Patrick O'Duffy

• Feb-2015
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Who's settling accounts for the dead?Two years after his last adventure, obituarist Kendall Barber is still trying to make amends for his past by cleaning up the online presence of Port Virtue's dead. Business isn't great, so he jumps at the chance ...

• Oct-2013
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In the future, the Earth is still recovering from alien invasion, conquest and liberation; civilisation is shattered, the sky is broken and the world will never be the same.But Nadger doesn't understand any of that. All he knows is that it's time to ...

• Feb-2013
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A collection of nine flash fiction stories, each 1000 words long or less, costing ninety-nine cents.Nine Flash Nine. See, it makes sense.The stories are:* For Sale, Baby Heads, Never Worn* Murder, She Rocked* Boy* Dear Penthouse Forum: I F----d Godzi...

• Oct-2012
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Social media undertaker Kendall Barber has discovered something about his new subject - an email set up to be sent after his death.What is in the email - and why is his client, the dead man's brother, so eager to find out?This short story is a mini-s...

• Sep-2012
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Dunny thought that he was onto a good thing when he stole that cab and used it to rob old-age pensioners.But today he may have picked up the wrong passenger...A short crime story about payback and bad decisions....

• Apr-2012
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What happens to your Facebook account when you die?Kendall Barber calls himself an obituarist -- a social media undertaker who settles accounts for the dead. If you need your loved one's Twitter account closed down or one last blog post to be made,...

• Jun-2011
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A tourist on a late night bus realises the passengers are disappearing. A monster hunter confronts a ghost that exists only in memories. A couple go out to a nightclub where everyone is high on illegal gods. Meet these and other interesting people in...

• Dec-2010
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• Dec-2010
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The cleaning lady eats time. The manager mourns his multi-gendered parent. A pirate radio DJ listens for God. An accountant prepares to kill again. And that's only in four rooms of the Hotel Flamingo, where the room service is terrible and reality fl...

You come home one night, worn out by another day of hard work and not falling back into bad habits, to find the woman you love has left you. What now?A short story about addictions that never quite dry out and wounds that never heal....

Kendall Barber is having a very bad day.His obituarist business is failing, his relationship is on the rocks and he’s pretty sure one of his friends has been murdered. All of that is bad enough – and then his office explodes. Kendall̵...

A mirror breaks, a marriage explodes, and all the fine things they once collected and showed off now serve to demonstrate just what went wrong.A short story about material possessions and marital infidelity, with a brief appearance by a cat....