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    The Maple Dyraid Life
    The Maple Dyraid Life
    The Maple Dyraid Life
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    The Maple Dyraid Life

    By Kevin Williams

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    A girl born in a tree; a cat bred in a palm tree, a haubted house and lots of people who want in on the action.
    Jessica, Clara and me. Also a new kitten, all setting traps for the movers and shakers nosing about.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKevin Williams
    Release dateMar 30, 2020
    ISBN9780463089903
    The Maple Dyraid Life
    Author

    Kevin Williams

    ANNOUNCEMENT.For my ten year anniversary here? New covers+ upgrades for everything!At a million words a week, I should be done by the end of feb.(Man! Had everything proofed before posting. Shoulda been after.)Oh, the AI rev? Bring it.Stealing market share, capturing a demographic, developing a fan-base?That's the game. Always has been.Unfortunately, so are goons, thieves and legislation. Luckers, people.Latest novels:The Finest Evil in the System : AI Woes Jan 2024FANTASY Aaron+Henna: The Elfin Princess's Kiss may 2023SF: Teddyhunter Rogue planets June 2023BOTH The Finest Evil in the System : AI Woes Jan 2024Shorts : The Finest Evil in the System; Loons, goons + booms.Novels are usually 100,000 words: freebies vary. (And might be ANYTHING!)If you don't fall over laughing at least once while reading, the book is a failure.Other than that, SF is the lit/philosophy of western urbanization.Problem-solvingthe effect of techon peoplevia new mythology.Beware, you MAY learn something. Or think a bit here and there, even in the comics..Cartooning? Does-is-ought. Take a does, show what it is, (is is?) discuss the ought. (ie: table= work-server= that gossips)SF? what if, then what, so what?Fantasy? Any sufficiently advanced tech is indistinguishable from magic. (Characters in conflict over issues)***Readers are welcome to proof-read; if I think it's a good correction, it goes in. (just send an e-mail, book-name + quoted line) Thanks. (One long-suffering reader got a few books dedicated to him.)On a personal note; I've got nearly 2 million words published at smashwords.com now. SF + fantasy novels, cartoons + short-stories.Jeez, lemme see; This whole mess got started in grade school; shorts in HS; novels after. (first one done in pencil.)Dozen or so 80,000 word novelettes (mostly type-writer.); first computer stuff, 80's; novels+shorts.Years of zines, quarterlies, novels, cartoons; (apple-clones, compacts, pcs) '86: BBSing a shorts echo (rogue-bone), blogs and cartooning. I THINK I can add another million words there. Maybe. Most of them are lost unless some old CD backups turn up.2021: Dead tree? If you don't make the best-seller list with your first novel today, you don't get a second. An 8-million web-wonder hit is entry-level stuff. (for movies. An ebook best seller is 10,000 or so) I think my count is 43 currently published over 8 years; and another dozen or so early works lost.******************* WARNING! * Live and live, (long i vs short) tho and thou. I use thou as tho sometimes. It's the most common complaint. Mostly edited out, but I still do.******************Writing has been a hobby of mine since the third grade, and was an ambition even earlier. Cartooning, music + philosophy are other bad habits I keep up. (Plus a few secret ones I'm NOT telling you about, so there!)Zining SF cons with shorts for years (on the freebie table) was a hobby. Well, till charging for intros,(lessons) freebie-table placements and contests became common. It was fun; quarterly editions, mostly. Fantasy, horror (Halloween), children's (Christmas), romantic comedy, (Valentines, st pats) hard SF, on july 1st or world con.Most are in the short-story collections, tho I'm still writing the occasional one today.Enjoy, thanks, pass it on! (Have a day of it, eh?)

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      The Maple Dyraid Life - Kevin Williams

      The Maple Dyraid Life

      By Kevin Williams copyright 2020

      March 2020 My apologizes to those who got a garbled version. Here ya go, more garbles. Released in two editions; a filthy one for family preview and clean one for sale.

      Smashwords License Statement Smashwords Edition. This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each reader. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Cover Art: Wallpapers.com

      Disclaimer: This is a work of satire; similarities to persons is a coincidence?

      Canadian ISBN:978-1-988261-32-4

      ISBN:9780463089903

      Author’s Note: Fan-mail, biz, complaints and suggestions to teddyhunter10@gmail.com

      Kevin Williams is on

      https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/packrat2

      https://kevinwillpkgd.tumblr.com

      He authors an SF series, Teddyhunter: (about runaway teddybear robots), a few books of short stories, comics and the Aaron+Henna fantasy series. The first in every series is usually a free ebook.

