Fragments Fiction

Skirmish at the Devereux Hot Springs (WT101)

2012-01-24T22:13:00.000-05:00

In a Victorian world of city-states where steam carriages drive through cities lit by gas lamps and enchanted mechanicals guard the estates of the rich, how do diplomats and politicians settle disputes? They devise Rules of Engagement, hire small armies and stage skirmishes between brigades of clockworks, steam power war machines, helium airships. They invoke ghosts, raise the dead and listen to consultants.
A Steampunk story of the dead rising and making war with clockwork gargoyles.

Published in "Everything New is Old Again - a Steampunk Anthology dedicated to C.D. Turner

(WT 116) Dragons and Sprites and Other Delights

2012-01-23T10:37:00.002-05:00

Aye Mateys. There be pirate treasure out there on a tiny island west of the Florida Keys. More doubloons than a dozen men can carry and all but one of them guard the secret of that treasure with their bones. Beware, the twelfth man is name Robin and he definitely isn't a good fellow. He wants revenge.

Lower Than The Ground Beneath Our Feet (WT 115)

2012-01-18T15:23:00.000-05:00

first contact with an alien race that takes a strange turn for one of the humans involved.
Some poor guy is going to turn into a mud man.

Accepted in "WHAT LIES BENEATH" and anthology edited by Todd Seaward

Open For Submissions

Snowbound, With Wolves (WT 114)

2012-01-17T20:43:00.003-05:00

A camping Expedition on an alien world goes wrong when wolves attack. However, all is not lost, our campers do not become lumps of digested food in the snow, not on this alien world.

Accepted for Publication in Synaptic Void, an anthology edited by Joe Jablonski
OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS

The Day the Meth Lab Exploded (WT 113)

2012-01-13T13:35:00.002-05:00

A detective finds a strange metal case in the ashes of a Meth lab fire and that metal case follows him through the apocalyptic end to civilization.

Accepted in PORTALS, an anthology edited by Todd Seaward
OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS

The Neighbors Are Almost Dead (WT 112)

2011-12-30T10:43:00.000-05:00

Jared Gade, rookie detective and highborn, uber-rich socialite has a problem. His rich "uncles" are vampires. When three murdered crooks turn up at their townhouse, Jared must come clean to his detective boss, a banned magician and the ghosts who witnessed the murder. Worse yet, his "uncles" and the Magician are two thousand years old and hate each other. Can Jared resist the lure of being eternally undead or will he be a good patrician and open a vein for his "uncles" to suck?

Accepted in URBAN NIGHTMARES, an anthology edited by Dorothy Davies - Call For Papers

And Death Will Never Take Me (WT 108)

2011-12-14T19:57:00.000-05:00

A simple drunk and disorderly police call reveals the secret sins of the Angel of Death.

Published in: DARK SECRETS Anthology edited by Dorothy Davies

Kakashi (WT 000)

2011-12-14T14:39:00.000-05:00

Not all heroes have powers and muscles and capes. Some heroes live lonely, solitary lives and care for the ordinary things, lest the ordinary things become unique. Some watch the fields and forests and keep them safe.

A reprint from years ago, republished in print in LOCAL HEROES an anthology edited by Brandon Rucker.

Two Boys At Play (WT 29)

2011-12-14T13:21:00.000-05:00

Two boys playing in their back yard meet their counterparts from the past through a rift in time.

Published in Daily Flash Fiction 2012: 366 Days of Flash from Pill Hill Press

Death Visits Oktoberfest (WT 80)

2011-12-14T13:05:00.000-05:00

An actor playing the character of Death in a morality at an Oktoberfest Renaissance Faire decides to party-hearty in costume and pays for his actions.

Published in: Fall Shudders an anthology of spooky tales edited by Dorothy Davies

The Birthday Boy's Last Christmas (WT 103)

2011-12-14T10:19:00.000-05:00

Christmas is always bright and cheery, with silver tinsel and red and gold balls and lots of twinkling fairy lights with Cthulhu and a vampire. A time of joy, a time of giving till it hurts, blood that is and human sacrifice.

Published in: CHRISTMAS FEAR 2: UNHOLY NIGHT - an anthology of short horror stories edited by Chris Bartholomew.

The Outer Limits of the Pizza Twilight Zone (WT107)

2011-12-13T20:58:00.000-05:00

Ever get the wrong number late at night and they the temerity to order pizza from you?

Published in Daily Flash 2012: 366 Days of Flash Fiction by Pill Hill Press

Young Sherlock Holmes' Big Crime Spree (WT 105)

2011-12-13T01:36:00.000-05:00

Is it possible that the great detective was once a common wrongdoer? Is it possible that there is someone more brilliant than Sherlock?

Published in DAILY FLASH 2012 LEAP YEAR

(112) Meditation On a Dead World Wandering Among the Stars

2011-12-12T19:07:00.000-05:00

A legend claims that the planet Earth has a twin in opposite orbit around the sun. What if R'lyeh rested at the bottom of the ocean on that world? What will happen when man explores the stars and discovers that dead world? Will mankind survive or will the Ancient Ones rule the universe in man's stead?

Yes, it's a Cthulhu Mythos story.

Who Wants To Date An Alien (WT 65)

2011-12-01T13:26:00.000-05:00

Can a dating show be a weapon of mass destruction? In a bizarre twist of events, an anthropoid lizard and a Tentacle with a big mouth rudely interrupt a man's morning shower. Are they Impresarios from another planet or terrorists unleashing the most dread weapon in the galaxy? Before you can say "Inquiring Minds Want to Know" a mountain is teleported above a capital city and starts to fall...

