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    TwentySix
    TwentySix
    TwentySix
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    TwentySix

    By Shane Rynhart

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    A collection of 26 short stories by Shane Rynhart. He writes a new story each week and uploads it to his Tumblr every Friday. He's now written twenty-six over the past six months, and these twenty-six are (if you can't tell from the title) collected here for the first time. Stories are not in order of publication, but linked by theme, context and narrative. Covers a range of genres, including fantasy, horror, science fiction, and even some stuff set in the real world that could actually happen. The real world! In some stories written by Shane Rynhart! Crazy.

    Here's a peek at the contents page so you know what you're getting yourself into:

    Introduction

    Part 1 - One Man’s Quest to Find God

    A Warning
    Two Come Along at Once
    Fides
    The Ice Cream Man
    The Third Message
    Ones and Zeroes
    Face in the Crowd
    Defender of the Faith
    Twenty-Six
    Shattered

    Part 2 - From Darkness

    The Eyes
    RPS
    The Egg
    Cold Bones
    Sandman
    Destiny

    Part 3 - Into Light

    Bubbles
    Rainbow
    The Waiting Room
    Subversion

    Part 4 - A Heap of Broken Images

    Icarus
    Tomahawk
    Free
    There’s More than One of Everything
    Deep Blue
    Jam

    Appendices

    Cover image by Flickr user Keoni Cabral
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/keoni101/5526749781/

    Image used under a Creative Commons Attribution license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherShane Rynhart
    Release dateAug 30, 2013
    ISBN9781301613359
    TwentySix
    Author

    Shane Rynhart

    Hi.I'm Shane. I'm currently 23 and living in the town of Bournemouth in the UK. I've lived here all my life. I've written things for ages, but since I'm currently unemployed (but looking to go self-employed for various projects - get in touch if you think I might be able to do something for you, incidentally!) I thought I'd give this self-publishing thing a shot.As I write this, I'm preparing to launch Not Quite Normal, a short story anthology. Over the next few weeks (it's currently the end of January 2012 in case I never update this!), I'll be releasing a few free stories from it. You can find out more information about the project on my blog, the link to which should be below this bio.Thanks for checking this out. Please feel free to get in touch if you have any comments or just want to chat. I'm pretty easy to find online, since I'm the only person who has ever had my name in human history. Which is pretty neat!Take care, and happy reading!Shane

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      TwentySix - Shane Rynhart

      twenty-6

      Published by Shane Rynhart at Smashwords

      Copyright Shane Rynhart 2013

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      Thank you for downloading this free ebook. Although this is a free book, it remains the copyrighted property of the author, and may not be reproduced, copied and distributed for commercial or non-commercial purposes. If you enjoyed this book, please encourage your friends to download their own copy at Smashwords.com, where they can also discover other works by this author.

      Cover image by Flickr user Keoni Cabral

      http://www.flickr.com/photos/keoni101/5526749781/

      Image used under a Creative Commons Attribution license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en

      * * * * *

      Dedication

      For Ella. You’d never have read these, but I hope you’d have been proud. I miss you every day.

      * * * * *

      Contents

      (Note: click any * * * * * between stories to return to this contents page.)

      Introduction

      Part 1 - One Man’s Quest to Find God

      A Warning

      Two Come Along at Once

      Fides

      The Ice Cream Man

      The Third Message

      Ones and Zeroes

      Face in the Crowd

      Defender of the Faith

      Twenty-Six

      Shattered

      Part 2 - From Darkness

      The Eyes

      RPS

      The Egg

      Cold Bones

      Sandman

      Destiny

      Part 3 - Into Light

      Bubbles

      Rainbow

      The Waiting Room

      Subversion

      Part 4 - A Heap of Broken Images

      Icarus

      Tomahawk

      Free

      There’s More than One of Everything

      Deep Blue

      Jam

      Appendices

      About the Author

      Contact

      ???

      * * * * *

      Introduction

      Hiya. My name’s Shane Rynhart, and every week I upload a story to my website, http://plasticcastlemagic.tumblr.com. I’ve now done twenty-six. Twenty-six! That’s…quite a lot! I’ve surprised myself with my own dedication to the project. It’s pretty crazy.

      You may have noticed that this eBook is called twenty-6. I WONDER WHY?!

      Yeah, it’s just a collection of all of the stories I’ve written this year. Well, not all of them. I’ve started and stopped so many in pursuit of this ‘one story a week’ dream. These are just the twenty-six that was happiest with at the time and thus uploaded every week. I will admit that I cheated a little on a couple of fallow weeks, and posted stories I’d previously written or self-published. Most, however, were written on the week of their publication. Generally speaking I wrote a first draft on a Monday and reworked and revised them until Friday came a knockin’.

      I’m proud of the vast majority of them. I’d be lying if I said that every single one was perfect. In fact, there are one or two that I kind of dislike. But these are a very small minority and, I mean, everyone who enjoys being creative will have the occasional quality blip, right?

      Anyway. You can catch a new story every Friday at midnight UK time, unless something disastrous happens (in which case there will be an explanation). I hope that you enjoy these stories enough to come and visit every week or, even better, follow my Tumblr. (You can also ‘like’ my page on Facebook to get notified every time there’s a new upload.)

      Rather than just presenting the stories in the order I wrote them, I’ve mixed things up a bit. Many of the stories exist in the same fictional universe, so I’ve decided to keep them together. Also, they are presented here for the first time in chronological order - I purposefully kept things rather ‘jumpy’ as I was writing them. You’ll read these first - under the in-my-head-it-makes-sense heading of One Man’s Quest to Find God - followed by a collection of others in an order that I hope is pleasurable to read.

      If you have any feedback - positive or otherwise - I’d absolutely love to hear it. There’s a list of contact methods towards the end of this eBook, and it would be wonderful if you used them. I’d love to hear from you.

      Thank you so much for downloading this eBook. I’m incredibly grateful for your support. I do hope you enjoy it.

      -- Shane Rynhart

      PS: If you really like these stories, you might be interested in purchasing my full-length short story collection, Not Quite Normal. You can find it on Smashwords, iTunes, Barnes and Noble and pretty much everywhere eBooks are sold. There’s even a free

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