Flowers & Kittens: Dark, Weird Stories by Russell A. Mebane - HTML preview

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Foreword

 

WARNING!

CONTAINS SCENES OF GRAPHIC VIOLENCE

 

Hello, Reader!  I’m so happy to be with you again, even if it’s only in my mind.  Now if this is your first time reading one of my books, then that warning up there is for you.  These stories are going to be dark.  They are also going to be weird.  Now you may think you’re hard because you read Harry Potter, but I’m here to tell you my stories are much darker and weirder.  I killed a dolphin in my last book and that wasn’t even the most disturbing part.  If you don’t like violence, remove yourself FAR AWAY from this book or any other that I’ve written.  Just start running and don’t look back. 

 

Now for my returning readers, I offer a different warning.  This book is scaled WAY down from Squirrels & Puppies: Dark Morality Tales.  It has eight stories, instead of fourteen.  Also, there’s no animal sex.  None.  Honestly, I got bored with the animal sex.  It started to feel overdone and cliché after a while.  I was going to include a story where a sheep starts a romantic relationship with a farmer, only to find out that the farmer is actually training her to be an animal sex worker.  I thought it would be poignant in light of all the sex trafficking going on, but while I was writing it, I decided it just sounded stupid.  I also threw out a story where a prison warden gets raped by a bear.  The bear, of course, was possessed by the spirit of the warden’s ex-lover.  Still, it just seemed too excessive.  I’m sorry if this disappoints you, but I felt that as an author, I was beginning to use animal sex as a crutch to avoid actually being creative. 

Now, are my stories still dark?  Yes.  Is there killing in them?  Yes.  But, I didn’t put any stories concerning race in this book either.  Did you read Ruins of the Fall: Tree of Might?  That book talked A LOT about race and I have to start work on the sequel.  That being said, I decided to give race a break until I start writing Infinite Army.  So, this book is actually an attempt at me being light-hearted.  It’s just something more fun to write before I go back to the Ruins of the Fall world.  That series is REALLY heavy to write about.  Anyway, I still put my best foot forward in this book, just not my sexy animal foot.  Enjoy!!!