Greetings Readers, Since it's Sunday and SOME of you have nothing better to do than 'poke' me on Facebook, I thought I'd give you a distraction/better use for your time...
I'm winging this here and yes, I know that many of you 'don't read' (or at the very least the internet has more than you can keep up with and it doesn't cost you money...(per se.)
The problem with short stories is you don't know what you're going to get without looking at the Table of Contents...especially with an author you're not familiar with.
Two of my ten tales, "To the Death' and 'Homeward Bound' were the winners of the writing competitions they were entered in. 'To the death' had to be set in an 'arena' (although we were given the latitude to use 'informal' or natural settings) and Homeward Bound had to include a light saber duel between two friends, be on a ship underway in space and include the line "Capt'n, there's something on board and it's eating the men..."
There are two others that are set in the 'Magical' realm of Elsewhere (that are more tongue-in-cheek than 'serious' fantasy.) I hope you will enjoy these for their entertainment value. 'Elsewhere' relates the tale of the quest to re-discover the human dimension while the second tale, 'Nevermore' takes on the question of why magical creatures need mortals...
I opened this collection with a short story titled Badlands, a tale about what a 'new' criminal justice system might look like.
I followed this with a tale titled 'The Pointman', a tale set in the Hard Reality universe (yes, all the way to the Boxford/Rowley line, for those of you taking the writer's term for their character's stage too literally!) The Pointman is about an individual that has a talent for spotting and exploiting weakness in a foe's defenses.
Then we have (not necessarily in order) 'The Smoke-filled Room' if you ever wondered why it seems the government isn't a little too interested in your overall health.
The Kobiachi Maru (that famous episode of Star Trek which translates to 'the doomed ship scenario' used to test command candidates.)
What starts off as a routine traffic stop in anything but ordinary times, 'The Fog of War' asks the question of what if the Bible was actually literal.
I round out our ten tales with one call 'The Eye' that follows one possible set of circumstances for man's leap to the stars and what might(is likely) to happen if he takes Capitalism with him...
So if you've got nothing better to do and you have .99 cents burning a hole in your pocket, you may want to check it out.
I'm winging this here and yes, I know that many of you 'don't read' (or at the very least the internet has more than you can keep up with and it doesn't cost you money...(per se.)
The problem with short stories is you don't know what you're going to get without looking at the Table of Contents...especially with an author you're not familiar with.
Two of my ten tales, "To the Death' and 'Homeward Bound' were the winners of the writing competitions they were entered in. 'To the death' had to be set in an 'arena' (although we were given the latitude to use 'informal' or natural settings) and Homeward Bound had to include a light saber duel between two friends, be on a ship underway in space and include the line "Capt'n, there's something on board and it's eating the men..."
There are two others that are set in the 'Magical' realm of Elsewhere (that are more tongue-in-cheek than 'serious' fantasy.) I hope you will enjoy these for their entertainment value. 'Elsewhere' relates the tale of the quest to re-discover the human dimension while the second tale, 'Nevermore' takes on the question of why magical creatures need mortals...
I opened this collection with a short story titled Badlands, a tale about what a 'new' criminal justice system might look like.
I followed this with a tale titled 'The Pointman', a tale set in the Hard Reality universe (yes, all the way to the Boxford/Rowley line, for those of you taking the writer's term for their character's stage too literally!) The Pointman is about an individual that has a talent for spotting and exploiting weakness in a foe's defenses.
Then we have (not necessarily in order) 'The Smoke-filled Room' if you ever wondered why it seems the government isn't a little too interested in your overall health.
The Kobiachi Maru (that famous episode of Star Trek which translates to 'the doomed ship scenario' used to test command candidates.)
What starts off as a routine traffic stop in anything but ordinary times, 'The Fog of War' asks the question of what if the Bible was actually literal.
I round out our ten tales with one call 'The Eye' that follows one possible set of circumstances for man's leap to the stars and what might(is likely) to happen if he takes Capitalism with him...
So if you've got nothing better to do and you have .99 cents burning a hole in your pocket, you may want to check it out.
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