Intimate Journeys
by SS Hampton Sr
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Now for an Excerpt:
“The Samar Café,”
Intimate Journeys
Wayne Parkhurst stumbled quietly across the darkened,
thickly-carpeted bedroom into the bathroom, slid the door shut, and flipped the
light on. He groaned and staggered as if from a hard punch as he covered his
aching eyes with shaky hands until he could brave the scorching light.
He stared in the mirror at his bloodshot eyes, noted the
ragged tufts of short, sandy-brown hair sticking in all directions from his
pounding head, then he realized his stomach muscles ached, and his left shoulder
was burning. His eyes widened as he saw a large, finely-detailed multi-colored
tattoo of a dragon-prowed ship with sail unfurled on his upper left arm. Across
the sail was a laughing skull with a pirate hat against a pair of crossed
skeleton bones.
“My God, what have I done,” he whispered, though he had a
pretty good idea of the night’s transgressions, as he stared at the tattoo and
massaged his aching muscles. What would his parents think? Or his fiancée,
Missy? Or her parents? What would all of his relatives and future
relatives-in-law think?
“You really don’t remember?” a soft, cheerful voice called.
In the mirror, Wayne saw a small, well-formed nude woman with delicate features
and long black hair leaning nonchalantly against the doorway. Her arms were
folded below large tanned breasts and her dark eyes sparkled mischievously…
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About the Author:
Stan Hampton,
Sr. is a full-blood Choctaw of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, a divorced
grandfather to 13 grandchildren, and a published author, photographer and
photojournalist. He retired in 2013 from the Nevada Army National Guard with
the rank of Sergeant First Class; he previously served in the active duty Army,
and the Army Individual Ready Reserve (mobilized for the Persian Gulf War). He
enlisted in the Nevada Army National Guard in October 2004, after which he was
mobilized for Federal active duty for almost three years. Hampton is a veteran
of Operations Noble Eagle and Iraqi Freedom, with deployment to northern Kuwait
and several convoy security missions into Iraq.
He has had two
solo photographic exhibitions and curated a multi-media exhibit. His writings
have appeared as stand-alone stories and in anthologies from Dark Opus Press,
Edge Science Fiction & Fantasy, Melange Books, Musa Publishing, MuseItUp
Publishing, Ravenous Romance, and in Horror Bound Magazine, The Harrow, and
River Walk Journal, among others.
As of April
2014, after being in a 2-year Veterans Administration program for Homeless
Veterans, Hampton is officially no longer a homeless Iraq War veteran.
In May 2014 he
graduated from the College of Southern Nevada with an Associate of Applied
Science Degree in Photography – Commercial Photography Emphasis. He has been
studying at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas with in a double major in Art
and English. He recently returned from spending a cold, rainy Spring 2017
semester studying at a university in southwestern France in the shadow of the
Pyrenees Mountains.
After 16 years
of desert in the American Southwest, and Southwest Asia, he still misses the
Rocky Mountains, yellow aspens in the fall, running rivers, and a warm
fireplace during snowy winters.
Hampton can be
found at:
Barnes and
Noble
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/sharing-rachel-ss-hampton-sr/1120349766?ean=2940046334791
Dark Opus Press
https://www.createspace.com/3685965
Edge Science
Fiction & Fantasy Publishing
http://www.edgewebsite.com/books/dansemacabre/dansemacabre.html
Melange Books
http://www.melange-books.com/authors/sshampton/index.html
MuseItUp
Publishing
https://museituppublishing.com/bookstore/index.php/museitup/mainstream/better-than-a-rabbit-s-foot-detail
Amazon.com
Author Page
http://www.amazon.com/SS-Hampton-Sr/e/B00BJ9EVKQ
Amazon.com. UK
Author Page
http://www.amazon.co.uk/SS-Hampton-Sr/e/B00BJ9EVKQ
Goodreads
Author Page
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6888342.S_S_Hampton_Sr_
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6 comments:
Thanks for hosting!
congrats on the tour and thanks for the chance to win :)
Thanks for sharing the great post :)
I enjoyed the post, thank you.
Great post! I really enjoyed reading it! Looking forward to checking out this book!
Good evening!
My apologies for running late today.
First, thank you very much for hosting this stop. I appreciate the opportunity.
And to everyone who has visited, thank you. I'm happy that you've enjoyed the excerpt from this story from "Intimate Journeys." Have a great and fun, and safe, weekend!
Stan
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