Modern Evil Press

chapbooks

Teel — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:14:27 +0000

Modern Evil Press currently has two chapbooks available, each featuring a single short story in its entirety. These chapbooks are handmade, signed, numbered limited editions (of 50).

Second Thoughts

by Teel McClanahan III
(44pp, 5.5″x4.25″ $2+S/H)

This is a story about getting so caught up in love with someone that you stop living your own life, stop moving forward.

This is a story about finding yourself so stuck in seeking the same somebody that you become unstuck from the world.

This is a story about love, and about waiting.

Second Thoughts ‑ chapbook

$2.00$1.00

Pay Attention -A Zombie Story-

by Teel McClanahan III
(32pp, 5.5″x4.25″ $2+S/H)

This story contains sex, violence, bondage, pain, fear, humiliation, and death. Death by zombie.

More Lost Memories is a collection of short stories available as a paperback and as an eBook, each connected to Forget What You Can’t Remember by a minor character, a passing situation, or an unanswered question therein. While giving more depth and more details to the people and events of that novel, nine more narratives are revealed. Sex, pain, violence, and zombies, tech support for a flying city, religious prophecies fulfilled, true love and lasting marriage, re-engineered doomsday devices, gourmet cannibalism…
…and a whole lot more.

This is one story from that collection, Pay Attention -A Zombie Story-, which looks at the situation at a zombie readiness training camp during its final weeks of training before a full-scale zombie outbreak. It follows the two men who are tasked with keeping the camp running while the man in charge -The Sergeant- is distracted, and how this lapse of management goes horribly awry. It also gives a glimpse of what happened with Mary, a woman totally unprepared for what she’s gotten herself into, and who goes on not only to survive the zombie outbreak, but to become one of the central characters of Forget What You Can’t Remember. Also available as a $0.99 eBook for Amazon’s kindle, Barnes & Noble’s nook, or via Smashwords for your choice of device & format.

Pay Attention -A Zombie Story- chapbook

$2.00$1.00

Second Thoughts

Teel — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:01:12 +0000

by Teel McClanahan III

This is a story about getting so caught up in love with someone that you stop living your own life, stop moving forward.

This is a story about finding yourself so stuck in seeking the same somebody that you become unstuck from the world.

This is a story about love, and about waiting.

Second Thoughts is currently available as a signed, numbered limited edition (of 50), handmade chapbook (44pp, 5.5″x4.25″ $2+S/H) and will soon be part of a collection of time-bending, heart-rending stories called Time, emiT, and Time Again, coming soon from Modern Evil Press.

More Lost Memories: Building; Mark V

Teel — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:25:05 +0000

by Teel McClanahan III

This story, Building; Mark V, is about a supervillain who -after his first several attempts to wreak havoc on and around the flying city in which he lives are thwarted, and his superhero nemesis is coincidentally erased from existence- goes even more insane than he was before. Stumbling around his high-tech laboratory, mumbling to himself, Brady experiences an epiphany that leads him to design a fifth iteration of his doomsday device. Find out what he designs, and where that line of thought ends up taking him, in this strange story about a stranger, mad man.

You can buy this story individually for $0.99 for Amazon’s kindle, Barnes & Noble’s nook, or via Smashwords for your choice of device & format.

More Lost Memories: Self Serve

Teel — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:19:08 +0000

by Teel McClanahan III

This story, Self-Serve, follows one man’s quest to share himself totally through his preferred form of creative expression – his cooking. Taking available technology into untouched ethical ground, Lance goes further to give himself over to his restaurant’s patrons than many people are comfortable with. The second part of this story is told through a lengthy culinary review of Lance’s restaurant, rather than a traditional narrative.

You can buy this story individually for $0.99 for Amazon’s kindle, Barnes & Noble’s nook, or via Smashwords for your choice of device & format.

More Lost Memories: The Greater Good

Teel — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:12:46 +0000

by Teel McClanahan III

This story, The Greater Good, is more of a series of philosophical dialectics than it is a proper story. It explores a complex ethical situation from the perspective of a group that emphatically denies that it has a right to life, or any say in whether it lives or dies. It uses entirely fictionalized religious iconography, dogma, and symbolism to examine issues and situations you may recognize from the world around you. When one group is unable or unwilling to take a stand or defend itself, deferring entirely to another, whose right is it to protect or destroy any one -or all- of that group? Buy it now to explore these ideas, and more.

You can buy this story individually for $0.99 for Amazon’s kindle, Barnes & Noble’s nook, or via Smashwords for your choice of device & format.

More Lost Memories: They Stole God

Teel — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:06:16 +0000

by Teel McClanahan III

This story, They Stole God, is one of my favorites from this collection, delving into theology, cosmology, ethics & morality, while telling a tale that ends up containing dramatic & violent bank robberies and the violation of the sanctity of religious dogma – by force. Follow a group of monk-like religious adepts and their friends as they find that the deeper into the secrets of their religion they delve, the more impossible their escape from its clutches becomes. Some readers may want to look up the nature of such far-flung physics concepts as dark matter, dark energy, and the nature of singularities to understand the full scope of theology herein, and others will just want to know what strange plan they come up with next.

