The very kind people at Drunk In A Graveyard decided to deliver a little pumpkin shaped audio gift to their listeners every day in the form of a narrated story.
Day 22’s story, “You’re Next”, was submitted by David E. Gates who, apparently, you should follow on twitter for all your horror fiction needs year round.
You can access the podcast here via YouTube or listen to the audio here.
My poem The Ode of Phineas Gage is one of the poems being featured on the PoetrySoup home page this week.
Check out Page 3 of www.poetrysoup.com to see it.
I was inspired to write it after reading about the unfortunate Phineas Gage in an “On this day in… 1848” article on Friday 13th September 2019. You can read the bizarre and curious story of Phineas Gage on Wikipedia.
For other poems, and short stories, my two anthologies, First Words and Unzipped: The Mind of a Madman, are available now.
Now available, an original screenplay, created by David E. Gates.
The Projectionist.
After a freak accident, a man develops a mysterious power which gains the attraction of dark forces who wish to take it from him.
Available in all eBook formats from Smashwords and for Kindle at Amazon, and all good online bookstores.
Youths on the rampage,
Vicious and feral.
Dare to tackle?
At your peril.
Gangs ruling streets,
Squabbling over little,
Reducing communities,
To something brittle.
Bottles thrown,
No care for others.
Mindless vandalism,
By them and their “brothers”.
Kids getting knifed.
Police unable, unwilling,
Citing lack of resources,
To stop their killing.
Where are the parents?
Kids bringing up kids.
No respect for their elders,
Life on the skids.
Society’s broken.
Is there a fix?
Which doesn’t involve,
Faces smashed in with bricks.
No-go ghettos,
And now a dead cop,
Lawless enclaves,
When will it stop?
Don’t give them holidays,
Jail them for their crime.
Repeat offenders?
Treble their time!
Punish them properly.
Stop with the excuse.
That we need to be softer.
For therein lies abuse.
Bring back the stocks.
And make prisons tough.
A six by nine cell.
For enough is enough.
©Copyright – David E. Gates – 2019
My book, Unzipped: The Mind of a Madman, has been entered in the 2019 Authors DB Cover Contest.
I’d really appreciate it if you could take two seconds to vote for the cover. You can vote by clicking here and selecting Submit your Vote/Review. Many thanks.
From Amazon:
Most incredible audio book I’ve ever listened to. Planned to listen to an hour at a time, ended up listening to it all at once! Couldn’t drag myself away. Heart-breaking story, an emotional roller-coaster! Listening to the failures of the CMS [CSA] was almost unbelievable. To know it’s a true story made me angry and heartbroken for DAVID.
HIGHLY RECOMMEND
Gareth Williams
Access Denied by David E. Gates is available at Amazon in eBook, Paperback and Audiobook formats, at Smashwords in all other eBook formats, and at all good online bookstores.
Upon the beach, they landed thus.
They knew their job; they made no fuss.
The ramp lowered, metal met sand,
They landed in this foreign land.
Without a sound, shipmates fell.
Bullets ringing through this hell.
Running forward, to secure the place.
From an evil, fascist, race.
Sinking in sand, feet swamped by tide.
Bodies floating, on either side.
Heat from explosions, searing hot.
As they plough on, through this rot.
Trenching through nests, of barbed wire,
Pushing on, through machine-gun fire.
Taking out turrets, killing those within.
No time to consider, the mortal sin.
Making peace, out of war.
Bodies piled, injured and sore.
We must never forget, never sway.
To always remember, D-Day.
©David E. Gates – 6th June 2019.
My book, Unzipped: The Mind of a Madman, has been entered in the 2019 Authors DB Cover Contest.
I’d really appreciate it if you could take two seconds to vote for the cover. You can vote by clicking here and selecting Submit your Vote/Review. Many thanks.
For a very limited time, you can get the brilliant short story, The Ghost of Clothes by David E. Gates for half-price!
Head over to Smashwords and enter code PU58V to get your exclusive discount.
Available in all eBook formats.
Like drops from the sky,
They multiply.
Each glistening and clear.
Each a perfect tear.
Biting my lip.
So my cover won’t slip.
Keeping up face.
No matter the place.
Outrunning the Rain is featured in the anthology, Unzipped: The Mind of a Madman, which is available from all good bookstores in various formats.
David E. Gates 