Online Short Stories

    A collection of stories and a couple poems I've written over the ages.  Some short, some even shorter...

The Lost Scene of Hamlet - Hamlet gets drunk, just as I'm sure the Bard imagined him.

Merrytowne - A Victorian Science Fiction story about an individualistic man who finds himself in a very eerie town.

The Duel - Brain and Brawn compete for the hand of a lady.

Rise of the Living Corpses - Washington Irving had some creepy things skulk around the mountains of New York Colony.

                                            What better place to have a cave full of zombies?

Absurde Loqui - A poem that sounds good, but means nothing.

The Counselor - At his high school reunion, a former student is ready to tell off his untrusting guidance counselor.

Coconiño - A modern-day fairytale, complete with mean, ugly, nasty, old witch.

Buford the Blue-furred Ogre - Another children's story, this one about... well, a blue-furred ogre.

Confession - A weird little stream of consciousness story.

The Princess and the Archer King - A fairytale I wrote years ago and finally dug out.

 

Online Novels

    Here's a look at the first few chapters of novels I've written that aren't yet published...

My Good Friend Barry

A story of an imaginary friend and his boy.

 

Surdstum

In a world of telepaths, Loustor Taikees was born with a defective node.

  After a lifetime of misery for himself and others, he decides to journey

  into the world and find more like himself.

 

Gideon

A recent graduate, unemployed and running short on ideas asks for a sign.

  In response, monk bursts through his window engulfed in flames.

 

Princeps Amerikae

A young man is lost at sea when a strange vortex sucks up his boat.

  He finds himself as something of a Connecticut Yankee in Caligula's court.

 

Dawn on the Infinity

Dawn has a strange day at school involving a pirate threatening to kidnap

  her, a vampire attacking her in the bathroom, and an unhelpful older brother.

 

 

with critiques.

 

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