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Patrick K.'s avatar

Ugh. That’s heart wrenching, and it happens fast. Glad you made ‘em DNR and not just “cops”.

Great line:

“He shot one his third try, and let’s say, I don’t know, like his 410th.”

As usual, love the way the plot lines all tie together at the end.

And Stabler better get over here and wash my damned truck.

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Jimmy Doom's avatar

Illegal hunting is definitely DNR jurisdiction.

I'm glad you caught the Stabler homage.

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Jim Cummings's avatar

Love the way you build a story brick by brick, every line another brick and when it's done, it's beautiful. And sturdy. This story could have been 3,000 words and would have still said the same thing.

Too late for the book on this one? This would be a good candidate for sure.

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Jimmy Doom's avatar

Thanks Jim. 960 stories in the archive, 60 in the book. I think I should have enough for a second book of these if the first one sells.

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just mud by Ron's avatar

That's a nice read. 👌 It's never simple, is it? Like the personalities.

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Jimmy Doom's avatar

Life can be simplified, but it's never, ever simple

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Carol Angel's avatar

Again, I love the Storytelling. When does your book come out? Should we pre order? We want it to be everything you hope it will be in sales.

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Jimmy Doom's avatar

I had to set the book release back a bit to do it right. I know the book will be better for it. I'll announce presales on here.

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Alexander Ipfelkofer's avatar

down to earth storytelling, I like it.

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Jimmy Doom's avatar

Thanks. I try to keep em varied. I'm a city kid but don't always wanna tell city stories

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Alexander Ipfelkofer's avatar

cities are jungles, too! I'll stick around, and see what else you got!

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Jimmy Doom's avatar

Try Grandmaster, or for city mayhem deeply rooted in real life: Before You Die.

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Alexander Ipfelkofer's avatar

will do, first things first. word count for the day. happy writing, Jimmy!

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Luke's avatar

Great story. When what seems like endless summer fun turns into disaster, that's a tragedy.

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Jimmy Doom's avatar

I'm the Rustbelt Shakespeare

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V. C. Ackerman's avatar

When I read that Tazzy was blind and shooting at rabbits, I thought it was going to be revealed that he accidentally shot someone. I wasn’t expecting what actually happened. Poor Tazzy.

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Jimmy Doom's avatar

I like to twist it up a bit. You know that.

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V. C. Ackerman's avatar

Very true!

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