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    366 Squared Volume 3: March
    366 Squared Volume 3: March
    366 Squared Volume 3: March
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    366 Squared Volume 3: March

    By Michel Clasquin-Johnson

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    This volume was published out of sequence. The reasons for that were explained in Volume 4. I am just happy to be able to put it out there today. We are more than a year late. But we have three billion years to go before the sun expands into a red giant, swallows the Earth and all it ever produced, and all this will be moot anyway. So in the larger scheme of things it does not really matter. Relax, pour yourself a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster and enjoy this collection of brand new 366-word flash fiction stories. Meanwhile, I'll start working on the July volume.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMichel Clasquin-Johnson
    Release dateMay 3, 2014
    ISBN9781310885525
    366 Squared Volume 3: March
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    Michel Clasquin-Johnson

    Michel Clasquin-Johnson is a Professor of Religious Studies at the University of South Africa and was, until recently, the entire Buddhological establishment on the continent of Africa. He lives in Pretoria, South Africa with his wife, son and two motorcycles. Michel likes to think that he practices Buddhism (in his own way) as well as writing about it. The entire Buddhist world disagrees, but is too polite to say so. In his spare time, he writes what can loosely be called science fiction. Not a lot of science involved, and a fine disregard for the rules of fiction. He also writes application software, but only for utterly obscure and/or obsolete operating systems that are never going to lead to a payday. Let's hope he hangs on to his day job.

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      366 Squared Volume 3 - Michel Clasquin-Johnson

      366 Squared

      Volume 3: March

      Published by Michel Clasquin-Johnson at Smashwords

      Copyright 2014 Michel Clasquin-Johnson

      1st 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 your preferred ebook reseller and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Cover image courtesy of NASA.

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      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      Introduction to Volume 3

      March 1, 1815

      March 2, 1459

      March 3, 1875

      March 4, 1946

      March 5, 1975

      March 6, 1836

      March 7, 2009

      March 8, 1978

      March 9, 1765

      March 10, 1891

      March 11, 222

      March 12, 1947

      March 13, 1997

      March 14, 1883

      March 15, 44 BCE

      March 16

      March 17

      March 18, 1229

      March 19, 1943

      March 20, 235

      March 21, 1980

      March 22, 1908

      March 23, 2011

      March 24, 1993

      March 25, 1995

      March 26, 752

      March 27, 1972

      March 28, 1981

      March 29, 1683

      March 30, 1912

      March 31, 1889

      Day References for March

      About the Author

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      Introduction

      This book series comes from a challenge I set myself in September 2012: write a story a day for a year (and include a bonus story for February 29). I wanted to reinvent myself as a writer, and things were going … slowly. I needed a shock to the system, something to get myself to open that same file day after day and pound away on the keyboard. Even if I didn't work on anything else that day, at least I would have done this one little thing. By the end of one year, I would have created the equivalent of a 130 000 word novel.

      And so, day after day, I opened up the usual This Day in History websites and saw what had happened that was interesting, that I might be able to weave a tale around. Naturally, the best-laid plans of mice and men ... Soon enough I found myself behind schedule. People get sick. People's kids get sick. People get fired up writing on other projects. It also became clear that the Table of Contents for such a book would become ridiculously unwieldy.

      I just decided to be kind to myself: as soon as I had a month's worth of stories ready to go I would put them out there in a collection. If it took me more than a year to fill out the entire calendar, so mote it be! Whether the whole lot will ever be reassembled into an omnibus remains to be seen. If there is a demand for it, sure. Let me know.

      Almost every story in this volume is based on a real event, a celebration, a birth or a death associated with a specific day. But you may have to read carefully to figure out just what that was. I'm certainly not going to give it away in the title: if you need to know in advance what the story is going to be about, then the story itself is a flop. But if the reference is too obscure, you can look it up in the back of the book, where all the day references are listed.

      And it is just a reference to that day. The actual action in the story may take place slightly earlier or later in time. It may even be a reference transposed centuries into the past or future, or into an alternative universe influenced by what did (not) happen that day, in true science fiction

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