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Remove the Eyes is my first short story collection.

The collection consists of nine stories.

I wanted a mix of stories that had already been published, as well as stories that have never before appeared in print.

Above all, I wanted stories that flowed together, thematically. And I wanted each story to be a strong story. I didn't want any filler.

I had over seventy published and unpublished stories of mine from which to choose.

Here's the line-up:

AFTER HERE. 2,300 words. Never before published. Tom is eating his lunch in a crowded pubic square in Portland, Maine when a pretty young woman comes up to him and asks if he'd like to play a game.

THE WOMAN IN THE WALLS. 7,000 words. Originally published in the anthology, Darkness Rising 2005. A girl Jack meets in a San Francisco bar invites him to come home with her, but warns him there's an incredibly obese woman who lives in the walls of her apartment.

THE MACHINE OF A RELIGIOUS MAN. 8,000 words. Originally published in Midnight Street. Anthologized in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, edited by Ellen Datlow. Nominated as Best Short Story of the Year in the 2006 British Fantasy Society Awards. Bonay races in a car through the desert highways of New Mexico, trying to help his friend Gordon, who's crying in the back seat.

STRANGERS WEAR MASKS OF YOUR FACE. 15,400 words. Originally published in Theaker's Quarterly. Philip pretends to still be asleep in the middle of the night in his northern Wisconsin apartment, as strangers with knives gather around his bed.

MY FIRST KISS. 10,000 words. Never before published. A boy and girl who like to break into other people's houses for fun find themselves faced-down by an old woman with a shot gun when they break into a castle that's been transported stone-by-stone to Connecticut.

STEAKS IN THE CITY. 7,000 words. Never before published. Warren sucks up huge amounts of booze and drugs, then goes driving into Dallas to find his lost love.

THIS MOMENT OF BRILLIANCE. 9,500 words. Originally published in Lullaby Hearse. Ed, a wet work specialist, goes a little bit crazy in the Maine to Florida corridor while he's searching for a man with a secret.

LIKE AN ANIMAL IN A HOLE. 10,600 words. Never before published. David and Nell visit the Seattle town home of Nell's dead brother, trying to figure out how he died.

ROCKETSHIP APARTMENT. 7,700 words. Originally published in Midnight Street. Kevin meets Carla at a Los Angeles laundromat, and gets drawn into her plan to travel to the next galaxy.

The trade paperback is $18.00. The ebook download is $6.25.

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The ISBN for Remove the Eyes is 978-0-557-06893-7.

If you like my novel Father Figure, or my writings in general, you're going to love Remove the Eyes.

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My novel Father Figure was published in 2003 by Bookbooters, and was on their bestsellers list for over two years.

In late 2005, Bookbooters unfortunately went out of business.

New copies of the trade paperback of the novel are therefore no longer available. Used copies continue to show up from time to time at venues like e-Bay, Abe Books, and other resellers.

Once I learned Bookbooters was going out of business, I thought about shopping the novel to a new publisher, but then decided instead, in the spirit of the Internet, to offer the full text of Father Figure here, for free, as an Adobe Acrobat download.

As of the end of 2008, the novel has been downloaded by over 45,000 readers.

The download is 450 pages, 175,000 words, 2.5 MB.

This is the exact same text as it appeared in the Bookbooters edition, completely unexpurgated.

In case you'd like to sample the book before downloading it, I've included links to nine lengthy excerpts, below.

Since the time Father Figure was initially published, the word most often used to describe it has been, "disturbing". So I do want to make you aware that Father Figure contains explicit sexuality and violence, as well as ideas some might find offensive and/or unwholesome. It's not for everyone.

Having said that, if you like my writings, you're going to love Father Figure.

South of Anchorage, accessible only from a mud-rutted road off Seward Highway, lies the town of Lodgepole. After midnight, among the blueberry bushes of White Birch Park, a man climbs on top of a woman and begins making love to her. As her orgasm rises he puts his hands around her throat, shutting off her air. She struggles, not to stop him, but to stop herself from trying instinctively to pull his hands off her throat. As the top joints of his thumb meet at the front of her throat she comes, her cry of orgasm ricocheting around inside her forever.

Daryl Putnam, handsome, bookish, wakes up from a nightmare and decides to do something he hasn't done in years. Take a walk outside at night. Down in the park, at the lime green shores of Little Muncho Lake, he comes across the body of the strangled woman.

The next morning, at the coffee shop of the hospital where he works, Daryl meets Sally, a pretty, dark-haired girl. He's intelligent, she's outgoing. What they have in common is both are living lonely lives. Until today.

Also in the hospital coffee shop, shaking half a can of black pepper onto his tomato soup, is Sam Rudolph, a fiftyish man with eyes like an angry dog's, who has spent over twenty years quietly manipulating events in Daryl and Sally's lives to have this seemingly chance encounter among the three of them occur.

And who is actually a lot older than fifty.

Here's an editorial review of the novel:

It is easy to see why Father Figure has become an underground classic over the years. It is a dark, extremely disturbing but completely gripping suspense thriller with a strongly erotic subtext. At over 450 pages, it is not light reading, and it is certainly not a book for the light hearted or for those with a weak stomach. Moore is an extremely talented writer with a gift for pushing the reader's emotional buttons. He injects his work with a bleak, almost Kafkaesque undertone, but doesn't fall into the trap of contextualizing his story in terms of morality. One of the most notable aspects of Father Figure is that there are no heroes; all the characters are fundamentally flawed, and that makes the story all the more engaging. It is doubtful that this story will appeal to a mainstream audience, but it is certainly liable to become a cult classic, and deservedly so.

Artist Jason Mcaloon is in the process of reimagining the entire text of Father Figure as a typographical design project. Here's his interpretation of the opening page of the novel. Jason's website is located here.

It Is Wet Here Opening of the Novel
Going Through Sylvia Daryl autopsies the woman he found
The Coldness People Walk Over Introduction of Sam Rudolph
Coffee Shop Tension Introduction of Sally Dolumbo; Daryl, Sam and Sally interact
Eight Legs, Three Cunts Daryl is woken up after his first date with Sally
Back Yard Talk Daryl and Sally's second date
In Someone Else's Apartment Daryl and Sally snoop through Sylvia Gold's things
"I Don't Want To Squeeze The White Part" Daryl accepts a dinner invitation from Sam
Big Dark Hole Sheriff Bob Cable enlists Daryl for a body transport
Ralph Robert Moore reads the opening of Father Figure

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