Boots2
By Phillip Donnelly
Copyright 2014 Phillip Donnelly
Second Edition
About the Author
After completing a psychology degree, the author realised that he was profoundly misanthropic and set about travelling the world looking for aliens to take him to another planet.
Unable to speak any foreign languages and almost incapable of holding a conversation in his own, he decided to teach English as a foreign language because this was the only job that would allow him to travel widely without any marketable skills or noticeable intelligence.
He has unsuccessfully searched for life from outer space in classrooms in the following countries: Spain, China, Russia, Thailand, Hong Kong, Beirut, Dubai, Sri Lanka, Lebanon France and Vietnam.
In the future, he hopes to continue his search for alien life forms in different countries, and he would be obliged if any aliens reading this could spirit him off to an altogether more exotic planet in a more harmonious dimension.
All of the pieces in this book have appeared online.
Message from the Author
If you enjoy these stories, please feel free to tell me so at phillipdonnelly@gmail.com. If there’s something you didn’t like, or something you feel could have been better, I’d like to know that too.
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For Sandra
Table of Discontents
Short Stories
Historical Fictions
Blitzkrieg Revisited
If Walls Had Ears
Last Orders for Churchill
Conversations with the Reaper
The Undertaker’s Complaint
Proppland
The Guest in the Attic
The Last Blog and Testament of the Shui Gui
Virtual Dystopias
Necronet Explorer
6 Hits from the Safe Zone
Can Websites Commit Suicide?
Debt, Death and Deletion
Animal Farms
Shep’s Last Day
Dystopia 101
The Interactive Classroom
The Future Perfect Continuous
Soul Chips
The Mission
The I-SAD
The Smartphone Addicts and Precinct 9
Book Samples
Samples from Novels
The Headless Chicken (from Letters from the Ministry)
The Office Trinity (from The Screen)
The Post Modern Prometheus (from Kev the Vampire)
The Inaction Man and the Sandwich of Doom (from The Inaction Man)
Samples from Travel Writing
Vietnam – Saigon
India — In-Flight Commandments
China – Riding the Dragon
Lebanon – Baalbek
Articles
Stale Heroes tell the Same Old Story
Barack Backs Beans
Vampires — From Ghouls to Teen Idols
Acknowledgements
The following short stories and travel writing first appeared on the following websites. All rights remain with the author.
Bewildering Stories
The Office Trinity, The Future Perfect Continuous, The Mission, The Interactive Classroom, Shep’s Last Day, Necronet Explorer, Debt Death and Deletion and Can Websites Commit Suicide?
Foliate Oak
Blitzkrieg Revisited, The Undertaker’s Complaint, and The Headless Chicken
Quantum Muse
6 Hits from the Safe Zone
The Cynic
Barack Backs Beans
Weirdyear
Proppland
Word Machine
The Guest in the Attic
Literary Hatchet
The Smartphone Addicts and Precinct 9
EtherBooks
The Last Blog and Testament of the Shui Gui, The Intelligent Sexual Attraction Device, In-Flight Commandments and Baalbek
Bent Masses
If Walls Had Ears
Linguistic Erosion
The Beach Dream
Circa
Last Orders for Churchill
Piker Press
Saigon, Riding the Dragon, and Inaction Man and the Sandwich of Doom