An abundance; plenty; a large amount or number. 1988 DARE File, An Appalachian term for a whole lot of anything. . .is “A whole rimption.”
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    Dictomancy - Everyday Wordplay
    Jabe Stafford
    • May 16, 2018
    • 1 min

    Dictomancy - Everyday Wordplay

    Spread laughter and positive energy with wordplay! Dictomancy - Everyday Wordplay is a Wednesday blog series that features rare, bizarre, and absurd words and their meanings. Work one of these words into your day and spark some laughter and curiosity! Rickididdle rick*i*didd*le n 1967 DARE FW Addit cnLA, Rickididdle [FW: Inf’s spelling] [‘riki,didl] —old fashioned for dumpling. “Let’s order some chicken fried rice with rickididdles.” “Yeah, can I get six rickididdles please?
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    Dictomancy - Everyday Wordplay
    Jabe Stafford
    • May 9, 2018
    • 1 min

    Dictomancy - Everyday Wordplay

    Spread laughter and positive energy with wordplay! Dictomancy - Everyday Wordplay is a Wednesday blog series that features rare, bizarre, and absurd words and their meanings. Work one of these words into your day and spark some laughter and curiosity! Red shitepoke - red shite*poke n Cf shitepoke B1 A sandhill crane 1 (here: Grus canadensis). 1949 Leopold Sand Co. Almanac 99 WI, The cranes whinnied. . and retreated to the far fastnesses. ‘Red shitepokes’ the haymakers calle
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    Jabe Stafford
    • May 5, 2018
    • 2 min

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    Eyes. Two of them. Brown like night soil. Above a blond beard and robes richer than the bastards who used me. I hadn’t moved from this crusty mead hall corner since they built it. The army’s men and women tested their stomachs as wineskins at the far end of the hall. Voices and clatterings vibrated through me, but this man’s gripes struck me as though I had ears. “A brick,” the robed princeling said, addressing me directly. “Only capable of support. So solid. My allies turned
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    Dictomancy - Everyday Wordplay
    Jabe Stafford
    • May 2, 2018
    • 1 min

    Dictomancy - Everyday Wordplay

    Spread laughter and positive energy with wordplay! Dictomancy - Everyday Wordplay is a Wednesday blog series that features rare, bizarre, and absurd words and their meanings. Work one of these words into your day and spark some laughter and curiosity! Red liquor - red liq*uor n Also red whiskey [From its color, in contrast to the “white” (i.e., colorless) appearance of un-aged moonshine; cf white lightning, ~ liquor, ~ mule, ~ whiskey] chiefly Sth, S Midl Cf redeye 5 A dist
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    Dictomancy - Everyday Wordplay
    Jabe Stafford
    • Apr 25, 2018
    • 1 min

    Dictomancy - Everyday Wordplay

    Spread laughter and positive energy with wordplay! Dictomancy - Everyday Wordplay is a Wednesday blog series that features rare, bizarre, and absurd words and their meanings. Work one of these words into your day and spark some laughter and curiosity! Rattletongue - rat*tle*tongue n Also rattlehead, rattlemouth, Cf rattlebox 2 A garrulous or gossiping person; hence adj rattle-tongued. 1876 Larned Talks Labor 32 NY, I am ashamed of myself; but you threw me on a subject which
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    Jabe Stafford
    • Apr 21, 2018
    • 3 min

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    Dead Giveaways - A Guide To Safe After-Living Espiritus Geist So, you went toward the light. Or you didn’t. Either way, welcome to the first day of the rest of your death. Time’s shifty on this side, being a man-made rule and everything. If you’re not done bugging the living, pass this guide to the ghost nearest you and good luck haunting your target during their natural lifespan. If you don’t want the living bugging you, here are five warning signs those bloody humans are af
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    Dictomancy - Everyday Wordplay
    Jabe Stafford
    • Apr 18, 2018
    • 1 min

    Dictomancy - Everyday Wordplay

    Spread laughter and positive energy with wordplay! Dictomancy - Everyday Wordplay is a Wednesday blog series that features rare, bizarre, and absurd words and their meanings. Work one of these words into your day and spark some laughter and curiosity! Rap-jacket - rap*jack*et n Also rap jack Also sp wrap jack(et) Sth, S Midl A contest of endurance in which people beat one another with switches; hence v phr play rap-jacket to administer a beating; v phr rap jack to beat with
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    Dictomancy - Everyday Wordplay
    Jabe Stafford
    • Apr 11, 2018
    • 1 min

    Dictomancy - Everyday Wordplay

    Spread laughter and positive energy with wordplay! Dictomancy - Everyday Wordplay is a Wednesday blog series that features rare, bizarre, and absurd words and their meanings. Work one of these words into your day and spark some laughter and curiosity! Rantankerous - ran*tank*er*ous adj Also sp rantanckerous [Varr of cantankerous, perh infl by rant v] chiefly Sth, S Midl Bad-tempered, unruly; fierce; hence rarely adv rantankerous fiercely, furiously. 1898 Lloyd Country Life 1
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