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John Lombard
- Sep 12
Inspirations - King Solomon Comes For Your Life, Roscoe Goodman!
The inspiration for this story is of course the American pulp heroes of the 20s & 30s - cheap, violent, and nasty stories of...
John Lombard
- Sep 12
King Solomon Comes For Your Life, Roscoe Goodman!
The squealing feral hogs ramaged rapaciously on Wall Street, skewering scuttling, blanching bankers with their piercing tusks and...
John Lombard
- Aug 6
Inspirations - Unidentified Monster in the Bagging Area
Writing a story each month, not every story is going to be a resounding success - so it is with this story of a haunted supermarket,...
John Lombard
- Aug 6
Unidentified Monster in the Bagging Area
Cindy wasn’t right after the late shift. She wouldn’t let us turn on the self-checkers, so we had to ring up sales on the tills. We don’t...
John Lombard
- Jul 10
Inspirations - The Beast of Versailles
I had the idea for this story many years ago - that for the Beast in Beauty and the Beast, the curse wouldn't necessarily be an...
John Lombard
- Jul 9
The Beast of Versailles
The Beast did not have to pay for the gloves. True, many aristocrats did not settle their bills, on principle. True, residents of...