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Excerpt From Monroe's Paranormal Investigations
I was fresh out of the service and looking for a job, so I decided to put some of the skills I learned in the Army to use. I attended night school, obtained my private detective's licence, and opened up my own agency.
My name is Mike Monroe, and I own Monroe's Paranormal Investigations. Most of the stuff I did in the military was covert OPPS: weird stuff that you wouldn't believe, and most of it I can't talk about because it's classified. Most of the work I do is freelance work for the government, or private clients who have a problem that the police or military can't, or won't handle. If it's too weird or strange for the military they call me-I specialize in weird.
Remember all those stories you heard when you were young about ghost, vampires, zombies and werewolves? The one your mother said weren't real? Well, your mother lied.
It was about six months after I opened the agency, on a warm summer evening. I was down at the office, things were slow and I was getting board. The Dodgers were loosing, so I switched off the radio and stepped out of the front door of my office.
I thought maybe I'd stroll down to the liquor store, buy a six-pack and then head home. The warm summer heat hit my face, making me sweat. Here it was 9pm and it was still hot.
At least I don't live up on the high desert, somewhere like Barstow, I thought to myself as I strolled down the sidewalk to the liquor store on the corner. The temperature up there on the high desert could be brutal in the summertime.
I heard the sound of shoe leather scraping the sidewalk behind me. I started to turn, and that was when I felt a blunt object come crashing down on my head. Pain shot through my skull, my vision went white for a fraction of a second, and I succumbed to darkness.
***
My name is Mike Monroe, and I own Monroe's Paranormal Investigations. Most of the stuff I did in the military was covert OPPS: weird stuff that you wouldn't believe, and most of it I can't talk about because it's classified. Most of the work I do is freelance work for the government, or private clients who have a problem that the police or military can't, or won't handle. If it's too weird or strange for the military they call me-I specialize in weird.
Remember all those stories you heard when you were young about ghost, vampires, zombies and werewolves? The one your mother said weren't real? Well, your mother lied.
It was about six months after I opened the agency, on a warm summer evening. I was down at the office, things were slow and I was getting board. The Dodgers were loosing, so I switched off the radio and stepped out of the front door of my office.
I thought maybe I'd stroll down to the liquor store, buy a six-pack and then head home. The warm summer heat hit my face, making me sweat. Here it was 9pm and it was still hot.
At least I don't live up on the high desert, somewhere like Barstow, I thought to myself as I strolled down the sidewalk to the liquor store on the corner. The temperature up there on the high desert could be brutal in the summertime.
I heard the sound of shoe leather scraping the sidewalk behind me. I started to turn, and that was when I felt a blunt object come crashing down on my head. Pain shot through my skull, my vision went white for a fraction of a second, and I succumbed to darkness.
***
Excerpt From Monroe's Paranormal Investigations
I was fresh out of the service and looking for a job, so I decided to put some of the skills I learned in the Army to use. I attended night school, obtained my private detective's licence, and opened up my own agency.
My name is Mike Monroe, and I own Monroe's Paranormal Investigations. Most of the stuff I did in the military was covert OPPS: weird stuff that you wouldn't believe, and most of it I can't talk about because it's classified. Most of the work I do is freelance work for the government, or private clients who have a problem that the police or military can't, or won't handle. If it's too weird or strange for the military they call me-I specialize in weird.
Remember all those stories you heard when you were young about ghost, vampires, zombies and werewolves? The one your mother said weren't real? Well, your mother lied.
It was about six months after I opened the agency, on a warm summer evening. I was down at the office, things were slow and I was getting board. The Dodgers were loosing, so I switched off the radio and stepped out of the front door of my office.
I thought maybe I'd stroll down to the liquor store, buy a six-pack and then head home. The warm summer heat hit my face, making me sweat. Here it was 9pm and it was still hot.
At least I don't live up on the high desert, somewhere like Barstow, I thought to myself as I strolled down the sidewalk to the liquor store on the corner. The temperature up there on the high desert could be brutal in the summertime.
