Stephen A. Roddewig
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Author of A Bloody Business and the Dick Winchester series. Proud member of the Horror Writers Association 🐦⬛
Also a reprint mercenary. And humorist. And road warrior. And Felix Salten devotee.
And a narcissist:
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It’s the First of the Month
We know it by many names. October. Spooky Season. Spooktober. …I’m sure there are more out there. Anyhow, with an increase in focus on the scary comes an influx of scary content. New horror book unveilings. New spooky challenges on Vocal, coinciding with a decided uptick in the number of unnerving stories making it to the front page with the vaunted crown of Top Story. They even decided to throw in a holiday at some point to cap it all off. Quiet prescient.
By Stephen A. Roddewig2 years ago in Writers
The Final Two Minutes
Now available in print in Apocalyptales: The End is Nigh, a collection of stories of the apocalypse. *** Combat Commander Lou Dowds sat at his station, leafing through the pages of a worn paperback of On the Road. His love for Kerouac’s subversiveness had always drawn suspicious gazes from his superiors in the straight-laced and stiff-backed United States Military.
By Stephen A. Roddewig2 years ago in Fiction
Be Me, a Vocal+ Member. Top Story - September 2023.
Wake up, brush teeth, look at the Vocal app. Oh, a red dot! Realize it’s only creators I’ve subscribed to posting new stories. Swallow equal parts disappointment that no one has engaged with my stories and impostor syndrome that I can’t seem to match these authors’ paces. Promise I’ll go read the new stories later.
By Stephen A. Roddewig2 years ago in Writers
Bambi, a Life in the Woods
I am a fanatical fan when it comes to certain creations. A long time ago, convinced that Kathryn Lasky had finished her Guardians of Ga’Hoole series with Book 8, I could not accept that it was all over. Not that The Outcast would have been a bad ending to the series. In hindsight, I almost wish it had been the terminus, but I won’t go there this time.
By Stephen A. Roddewig2 years ago in BookClub
Dick Winchester in... The Fairy Tale
Book 1, Chapter 8 Little Red Riding Hood skips gaily through the forest, reveling in the sunshine. Unbeknownst to this innocent child, another figure shadows her in the undergrowth. As he slinks through the brush, a thorn bush catches the edge of his cloak, momentarily exposing a rounded off-green square with the tops of the letters “Öb” showing on his chest.
By Stephen A. Roddewig2 years ago in Fiction
Moldy the Cold-Nosed Reindeer: My first-ever short story
Author’s Note: It took me a bit to determine what even counted as my first-ever piece of writing for this challenge. My writing journey stems all the way back into my childhood and had 2-3 starts and stops before I fully embraced my identity as a writer in high school. Even then, my writing goals, focus, and, most of all, style has changed a good deal since those fledgling days (thank goodness).
By Stephen A. Roddewig2 years ago in Writers
An Ode to my Inability to Accept Praise
Author’s Note: I originally intended to submit this for the Ode to the Ordinary challenge, but then I realized my thoughts would likely refuse to confine themselves to verses. Plus, by the time this topic came to me, there was about 10 hours left in the challenge, and while I certainly have “made it happen” time and again when the chips were down, I prefer not to rush my writing.
By Stephen A. Roddewig2 years ago in Writers
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl has ruined the pirate genre for me
It was the first movie I remember seeing in theaters, and my admiration for its storytelling grows with age. It is the penultimate blend of action, wit, and mystery on the high seas.
By Stephen A. Roddewig2 years ago in Critique
Author Talk: The Great Content Recycling Ecosystem
To misquote the band Sublime: It’s so nice, I wanna publish the same story twice Sidebar 1: Did you know their greatest success came after the lead singer Bradley Nowell was already dead? What could have been...
By Stephen A. Roddewig2 years ago in Writers
