Archive for the ‘Stories’ Category
New Short Stories
Here are two exemplary reads, both showing off the strength and versatility of the short story form.
As a stand alone short, Tomb Guardian, Anthony Rainone’s tough Nebraska crime piece in the September 2010 issue of Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine took me home and took me by surprise. It’s not often your introduction to a character [...]
Regina’s War at the Western Online
Regina’s War is my second story with John Coburn: The Peregrine, and it’s a direct sequel to the first, Last Day at Red Horizon.
I believed my challenge here was to tell a story that could stand on its own, but also work in the context of a series and leave the reader wondering what might [...]
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Flash Fiction: A Paradigm is Twenty Cents
Last month Patti Abbott posted a Spring Flash Fiction Challenge. Here is my entry.
Summer. 1984.
The juke box next to the bar is playing the Eurythmics again, but I’m watching this clown fish dip and climb through blue lit aquarium water. I’m thinking the fish is the most beautiful thing I’ve seen in my whole worthless [...]