Playing With The Past
When I started writing again—I played with writing short stories as a teen and young adult and didn’t return to it seriously until very recently, around 40—I figured I’d write a bunch of science...
View ArticleIt’s Easier to Write Aliens
So, I’ve been tinkering with this Flowers of Dawn story. So far, a diplomat on leave following the death of her spouse has been befriended by an alien she’s previously only interacted with...
View ArticleMy Name Is Gerald
No, it’s not. My name isn’t Gerald, of course. But my newest short story, My Name Is Gerald, is now available. Here’s the blurb: Gerald is a lonely man, a shut-in who spends his time dreaming and...
View ArticleOoh, Round Numbers Are Exciting
With this latest, I have published 40 titles through Smashwords. Generally, one number is as exciting as another… at least in absolute terms. But this is a round number, and people love round...
View ArticleWork in Progress — Prairie and Stars
This is still in rough draft, so this excerpt could change by the time I finish this story. I also don’t know when I’m going to finish this, because of my oddball writing process. I’m not sure how...
View ArticleThirteen Word Story: They Walk Among Us
Wearing the skins of the homeless, scouts for the alien invasion spied, invisible.
View ArticleNew Monthly Microfiction At Patreon: “The Mangrove At The End Of The World”
I’ve been posting a piece of microfiction each month for Patreon patrons (a whole buck a month is the minimum pledge to see them) since March. This month’s offering is a vignette about a young man...
View ArticleReach For The Stars
(Short-short story short-shorter: birds not leaving the nest die there.) Reach For The Stars Skyscrapers, rockets drowned in withering leaves: their masters, in the end, too timid.
View ArticleThirteen Word Story: Back To The Trees
Wars, famines, politicians casting every disagreement as life-or-death division, the screw-the-future shortsightedness of deregulated banks and businesses, the ever-deepening US suspicion of...
View ArticleThe Last Trump: Part 3 of 3 (A Farce Of Politics)
FREE ebook edition of the COMPLETE story available on Smashwords, iTunes, Google Play Books, and Amazon (99 cents there, because I can NEVER get them to price match my free books for some reason)....
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