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Smashwords Winter/Summer Sale

Posted on July 1, 2010 by Fred Bubbers

During the month of July, Smashwords.com is having a site-wide promotion.  For the southern hemisphere, it’s the Winter Sale; for those of us in the north, it’s the Summer Sale. My titles are available for free using coupon code SW100. … Continue reading →

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Natural Selection

Posted on April 18, 2010 by Fred Bubbers

As part of my continuing experiment with electronic publishing, I have added my short story “Natural Selection” to my eBook store.  When this story was originally published last October in Cantaraville, wrote extensively about how it came to be written … Continue reading →

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Gifts Epilogue: Christmas 1979

Posted on December 27, 2009 by Fred Bubbers

An epilogue to the previous post, “Gifts.” On Christmas Day of 1979, my parents, my sisters, and I drove out to Stony Brook to visit with Oma and Opa.  Opa was in the terminal stage of the cancer that would … Continue reading →

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Gifts

Posted on December 24, 2009 by Fred Bubbers

Part 1: This essay was originally published three years ago in Seeker Magazine.  When I began writing it, my only intent was to document a family story that was going to be forever lost due to the passage of time.  … Continue reading →

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Into the Abyss

Posted on November 4, 2009 by Fred Bubbers

When Jay McInerney’s Bright Lights, Big City was published in 1984, it took the publishing world by storm and ushered in a new era of edgy young writers.  Bright Lights, Big City chronicles the emotional, psychological, and spiritual downward spiral … Continue reading →

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