"FIRST CONTACT IMMINENT" an anthology edited by Joe Jablonksi
published by RED SKIES PRESS

Also at Amazon

City of Blood (WT 111)

2011-11-09T20:29:00.000-05:00

There is always something interesting happening in Central City on weekends -- Jazz bands, funky flash mobs, symphony concerts, the midnight screening of Rocky Horror in drag, fancy dinners, dancing at the Waldorf Ballroom for the rich and sophisticated, and even ... the end of the world.
Professional trainer and magician Domenic Gedigold and his buddy from the distant past must deal with a madman who wishes to establish an empire of werewolves. If he fails then Central City will become a City of Blood.

Accepted in WEIRD CITY 3, an anthology edited by George Whilhite
Call for Papers

Kathmandu Raga (WT 106)

2011-11-03T01:33:00.000-04:00

He slept fitfully. The way soldiers always sleep on rock mattresses cradled against the surviving wall of a burnt out building. Spotlights of the enemy couldn't reach this flop-spot. There was a name for this war, Rattenkrieg. An old name from a century before when soldiers were flesh and blood, when guns shot lead bullets and not energy bursts. There was a name for real men who shot real enemies not these faceless searchers that fell from the skies, Sniper. He became one with the stone and the dirt, hidden, unseen.

Accepted in A-Z CITIES OF DEATH, an anthology edited by Dean M. Drinkel
Call For Papers

And With a Sigh Winter Says Goodbye (WT 110)

2011-10-30T18:36:00.000-04:00

The cold night of winter overstayed. It was thus in Jules Anson's heart, if not Central city as a whole until a theft could be discovered, wrongs brought to justice and curses lifted. Anson knew that once magic was invoked in the name of Fire, Earth, Air or Water, that magic must run its course.

Accepted in COBWEBS AND ANTIQUITIES, an anthology of cursed and/or magic objects

CALL FOR PAPERS

A Rememberance of Spring With Flowers in Bloom (WT 109)

2011-10-25T14:41:00.000-04:00

Nothing is so memorable as a day in spring with cool breezes, the smell of cherry blossoms and flowers, puffy white clouds in the sky and an alien abduction.

Accepted in SPRING FEVER edited by Dorothy Davies
CALL FOR PAPERS

CYBORG HARROW GENESIS (WT 54)

2011-10-11T12:03:00.000-04:00

What would happen if micromachines, nannites, could turn human soldiers into metal and silicone weapons of war. Would humanity survive the war or would the nannites simply take over everything and declare peace with the other nannites? Only one man can save the world of flesh and blood humanity from destruction. What is the price he must pay? (10,600 words)

Accepted in NOIR, an anthology -- CALL FOR PAPERS

Oh Drat! It's From the In-Laws (WT 104)

2011-10-04T11:24:00.003-04:00

A satire on the most famous Christmas Poem - The Night Before Christmas.

Published in CHRISTMAS FEAR 2, UNHOLY NIGHT an anthology from Static Movement

Thunderstorms and Thaumaturgy (WT 85)

2011-10-01T22:28:00.000-04:00

A car wrecks and the driver is dead but the accident is not an accident, it's worse than murder. A portal has been opened and an ancient evil is invading the earth. Is this the end of civilization? Only one man can prevent it. Is it the bright young patrolman? The Luddite detective? Or the strange blog editor with the funny name and the hidden past?

This is Volume 2 of a three volume set.
AVAILABLE FOR SALE AT: Static Movement Store

My Family Picnic Made the History Books (WT 100)

2011-10-01T15:48:00.000-04:00

A horde of hoary men and their wives and children advanced, their mouths watering, lips slobbering, arms and hands outstretched... Wait, that was my Labor Day picnic.
But what about that other picnic - the one over there in that other grove? The one with the screams and blood covered grass?What if a drug lab unleashes a deadly bacterial slime that turns people to zombies and you are holding your family picnic in the grove downstream from the drug lab? Would you take the blame for your food being so bad your relatives eat each other? Or would you become the savior and fight the slime with Santoku knives and spatulas.
Accepted for publication in "Picnic Nightmares"an anthology edited by Darren Ghalleger
It is still open: CALL FOR PAPERS

Rannoch Abbey and the Night Visitor (WT 41)

2011-09-13T12:12:00.000-04:00

On the Vigil of Easter in Rannoch, Scotland in 1155 AD, a flying saucer crashed into the bog near a church and and monks must fight the alien invasion.

Published in MONK PUNK, an anthology edited by AJ French and available at the Static Movement Book Store.
http://www.staticmovement.com/
For slightly more at AMAZON
Also on the KINDLE and the NOOK

A review at HELLNOTES

A review at Ginger Nuts of Horror.
Another Review at The Future Fire

(WT 102) Ghost Story

2011-09-06T08:29:00.000-04:00

This will be a ghost story set in Inverness Scotland and dealing with Celtic Warriors.

Who Let The Dogs Out (WT 63)

2011-08-30T09:55:00.001-04:00

Charlie Crampon, a college student returning from his father's memorial service, meets up with two strange dogs that turn out to be anthromorphs and when they return to human form, they involved Charlie in a strange and life altering affair. Or so we think because nothing is as it appears to be.

published in ROAD TRIP, edited by Chris Bartholomew at Static Movement Book Store

Avenging Angel (WT 93)

2011-08-29T12:49:00.000-04:00

A single woman is found by her stalker and tonight, there will be murder... in an urban, dark and demonic way.
A short story collaboration with Dorothy Davies.

