List of Long Stories

I write, mostly Science Fiction, Fantasy, and zombie fiction. The zombie stuff is (almost) all set within the same 'universe', which comprises my zombie apocalypse and which (I'm hoping, eventually) will form the setting for a 'fix-up' novel. All of my writing appears at my writing blog.

Most of the stories from 2009-2011 are drabbles (100-word stories), and are numbered and labeled by genre. Some, however, are longer-form and are linked individually below.
You will note that lately, I've been using writing prompts/challenges from various sites, like Terrible Minds, Write On Edge, Velvet Verbosity, and The Parking Lot Confessional.


Long Stories

2012


  • Invasion - SF - a young man with girl troubles meets a woman on a plane who gives him a whole new type of trouble.
  • The Replacement - SF - An alien engineer, new to a ship, proves his worth to the pilot.
  • The Ocean And The Sun - Fantasy - Aulia and the water-sorcerer come to an arrangement
  • Never On Sunday - SF - from a story idea given to Theodore Sturgeon by Robert Heinlein: A society where there are no criminal offenses, only civil ones.
  • Bright Stars Gone To Black - SF - A woman reaches the end of the universe (Terrible Minds 1000w challenge)
  • Elemental - Fantasy - A murder is about to take place, fire against water. (500w challenge)
  • Muddy - Fantasy - Midz-Aset meets a sorcerer, who provides him with something valuable.
  • Transplanted - SF - A Woman doesn't want to accept what she's become. (500w challenge)
  • Looking For Miss July - SF - TerribleMinds.com challenge: Alien Invasion, A Quest For Someone, A Dirty Magazine.
  • Pueblo - SF - A village, considered as a population. (500-word challenge)
  • Like Binky's Ghost - SF - A man tries to find the 'ghost' of his robot. (1000-word challenge)
  • From A Stone - Fantasy - Yink, the magician, digs up a powerful talisman. (500-word challenge)
  • Hubris - Fantasy - TerribleMinds.com Challenge: A gladiator has offended the gods (1000-word challenge)
  • Demotion - SF (Association) - a man learns his position in the world is considerably changed. (500-word challenge)
  • Kroger's - Zombie. A man has an unexpected face-to-face meeting (450-word challenge)
  • Kyllaros - SF, 'Downward To The Waters' Universe. A sailing ship collides with a sea monster. (400-word challenge)
  • Detainee - Horror. A telepath has been imprisoned. (500-word challenge)
  • Deus Ex Machina - Horror. A telepath randomly runs across a serial killer.
  • Dalanzadgad - SF. A man gets ready to leave Earth (450-word challenge)
  • Wendell Millbern Has Two Secrets - SF. A boy and an alien share secrets (500-word challenge)
  • Remote Control - SF. A telepath is brought in to help with a distant situation.
  • After Kaschei - SF. The pilot of a crashed ship seeks to save his co-pilot. (450-word challenge)
  • The Tell-Tale Pulse - SF. An android faces the end. (500-word challenge)
  • Having Been Made - Fantasy. A Vampire goes home (500-word challenge)
  • On The Way Inside - General Fiction. An unspoken truth during lunch. (500-word challenge)
  • Abandon Ship - Zombie. A squad of Marines protects Merritt Island.
  • Tulia - SF, standalone. a 500-word story from a challenge prompt.
  • Chuck's Old Frank - SF, followup to Chuck's New Frank
  • The Dreamlanders - Superhero. The origin story of an unnamed Cape.
  • Shy - Fantasy, standalone. An abused woman hears voices.
  • The Shot - SF, standalone. An astronaut, having saved the world, has to live in it.
  • Last Requests - Zombie Horror. Will he do her one last favor?
  • The Monthall Five - Short standalone horror
  • A Boy And His God - Post-New-Wave story about the Garden of Eden. This is an older story, found it in hardcopy while cleaning up.
  • Patient Zero - Zombie Horror. It begins
  • Equilibrium - SF. A couple wake up to discover the world hasn't ended
  • And Eat It, Too - Zombie Horror. A woman bakes a cake.
  • Houseguest - Fantasy, standalone. A group of friends has summoned a demon and live to regret it.
  • Modus Vivendi - Fantasy, Midz-Aset. Our favorite dragon sleeps in.

2011


  • Not Being Michael Collins - SF, standalone. The third man on a Mars Mission gets to go for a walk. 
  • Separation - Zombie Horror. Life in an underground shelter wears thin for a young couple.
  • Search and Rescue - Forsythe goes to find an alien on a drug binge.
  • She - SF, standalone. A clone's life.
  • The Woods - Fantasy, standalone. A warrior escapes the clutches of a terrible beast.
  • Attraction - SF, standalone. There's an incident at a theme park with disturbing implications.
  • The Appointment - SF, standalone. Things are not as they seem for an astronaut.
  • There's An Arrow - Zombie Horror. A man discovers he's not the only survivor in his town
  • Parole - SF, 'Association' Universe. A man gets out of prison on an unfamiliar world.
  • Vacancy - Zombie Horror (but more a love story.) A more positive spin on the Girl in 4E situation.
  • The Order Of Things - Fantasy, standalone, another story featuring the sorcerer from Longaminus.

2010


  • The Girl in 4E - Zombie Horror - a bleak story about a survivor in desperate need of something his only human contact can't give him.
  • Chuck's New Frank - SF, standalone, a government agent meets the subject of his first assignment.
  • Baptism - a new start to the Forsythe series.
  • Longaminus - Fantasy, a story about change and how quickly and how slowly it comes.
  • Immersion - SF, a cutesy and not very original little story for which I make no apologies whatsoever. 

2009





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