Blaze of Glory eBook Weston Ochse
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For fans of Stephen King, David Gerrold, and Richard Matheson, picture this the world is being eaten by monsters and there’s nothing you can do about it.
4 WEEKS A G O
Everything seemed fine.
Life was as we knew it.
Nothing was out of place.
3 WEEKS A G O
The first tiny creature, no bigger than a thumb, crawled out of the dark loamy earth of an Iowa corn field.
2 WEEK S A G O
Creatures came from the ground in every country, from the smallest maggot-sized killer, to Cadillac-sized devourers, each one eating everything in sight, their apparent desire, to cleanse the earth of any vestige of mankind.
2 D A Y S A G O
Our hero, Buckly Adamski, watched the Governor of North Carolina start to dance and go crazy on the television, it wasn’t until the very end that the television announcer blew his brains out over the impossibility of it all.
Y E S T E R D A Y
Planes crashed to the ground, the Eiffel Tower crumbled, trains stopped running, the power went out, and the entire human race (what was left of it) paused to take a breath, wondering if it would be their last.
T O N I G H T
Buckley gathered those he could save in the penthouse of an old building in downtown Wilmington, North Carolina. Monsters are eating the city around them. They know they must leave. They know they have to make a run for it. But they also don’t want to die.
And there is an answer, but it will come from the craziest of places.
This novel also contains an essay called and The True Adventures of a Monster Screenplay in B-Movie Wonderland, which tells the tale of how the screenplay based on this novel was almost sold to Wesley Snipes, with many of the industry’s top horror movie stars attached to the film.
About the Author
WESTON OCHSE was born south of Devil’s Tower in Gillette Wyoming. He attended National University in San Diego and graduated with a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing. Ochse (oaks) is the author of seven novels and nearly a hundred short stories. He’s won the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in First Novel and been nominated for the Pushcart Prize for
short fiction. He lives with his family in southern Arizona. His website is www.westonochse.com.
This book was previously released in ultra-limited edition by Bloodletting Press, limited to 125 copies.
PRAISE FOR THE WORKS OF WESTON OCHSE
“BLAZE OF GLORY turns the Monster-Apocalypse subgenre on its gory ear. It’s funny, suspenseful and resolutely quirky, with a great cast of characters.” - Jack Ketchum, author of The Girl Next Door
"SEAL TEAM 666 is like X-Files and Torchwood written by Tom Clancy ingenious, creepy, and entertaining." - Kevin J. Anderson, #1 international bestselling author of DEATH WARMED OVER
“Every story-line is as taut as a gunfighter's nerves and individual scenes pop like firecrackers.” - Peter Straub on SEAL Team 666
“Even the supernatural has its own division of terrorist. Thank goodness we have our defenders –SEAL Team 666.” – Eight-time Bram Stoker winner Joe R. Lansdale
“Weston Ochse is to horror what Bradbury is to science fiction -- an artist whose craft, stories and voice are so distinct and mesmerizing that you can't help but be enthralled.” - Dani Kollin, Prometheus Award-winning author of The Unincorporated Man
'Weston Ochse is a mercurial writer, one of those depressingly talented people who are good at whatever they turn their hand to.' -Conrad Williams, August Derleth and International Horror Guild Award Winner
“Weston is one of the best authors of our generation." – Brian Keene, Bram Stoker Award-winning author The Rising and Ghoul
"Weston Ochse is perhaps the fiercest and most direct of the latest generation of dark fiction writers. I watched awestruck year by year as the bright candle of his talent grew into a roaring bonfire of brutally honest output, matched only by his deep empathy for the human condition." Rocky Wood, author of Stephen King A Literary Companion
Blaze of Glory eBook Weston Ochse
Weston Ochse offers up a new kind of apocalypse in Blaze of Glory. Unlike the usual zombies or natural disaster, the downfall of humanity is the result of little critters that resemble maggots, along with their cousins that are the size of Cadillacs and destroy everything in their path. The little guys burrow into people and multiply, eventually killing their human host. Their weakness? Salt. It’s a good thing we have oceans, something that our survivors, located in North Carolina, come to realize just might be the path of their salvation. Buckley and the others are holed up in a restaurant, but realize they are facing a losing battle against the maggots. This leads to a mad dash to the nearby ocean, which seems like a million miles away as they have to get through both the little and the big critters.Blaze of Glory is a fun, fast-paced novel. The grim scenario is painted out well and the atmosphere created really fits the story. Although I have a general fatigue with end of the world type novels, since I seem to be reading many of them lately, this was a different type of disaster and a more localized scenario without an extensive story about the survival of a group, and instead fixating on accomplishing one singular goal. I liked the focus of the novel. The characters were a bit rough around the edges and not always likeable, but remained intent on accomplishing their goals. This was an enjoyable novel that I would recommend reading.