Published in "COMES THE NIGHT" an anthology of dark stories edited by Dorothy Davies.
Available at the Static Movement Store.

The Adventures of Sheriff Billy Shane on His Birthday (WT 94)

2011-08-25T00:23:00.000-04:00

The Sheriff and Deputy of Chadron Nebraska discover a Magus trying to become a living god and it is up to the two men to stop the Magus. But they aren't alone. The sheriff is related to not one but two Greek gods. It's party time.

Accepted by BRAVE BLUE MICE
I will post the links when it is published.

The Man in the Moon Became My Grandfather (WT 99)

2011-08-22T07:53:00.000-04:00

When a child is born, every parent dreams of a future for that child so glorious it is written in golden letters across a sky so vast, it is meaningless to describe. But no child ever lives up to those dreams and thus, every parent's dream dies a little each day. No child born of man could live up to the dreams of that birth. But what happens when a parent gets a second chance? Something truly Mysterious and Wonderful happened in Warehouse Three of Moonbase Alpha. One day our children will step between the stars and write history in bold actions and wondrous deeds.

Accepted in THE COLONIES, an anthology edited by Shane Collins
The anthology is still open -- call for papers

Bodies at the Buoy (WT 64)

2011-08-19T10:00:00.001-04:00

Policemen Aidan Cainne and Silvio Ranaldo find a dead body in an old-style diving suit under an abandoned diving platform and before they can summon help, a pirate adds them to his scorecard of bad deeds. As the Bible says, the wages of sin is death; not Miltonian death in some fiery Hades or a Dante-like Inferno, but the Angel of Death incarnate come to deliver judgment. When the entire world holds it breath and Death looks deep into the murderer's heart, what does a man see reflected in Death's eyes?

Published in Tales of Salt and Sorrow an anthology edited by Dorothy Davies.
Available at the Static Movement Shop

Witch Queen of the Dragons (WT 91)

2011-08-15T16:57:00.000-04:00

Susie, Witch Queen of the Dragons and keeper of the Tablets of Destiny, needs a champion swordsman and Domenic Gedigold the Wizard, to help her gargoyle friends close a portal to hell. Once married to Susie, Domenic and the swordsman must destroy an evil warlock threatening to overwhelm the world with nightmarish dreams and enslaving humanity.

Published in Weird City 2
Companion to Weird City (scroll down)
both anthologies edited by George Wilhite.
My story "Et Exspecto Resurrectionem Mortuorum" appeared in Weird City and is the first story that Domenic appears

Demigods of the Pacific (WT-84)

2011-08-13T01:12:00.000-04:00

Captain Jack Tonero meets his first love, his high school sweetheart and thinks that she is gorgeous, beautiful and as hot to trot as all those silly, sappy summer romances you ever read. Jack also thinks that he is God's gift to women, the world, pirates, marines and the Navy.

It doesn't take long before large green men with gills rise from the sea to spoil his assignation, his lady love orders him dead, his first mate orders missiles fired at the boat he's on, someone violates his cellphone and he has to fight for his life. If this be the stuff of love, we're in trouble.

Accepted in FIGHTING JACK, an anthology edited by Chris Bartholomew
The anthology is open -- Call For Papers

This story started in late 2009 as a writing exercise on the Evil Editor's Blog.

THE BREAK UP (WT 68)

2011-07-31T21:31:00.001-04:00

A knock on the door provides new insights into the relationship of a "not so nice" friendship between two men and the girl they think they love.

Accepted for WRITINGS ON THE WALL, an anthology edited by D.G. Sutter and Anthony Laquerre

Expected publishing date: September 2011

The New Frankenstein (WT 98)

2011-07-15T02:29:00.001-04:00

_ _ Jonah Carnahan, a detective inspector with the Atlantipolis City Police Force and a bicycling enthusiast, is involved in a car accident that leads to revelations of murder, ghosts, abominations of nature and cyborgs at All Souls Charity Hospital. There is no hope for the living to survive a fate worse than dying in this hospital.
_ _ In the words of Mary Shelley: "I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life, and stir with an uneasy, half vital motion."
_ _ And this cyborg does not fear Death.

Accepted in "HOSPITAL" an anthology edited by Sean Monaghan
Open -- Call for Papers

Like a Deer in the Headlights (WT 83)

2011-07-12T15:19:00.004-04:00

Ever wonder what the deer thinks about? Well Brant Black and Skeeter Crust find out when their hunting trip is hijacked to another planet. They become the hunted. Do they end up as trophies on the wall or do they survive?

Published in "Like Frozen Statues of Flesh, a Bizarro Anthology" edited by Joe Jablonski
Available a the Static Movement Shop

Roll Another Joint For Me, Baby (WT 71)

2011-07-12T15:03:00.002-04:00

Four good friends watching a fifth participate in a parade and witness his murder. Yes, the unbelievable has happened, Lady Sylvia's cheese cavalier is killed before everyone eyes by an invisible killer. Who can solve such a crime? The obsequious detective? The perceptive Patrolman? The banned Blog Editor with the unsavory past?
No one is what they seem to be in this dystopic world.

published in an upcoming anthology: "Like Frozen Statues of Flesh," edited by Joe Jablonski.
Available at the Static Movement Shop.

Perdition Found in a Railcar (WT 95)

2011-07-05T23:21:00.003-04:00

A thief and scoundrel who once rode with Quantrill's raiders in the Civil War wants the secret of eternal life. He confronts a seeming rich man traveling in a private railcar and finds more than he bargained for.