      Teddyhunter

      • Teddyhunter: The Underground

      • Teddyhunter: The New World Order

      • Teddyhunter: The Nano-zombie War

      • Teddyhunter: I Can Get Better In The Parking-lot!

      • Teddyhunter: The Neanderthal Gene

      • Teddyhunter: New Genes

      • Teddyhunter: Baby-Blues

      • Teddyhunter: The Underground Railway

      • Teddyhunter: Blob2

      • Teddyhunter: Rogue Worlds

      • Teddyhunter: Right in the Shorts

      • Teddyhunter: 2022 shorts

      Aaron+Henna

      • The Gateway Project

      • Girl-Ghost

      • Aaron+Henna: The Witch-Wizard War

      • Aaron+Henna: The Singing Sword

      • Aaron+Henna: The Way of The Rat

      • Aaron+Henna: The Terrible Twos

      • Aaron+Henna: Summer Rain

      • Aaron+Henna: Broken Magics

      • Aaron+Henna: Dirty Float

      • Aaron+Henna: Dragon-Witch

      • Aaron+Henna: Teen Learns

      • Aaron+Henna: The Elfin Princess’s Kiss

      • Aaron+Henna: Short Stories

      UFO Observer (comic)

      • UFO Observer Book 1

      • UFO Observer Pt Two Book 2

      • UFO Observer Part Three Book 3

      Shorts!

      • Shorts From All Over

      • Christmas Shorts

      • The Apprentice’s Shorts

      • The NWO: The Orderlie’s Silent Spring V2.

      • Bogus Shorts

      • SF Shorts

      • By The Shorts

      • 2021 Shorts

      • 2022 Shorts: Odds and Ends

      • Shorts 2023

      comics

      • Friday The 13th Sex-cult Problems

      • Stalking Millionaires

      • The Pour Witches of Fenwick

      Canada

      • The Cold Grows, The Roads Shrink P2

      • The Maple Dyraid Life

      sf • JoyToy:Singularity

      FEITS

      • The Finest Evil In the System: Omnibus

      • The Finest Evil in the System: Goons, Loons and Boons

      • The Finest Evil In the System: AI Woes.

      ***

      chapter 1 girl-child

      Jessica! Welcome home, hon! Long time no see. All hail the return of the prodigal daughter!

      Whoa. I know that look. You’re after something, aren’t you? Other than my lunch, too. Typical! This brings back memories.

      Sit, make yourself comfy. You were a great kid, hon. That didn’t last long, ask Susie next door. Her daycare saw more of you than I did those first years. I do know your pink period started the fun, tho. Psycho-pink daydreams, princess. (How I remember the nightmares!)

      Then came boy-bands, posters and worrying that they won’t. (Then accusing them.)

      Ah, puberty! Hormone-driven social climbing and I got all the bills.

      Social media was your life! Unfortunately, expensive social-media. Dodge-ball for gossips, nothing-without-a-crowd groupies and no one was interested in what you did except you. They would sell you a life, tho.

      Then the rat-race, version 3.0. Flimsy, eh? Junior high-school hell!

      I could not rescue you anymore. Informers, pathological liars and fink-world enforcers made you their batch; cannon-fodder loyalties. A blame-game and you lost the thrash-war.

      Men were scum for your whole goth era, including me. No one blamed you much for GOBs, tho. Or jocks.

      So. You’re back from school; one of the weird cultist-type academies that trained for occult power. After flunking out fast you’re looking for any adult niche here that doesn’t eat you alive. Sorry, hon, it’s warlords or nothing out there.

      McHappy ones.

      And you want to get the band back together again, do you? You? Third spear-chucker from the left in a game of thrones, Jess.

      Say, Is that my favorite hoodie you’re wearing?

      Work is your best shot, really. I call it the shite-pit myself. Tea? Please, help yourself. You found my best sneakers too? Jess! I know we’re the same size, but still!

      Oh, there are other ways to get by; bad ones. Goods get stolen faster than you can make ‘em for instance. Ask a programmer about any e-store.

      BBS WIM FRE, kid. BBS WIM FRE? Beg, borrow, steal; win, marry, inherit; find, receive, earn. Not a whisper about paying for it in there. Eh? Go ahead, there’s only hot dogs in the fridge tho. Say, isn’t that my cup?

      So. You’re twenty and all washed up. Oh, the humanity, Or in your case, the dyraidity. Find something juicy to pin on someone or a grunt that likes you, that’s my advice. Hope they never have reason to remember it’s only 500 bills to get rid of you permanently.

      When there is nothing left to steal… Whoops! I forgot about bread. Yeah, up over there, it’s my favorite. Go right ahead. Ah, I see.

      That’s why you’re here, it’s all clear now. You want into the library, the place none of us

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