ryanr's Journal: Short Story

So this is pretty cool. I was approached by O'Reilly to write a short story to promote my most recent book "Stealing the Network: How to Own a Continent". Link to evil patent-abusing bookseller, with bonus associate ID insult.

O'Reilly is the distributor for Syngress (my publisher) in the US now, which is nice. Apparantly, they do promotions like this. It's also a nice ego boost to see my name in the O'Reilly catalogs, and they are supposed to feature Syngress books in the O'Reilly booths at trade shows and such.

Anyway, I like the way the story came out. It's a prequel for the Stealing books. It's fiction, like the books themselves. Please check it out and let me know what you think.

Here's the story.

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[mekkab]

(That was a coded message) How come all the peeps I work with (well, the good ones) are Fullbeard and I'm the fucking crewcutter?! Motherfucker!

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[ryanr]

Title decodes to... "fuck you".

Heh, you gave it away with the word frequency in the body of the post. :)

If it helps any, crewcut is the master criminal in the book which this story is a prequel to. :)

I happened to read this yesterday, seems to apply:
folklore.org [folklore.org]
Great site.

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[mekkab]

Fuck! Not only am I not the sharpest spoon in the drawer, but I'm a criminal, to boot! And I refuse to grow a moustache!

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[ryanr]

Which I suppose was the idea. :)

Dang, that transparent, eh? :)

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