Accepted in MIDNIGHT TRAIN, an anthology edited by Dorothy Davies.
To be published in 2011

This is the third story about Cain (of the biblical Cain and Abel) and Death as a character. It is set in a RR car in 1876.
The first story was "Dogs at Midnight" set circa 2010.
The second story was "Bodies at the Buoy" set in 2020.

The Hot Tub Murder (WT 92)

2011-06-27T10:16:00.005-04:00

On a world populated by Human-Animal hybrids, a vacationing human is found dead in a hot tub. It is up to seasoned detective, Elias Carson incarnated as a satyr, a green rookie incarnated as a wolf and a prosecutor incarnated as an anteater to solve the world's first murder. What they find is not a Royal conspiracy to cheat death, taxes and society but a cold-blooded, heartless murderer, willing to do anything to keep up appearances.

Accepted in "WILL IT GO FASTER IF I PUSH THIS" an anthology edited by C.D. Turner and published by Static Movement.

Or Amazon for slightly more: WIGFIIP

The Toads Croaked at Midnight (WT 66)

2011-06-26T10:29:00.001-04:00

A movie stuntman who is a touch too greedy and too clueless for his own good and makes a deal with a pair of demons for a big movie contract that has implications for the rest of his life.

Published 26 June 2011 here on The WiFiles.
Or after 3 July 2011 at this link: The WiFiles.

(WT 97) Waste Not, Want Not

2011-06-26T01:28:00.000-04:00

A zombie story with an airborne plague virus

(WT 96) Never Again Fear the Dark

2011-06-26T00:26:00.000-04:00

Apocalyptic tale of alien satellites isolating the earth.

Poems: "Morning Glen" and "Festive Rapping"

2011-06-20T12:53:00.004-04:00

Two poems: "Morning Glen" and "Festive Rapping"

Published in Poems from the Dark Side, George Wilhite editor.

At Static Movement Shop: Poems From the Dark Side
At Amazon: Poems From the Dark Side

Come Hell or High Water, Corporate Wants a Monster Movie (WT 39)

2011-06-19T13:07:00.000-04:00

From the hot, stinking desert to the board rooms, a wannabe film maker wants to improve the script from "Plan 9 From Outer Space" to at least a "B-Movie" with Bruce Campbell but the movie has alien reptiles invading planet Earth... THAT SCRIPT NEEDS HELP! and the film maker gets that help from a strange meteor and the green mist that emanates from it.

This story idea goes back to the summer of 2008.

Accepted in CANDIDUM for publication in August.
I'll post the link when available.

Bo's Simian Winter (WT 75)

2011-06-16T18:17:00.001-04:00

NAME CHANGE from "The Test Subject"...

How far would you go for a friend? Would you become another species? How far would you go to retain funding for your research laboratory? Questions, we got questions.

This story was accepted in FANTASTIC HORROR but unfortunately FH stopped publishing. So I did a little revision, found another venue and submitted the story.

Accepted for Publication in WINTER CHILLS, edited by Dorothy Davies. This will be published later this year.

A Meteorite Struck Lance Last Week (WT 77)

2011-06-01T20:05:00.001-04:00

A tiny chunk of meteor hits the star player of a world-championship Rugby team. It starts to turn his body into living metal and that causes all sorts of grief at airport security. But does our star player simply roll over and play dead, tragically whimpering in self-doubt or does our star player take the bull by the horns and create a new life? That is the question.

Accepted in A BUTTERFLY IN CHINA an anthology edited by Sean Monaghan (Venus Vulture News) to be published later this year by Static Movement.

The Caterwauling Kitties of Castle O'Rourke (WT 49)

2011-05-24T23:59:00.000-04:00

There's the tooth fairy. There's your fairy godmother. And there's Rory, the Cat Fairy who haunts Castle O'Rourke. He made the mistake of disturbing the peace and hating cats. Hey you cat lovers, here's one for you.

This will be Published in Wicked East Press' upcoming anthology, Short Sips, Coffee House Flash Fiction Collection Volume 2, edited by Jessica A. Weiss.

Details when they become available.

Astronomers on the Beach (WT 57)

2011-05-16T14:57:00.000-04:00

The Anthology COSMIC CATASTROPHES, edited by Chris Bartholomew

Purchase it at the Static Movement Shop
Or Amazon for slightly more: Cosmic Catastrophes

My story, Astronomers on the Beach, appears in it:

What do you do with the crew of a spaceship when you colonize a world? Twelve Cities abandons them on the planet with the rest of the colonists. What kind of jobs do abandoned astronomers try to find? Would you believe internet videos of a stone man in large caverns? That works out well for two of the crew.
However, something is up there, in the sky.
A meteor is falling toward the planet like the Sword of Damocles and when it strikes, it will thwart the best laid plans of astronomers and colonists alike.

Et Exspecto Resurrectionem Mortuorum (WT 90)

2011-05-09T20:12:00.000-04:00

An ex-marine turned Detective who finds the man he is looking for in a gym, punching a speed bag. But remember, the gateway to hell will not open tonight, not on this detective's watch. An Urban Fantasy.

This story appears in George Wilhite's Anthology "Weird City."
It is available at the Static Movement Store.
And at Amazon for a slightly higher price: Weird City 1

Sasquatch and Cyborg, LLC (WT 79)

2011-04-23T13:03:00.001-04:00

One hundred seventy years in the future, a serial killer comes to the Yukon Territory and an alien bounty hunter (a Sasquatch with telepathic fleas) and a human detective (no fleas, no telepathy, just a college degree) must join forces to find the killer before he kills again.

