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Larry Schliessmann mystery, science fiction, and vampire fiction writer.

Larry Schliessmann
Larry Schliessmann
Murrell Inlet, SC
Member since: Mar, 2009
Last login: 02/27/2010
Last update : 02/27/2010
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photo credit: Photo by: Ruth Schliessmann

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About Me

  • I have published several science fiction and horror short stories, and I am a 2004 winner of the L Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future contest.

    I was born and raised in New York State, educated there, and served in the United States Army.

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  • ABNA Contest

    February 27, 2010

    • It's a first step and I'll take it! My novel "Drop Dead Cadillac" is one of a 1000 general fiction novels in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest to move into the second round of editorial reviews.  Since the total number of entries for the contest is 10,000, I'm happy about this. If you are interested in reading an excerpt, it should be available on the ...
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  • Zombie my Zombie

    February 20, 2010

    • How-to-enjoy that first touchy-feely date.By now, you must be breathless with anticipation. Relentlessly, you tracked him down, watched, and waited for him at midnight of the last six full moons, until finally you saw him. Your heart raced as he shambled across the uncut lawn, dodging tilted and ancient bone white tombstones at Mount Clementine's Cemetery.I know you felt hesitant, understanding ...
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  • The Living Eyes Syndrome in Writing

    February 4, 2010

    • Or, eyes of mine wherefore art thou now?I am an avid reader, but have a problem with some writers that I really need to get out in the open.To keep this simple, I will ask some questions and because basically, I am seriously sarcastic by nature, I might even answer one or two.One: When you write, "Their eyes met?" Did two people pop out their eyes first, hold them aloft so they might ...
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  • FOR THOSE WHO LOVE THE PHILOSOPHY OF AMBIGUITY

    February 2, 2010

    • Mid-winter relief.  FOR THOSE WHO LOVE THE PHILOSOPHY OF AMBIGUITY, AS WELL AS THE IDIOSYNCRASIES OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE...  1.  DON'T SWEAT THE PETTY THINGS AND DON'T PET THE SWEATY THINGS.  2.  ONE TEQUILA, TWO TEQUILA, THREE TEQUILA, FLOOR.  3.  ATHEISM IS A NON-PROPHET ORGANIZATION.  4.  IF MAN EVOLVED FROM MONKEYS AND APES, WHY DO WE STILL HAVE MONKEYS AND APES?5. I WENT TO ...
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  • Amazon.com's ABNA contest

    January 25, 2010

    • Just finished entering the ABNA novel writer's contest. My novel is "Drop Dead Cadillac" a mystery set in 1951 NYC. The protagonist is PI Marlowe Black.Here is the pitch: A red 1951 Cadillac half underwater, the bodies of a man and woman drowned in the trunk, one rapist, a reporter and his sister, a mobster and his father-in-law who's a Brooklyn Don, all tied together by one crime.Add ...
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Comments I've Written

  • Courage

    Often it is the youngest among us who teach the nuances of courage. I can only imagine what your boys must have felt making such an announcement in a Jesuit school.

  • Your comment

    Renee',

  • Your comment

    Abe,

    Thank you. I confess, I was slightly hesitant to post this, but now feel better about doing so.

    Larry

  • Your comment

    Thank you, Mary.

    As you may know, the situation here in the U.S. is the same. I completely agree with how you feel and wonder why such activities get buried under the purificator.

  • Your comment

    Thank you, KJ.

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