Mitchell Jamal Franco
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Mitchell Jamal Franco
Writing cross-genre fiction, including historical, science fiction, travel, mystery and satire. Also working on novel length mateial. My first novel, Jacob's Powder Keg, is now available on Amazon, in both Kindle and paperback. Please check out more of my short stories and novels on the link below.
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MONKEY'S NEW MOON - RELOJANDO CRONICOS
The next chapter in the Clocking Chronicles time-travel series. Detective Tempus travels to the Middle Ages.....
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HALF PAST THE MONKEY'S MOON - RELOJANDO CRONICOS
The first in a Time-Travel collection that imagines the most disruptive technology of all. Digging up the past to judge our predecessors is nothing new. A hardboiled detective undertakes an investigation into history.
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ARTE
Arte, the autonomous robot technology experience, was purchased last year by the Art Residency. The robot pulled weeds, and the robot’s arms picked...
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Blue Haunt
"The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it." -- Oscar Wilde
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THE INTERCONNECTEDNESS OF THINGS
The real estate agent was an older man, dressed in plaid pants and a sport coat, with an easy confidence about him. He led Phil and Sally from the...
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Really enjoyed this!! You
Posted on Sun, 13 Oct 2024
Really enjoyed this!! You capture the essence of work culture so poignantly. It’s not enough to give your time, skills, and effort. They also want your soul.
Read full commentPosted in Linkedin Island
Great description of this
Posted on Sun, 26 Nov 2023
Great description of this very tense undertaking Turlough! I've been crossing borders for years, never with anything to hide (except for our tequila runs to Mexico when I was in college, oh and the fireworks) but on some borders I feel as though...
Read full commentPosted in The Targovishte Quandary - Part 2 of 3
Love the description of the Dark City
Posted on Wed, 25 Oct 2023
Great story Paul. Your description of a dark, sinister city is vivid, and I can feel the grittiness of it. Kind of an urban fantasy feel blending mythical and modern evils, it makes you look upon the world outside and wonder if some parallel...
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Thanks for your comments Paul
Posted on Sun, 30 Apr 2023
Thanks for your comments Paul, glad you enjoyed it. HAL 9000 was definitely one of my inspirations. I think an interesting question on the blurring of emotional borders is how much of the blurring is human projection. I think the term is...
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I enjoyed this a lot Ed. A
Posted on Mon, 20 Mar 2023
I enjoyed this a lot Ed. A little frightening but authentic. Jumping into the middle but it has me hooked and will now go back and start from the beginning. Your world building is seemless, sprinkled amidst an apparently normal house and tea...
Read full commentPosted in Waiting For the Flyers pt 6: David Walsham (1)
Thank you Ewan! I've updated
Posted on Thu, 16 Mar 2023
Thank you Ewan! I've updated to increase the font. I'm using Times New Roman 18, pasting over from Mac Pages. Let me know if there's a better standard type and size I should be using. Kind regards.
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"from my experience, our
Posted on Sun, 19 Feb 2023
"from my experience, our continental cousins seem to have a mastery of the English language that frequently escapes our native speakers".
I can relate to this line, having lived in Amsterdam, and worked on a team with English and Dutch. ...
Read full commentPosted in Stiffed! (Bring Out Your Dead series - Part 5)
I really enjoyed this.
Posted on Wed, 04 Jan 2023
I really enjoyed this. Vividly described and emotive.
Read full commentPosted in When Lily Was Here