Published in BOUNTY HUNTER, an anthology edited by Chris Bartholomew. Available at Static Movement's Store
http://www.staticmovement.com/
Or full price on AMAZON: BOUNTY HUNTER

New title: Sasquatch and Cyborg, LLC,
Second Title: We're Having a Little Trouble With Sasquatch,
Original title: Anthropomorphic Indulgences

And the Life of the World to Come (WT 34)

2011-04-19T19:35:00.000-04:00

"Et vitam venturi saeculi," a Latin phrase at the end of the profession of faith. But do we believe in "a life in the world to come"? Do we have faith? They believed. They devised a resurrection and then they died in the apocalypse. This is the story of their life and the world to come.

Published in "Adventures in Other Worlds" an anthology edited by Chris Bartholomew.
Available at Static Movement's Bookstore
And for slightly more at Amazon: Adventures in Other Worlds

The original title: Detective Stuff and the story started out life as a writing exercise for Evil Editors Blog in 2007. It was a biography of EE and it was biting, wicked satire. I wrote a flash fiction from it called it "Inspector Weannous of the Detective Squad" and had the basic plot of an old detective trains a rookie.
In December 2010, I used Willie Weannous as a character in an erotic story. But I didn't use any other part of this story. I changed the character's name for this story.
In March of 2011, I wrote "Et Exspecto Resurrectionem Mortuorum (WT 90)" and that theme had more story to it. So this is the story I wrote from that phrase.

Circus Extravagansis (WT 87)

2011-04-18T20:32:00.000-04:00

Accepted by Blue House Press for its new anthology.

Blurb:
Mankind dashes out into the galaxy after aliens give them long distance spaceflight but all is not fortune, glory and adventure. The alien races resent Earthlings for their chaotic and anarchic practices. When four young men from broken homes start sneaking into Circus Extravagansis and stealing the publicity, the leaders of the Circus involve them in a conspiracy of three ring proportions. But Earthlings are not loved and cherished. When the curtain falls on our little drama, four young men find new roles in the Circus; roles that they never expected.

The Alien's Bunghole (WT 21)

2011-04-15T23:39:00.000-04:00

READ THIS ON MY WEBSITE
New Title: The Alien's Bunghole
Old Title: Ecstasy of Gold
Original Title: Mungo McNevin and the Priests Hole

Two college students encounter an alien device in a pub. The device does strange things to them. And in the end, "Slade ... shuffled the decks and daydreamed of two moons drifting over the ocean of dreams and herds of dreezik roaming the inner plains of his home world in the constellation of Ophiuchus. In a few hours, he would walk on his home world once again."

This story started out life way back in 2007 and I've been cannibalizing the chapters that never seemed to work together. The segments were:
1) On my website in February 2009's "I Fought The Spaceship and the Spaceship Won."
2) "Rannoch Abbey and the Night Visitor" in the anthology: MONK PUNK due out in May of 2011.
3) And the final part I can extract is this story - The Alien's Bunghole.

The Zombie Blackmailers of Panocadia Three (WT 69)

2011-03-20T12:17:00.002-04:00

A short remembrance of things past, a nostalgia of lost childhood, in a completely and utterly weird, Zombified sort of way.

This will be published in "Undead Space," an anthology edited by Joe Jablonski later this year.

This started life as "Are We There Yet?" in 2009. It was first five hundred words and later 1500 words of smart-mouthed, teenage sass during summer vacation and ended up a 2011 zombie story...

In the Dark, by an Icy Ocean (WT 89)

2011-03-14T14:03:00.001-04:00

Two astronauts on a terraforming mission in the Oort Cloud find artifacts that are more than merely a rock or a piece of metal. There are memories of lives from a billion years before that insist on being remembered.

This will be published in Greg Miller's Anthology "Shadows Within Shadows 2" later this year. I will post the details as they become available.

The Penis Tree (WT 82D)

2011-03-10T13:01:00.001-05:00

A vacation in Glencoe, Scotland becomes one of the creepiest experiences in life for a sales representative when he finds a tree with a latex marital aid growing out of it.

Ths story is on the May 11, 2011 page in The DAILY FLASHES OF EROTICA Quarterly is available at this link: DFE Quarterly Jan-Mar 2011

On Passing Through a Graveyard on a Warm Summer Night (WT 88)

2011-03-06T10:13:00.004-05:00

A graveyard, a murder and a ghost -- In the dark of night, the dead speak a dead language of their own and keep company with the dead. The dead do not keep company with the living, unless...

This will be published in the anthology SUMMER THRILLS, edited by Dorothy Davies at Static Movement Book Store.
http://www.staticmovement.com/

The Blacksmith's Gift (WT 74)

2011-02-19T11:22:00.000-05:00

My short story titled: The Blacksmith's Gift is appearing in the anthology
Christmas Fear - Spooky Stories for the Holidays
It is available at PILL HILL PRESS STATIC MOVEMENT
Static Movement Shoppe
They only publish a printed anthology.
And thanks to all the good minions at Evil Editor's Blog for being generous with their suggestions and criticisms to my writing. There's a link on the left side of this blog.

Scarecrow (WT 42a)

2011-02-15T00:00:00.002-05:00

Success times 2

Not all heroes have powers and muscles and capes. Some heroes live lonely, solitary lives and care for the ordinary things, lest the ordinary things become unique.
There's a big, black scarecrow in someone's future. If you leave the city life, the rat race and modernity to return to the greener, agricultural lifestyle, what becomes of those touches of modern isolation and loss of ancestral memories?

