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    Pure Speculation
    Pure Speculation
    Pure Speculation
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    Pure Speculation

    By Jay MacLeod

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    Stories and poems by Jay MacLeod.

    Contained herein:

    A robot wife. A man who has lost the plot. A doggpleganger. An AC/DC concert. A kidnap victim. Zombies. Broke people. Ghosts. Space vampires. Call centre workers. Newlyweds. Bukowski.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJay MacLeod
    Release dateDec 27, 2011
    ISBN9781466188822
    Pure Speculation
    Author

    Jay MacLeod

    Jay MacLeod is from Halifax, Nova Scotia.

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      Pure Speculation - Jay MacLeod

      Pure Speculation

      Stories and Poems

      by Jay MacLeod

      Copyright 2011 Jay MacLeod

      Smashwords Edition

      Pure Speculation

      Pure Speculation is a collection of stories and poems by Jay MacLeod.

      It was written and published in 2011.

      Jay MacLeod is the sole author of this work. It is copyright Jay MacLeod. All rights are reserved.

      This particular edition was published at Smashwords

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author

      Jay MacLeod can be reached by email:

      jay.m.writing@gmail.com

      He would enjoy hearing feedback from you about this collection.

      Jay also has a blog which he updates fairly often regarding his writing and publishing activities. It is called Rejects Harbour

      Jay would like to thank you for reading Pure Speculation. He would also like to thank those who helped, directly or indirectly, while he was writing it. This includes family, friends and co-workers.

      Jay's novel Dear Editor is also available through Smashwords.

      Publication Note

      Stories and poems in this collection have appeared in the following places:

      Niteblade Fantasy and Horror

      Death Head Grin

      Flash Fiction Offensive

      Sleep, Snort & Fuck

      The Gloaming

      Pellucid Lunacy: An Anthology of Psychological Horror

      Hungur

      Polluto

      This Mutant Life

      Liquid Imagination

      Scissors and Spackle

      Artifice

      Star*Line

      Table of Contents

      Stories

      Hometown Flash Trilogy

      Eraser

      Web_3.0

      Adam Got Out

      Sunday You Need Love

      My Husband’s Nervous Breakdown in Five Minutes or Less

      Minotaur

      We Meet Again

      Drifters in the Void

      Notes From Nowhere

      Ghosts of Brunswick Street

      GODDAMN AC/DC DAY

      Poems

      William Carlos Williams with Cannibals

      Nights of Boiling Oil

      The Trick

      Drifters in the Void

      Josh and What He Came Back With

      Latest Weapon

      Final Transmission

      Web 3.0

      The Fragging of Captain Yorke

      Public Witness Program

      All Our Children

      Bravo Company

      At the Outset

      Hank

      To His Sweetie, Some Years On, With Gratitude

      Ledge

      Even Better Than the Real Thing

      Afterwords

      Hometown Flash Trilogy

      1. UTC-4

      Sometimes I check up on my hometown.

      There are webcams trained on City Hall, the river, and the fake light house.

      Wait a second.

      They’ve placed a camera on the Old Train Station.

      The OTS has been sitting abandoned and dilapidated for 30 years. I understand it is being turned into a liquor store. Soon you will be able to see people from my town buying booze twenty-four and seven.

      A camera is now in the middle of Officer’s Square.

      It is after three a.m. You can’t see the English Army Barracks. Nobody seems to have vandalized the statue of The Old Guy lately.

      A truck just crossed the bridge from the South Side. No pedestrians are out. There are many call centres on the North Side, or there were when I lived there. I guess they must be closed for the night.

      The slush is ankle-thick in front of City Hall.

      It’s the middle of the week so nobody’s stumbling home from The Tannery except this one guy who did just now.

      The new convention center is called Chancery Place.

      It has been many years since I was back.

      We have high hopes you will come and visit.

      --

      2. Notes from Home

      The next time I am back it will be raining insects and mud.

      The weather has been brutal here: red dust everywhere!

      We will have to go camping. Do you know if they still have the UFO theme park?

      The photographs of the coastal road are lovely. The sky is the perfect shade of blue. The driftwood looks perfectly natural sitting in the middle of the highway. Somebody should clear that away!

      Yes, I received your email.

      I am sorry to say I do not have an extra five grand. This is a real shame. If I did somehow have that amount, we could do lots of cool things. It would cover at least a couple of road trips to the States. We’d attend rock festivals, stay at motels, and eat at steak houses.

      We could have one hell of a summer.

      Again, it’s the hospital bills. I’m sure you understand. We need to hold onto our cash just in case the embassy requires us to leave in a hurry.

      Don’t worry, we’re staying safe.

      Please be sure to send pictures of the construction this year.

      Hi to everyone and especially the guys in the kitchen.

      --

      3. Be In This Place

      In his hometown the trees are miles high and the rivers routinely flood the banks.

      College kids smoke cheroots on the train bridge. They play in jam bands and bathe in patchouli. Each year one or two graduates will choose to stay and start families. They are thanked for contributing to the tax base.

      The workers live in duplexes they have built themselves. The bureaucrats wake up

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