What this machine runs on

So it's Friday night around 8 o'clock, and I'm at my usual spot on the couch with the laptop--where else, on my lap--Gangster #1 is on the tube, I've just pounded a bottle of Guinness (the shame and horror, the black stuff in a bottle, it's just unnatural, but I've got four cans in the fridge, the bottle was a left over from a sixer I picked up at a store that only stocked bottles.) and now I'm drinking a cup of coffee to take the edge off the slight beer buzz I've gotten from drinking 12 oz of stout in 10 seconds, because I have to pick my big brother up from the airport in a couple of hours, and even though the airport is only a ten minute drive from my house, I don't like the idea of driving around slightly impaired. 

So coffee it is.

I've been pretty caffeinated all day, but then again, I'm pretty caffeinated every day. When you wake up at 4:30 every morning and go to bed around 10:00 PM every night, I might as well have an IV with a fresh 12 cup pot of french roast strapped to a vein every waking moment of the day to keep me up and moving. Not that I'm complaining, anyone who knows me will attest to my love affair with coffee. Plus the caffeine drove me to finish up and submit a couple more stories today. Plus the day job was pretty productive overall.

So instead of just kicking back and enjoying Gangster #1 and maybe read 20 or 30 pages of the Lee Child novel I'm reading and letting my head relax after such a productive day, I decide to jump on the bloggy blog and. . .plug a couple of my stories that went online today.

I mentioned them both early on in the week.

First is my new flash piece over at Flash Fiction Offensive 

It's a Noir weeper, so make sure to have plenty of Kleenex's on hand when you give it a read.

The second is my first appearance at Plots with Guns

As I mentioned in my previous post, the story appearing is one of my favorite degenerates of 2008. Plus, I'm appearing along side Frank Bill again and some other really fine writers. 

Typically I spread my Plots with Guns reading over a couple of months, but I'm pretty sure I'm going to polish off the issue in a few days.

Anyway, gotta go, the torture scene is coming up in Gangster #1