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
- Ever So Humble - SF, set in the 'Forsythe' universe.
- Parking Spot - SF standalone set in a park.
- Penelope Dies - Zombies in space.
- Yellow, Red, and Orange - Fantasy story about fate.
- Introductions - SF, set in the 'Forsythe' universe.
- Pet Sounds - SF, probably also set in the 'Forsythe' universe.
- The Intervention - General fiction, written for a 'dialog-only story' contest. Didn't win.
- Sunday In The Park With George - Zombie horror, part of the 'fix-up' novel.
- JenniM16 - Zombie horror, part of the 'fix-up novel', in the form of someone's twitter page.
- Grauman's Chinese - SF, standalone, virtual reality and the movie business.
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