ben campbell | ben campbell
Apr.08.2009
Jason didn’t know what happened just before he was murdered. Sally, the young woman he’d met at the Red Lips club on Freemont Street warmed him about her pansexuality. Androgenous or metrosexual tendencies didn’t worry him. He never revealed his own Klinefelter’s Syndrome to anyone. His extra X...
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Mar.23.2009
"Castrehoe," he said under his breath when he opened the third case file. The other two files had contained the same finale. All three homicide folders polluted his desk top, and he detested each one. Hymen Helles nodded his head at the photos of the third victim: male, naked, castrated....
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Mar.16.2009
Working in the Psyche Department with the Las Vegas P.D. was less of a parade maker and more of a Crash Wednesday. Fifteen cases were backed up, piled on Saika Saki’s desk, which made her shithoused with an emotional hangover. After USC graduation four years ago, she interned with the L.A.P.D. for...
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Mar.05.2009
Johnny was seriously crunked up; hammered and tanked on weed and three empty Bombay slammers. Sara remained sober and indifferent. She was coy and smooth as a rattlesnake coiled around Johnny’s naked, muscular body spread across his studio Murphy bed. Aware of where she began, the world always...
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Mar.03.2009
Sandy straddled Jimmy's naked body in his dimly lit bedroom. The mattress was soft. Gray sheets had a fragrance of body sweat. He was exhausted and needed a nose full of white. She needed something more than Jimmy's Johnson. They had convoluted sex twice within one hour, and Sandy remained unrocked...
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Dec.23.2008
My shameful interview about writing, click here.
Here is a sample:
What did you first read? How did you begin to write? Who were the first to read what you wrote?
The first book I ever finished reading was "To A God Unknown", a kick-ass, paranoid menu by John Steinbeck. I began writing...
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Oct.19.2008
I have four books to give away of my new publication IT'S ALL MAKE BELIEVE, ISN'T IT? *Marilyn Monroe Returns*. As gifts to Red Room members and my friends at Goodreads and Facebook this story, not yet marketed or advertised, where life, art and science mirror each other, is an atmospheric,...
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Oct.14.2008
This is an excerpt from pages 342-345 in my new publication IT'S ALL MAKE BELIEVE, ISN'T IT? *Marilyn Monroe Returns*. Go to www.lulu.com/bencampbell to preview this novel. Enjoy.
“May I have your attention please. I now reintroduce to you Marilyn Monroe.”
Like a circus ringleader...
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Sep.01.2008
I've had over one million hits, 1,034,646 to be exact to this moment, on my youtube site: http://www.youtube.com/user/RogueNovelist.
This video is about my new publication IT'S ALL MAKE BELIEVE, ISN'T IT? Marilyn Monroe Returns. Preview it at: http://www.lulu.com/content/732016
And, hey, watch this...
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Aug.05.2008
Thank you, Red Room. I'm pleased you had selected my short story "Refusal Is Not An Option" as a co-winner of you memorable summer reading experience contest. Red Room is the place to be if you enjoy reading, writing and special events. I encourage all Red Room visitors to become members...
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