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    366 Squared Volume 4: April
    366 Squared Volume 4: April
    366 Squared Volume 4: April
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    366 Squared Volume 4: April

    By Michel Clasquin-Johnson

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    "Hey dude, what happened to March?" I know, I know. The last volume to come out was February. Well, we moved. It was a big, traumatic move that involved four sets of attorneys, two estate agents (one not speaking to her own client, the other ... well, never mind), a building crew, a busted geyser, a busted electrical gate, a swimming pool that resembled the black lagoon, and a computer that was standing idle at the other house. The only way they will get me out of this house is when they wheel me out to the frail care unit. Or worse. There will be a volume 3 for March, I promise. Someday, probably after volume 12 is all nicely wrapped up. Meanwhile, this is Volume 4: a little less fantasy than back in February, and a little more straight historical fiction. As for the science fiction stories, I've come to realize that the problem of writing science fiction about historical events is that you end up doing a lot of time travel scenarios. A few mini-essays, as usual, although this month, they do tend to be about the day itself, not just a random essay used to fill up the spaces.

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    PublisherMichel Clasquin-Johnson
    Release dateMay 6, 2013
    ISBN9781301486199
    366 Squared Volume 4: April
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    Michel Clasquin-Johnson

    Michel Clasquin-Johnson is a Professor of Religious Studies at the University of South Africa and was, until recently, the entire Buddhological establishment on the continent of Africa. He lives in Pretoria, South Africa with his wife, son and two motorcycles. Michel likes to think that he practices Buddhism (in his own way) as well as writing about it. The entire Buddhist world disagrees, but is too polite to say so. In his spare time, he writes what can loosely be called science fiction. Not a lot of science involved, and a fine disregard for the rules of fiction. He also writes application software, but only for utterly obscure and/or obsolete operating systems that are never going to lead to a payday. Let's hope he hangs on to his day job.

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      366 Squared Volume 4 - Michel Clasquin-Johnson

      366 Squared

      Volume 4: April

      Published by Michel Clasquin-Johnson at Smashwords

      Copyright 2012 Michel Clasquin-Johnson

      1st Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you're reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com or your preferred Smashwords reseller and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Background to cover image courtesy of NASA. All other graphics used in this book or on the cover are in the public domain or are Creative-Content-licensed and were obtained either from Wikimedia or Wikipedia.

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      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      Introduction to Volume 4

      April 1

      April 2, 1912

      April 3, 1968

      April 3, 1882

      April 4, 1859

      April 5, 1976

      April 6, 1652

      April 7, 1969

      April 8, 1973

      April 9, 1937

      April 10, 1952

      April 11, 1954

      April 12, 1961

      April 13, 1953

      April 14, 1865

      April 15, 1980

      April 16, 1917

      April 17, 1651

      April 18, 1906

      April 19, 1782

      April 20, 1889

      April 21, 753 BCE

      April 22, 1724

      April 23, 2007

      April 24, 1533

      April 25, 1965

      April 26, 1983

      April 27, 2002

      April 28, 1503

      April 29, 1832

      April 30, 1956

      Day References for April

      About the Author

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      Introduction

      This book series comes from a challenge I set myself in September 2012: write a story a day for a year (and include a bonus story for February 29). I wanted to reinvent myself as a writer, and things were going … slowly. I needed a shock to the system, something to get myself to open that same file day after day and pound away on the keyboard. Even if I didn't work on anything else that day, at least I would have done this one little thing. By the end of one year, I would have created the equivalent of a 130 000 word novel.

      And so, day after day, I opened up the usual This Day in History websites and saw what had happened that was interesting, that I might be able to weave a tale around. Naturally, the best-laid plans of mice and men ... Soon enough I found myself behind schedule. People get sick. People's kids get sick. People get fired up writing on other projects. It also became clear that the Table of Contents for such a book would become ridiculously unwieldy.

      I just decided to be kind to myself: as soon as I had a month's worth of stories ready to go I would put them out there in a collection. If it took me more than a year to fill out the entire calendar, so mote it be! Whether the whole lot will ever be reassembled into an omnibus remains to be seen. If there is a demand for it, sure. Let me know.

      Almost every story in this volume is based on a real event, a celebration, a birth or a death associated with a specific day. But you may have to read carefully to figure out just what that was. I'm certainly not going to give it away in the title: if you need to know in advance what the story is going to be about, then the story itself is a flop. But if the reference is too obscure, you can look it up in the back of the book, where all the day references are listed.

      And it is just a reference to that day. The actual action in the story may take place slightly earlier or later in time. It may even be a reference transposed centuries into the past or future, or into an alternative universe influenced by what did (not) happen

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