A revised version of this story titled "KAKASHI" has been accepted for publication in LOCAL HEROES, an Anthology edited by Brandon Rucker and published by STATIC MOVEMENT late summer or early fall 2011. This will be a reprint.

The story was first published online in Golden Visions Magazine on March 31, 2009 in the online edition and after 120 days went away as Golden Vision does not maintain an archive of online stories.

Village of the Fifth Lion (WT 86)

2011-02-09T21:32:00.001-05:00

Success
Two men, searching for The Fountain of Youth in the mid 1930's, find Ponce De Leon and discover that "youth" is not entirely what it seems.
This will be published in the anthology THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH - THE DARK SIDE by Chris Bartholomew at Static Movement.
http://www.staticmovement.com/

The Night Dickie Ward's Tongue Stuck To The Flagpole (WT 81)

2011-01-30T22:09:00.002-05:00

Success:
This story was accepted and will be published in the anthology "DIESELPUNK" edited by Sean Monaghan. The anthology is still open so if you have a short story that fits Dieselpunk genre go to Static Movement and find Dieselpunk.
For those who don't know: Steampunk’s bastard cousin, Dieselpunk looks for speculative fiction filled with rugged, chunky engines but no sign of electronics. What would the would be like if we still had those huge 1950s aircraft, locos and cars, but no computers?

Three teenage brothers confront an alien threat in the Ice Hockey Rink.

The Shrovetide Affair (WT 52)

2011-01-25T15:58:00.004-05:00

SUCCESS
The Shrovetide Affair - new title for Publication
A man returns to his friends a zombie, dead as a doornail, heart ripped from his chest zombie and asks them to help him get his heart back by finding the voodoo master in the swamp. IT is a deal made with the devil and no good can come of it.
January 26, 2011 -- This has been accepted and will be published in an upcoming anthology: "Deals With The Devil," Stephanie Morrell, Editor. The publisher is Static Movement at http://www.staticmovement.com/

(WT 82-A,B) The Penis Tree

2011-01-17T08:30:00.001-05:00

An exercise between friends. Use the three word title to create a story.
In addition to the title, There were four themes: Impalement, Absorption, Satyrs/Nymphs, Zombies

The ZOMBIE theme became story 87D.
The SATYR/NYMPH/ mythical creature - succubus theme became a ghost story 87C. Why did it become a Succubus story? Because not all story ideas can have a same title and atmosphere or tone.

That leaves Impalement and Absorption for 87A and 87B. Both of those are merely ideas floating around the ether.

(WT 82-C) The Devil's Massif

2011-01-17T08:30:00.000-05:00

Something happened up on the Devil's Massif. A man's reputation was ruined and his life turned to ashes. Once, She lived in a glade on the Devil's Massif and woe to the man who wandered into her glade.

Paleobotany Gone Bad (WT 72)

2010-12-07T14:52:00.001-05:00

An idea about bamboo and possibly tiger cages.

(WT 78) The Phantom Flush

2010-12-03T01:10:00.004-05:00

Darling, I heard a noise in the bathroom, she said...
(hint, it's a ghost story)

The Houston Birthday Party (WT 76)

2010-11-10T20:12:00.007-05:00

There's a worm in your future. Yanno, like earthworm.
This is posted on the website in the Halloween Folder.
The Houston Birthday Party

(WT 73) Haunted House

2010-10-25T09:39:00.005-04:00

Another Halloween Haunted House Story.
It took about 1 day to write (which is not to disparage the story).
Quote: "You must be Tomas, our Bloody Inquisition from Anachronisms Unbounded."

My Flashy Shorts

2010-10-01T00:20:00.003-04:00

FLASHY SHORTS
A defunct web page. It was a nice idea that failed.

...And This Has Been One of Them (WT 67)

2010-08-03T22:19:00.003-04:00

WT-67
I can't believe a story got completely written and filed on my hard drive without getting an entry here but there it was, sitting there, smirking.

I posted this story on my website. It's my summer gift of fun. Enjoy it.
...And This Has Been One Of Them...

Ryder Eisel (WT 70)

2010-07-19T20:47:00.006-04:00

Mining on a distant planet, Ryder Eisel becomes a metal soldier, much like a praetorian guard in ancient Rome.

This was the January 2011 story on my website.

2012 Apocalypse (WT 60)

2010-06-07T08:16:00.005-04:00

Now he knows why the Mayan calendar ends in 2012 and what he must do for the next 12 baktun cycles (12 times 144,000 days). The pillars of heaven as represented by the compass must pass on their burden to four new men.
Update #1 (29 Sep 2009): I submitted this to a journal and got rejected.
Update #2 (10 Jan 2010): A third journal and a rejection.
Update #3 (7 June 2010): I published this on my website.
In the Stone Folder:
2012 APOCALYPSE

I fought the spaceship and the spaceship won (WT56)

2010-05-31T12:08:00.002-04:00

I was rewriting one of the (how do I say this?) "bad idea" or "unworkable idea" or "dead end" ideas and saved this scene as a story all by itself. Don't think this is unusual, lots of stories you read have lost a character that didn't advance the story. Or the author deleted characters because there were too many characters in the story.

UPDATE #1: February 2009 - I "salvaged a fragment from the draft and put it on the website in the Sci Fi Folder as I Fought the Spaceship and the Spaceship Won -- Wayne and Roberto and you get to read about their misadventure with the spaceship. It did not further the story I was trying to write.

