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Just posted the fourth fairy tale parody from my Not the Tales You Remember collection to Substack: https://brainsoupfic.substack.com/p/emergency-services. I haven’t posted the third story (perhaps my favourite of the bunch) because If the Shoe Fits is still available for purchase on Amazon. I am considering putting it on Substack for subscribers but haven’t really figured…

Well, the way the story goes, Ms. Miller come crying to me ‘bout this rush order she got from the Crown. Could make or break her business, she tells me. “I’ll kill meself if I lose this contract,” is how she puts it.             She was understaffed you see, that’s why she come to me. Spinning…

Have you ever felt like you just don’t fit? I have. Always. I figured it out early, which helped. If you know you’re not going to blend in, you stop wasting energy pretending otherwise. Grade four, for example. My grandmother, Mummu (already a red flag, nomenclature-wise), made me a navy-blue pea coat with big wooden…

Just got set up on Substack and X under the handle BrainSoupFic, a catch all to include my diverse array of genre-spanning writing. Will be posting one new story each week. This is the first off 11 fairy tale retellings from my collection Not the Tales You Remember: Little Red Ridingverse Does my story sound…

“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” – John Lennon So, I wrote a novel. It’s a short one. But it’s done. I’m told that ninety-nine percent of people who say they are writing a novel, never finish. I am not certain that is statistically true. Who conducted the study?…

Okay, so I have enjoyed writing all my life but, until 2024 it was a hobby I indulged in sporadically when the urge arose. Months might pass between the times I sat down to write something, and I was much more likely to start something than to finish it. You see, it is very easy…

By day, Corey Lapell masquerades as a mild-mannered Canadian business owner, CrossFit coach, martial artist, and founder of Empower Gym. By night—and any stolen hour in between—he indulges a lifelong compulsion to string letters into words, words into sentences, and sentences into stories that wander from aliens to gunfighters to fairy-tale disasters. His fiction blends…