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    Ides of Baker Street 1
    Ides of Baker Street 1
    Ides of Baker Street 1
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    Ides of Baker Street 1

    By Cole Henke

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    I believe, with the firmness of an unripe avocado, a place exists where the type of stories once found in ratty pulp magazines can and should exist in our modern world. Where else can someone find one publication featuring brain-eating zombies, a dame with legs to die for, an old cowboy finishing up his last ride on the trail, or space zombies, from Pluto, intent on eating someone's brain?
    None of these stories appear in Ides of Baker Street 1, but a handful written with ferocity, proofread with abandon, and sent through the process to take an idea all the way to print are included.
    Is it any good?
    Read and find out.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCole Henke
    Release dateSep 22, 2017
    ISBN9781370791156
    Ides of Baker Street 1
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      Ides of Baker Street 1 - Cole Henke

      Ides of Baker Street 1

      Cole J. Henke

      Copyright 2017 by Cole J. Henke

      Smashwords Edition

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This book is protected under the copyright laws of the United States of America. Any reproduction or other unauthorized use of the material or artwork herein is prohibited.

      With hope

      Table of Contents

      Dear Reader

      The Rebecca Cases

      A Baker Street Brief

      Westerns, Wars, and Witches

      The Arnold Grove Preservation Society

      Crimes and Miscreants

      A Second Baker Street Brief

      Fantasy and Space Stuff

      A Final Baker Street Brief

      Adios

      Dear Reader-

      I... am a writer.

      Q

      Wonder Boys

      While the statement from Q occupies the space at the other side of the spectrum of how I define myself, I am offering my stories to you here in the first issue of Ides of Baker Street.

      How does someone write stories but not think of himself as a writer? It involves a fair amount of mental gymnastics to which I shall not subject you. It works in my upstairs, though.

      I have a fascination with pulp fiction, the medium, borne of my love of comics and movies in much the same manner my Pandora stations of Buddy Holly and Chuck Berry get listened to as much as that of The Beatles. Merit exists in learning the roots of the thing as much as being able to run an entire Jeopardy! category of the thing itself. And, for me, it goes beyond entertainment right into other arenas such as history where antebellum America captures my attention as much attention as the Civil War.

      Yeah, yeah, the description for Ides of Baker Street does not say I will be subjected the biography of a short, stocky, dim-witted, but still-with-his-hair, goon, I hear you say. It is necessary to give some background as to why said goon is out, writing stories in the manner the pulps were written, since the heyday of the medium resides in the past and not the present. So we all need to chill out.

      My respect for a writer who can vomit thousands and thousands of words each day with stories teleporting me to other places equals my respect for a writer who labors over a piece of literature for years. Two different species, really, in the way a fast food meal, sometimes necessary, designed to fit a specific purpose exists in the same world where a grandmother provides the nourishment of the home cooked meal of comfort food. Were I to ever call myself a writer, I would prefer to be the former described in this paragraph more than the latter for many reasons beginning, and likely ending, with a lack of patience. When the stories hit I want to see them on paper, know about the characters, and observe those moments I, as the person putting down the words, feel are among the most important of their lives. A turn of phrase I enjoy. A setting. A description of a sunset. Jumping from story to story, in one genre then another, provides the immediacy I prefer as a typist. (See, still not calling myself a writer.)

      Ides of Baker Street collects a portion of these stories. Some come from the traditional pulp genres of science fiction, fantasy, horror, Westerns, war, et cetera. Others, such as the Arnold Grove Preservation Society and The Rebecca Cases, are unique to Baker Street and spring from a desire to develop stories within particular and peculiar frameworks. The publication you are now reading exists as a companion piece to the Baker Street Dailies available on Wattpad. Cross promotion. Monetization. Et cetera. Et cetera. The curse of a career in marketing thankfully now in my rearview mirror.

      But are the

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