That's the reason that a writer would take a segment and save it as a short story or make it into a standalone story.

UPDATE #2: May 2010 - I took a very humorous chunk of the old story and started to make it into a short story for the website but something odd happened... It created a better segment of the origial story, so much so, I have continued with the original ideas and outline I first set out last year.

Now I have to find another story to post.

(WT 55) Treasure Hunters

2010-04-26T12:06:00.001-04:00

My creature from the black lagoon story. It's hard to say if any story will actually appear. Treasure hunters in the deep, deep ocean.

Update: I posted a portion of the story on the website.

silicone (WT 3)

2010-03-01T15:59:00.003-05:00

March 1, 2010
I took one of the usable portions of this story (About 1100 words) and posted it as a standalone story on my website. Every so often I cannibalize a failed idea like this. This particular idea is three years old and I know that I will not go to go back to it. I'm only posting this to keep track.

August 2007
New idea: A CIA Spy is captured in china. They convert him into a living plastinated statue as punishment.

This idea didn't pan out: Frat boys try to create a display piece but instead convert the body of a friend into silicone rubber. It's like those dissected bodies you see in museums.

Gray Wolf (WT 46)

2010-01-01T19:16:00.001-05:00

I submitted this story to a magazine for publication. So don't expect to hear anything about it for several months.
Gray Wolf is about two friends who dress as wolves to go to a Halloween party and have a fateful meeting with a delivery truck.

I posted this on the website 1 January 2010.

My Heroes Were Rovers (WT 38)

2009-11-03T13:04:00.004-05:00

Published on website.
Two guys, huge overpowered trikes like the Can Am Spider by Bombadier, a metallic interface in their chests, and computer connection to their brains.
Add a duplicitous drug dealer selling MetalCrack, a drug laced with nanomachines, and war games...
In the METAL Folder:
My Heroes Were Rovers

(WT 62) Tongareva

2009-09-24T21:16:00.003-04:00

BACKSTORY 2:
A few years in the future, the icecaps melts, sea levels rose and southern tectonic plates shifted upward exposing the landmass of the Antarctic.
The ocean rise floods vast tracts of land prompting a move to floating cities made from wood. A new icecap forms over Canada. Much of the Mississippi valley is shallow swamp. In an effort to reduce atmospheric CO2, fast growing trees are planted and the wood is converted to boats. Most energy systems are converted to battery and electric motors recharged by non-hydrocarbon fuels.

BACKSTORY 1:
A few years in the future, the icecaps melts, sea levels rose and southern tectonic plates shifted upward exposing the landmass of the Antarctic. Most of the Pacific islands in the South Seas fell below water level. But in Polynesia, specifically the Cook Islands, Tongavera atoll, rises to reveal a small central island surrounded by reef. The sharks have left and been replaced by dolphins.

An overflight finds the new South Pacific Atoll and the US military send geographers and scientists to explore the new atoll. They find the ruins of pyramidal stone buildings with smooth walls and flat roofs. On the east side of the central island there are a a dozen black stone altars with a depression in the anatomically correct outline of a man and on the west side of the island are another dozen black stone altars with dolphin shaped depressions.

There are steles with pictograms reminiscent of Egyptian and Sumerian writing. That puts them circa 2800 BC. Translated they tell the story of a civilization that was destroyed by some extraterrestrial object. No one can complete the translation of the texts. The object is described as the harbinger of death from above. The ancients could see it coming and their shamans and magicians created two islands--one for men and one for women, with sexually distinguishable altars in order to avoid destruction. Sonar locates the second island still at the bottom of the ocean. The Brass and intelligentsia believes that the altars were for sacrifices -- human and dolphin. They also assume that the inhabitants were wiped out in a meteor strike.

All of that is reported back to headquarters. Then the expedition disappears completely. A second group is sent to find out what happened.

(WT 61) Goats

2009-09-13T08:21:00.004-04:00

I thought of a great opening lines to start a story:
I warned you boy's not to drink old man dickface's moonshine but you boys could never listen to what your elders tell ya.
Why don't you go back to your hovel and play with your cats, you old crone.
Mouth breathing moron in a baseball cap with droopy pants.
Yips
Voodoo mammy got the power of baron sahmedi

These lines may not end up in the final draft but it's inspirational.

(WT 59) Jack and Jack

2009-09-13T08:13:00.003-04:00

A revision of a writing exercise along the lines of "Big Name Writers Seminar"

First Contact: Antarctica (WT 50)

2009-07-15T12:58:00.005-04:00

Something alien is happening in the Ross Sea and the Belleny Islands, ANTARCTICA. It's a protected area so they create a special unit to do surveillance year round. They drop into the sea February 1st and will be picked up December 1st. The Aliens see them in the first few days and expose the suited men to a beam so their bodies begin to transform. Since the men are there for the winter season, they can't remove the suits and don't notice their bodies changing slowly. By the time the "pickup" comes in December, their feet and ankles have extended into flippers and their legs shortened up close to their shrunken hips. They have thick furry coats from the shoulders down and a layer of blubber to keep them warm. Their arms are shorter and their hands are webbed and broadened out into flippers. But they are still human under the mask-like hoods.

Published on the website

CHIEF WHITEFEATHER ... (WT 49)

2009-06-30T15:11:00.002-04:00

Chief WhiteFeather of the Corona Grande Tribe
- Terry and his buddy Brian have a great S&M relationship but when Terry's father visits and Brian is left outside in a tool shed like a dog, two handymen intervene and Terry's life is changed forever. This is a "wood" transform.

