{"id":565,"date":"2012-03-21T22:01:36","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T05:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harperkingsley.wordpress.com\/?p=565"},"modified":"2023-10-17T23:38:31","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T06:38:31","slug":"ersatz-by-sol-crafter-is-the-story-of-two-slackers-in-love-solcrafter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/ersatz-by-sol-crafter-is-the-story-of-two-slackers-in-love-solcrafter\/","title":{"rendered":"Ersatz, by Sol Crafter is the story of two slackers in love #SolCrafter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Okay, so “Ersatz” is now on Amazon and Smashwords. It’s a $0.99 short story about two man-children that are asked about their ersatz homosexual relationship, which leaves them reeling.<\/p>\n

Disregarding their ages, they really are man-children in that they spend all their time slacking around in their apartment playing video games and smoking pot. Their comfortable world gets rocked by a rude question and they respond in typical fashion–by running away from each other and acting like teenaged girls, neither one wanting to be the first to mention the dreaded “love” word.<\/p>\n

Smashword<\/a>
\nAmazon<\/a><\/p>\n

BTW, when I picture Niedelmeyer hassling Charlie, this is the image that popped in my head:\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

He just seems like that kind of guy…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Okay, so “Ersatz” is now on Amazon and Smashwords. It’s a $0.99 short story about two man-children that are asked about their ersatz homosexual relationship, which leaves them reeling. Disregarding their ages, they really are man-children in that they spend all their time slacking around in their apartment playing video games and smoking pot. 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