Blomqvist Free Fridays on Kindle

Michael's novel Blomqvist is free all day today on the Amazon Kindle Store, and is flying off the shelves at an incredible pace. If you haven't read Blomqvist yet, why not pick up a copy today? http://amzn.com/B006QZHA92

Blomqvist Hits Kindle, Free on Friday!

Blomqvist is now available on Amazon Kindle! Prime Kindlers can borrow the book for free, and as a special surprise it will be free to purchase all day Friday 6th January 2012! Set in 11th Century Europe, Blomqvist is narrated by the protagonist’s devoted amanuensis, faithful standard-bearer, and unrequited lover, Axel Oxensteirna. Axel tells us …

Kindle eBooks free for Prime Kindlers

Two Hickins shorts are now in the Kindle Lending Library, Prime Kindlers can get these titles for free at http://amazon.com/author/mhickins - please borrow them and leave a review on Amazon!

The Actual Adventures of Michael Missing (Paperback)

Eleven stories told from the depths of anger, lust, and the confusion of doing the right things at the wrong times. Michael Missing, the name of eleven different young men in various states of unrest, is the linked but unrelated protagonist of these wry and angry tales; a hit man, the cabin boy of 19th …

Dead Cat Bounce – Preview

(This is the opening portion of Michael's novel Dead Cat Bounce) Chapter 1 For a long time, I admired the work of John Leslie. I thought he was way ahead of his time. I have a collection of his videos (I believe he only made videos, but perhaps there are some 8 mm films somewhere …

Who is the Little Guy?

I moved to Paris, France, in April 1985. It was cold, and the people were anything but warm. Getting anything done was a chore because people weren't interested in getting anything done, they stopped whatever they were doing between noon and two in the afternoon, they closed on Mondays, and they generally don't like anyone …

Bluelight – Preview

Chapter 1 Rifling blindly through the real estate section of the Kingston Freeman, Earl Rayburn picked up the phone on the half-ring. "Kingston Realty," he said, his voice deep and pebbly, pushing his butt deeper into his swivel-back chair and propping his feet on his son Spencer's desk. "Mr. Rayburn?" It was the excited voice …

Football Players

Here is what is irremediably, irredeemably, intrinsically wrong with the game of professional football: it is like the worst aspects of American life. Individuals are expected to sacrifice their bodies and minds for the benefit of the collective endeavor, just as office workers are expected to be team players, meaning that they should put the …