You can buy this story individually for $0.99 for Amazon’s kindle, Barnes & Noble’s nook, or via Smashwords for your choice of device & format.

More Lost Memories: Welcome to The Family

Teel — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 07:55:22 +0000

by Teel McClanahan III

This story, Welcome to The Family, is about a strange group of cyborgs – not people with robotic limbs or organs, but whose physiology at a cellular level is a co-mingling of organic and robotic components. Cyborgs whose gross physiology bears no resemblance to the people they were before becoming members of this tight-knit group known as ‘The Family.’ This story, really, is about a boy in love, and the lengths he’ll go to to try to save the girl he loves from succumbing to the fate he himself has fallen prey to. Will he be able to protect her from becoming a member of The Family?

You can buy this story individually for $0.99 for Amazon’s kindle, Barnes & Noble’s nook, or via Smashwords for your choice of device & format.

More Lost Memories: How To Disappear Completely

Teel — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 07:47:41 +0000

by Teel McClanahan III

This story may not seem to have much to say on a first reading, or out of context of the companion novel, but for readers who pay attention to detail and like to think, I think there’s plenty to enjoy here.

This story, How To Disappear Completely, really helps fill in the other side of a part of Skythia’s story, from the perspective of the Skythian employees who were tasked with trying to hide their flying city from some unknown, unseen apocalypse. Falling mostly between chapters 5 and 7 of Forget What You Can’t Remember, if you pay close attention you can see some of the ways the ‘doomsday event’ they were trying to protect themselves from changed their lives in ways they didn’t even notice.

You can buy this story individually for $0.99 for Amazon’s kindle, Barnes & Noble’s nook, or via Smashwords for your choice of device & format.

More Lost Memories: Pay Attention -A Zombie Story-

Teel — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:05:29 +0000

by Teel McClanahan III

This story contains sex, violence, bondage, pain, fear, humiliation, and death. Death by zombie.

You can buy this story individually for $0.99 for Amazon’s kindle, Barnes & Noble’s nook, or via Smashwords for your choice of device & format.

Pay Attention -A Zombie Story- is also currently available as a signed, numbered limited edition (of 50), handmade chapbook (32pp, 5.5″x4.25″ $2+S/H).

Lost and Not Found – Director’s Cut

Teel — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:49:25 +0000

by Teel McClanahan III

A non-traditional story; no real conflict, no struggle, no antagonist, and -some would say- no plot. A love story of fantastic proportions, of two people who realize that the less-than-comfortable normalcy they’d felt responsible to is the only thing keeping them from achieving true bliss. With a faerie, titans, a two-headed monster, a flying city, amazing museums, unusual time mechanics, & more.

Lost and Not Found was the first look at the storybook universe expanded upon in Forget What You Can’t Remember, More Lost Memories, and Cheating, Death. This “Director’s Cut” of Lost and Not Found comes closer to my original intent, and to the original first draft of my 2002 NaNoWriMo novel, originally released in limited edition under the title Forlorn. Forlorn was written in the final 8 days of November, after a similar ordeal to the fictional one presented in Lost and Not Found.

In response to the criticism and feedback from a very vocal and adamant subset of the people who read Forlorn, and based on advise about what “all” fiction “needs” I spent the following year trying to find ways to give the story I’d written in Forlorn things like conflict, character arcs, and a three-act structure. I ended up cutting Skythia out completely, and writing a significant amount about the writer’s life and the journey toward the heart of the story, which I’ve always believed starts with the word ‘Forlorn.’

I released the First Edition of that expanded, “fixed” book as Lost and Not Found in 2004, and I’ve been receiving two kinds of feedback from readers in the five years since then: One group of people liked the book right up until the word ‘Forlorn.’ This group thinks the rest of the book is a “wrong turn”, and they were disappointed by it. The other group of people typically don’t even remember what happened in the book before the word ‘Forlorn.’ They understood the heart of the story to be the same thing I did, and they loved it.

This “Director’s Cut” of Lost and Not Found is bound to divide readers in the same way, though I expect to a more significant extreme. The people who would have been disappointed by the end of Lost and Not Found will be disappointed by this entire book. The people who would have loved the end of Lost and Not Found will probably love this entire book. And I, increasingly emboldened to do what I want to do with my books and with my publishing company, love the idea of releasing a Director’s Cut of the book, one that I prefer and that I think my true audience will prefer.

The Lost and Not Found – Director’s Cut is available as an eBook from Smashwords for $4.99. If you’ve already bought a copy of Lost and Not Found, email me and I’ll send you a free copy of the Director’s Cut eBook. If you’d like to see a paperback release of the Director’s Cut, you can do two things to make that happen: 1) Email me to let me know you want to order a paper copy. 2) Buy the painting I made for the book’s cover.