{"id":23,"date":"2013-12-04T14:51:28","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T14:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quarkfolio.com\/wp\/?p=23"},"modified":"2021-03-11T18:37:11","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T23:37:11","slug":"short-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quarkfolio.com\/wp\/?p=23","title":{"rendered":"Short Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--\n\n\n<h3><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><strong>The Vestal<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0 15px 15px 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/quarkfolio.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Bastion_November14_cover-250x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" height=\"300\" align=\"left\" \/>First published in the November 2014 issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bastionmag.com\/previous\/november\">Bastion Science Fiction Magazine<\/a>. In a Roman Empire that spawned an interstellar civilization, a spy from a rival world attempts to help a Roman religious leader defect.\n\n<strong>Buy an ebook edition of this issue:<\/strong>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/weightlessbooks.com\/format\/bastion-science-fiction-magazine-issue-8-november-2014\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Weightless Books (PDF, MOBI, EPUB)<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B00P3CZDAW\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kindle<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/bastion-science-fiction-magazine-issue-8-november-2014-r-leigh-hennig\/1120672805?ean=2940150694163\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nook<\/a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n--><\/p>\n<h2><strong>A Goblin Seeks a Career Change<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0 15px 15px 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/robsteiner.quarkfolio.com\/images\/gob_20111220.jpg\" alt=\"\" height=\"300\" align=\"left\">What&#8217;s a poor goblin to do when a life of pillaging, barn burning, and general mayhem has lost its luster? Find out in this short story about Gorko, a goblin who wants to learn what life is like outside his Cave and Kin.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"border: 1px dotted #c0c0c0; background: #ccedff; padding: 10px; margin-left: 15px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/buy.bookfunnel.com\/hc714sb82j\">Buy this short story in ebook for <strong>$0.99<\/strong>.<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!--<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B006OBJRMQ\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B006OBJRMQ&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=robsteinercom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kindle<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/a-goblin-seeks-a-career-change-rob-steiner\/1108034742?ean=2940013855755\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nook<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/book\/about-those-probes...\/id493315016?mt=11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apple iBooks<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smashwords.com\/books\/view\/116185\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Smashwords<\/a>--><\/p>\n<h2><strong>About Those Probes&#8230;<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0 15px 15px 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/robsteiner.quarkfolio.com\/images\/about_20111220.jpg\" alt=\"\" height=\"300\" align=\"left\">Harry Hindman has been repeatedly abducted by aliens since he was sixteen. Now, with the end of the world approaching, he finds out just what was up with those probes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>A short story with a humorous and somewhat insensitive take on alien abductions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"border: 1px dotted #c0c0c0; background: #ccedff; padding: 10px; margin-left: 15px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/buy.bookfunnel.com\/9wyqr67u45\">Buy this short story in ebook for <strong>$0.99<\/strong>.<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!--<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B006OBXPHO\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B006OBXPHO&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=robsteinercom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kindle<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/about-those-probes-rob-steiner\/1108035287?ean=2940013868991\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nook<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/book\/about-those-probes...\/id493315016?mt=11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apple iBooks<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smashwords.com\/books\/view\/116213\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Smashwords<\/a>--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Goblin Seeks a Career Change What&#8217;s a poor goblin to do when a life of pillaging, barn burning, and general mayhem has lost its luster? 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