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    Nothing Down: The Adventures of Captain Nothing, #2
    Nothing Down: The Adventures of Captain Nothing, #2
    Nothing Down: The Adventures of Captain Nothing, #2
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    Nothing Down: The Adventures of Captain Nothing, #2

    By Steve Vernon

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    So you think you know all about superheroes? Those guys in the capes and the lightly starched spandex speedoes. Leaping tall buildings and always getting the girl. 

    You don't know nothing. 

    Join Steve Vernon, Nova Scotia's hardest working horror writer, as he takes you into the world of Captain Nothing. It's a world without hope, a world that is as cold and dark as a landlord's heart, three days after the rent is due. It's a world that could give the Batman a case of the squirming night fears. NOTHING DOWN is a collection of stories that will show you the darker side of courage. It will show you the shadows in a hero's heart. 

    Go on. I dare you to take a closer look. 

    You've got nothing to lose. 

    "If Harlan Ellison, Richard Matheson and Robert Bloch had a three-way sex romp in a hot tub, and then a team of scientists came in and filtered out the water and mixed the leftover DNA into a test tube, the resulting genetic experiment would most likely grow up into Steve Vernon." – Bookgasm

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSteve Vernon
    Release dateOct 3, 2016
    ISBN9781536519112
    Nothing Down: The Adventures of Captain Nothing, #2
    Author

    Steve Vernon

    Everybody always wants a peek at the man behind the curtain. They all want to see just exactly what makes an author tick.Which ticks me off just a little bit - but what good is a lifetime if you can't ride out the peeve and ill-feeling and grin through it all. Hi! I am Steve Vernon and I'd love to scare you. Along the way I'll try to entertain you and I guarantee a giggle as well.If you want to picture me just think of that old dude at the campfire spinning out ghost stories and weird adventures and the grand epic saga of how Thud the Second stepped out of his cave with nothing more than a rock in his fist and slew the mighty saber-toothed tiger.If I listed all of the books I've written I'd most likely bore you - and I am allergic to boring so I will not bore you any further. Go and read some of my books. I promise I sound a whole lot better in print than in real life. Heck, I'll even brush my teeth and comb my hair if you think that will help any.For more up-to-date info please follow my blog at:http://stevevernonstoryteller.wordpress.com/And follow me at Twitter:@StephenVernonyours in storytelling,Steve Vernon

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      Nothing Down - Steve Vernon

      What People Are Saying About Steve Vernon

      If Harlan Ellison, Richard Matheson and Robert Bloch had a three-way sex romp in a hot tub, and then a team of scientists came in and filtered out the water and mixed the leftover DNA into a test tube, the resulting genetic experiment would most likely grow up into Steve Vernon. – Bookgasm

      Steve Vernon is something of an anomaly in the world of horror literature. He's one of the freshest new voices in the genre although his career has spanned twenty years. Writing with a rare swagger and confidence, Steve Vernon can lead his readers through an entire gamut of emotions from outright fear and repulsion to pity and laughter. - Cemetery Dance

      Armed with a bizarre sense of humor, a huge amount of originality, a flair for taking risks and a strong grasp of characterization - Steve's got the chops for sure. - Dark Discoveries

      Steve Vernon is a hard writer to pin down. And that’s a good thing. – Dark Scribe Magazine

      This genre needs new blood and Steve Vernon is quite a transfusion. –Edward Lee, author of FLESH GOTHIC and CITY INFERNAL

      Steve Vernon is one of the finest new talents of horror and dark fiction - Owl Goingback, author of CROTA

      Steve Vernon was born to write. He's the real deal and we're lucky to have him. - Richard Chizmar

      What People Are Saying About Captain Nothing

      Captain Nothing is a new breed of superhero. Well. He's not so much a superhero as a half-washed, half-drunk, serial career failure type of vigilante with his own rules, questionable morals, and an eye for seeing the ills of the world. – Daz Pulsford, Amazon Reviewer

      Captain Nothing wears a mask and cape, but lives in a one-room apartment with cockroaches unlike the traditional Marvel and DC comics heroes. He doesn’t have his own method of transportation – no Batmobile – he takes a cab to the hideaways of criminals and into the darker parts of the city, the same as any other citizen would. – Derek Newman-Stille SPECULATING CANADA

      Forget about secret identities. Captain Nothing is Captain Nothing all the time. After a while, he muses, you don’t need an identity anymore. – Eric Searleman – SUPERHERO NOVELS

      The Indelible Skivvy Stains of Unbleached Regret

      There are very few things in this life as irreplaceably essential as a pair of clean bleached skivvies. They hide the funk and the sorry residue that is generally considered somewhat socially unacceptable. Back through the ages even the most primitive of savages would quite often find themselves an excuse to wrap their ugly in a tatter of freshly skinned breechcloth.

      Oh sure.

      You can always rinse the old pair of underwear out, but sooner or later there are some stains that never really fade. They begin to develop their own personality. They cling to your under-fuzzies and whisper dark puckered secrets to the coral reefs of hemorrhoids that barnacle and cling to the evacuation of your rectum.

      Worse yet, you begin to smell funny.

      Some braver souls might talk of going commando, but for me – tough superhero or not, I tend to chafe. So sooner or later I find myself in the thick of a milling herd of Target shoppers, smack dab in the heart of the pre-apocalyptic bull’s-eye, mulling casually through the underwear section.

      Which is where I first saw her – shoplifting skivvies.

      I really like shopping at the Target.

      Not because of the prices, you understand.

      I like shopping here, because even with

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