Carl Alves - author of Reconquest: Mother Earth
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Blaze of Glory eBook Weston Ochse Reviews
Loved the story! An amazing concept having the villians of the story be maggots of different sizes! Maggots freak me out anyway! Of course weston the real villian is the despare this group of people have in the face of hopelessness. You did a great job in conveying that to the reader. Also giving them hope by realizing that they could help others.
Mr.Ochse can certainly write and this is a great story thats is paced as well as some of Stephen Hunter's novels. Most writers cannot create a mood of dispair without becoming overwrought but Blaze of Glory is a great example of how to do it right. I genuinely felt bad for the characters and couldn't get a read on how the story would end. Good story, great pacing, great characters. Solid read.
Wow! I started the first chapter on my one evening about a week ago. Yesterday, I was "off-site" doing some work and decided to download to my Droid Bionic during a break...and finished the novel over the next 3-4 hours. YES, I read all but the first chapter on my smart phone! Why? Outstanding character development, a "world" straight from adventures tales of old but with twists and realities that I've never seen nor read before, and an action filled plot that is unrelenting. Wes lays bare the raw, vulnerable and faulty (and admirable) characteristics we all suffer from and succeed with. He then throws us into a group forced to face the worst of circumstances, develop a "community" in a matter of hours and take on the challenges that most of us "hope" we could accomplish if faced with the same. This book needs to go to the big screen! Thank you Wes. Please keep writing!
Blaze of Glory is a first rate literary creature feature, it's got an eclectic and likable cast of survivors, some thoughtful allusions to the subgenre's past, and a host of creatures that are both creepy and original. Oh, and it's also got Dylan Thomas poems being recited while our protagonists douse salt-sensitive monsters with Super Soakers.
What I love about Blaze is Ochse's constant mashing-up of high and lowbrow, of funny and scary, of the themes of hope and despair. Ochse is working in a genre that has seen every kind of creature, but he still keeps things fresh by never quite coloring in the lines.
The "maggies" (a nickname derived from maggots) come in different flavors. Some are the size of buses, toppling buildings and ripping up pavement, while others are small enough to live inside you (there are a few moments of gory body horror in the story ala The Thing). The monsters are captivating, but Ochse also understands the need for compelling human characters for readers to root for. This is a short novel, but enough time is spent on characterization that we grow to care for Buckley, Little Rashad, et al.
Highly recommended, especially for only three bucks.
This isn't my favorite Weston Ochs book. I enjoy his writing and there was nothing new available, so I purchased it. I liked the characters very much. Ochs is a born story teller and can take a plot which has been used one way or the other and turn it into something new. You see the characters through the narrator's eyes, so at first they are almost "paper dolls," shallow characters with one or more identifying eccentricities to make them a bit interesting. However, as the story unfolds and they interact with their own particular challenges within a basic human fight against extinction, their personalities fill out. The reader learns more about them and about the narrator, so that sometimes earlier opinions you've had about them twists around almost 180 degrees.
The title seemed to fit from the very beginning - a group of desperate humans fighting the final apocalypse, hoping against hope that humanity will somehow prevail. But during the final pages, you discover something deeper - not just about the characters but about what is, perhaps, one of humanity's greatest advantages.
Oh, come on. I'm not telling you what it is!
Weston Ochse offers up a new kind of apocalypse in Blaze of Glory. Unlike the usual zombies or natural disaster, the downfall of humanity is the result of little critters that resemble maggots, along with their cousins that are the size of Cadillacs and destroy everything in their path. The little guys burrow into people and multiply, eventually killing their human host. Their weakness? Salt. It’s a good thing we have oceans, something that our survivors, located in North Carolina, come to realize just might be the path of their salvation. Buckley and the others are holed up in a restaurant, but realize they are facing a losing battle against the maggots. This leads to a mad dash to the nearby ocean, which seems like a million miles away as they have to get through both the little and the big critters.
Blaze of Glory is a fun, fast-paced novel. The grim scenario is painted out well and the atmosphere created really fits the story. Although I have a general fatigue with end of the world type novels, since I seem to be reading many of them lately, this was a different type of disaster and a more localized scenario without an extensive story about the survival of a group, and instead fixating on accomplishing one singular goal. I liked the focus of the novel. The characters were a bit rough around the edges and not always likeable, but remained intent on accomplishing their goals. This was an enjoyable novel that I would recommend reading.
Carl Alves - author of Reconquest Mother Earth
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