I don't get to write short stories much anymore, but I love writing them. Short stories was where I started, back when I was twelve and my sixth grade teacher handed me an empty theme book and asked me to fill it up. I had turned in a story the day before for extra credit and she liked it.
Most of my short stories have been lost, particularly those written using my old typewriter back before I had a computer, and more than a few written with only pencil and paper. But I did manage to hang onto a couple from way back when.
I thought I'd...
Six short stories from the past...
I don't get to write short stories much anymore, but I love writing them. Short stories was where I start...
A cluster of old buildings sits isolated on a quiet, desolate plain. Overhead, the sky is a smear of reds and purples, a shell enclosing the world. Here, strangers who have banded together for survival must strike out into the alien wilderness in search of a way home.
Novella based on the science fiction screenplay "Broken Sky" by David R. Beshears.
A cluster of old buildings sits isolated on a quiet, desolate plain. Overhead, the sky is a smear of reds and purples, a shell enclosing the world....
fantasy / dark satire John Smith is the first person ever sent downstairs due to a mix-up in the paperwork. While this is sorted out, he is assigned to work at Hades' local television station, where he must deal with strange characters and stranger programming. All the more bizarre, he arrived just in time for Founder's Day. You'll be recommending this book to your friends before you are even halfway through it. A] all the way - highly recommend -- top 500 reviewer Dark satire novella adapted from the screenplay "KHDZ," written by D.R.Beshears...
fantasy / dark satire John Smith is the first person ever sent downstairs due to a mix-up in the paperwork. While this is sorted out, he i...
Present day... A man returns to a long-abandoned neighborhood. Doors stand ajar, shutters hang open, lawns and landscaping are unkempt. The man sits on the curb and opens a leather-bound journal. Through the journal, he recalls the events that took place in Ravenhill decades earlier. Journey back to 1964... The man is just a boy. He and his friends find that their neighborhood, a cul-de-sac set into the foothills along the California coast, is not all that it appears. There are strange happenings; some amazing, some terrifying, and all pointing to the fact that this little community of...
Present day... A man returns to a long-abandoned neighborhood. Doors stand ajar, shutters hang open, lawns and landscaping are unkempt. The man sits o...
Lieutenant Connelly is one of six Monitors sent 100,000 years into the past to study the tribes of two recently discovered humanoid species. Each Monitor lives alone in isolated outposts located far apart from one another around Alpha Valley.
Connelly's only companion is Box, a small A-I device that he carries about with him in his pocket.
Two years into his three year mission, he is unexpectedly recalled to Central, an underground facility in the heart of Alpha Valley and from where he will be returning to Point Zero... home to the year 2058.
His journey back to...
Lieutenant Connelly is one of six Monitors sent 100,000 years into the past to study the tribes of two recently discovered humanoid species. Each M...
An old, weathered general store sits alone on a long-forgotten highway. Strangers gather, arriving from very different pasts, all to be welcomed by the Storekeeper. An ethereal one hour tale... This novella is a direct adaptation of the three act stageplay.
An old, weathered general store sits alone on a long-forgotten highway. Strangers gather, arriving from very different pasts, all to be welcomed by th...
A family of wizards explores a hidden world that was taken out of the physical realm by a six year old boy with extraordinary powers, and find the boy and his grandma haven't aged a day in half a century.
Fantasy novella adaptation of the pilot episode screenplay of the television series "Miles Bennett."
Miles Bennett is the immortal patriarch of a family of wizards. He must walk the fine line between the politics of a secret organization of which his family is a part and the world of the Normals, all the while investigating a dark menace that is just beginning to make its...
A family of wizards explores a hidden world that was taken out of the physical realm by a six year old boy with extraordinary powers, and find the ...
