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    Bad Moon E-Zine #1: New Moon
    Bad Moon E-Zine #1: New Moon
    Bad Moon E-Zine #1: New Moon
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    Bad Moon E-Zine #1: New Moon

    By Tom Laimer-Read

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    Welcome to the new fantasy, sci-fi and supernatural fiction E-Zine Bad Moon #1 - New Moon. We bring you fascinating tales to enthral and amuse you every full moon that rises, writing them in between the changing phases in a flash of inspiration or the attempt to raise mild amusement, at least.

    We have stories of abstract futures and mysterious pasts, yet all pertinent to today. We will meet characters from a far future Tokyo, a near future Europe, some spectral apparitions who haunt unexpected places, reimagined Grimm Tales, amongst other mangled fairytales, myths, parables, legends and steampunk fun.

    Enjoy the rocking ride, and hold on tight!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTom Laimer-Read
    Release dateJan 21, 2016
    ISBN9781310181313
    Bad Moon E-Zine #1: New Moon
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    Tom Laimer-Read

    Tom Laimer-Read is a writer who wants to make writing exciting. Tom went to various state schools in Norwich in various states of consciousness, where he enjoyed reading and not being at school. He was in a few bands that were fun, but didn't get much attention from the national press as they don't tend to report from local rugby clubs and village halls. In the late 1990s Tom headed to Manchester University to study English with a burgeoning love of The Smiths, Stone Roses, Happy Mondays, Joy Division, Inspiral Carpets, The Fall and Buzzcocks, certain that Manchester would be a hotbed of new musical mavericks and a place where more fantastic, original music would emerge. He was wrong. That year the Hacienda closed down, the pills, thrills and bellyaches dried up and the 24 hour party was over, never to be reignited during his ten years there, unlike the large I.R.A. bomb that did ignite and tore through the heart of the city causing widespread damage to it and the psyche of the people (who were already damaged enough) the summer before he arrived.Tom studied comic books, Dada and the contents of his navel, and was also in a few more unsuccessful bands, but became disillusioned with the stagnant music scene, taking up the mic in comedy clubs instead. He encountered many strange creatures declaring themselves to be comedians, and participated in a murky arena where lurked some extremely unusual, unsavoury individuals, moreso than any punk rock set-up could contain.After a while, this also got a bit samey, since the big clubs supported the more boring acts, so Tom went back to music, hooking up with fellow disaffected comedians Steve G., Tom 'Jim the Poet' Faucett and Adam Bowman. They formed The Chainsores and had some legendary performances, most of them seen by very few people. After the band's spectacular demise and a short-lived follow-up, The Casual Vandals, Tom moved back to his home town of Norwich and continued to perform solo comedy, edging in the political direction. Tom performed a show about the danger of I.D. cards at the Edinburgh Fringe called 'Freedom Come, Freedom Go', which not many people saw, and has run alternative comedy nights such as Normal Service Will Be Resumed Shortly and The Dysfunction Room, which were mostly ignored, as his books probably will be too.

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      Bad Moon E-Zine #1 - Tom Laimer-Read

      Bad Moon E-Zine

      #1

      NEW MOON

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      Edited by Tom Laimer-Read and published by Let's Rock Publishing in 2016

      Copyright 2016 Let’s Rock Publishing

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      double featuring

      Complete Stories:

      The Future Isn’t What It Used To Be, Change, Death Sushi

      Continuing Serials:

      The Grimm Truth, Fortress Europe, Steaming Pistons - The Chamberpot Crisis

      Editor’s Note

      Welcome to the new fantasy, sci-fi and supernatural fiction E-Zine Bad Moon #1 - New Moon. We bring you fascinating tales to enthral and amuse you every full moon that rises, writing them in between the changing phases in a flash of inspiration or the attempt to raise mild amusement, at least.

      We have stories of abstract futures and mysterious pasts, yet all pertinent to today. We will meet characters from future Tokyo, the recently-populated planet of Mars, some spectral apparitions who haunt unexpected places, reimagined Grimm Tales, amongst other mangled fairytales, myths, parables and legends.

      Enjoy the rocking ride, and hold on tight!

      The Future Isn’t What It Used To Be

      by Tom Laimer-Read

      The schematics of the Gloomsday Device lay on the metallic trestle table in front of Dr Gloom, who moodily perused the intricate designs and florid yet deadly embellishments on this seemingly innocuous contraption.

      He sighed heavily.

      He desperately wanted to get out of the super villain business. It just didn’t have the ‘zing!’ to it anymore that it had in the Good Old Bad Old Days. Back then, people respected the gravity and the ingenuity of your evil plans for world domination. Crowds shrieked in abject terror and world leaders quaked and quivered at your feet, pleading for mercy, forgiveness and a 10% cut of the profits.

      Nowadays folk didn’t give so much as a shrug or a twitch of a whisker when you revealed your latest petrifying weapon or unveiled your newest hideous plan to hold a group of spoilt brat politicians and business leaders to ransom. The big corporations had come in and priced the original bad guys out of the market with their boring suits and ties, their mawkish marketing strategies and despicable Dress Down Fridays. If wearing weekend clothes at work was seen as something to aspire to now to make the rest of the dreadful, dreary business tolerable, Dr Gloom wanted no part of this insidious game. Where was the style? The panache? The tristesse de vivre? The super villain industry was all but over.

      Dr Gloom, real name Norman Skillet, a retired dentist from Kiddiminster who had overdosed on laughing gas and

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