"The Master of Submission"

by Eric Bosse

The passive-agressive-submissive inventor of an elaborate "self-contained bondage and submission device" gets dumped and implodes as he desperately tries (and mostly fails) to put his life back together.

This sample short story offers a glimpse into the award-winning, Kindle Store best-selling short-story collection, Magnificent Mistakes (2011 Ravenna Press), by Eric Bosse.

20 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 30, 2013

About the author

Eric Bosse is the author of Magnificent Mistakes, published by Ravenna Press in late 2011. His fiction has appeared in The Sun, Mississippi Review, Exquisite Corpse, Zoetrope, Night Train, Wigleaf, and The Collagist, among other magazines, journals, and anthologies. He has one paltry Pushcart Prize nomination to his name, and an early draft of Magnificent Mistakes won the Merriam-Frontier Award in 2005. He volunteers as an OU Write Club co-leader and co-host of a thriving open mic series in Norman, Oklahoma, where he lives with his family. He teaches in the Edith Kinney Gaylord Expository Writing Program at the University of Oklahoma and serves as an adjunct lecturer for OU's Women's and Gender Studies program. Like approximately 72% of everyone, he's working on a novel.