Yard Fail: A short story

Simon Haynes

May 2011 · Bowman Press

About this ebook

When Ralph Swindon tinkers in his workshop, the whole world holds its breath.

A 2500 word short story.

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Ratings and reviews

This book seemed all over the place with several main characters. I feel no character was truly developed, therefore I was unable to form a connection or likeness to any of them. It felt like this was the first book of several to come in a series. I liked the portrayl of the London circa 1889 after Jack the Ripper. We are introduced to the killer right away and here his internal monologue. He had potential but it never seemed to go anywhere. I never felt that suspenseful feeling that compelled me to keep reading to find out what was going to happen next. Rather I just kept reading to get this book finished to move on to a better book.

I thought a child could do better.

Short but SO SWEET IT'LL MAKE YOU CHUBBY❣

About the author

Simon Haynes lives in Western Australia, where he divides his time between herding deadly spiders, dodging drop bears, and making up wildly inaccurate sentences like this one.

By day he's an author. By night he's also an author.

He loves wry, dry humour, and his hobbies include daringly inserting the letter U into words where -- in some parts of the world at least -- this simply isn't the done thing.

As for his genre-spanning novels, they include epic fantasy (with robots), scifi comedy (also with robots), middle grade humour (featuring robots AND the wanton use of the letter U), as well as a series of historical mystery novels set in 1870's London. (No, of course there aren't robots in those. He's not completely out of his mind.)

When he's not writing Simon is usually renovating his house, sim-racing online, using twitter (@spacejock), gardening, tweaking his book covers, pondering the meaning of the universe and reading, and if you think it's easy doing all that at the same time you should see what he can do with a mug of coffee, a banana and a large bag of salt.

When he's not making outlandish claims he likes to count how many novels he's written, and how many genres he's written them in. (Lots and too many.)

Finally, if you want to hear Simon reading one of his award-winning stories, you'll find an enticement to join his newsletter here: spacejock.com.au/ML.html