Morse Code Mysteries and Missives includes three stories, each one of which is first presented in printed Morse Code, then audio links are given to listen to the Morse Code, then the stories are repeated in clear English text at the back of the book. The purpose of this book is not to teach you Morse Code; it is to let those who have basic coding skills and experience with Morse Code practice decoding on something more interesting than short phrases, kid's books, and dry practice manuals. It can also be great fun for fans of puzzles and cryptography. Note that the software by which many listen to the audio dots and dashes may allow the speed of transmission to be adjusted, generally in increments from half to twice the default wpm transmission rate. This makes it a great book for CW and ham radio enthusiasts, puzzle and cryptography fans, and current and former members of the military (including the Signal Corps and Radio Operators of the Coast Guard, Navy, Air Force, Army, and Marines) and crew from the merchant marine. The materials include two stories I wrote (Stress Fracture and Dashed Hopes), as well as a relevant piece of non-fiction of historical interest. If you enjoy the stories, please consider my various thriller novels, short story collections, and stand-alone tales, all of which can be accessed via my author's page or my website at www.donaldjbingle.com. Follow me on social media (FB, TikTok, Twitter, etc.) @donaldjbingle. About the author: Author of the Dick Thornby Thrillers series (Net Impact, Wet Work, and Flash Drive), a series of spy thrillers which incorporate real-world conspiracy theories, GREENSWORD, a dark comedy about global warming, Forced Conversion, a military science fiction novel set in the near future, and Frame Shop, a mystery thriller set in a suburban writers' group, Co-author of The Love-Haight Case Files, Books 1 and 2, paranormal legal thrillers about lawyers protecting the rights of supernatural creatures in a magic-filled San Francisco. Edited the ghost anthology, Familiar Spirits. Also author of a variety of short fiction in the science fiction, fantasy, thriller, horror, mystery, steampunk, romance, and comedy genres, including stories in the Dragonlance and Transformers universes and in a variety of DAW themed anthologies.
World's top-ranked player of RPGA Classic roleplaying game tournaments from 1985-2000.
See Don's writing and gaming resumes at www.donaldjbingle.com, including a listing of about seventy anthologies in which he has stories. Some of his previously published stories have been collected by theme in his Writer on Demand TM series and published on Kindle, including: Tales of Gamers and Gaming; Tales of Humorous Horror; Tales Out of Time; Grim, Fair e-Tales, Tales;of an Altered Past Powered by Romance, Horror, and Steam, Not-So-Heroic Fantasy; and Shadow Realities. His award-winning short memoir, Father's Day, is also available on Kindle, as is Gentlemanly Horrors of Mine Alone, the ninth story in Mike Stackpole's Chain Story Project, and a variety of other short stories and memoirs.
Don also a series of humorous critiques (Season's Critiquings; Merry Mark-Up, Holiday Workshopping, and Santa Clauses and Phrases) of Christmas classics which writers, aspiring authors, and NaNoWriMo participants will find especially amusing.
