Two-Sentence Short Stories
Two-Sentence Short Stories in various genres.…
Two Sentence Horror Stories
One scary sentence.One scary sentence.Two sentence horror stories.…
Son of Krypton, Daughter of Earth
ONC 2021 Fanfiction prompt 13 and Romance Prompt 71.This novella is a non-canon version of Superman, with some of the same characters and places.Lexy Logan is sent from an Earth like ours where Superman is a fictional character to one where he is a real man, Clark Kent. Clark befriends her and helps her live in his world until she has to leave. She falls in love with Clark and tries to hide her feelings to protect them both, but he falls in love with her, and can't hide his feelings, but they accept what they can share until she must leave.…
A True Thing- Haiku
Poems, poetry, verses."I do not know what "poetical" is. Is it honest in deed and word? Is it a true thing?"Audrey, 'As You Like It,' Shakespeare.…
The ULTIMATE Science Fiction SMACKDOWN
Entries for Tevun-Krus Ultimte Science Fiction Smackdown and the entry qualifying submission.…
Misbehaving
Tales and chronicles of both sides of the law. Criminals, crooks, rackets, scams, crime-fighters, the Law, jurisprudence, grifters, revenge, shenanigans, and the uncertain gloaming betwixt.…
A True Thing Summer 2021 Poems
Poets Pub--Poems written the Summer of 2021 in two Parts: 100 Poems and Achievement Hunter Challenge."I do not know what "poetical" is. Is it honest in deed and word? Is it a true thing?"Audrey, 'As You Like It,' Shakespeare.…
Horror Short Stories
An anthology of horror, terror, and paranormal stories.…
Face the Music and Waltz, Matilda
'Face the Music and Waltz, Matilda' is my entry to the @AmbassadorAUS and Ghost contest.A lonely ghost, a missing sheep, a feral, know-it-all, blue, parakeet, and five friends who must try to rescue their sixth mate from a needy, clingy ghost.…
Off the Record
Short story contest entry:Halloween Vault 3D October 2020 contest MysteryOff the Record: You've just finished an interview with a famous mystery-murder writer, who claims they developed their writing from "years of close experience". Only this time, the interview is off the record...and so are you.…
Unbewitched
Tyler "Digs" Digby tends bar in a world with vampires, werewolves, witches monsters, and other beasts, many of them preying on humans.Late one rainy night, Digs forgets the danger and invites into the bar an unworldly beautiful woman who begs for help. He forgets caution and invites her into the safety of the bar. Her beauty is only skin-deep. The bar is no longer safe.…
Gone to the Store
Late one night, new husband, Brad, goes to the nearby convenience store to pick up a few things for breakfast. Susy, his wife, wakes up in the morning, to find he hasn't come home. Later, when he hasn't answered his phone or returned her calls, she walks to the store to find him.Welcome to the Blumhouse Writing Contest October 2020.…
First Day of School
Teacher Ed Strong needs a job desperately, and accepts one at the Academy for International Students (AIS). These students live in the world of fairies, elves, centaurs, and so on. AIS guards one of the few remaining gates between their world and the world of people. He wonders what his school days would be like.Written for A Bard's Tale: @Magic Contests and Challenges…
Less Than Tomorrow
Sisters Trudy and Annie Wisniewski have separate lives. Different goals, different hopes, lead them along separate paths. Trudy becomes a teacher. Annie gets fame and fortune as an actress. Trudy and Annie find their own loves and peaceful coexistence. When Annie's love is lost, she wants Trudy's lover to soothe her wounds. And Annie always gets her man.Less Than Tomorrow (LTT) is a romance novel I wrote many years ago. It starts in the mid-90's and ends in early 2001. I decided to keep the older time setting rather than update it.The title comes from a couplet by French poet Rose Gerard, which translates roughly to 'I love you more today than yesterday, but less than tomorrow.' Spiral Staircase released a song, More Today Than Yesterday, in 1969.I published all parts of LTT at one time. I hope you enjoy reading Less Than Tomorrow, my first novel.…
Out of the Night
Deb is with a search party with Chris, her abusive boyfriend, who leads an alien patrol in search of a missing alien criminal, convicted of healing enemies of his people.…
This Mortal Coil Rewind
Toby Mixon is killed by spies from Corostan when they steal the rocket engine developed by his grandfather, Prof. Mixon.From the afterlife he ponders what will happen next.…
They
"They" is a scene from a longer story, as yet unwritten. It is a grim,somber glimpse of the post-apocalyptic future.A few hundred years in the future, an overpopulated Earth tests suspended animation to allow colonization of other planets. Dave Dixan warns it is too soon for human tests, but is removed from management and the Government runs the tests.A plague with no cure or vaccine follows the experiment, killing billions. A billion infected survivors mutate into cannibal zombies, who hunt endlessly for food. The 1% of humanity that escaped infection retreats to islands and places they can defend against the mutants while they try to find a cure.…
Boy in the Moon
On Earth in the 26th Century, Modern Era, Terrans can breath water, have extra arms or eyes, fur, scales, be taller, shorter or any genemod they want from the day they turn 18. The one thing humans can't do is travel outside Sol System. Every attempt has ended in death for every astronaut who has gone to another star.The alien Yanans find Earth and form a friendship, although they cannot admit Terrans to their explorations of the galaxy. Roystan6 (Roys) wanted to travel to the stars more than anything else. His wealthy parents run a prominent genemod lab, but there is nothing they or the Yanans can do to send Terrans to the stars. His first genemod the day he turns 18 is the beginning of his resolve to make starfarers of Terrans.…
Waybak Camera
Nick receives an unusual camera from his wife, Winnie, as a joke for his fourth wedding anniversary gift. The label says it can film the past.A few days later, Winnie dies in an accident. Nick cannot stop longing to see her again, so one day he decides to try out Mr. Bixbee's Waybak Camera.…