Short Stories ● Excerpts ● Poems ● Novellas
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Short Stories
- Short Story: The RoyalI used to own a 1936 Royal typewriter, the “original laptop.” It was a heavy beast, too. This story was written in 2003, back when the typewriter was on the desk beside me. I lost it in a flood about fifteen years ago, but I still have that itch to find another. I just hope the one I find doesn’t come with something attached to it.
- Short Story: SproutsThere is, in fact, a forest in central Arizona which burned down in 1990. I took a trip there a few weeks after the fire had been put out and snapped the picture that inspired this story. I didn’t actually write it until 2003, but it was that picture which was taped to my monitor the whole time.
- Short Story: Terminal ConversationsTime travel has been written about so many times, there can’t be anything fresh in it. I decided to play with time travel once—and only once. “Terminal Conversations” appeared in Travel a Time Historic, an anthology published in 2005.
- Short Story: Harlan’s HolesI sat and stared at holes in my wall one day before I started writing this. I’m pleased with how everything flowed together. In 2021, this story won in the Adult Category for the All Pikes Peak Writes annual competition, sponsored by the Pikes Peak Library District.
Excerpts
All We Leave Behind: Transits of Three
Following the exodus from rising floodwaters, the surviving descendants of those who came to create a society on a planet far from Earth have struggled to rebuild. As the transits of three different groups get underway, new dangers and surprises emerge from within the rainforests, mountains, and deserts of the planet…and one of those may have followed them from Earth. Read Excerpt 1, Excerpt 2.
Sunshine and Shadow: Exodus, or The Second Transit
When a flood on a newly settled world threatens to destroy their colony, a psychologically conflicted young woman and her two cousins must overcome obstacles to establish a permanent home far from danger, while making a discovery that may rewrite humanity’s history. Read Excerpt 1, Excerpt 2, Excerpt 3.
After an alert goes out to the paying members of the disaster bunker known as New Eden, residents find themselves trapped between two vastly different worlds: one that preys on trauma and one that creates it. Read Excerpt 1, Excerpt 2.
Out of Due Season: The First Transit
Inconsistencies in the facts surrounding a tragic event force a small group of relatives and friends of the victims to band together to learn the truth: something epic is about to happen in a remote lake in northwestern Washington, and the genesis of a new world is underway. Read Excerpt 1, Excerpt 2, Excerpt 3.
When Marie Evans meets a strange man on a deserted road and a body is found mutilated in the desert, a deep resentment teetering on the edge of release is about to explode. Someone, somewhere has drawn a line in the sand, and when Harlan Reese, Marie’s ex-lover, enters a forest in central Arizona looking for his daughter, that line will be crossed. Read the Excerpt.
Poems
