As many of you know I e-published my first book, "Ice Cream and Venom" about eight months ago on Amazon in Kindle format. It's been very well reviewed - better than I expected, really - but being as it was my first book, and my first experience with that format, it had a LOT of formatting and editing errors I didn't notice until after it was online and people started pointing 'em to me. They were substantial. Also, to be honest, the order of the stories didn't flow very well. It started out on the weakest (And most deliberately offensive!) one. Also, the Table of Contents didn't work.

Things My Father Said To Me

Think and all the ancestors think with you. Fight and you fight alone.

None do more ill than those perpetually endeavoring to do “good”.

No dead thing has a value. Think before killing, then kill without further thought. Indecision is deadly. Guilt and remorse are as valueless as dead things.

Honor Drago in all that you do and let be. Exaltation is for humans and idiots.

EAT…and grow strong.

Let no one ever force you to repeat yourself, but say nothing more or less the first time than what you are prepared to defend.

It was a time of magic, a time of wonder, a time of wizards and the mighty mages of old; men like Fatumpsh the Cheerful Wandering Fornicator, and Blath-Gar the Flatulent, and Heinleino the Creepy Swinger. Not less pronounced - if somewhat more pronounceable - were women wizards such as Katie the Trollope, Sheena the Slattern, Hepshebah the Other Trollope, and Wanda-With-The-Stupid-Husband-Of-Convenience. Such marvels as these held sway in this distant age, when empires rose and fell based entirely upon their whim.

Penny was almost in a trance as the music washed over her. Reading about or listening to a recording of this performance could not reproduce or explain the emotional and physiological reaction she and the rest of the audience were having. It was fortunate that the stream had carried her here.