Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Blowing off Some Steam (Rust and Ash: Storms over Cogtown #1)
    Blowing off Some Steam (Rust and Ash: Storms over Cogtown #1)
    Blowing off Some Steam (Rust and Ash: Storms over Cogtown #1)
    Ebook17 pages16 minutes

    Blowing off Some Steam (Rust and Ash: Storms over Cogtown #1)

    By David M DeMar

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    This is a free short story that originally appeared in Twit Publishing Presents: PULP! Winter/Spring 2012.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTwit Publishing
    Release dateFeb 20, 2012
    ISBN9781938035043
    Blowing off Some Steam (Rust and Ash: Storms over Cogtown #1)
    Author

    David M DeMar

    Born and raised in Huntington, New York, David M. DeMar has both a Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing and Master of Arts in English Literature from the State University of New York at New Paltz. A professional editor, copywriter, and fiction author, David lives in southeast Pennsylvania in a 200 year old stone cottage with his fiancée, seven cats, and the voices in his head. His online blog, The Amateur Professional, at http://daviddemar.wordpress.com, is visited by nearly dozens of readers every year.

    Related to Blowing off Some Steam (Rust and Ash

    Related ebooks

    Dystopian For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Rock Hard

      Sep 10, 2020

      Rock Hard
      7 min read

    • Article

      Riding The Cyclone

      Mar 14, 2024

      Perhaps the best way to introduce Shane Granger is to quote from the flyleaf of his book Cargo of Hope: ‘He has worked as a radio DJ, advertising photographer, copywriter, boatbuilder, director of museum ship restoration and bush pilot, between traip

      7 min read

    • Article

      Thrill Of The Chase

      Apr 29, 2021

      INTERREGNUM Jim Ring Writesideleft £9.99 When it was safely below, the four of us crowded round the wheel. ‘Course, sir?’ shouted Crawford, wiping some of the rain off his face. ‘We can’t do anything to windward in this weather without the jib. Where

      4 min read

    • Article

      Fowling With A Fox Under A Wolf Moon

      Feb 16, 2022

      I hung my chest waders to dry over a roof joist in the shed. They had dangled there, like a headless corpse, for four weeks. The business of hedge laying had got in the way of my wildfowling for far too long. My abstemiousness ended when I accepted a

      5 min read

    • Article

      A Bit Of TLC

      Mar 17, 2022

      Sam Llewellyn sails a 30ft ketch he rescued from dereliction It was a bright, breezy day in the yard. There was the sound of power tools and voices asking other voices to pass the paint, and could they borrow a wrench, and had they finished with the

      3 min read

    • Article

      If You Go Down To The Woods Today

      Oct 4, 2019

      If You Go Down To The Woods Today
      3 min read

    • Article

      Roger’s PROFANISAURUS

      Jan 5, 2022

      Roger’s PROFANISAURUS
      5 min read

    • Article

      Vietnam My Son, The Soldier

      Sep 1, 2021

      Vietnam My Son, The Soldier
      9 min read

    • Article

      Lady In The Water

      Jun 17, 2020

      Lady In The Water
      7 min read

    • Article

      Three Poems

      Sep 1, 2022

      1. Here there’s no rainy season.Sun scalds my forehead,yet the pool is empty. Beside it,a toppled table, its glass surface shattered.The asphalt is too hot for bare feet. 2. Far away: white hillocksand white dunes under a deepblue sky. Swirling winds

      5 min read

    • Article

      Boom!

      Oct 4, 2017

      ‘It was maybe a little bit bigger than we thought.’ You could hear it all the way down Sunset Strip. Even with the stezza cranked and the windows rolled up tight against the frost. A low, shuddery growl, reverbing against the sound of the engine, rum

      3 min read

    • Article

      Holding Power

      Sep 11, 2020

      Holding Power
      5 min read

    • Article

      No Time For Sentiment

      Oct 26, 2022

      No Time For Sentiment
      4 min read

    • Article

      Hook, Line And Sinker

      Oct 18, 2018

      Hook, Line And Sinker
      4 min read

    • Article

      Worship On High

      Oct 18, 2021

      Worship On High
      5 min read

    • Article

      A Watery Graveyard Revisited

      Apr 27, 2023

      A Watery Graveyard Revisited
      2 min read

    • Article

      My Angry Giant

      Dec 31, 2020

      My Angry Giant
      1 min read

    • Article

      Perfect Prose II

      May 15, 2020

      Perfect Prose II
      4 min read

    • Article

      Sabotage In Stormy Seas

      May 23, 2019

      THE SHADOW IN THE SANDS First published by Headline in 1998. Currently available via Kindle, £4.64 Gloria was thundering under bare poles into a night no less black than when I had last seen it. The wind felt softer, which is always the way when that

      4 min read

    • Article

      Enforcing Capitalism In The Outer Worlds

      Jan 28, 2020

      Every boy at business school dreams of Byzantium. The city where the space doors whoosh open instead of screech. Where you can see your own face in the floor, and the lifts are gilded with gold. Golly, do they need lifts! Some of those offices go all

      6 min read

    • Article

      New Nature Writer Of The Year 2021 Runner-up

      Sep 23, 2021

      Former local government worker Mike is a keen walker and wildlife enthusiast, based in North Yorkshire. Prize judge Stephen Moss praised his entry as: “A delightful recollection of a long-ago boyhood, written with imagination and a real sense of the

      3 min read

    • Article

      Navigating Uncharted Waters

      Jan 1, 2024

      Navigating Uncharted Waters
      6 min read

    • Article

      Hanging On

      Sep 9, 2021

      John Passmore is a man unafraid to move with the times. A professional journalist with a distinguished newspaper career, he now hosts a powerful online presence in the guise of his channel oldmansailing.com. The quote at the beginning of his recent b

      8 min read

    • Article

      The Lost Story

      Oct 13, 2022

      The Lost Story
      8 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Blowing off Some Steam (Rust and Ash

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Blowing off Some Steam (Rust and Ash - David M DeMar

      hcbook_preview_excerpt.htmlT]n1ʼ! EDR{w5+ۛt߸GA%y}_/Ņ [V+ mnh>[.Lk[t[5]5U4V7nnk3=(tp!Vi8$ҧP^v]gNu&s稔&$n@- kh=5Rp H9OV!6znLHl5bjƚeum됃|L0@w^sS!Z_rV6()K3!(^.6*BOƦŅH#m->dYXat=ંn_|@ON^"A1dN蕲vMxdj ѝ-]ǩ { btOQx\dXnV@/ &Q'fL}'} HvS:Yf  )h$ݔG+Q m I {6Ʉ,]e OֈOgI{U1nRiV]|t⿆ ^y!E l-1[ )}\iw᮳ETJ /Jš CE84㚴B PS& Dm:0'WwPF16bzxt.L4B^I}~+
      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1