I heard the sound of shoe leather scraping the sidewalk behind me. I started to turn, and that was when I felt a blunt object come crashing down on my head. Pain shot through my skull, my vision went white for a fraction of a second, and I succumbed to darkness.
***
My name is Mike Monroe, and I own Monroe's Paranormal Investigations. Most of the stuff I did in the military was covert OPPS: weird stuff that you wouldn't believe, and most of it I can't talk about because it's classified. Most of the work I do is freelance work for the government, or private clients who have a problem that the police or military can't, or won't handle. If it's too weird or strange for the military they call me-I specialize in weird.
Remember all those stories you heard when you were young about ghost, vampires, zombies and werewolves? The one your mother said weren't real? Well, your mother lied.
It was about six months after I opened the agency, on a warm summer evening. I was down at the office, things were slow and I was getting board. The Dodgers were loosing, so I switched off the radio and stepped out of the front door of my office.
I thought maybe I'd stroll down to the liquor store, buy a six-pack and then head home. The warm summer heat hit my face, making me sweat. Here it was 9pm and it was still hot.
At least I don't live up on the high desert, somewhere like Barstow, I thought to myself as I strolled down the sidewalk to the liquor store on the corner. The temperature up there on the high desert could be brutal in the summertime.
I heard the sound of shoe leather scraping the sidewalk behind me. I started to turn, and that was when I felt a blunt object come crashing down on my head. Pain shot through my skull, my vision went white for a fraction of a second, and I succumbed to darkness.
***
Seven Days left!
To all my friends and everyone else on goodreads. There is only seven days left until the release date of my science fiction novel, The Tale Spinner. You can still Pre-Order it at Otherworld Publications. I invite everyone to go over to Otherworld Publications and check them out. If you like werewolf, zombie and vampire stories, with a little sex and humor mixed in, check out my short story collection, Monroe's Paranormal Investigations. It is published by The Living Dead Press and is on sale at Amzon.com and on the Barns and Noble webpage. I invite everyone on goodreads to sned me a friends request and become a fan. I look forward to hearing from all of you.
A good review!
InnSmouth Free Press recently reviewed, Night of the Wolf: A werewolf Anthology, published by The Living Dead Press. This is what they had to say about my short story, "Border War."
Supernatural detective Mike Monroe and his sidekick, the ultra-hot Roxy, star in “Border War”. They quickly discover that even the U.S. Government doesn’t know what to do when a pack of werewolves crosses the border and begins to feast on the Americans in a small, southern Californian town.
To read, "Border War," and the rest of my Mike Monroe paranormal detective stories, order Monroe's Paranormal Investigations at Amazon.com or on the Barns and Noble's webpage.
Supernatural detective Mike Monroe and his sidekick, the ultra-hot Roxy, star in “Border War”. They quickly discover that even the U.S. Government doesn’t know what to do when a pack of werewolves crosses the border and begins to feast on the Americans in a small, southern Californian town.
To read, "Border War," and the rest of my Mike Monroe paranormal detective stories, order Monroe's Paranormal Investigations at Amazon.com or on the Barns and Noble's webpage.
Tales From the Lost Highway
If you've read the stories in the Caveman Action Adventure Stories, the you'll love Tales From the Lost Highway(The Caveman Action Adventure Series Omnibus.) In Tales From the Lost Highway you get the original stories in the series plus six more that have never been published before. Follow Caveman from Biker Heaven to the pits of Biker Hell as he tries to protect his bros in the Road Dogs MC. In celebration of the release of Tales From the Lost Highway and Smashwords.com's Read an E-Book week, all of my books at Smashwords.com will me free starting Midnight March 3rd until Midnight March 9th. Just click the ling below to go to my book page then click the link for the book. Should you chose to download one of my books, shoot me an email and let me know what you think and please post a review. I look forward to hearing from you.