Monkey Men From Mars (WT 44)

2009-05-25T18:16:00.003-04:00

Published on my website. Go, have fun reading it.

Sweat covered Gary Loopers' body. He pulled his damp t-shirt over his head and dropped his basketball shorts on the floor. Gary stood naked to the blast of cold air. Sean's pet, Mombe, a young male bonobo about five feet tall snatched the shorts, sniffed them and wrapped its arms around Gary's leg. He jumped as hairy hands fondled his privates and felt up his butt other. Gary grabbed the Mombe's wrists and pulled with all of his might.

In the Furry Folder on my website.

Short Ribs and Other Tasty Morsels (WT 58)

2009-04-30T14:35:00.003-04:00

I posted six short stories, humorous pieces, on my website.
25 April 2009

NYMPHS AND SATYRS (WT 51)

2009-03-22T13:00:00.006-04:00

A man finds nymphs and satyrs while on vacation. Plus a goat! And now it's going up on the website:
NYMPHS AND SATYRS
Sometimes being a directionless jerk and a guy who "goes along to get along" and just wanders through life isn't a great idea. Then sometimes, wanting to BE SOMETHING, anything in life is also misguided. But then, maybe it isn't. Who knows? How can we know? All I can really say is that one of these characters likes his stick shift more than anything in life.

Scarecrow (WT 42b)

2009-02-28T00:05:00.001-05:00

NEWS

On January 28, 2009, Darkened Horizons published my horror story:

"The Scarecrow"
It is the story of friends, Wyatt and Ben, their dark secrets and the sacrifice one must make for the other to live. You will find it at this URL: Darkened Horizons --- click on the Publications link in the left hand corner. Darkened Horizons publishes through Lulu and Vol 6 is available in PDF (download) or print format (paperback and hardback).

(WT 53) Time Travel

2009-01-10T17:50:00.003-05:00

One thought - A man travels back to ancient Rome to learn about the past and learns too much.

(WT 50) Carnival Sideshow Geek

2008-12-16T15:17:00.002-05:00

A story set in the 1860's on the plains of Oklahoma.

Big Name Writer's Writing Seminar (WT 49)

2008-12-08T16:00:00.002-05:00

On December 8th, 2008,
YANKEE POT ROAST published my satire titled:
"Big Name Writer's Writing Seminar"

You can read it at this URL: http://www.yankeepotroast.org/archives/2008/12/bigname_writers.html

YANKEE POT ROAST is a website devoted to short form humor and satire.

A POEM: Who Was This Robbie Burns

2008-11-28T21:57:00.005-05:00

On December 1st, "FLASHQUAKE" on the web (volume 8, number 2) - http://www.flashquake.org/index.html published my poem titled "Who Was This Robbie Burns." Which is a meditation on New Years Resolutions, those things that we make in a drunken stupor on January 1 each year and then forget about only to remember in the cold cruel light of late December wen we have to own up to achieving or failing once again.

Click to the Homepage (if you see vol 8 number 1, then hit reload on your browser) and then go to the POETRY link. My poem is about the 6th down the list of nine (which means nothing as far as I know).

CURSE OF SHADOWS (WT 48)

2008-11-04T20:38:00.005-05:00

I swore I was never going to write a werewolf story, but this happened. It's going to magazines, so you have to be patient if you want to read it.

In the Halloween folder:
CURSE OF SHADOWS

(WT 47) Fame and Fortune (POEM)

2008-10-24T19:20:00.007-04:00

A free verse form poem, or a flash fiction about trick or treating.
I sent it to a magazine. Maybe they'll print it...

First line:
What do you call a man with one hand flesh and one hand steel?

Pettifore's Bibolet and Bagatelle (WT 45)

2008-10-12T16:16:00.002-04:00

Pettifore's Bibolet and Bagatelle
Two young men discover anatomically correct rubber dolls.

Dogs At Midnight (WT)

2008-09-25T12:47:00.006-04:00

THe title is from a Tim Paxton song from the late 60's...

This story is published at THE TINY GLOBULE - http://www.thetinyglobule.com/index.html
published one of my short stories titled:
DOGS AT MIDNIGHT - http://www.thetinyglobule.com/pages/horror/fragments_midnight.html
Please go read it and the other stories posted at THE TINY GLOBULE. It's an interesting website.

Poseidon's Bounty (WT 45)

2008-09-23T04:15:00.005-04:00

Poseidon's Bounty
Trey Montgomery invests in a sushi restaurant. AND, I do mean invest.
This is a statue transformation.

It's Published on the website:
Poseidon's Bounty

Young Jackasses In Lust? (WT )

2008-09-13T19:43:00.006-04:00

I posted this on the website. It started out as a chapter of something from my hard drive. I turned it into a short story.
A detective meets a young man being transformed into a donkey and lustful thought enter his mind.

In the Furry Folder:
YOUNG JACKASSES IN LUST

Incident at the Soccer Match (WT 43)

2008-08-26T22:28:00.007-04:00

What's the hottest, most sexually charged statue you can imagine? How about your own body converted to stone? This is going to be a Hunk story. I owe a story with lots of genitals and bawdy bodies to the website.

In the Halloween Folder:
INCIDENT AT A SOCCER MATCH

CAGE FIGHTER (WT 23)

2008-08-07T11:00:00.002-04:00

WHAT A BEAST OF A STORY!
I've also changed the title to Cage Fighter.

"CAGE FIGHTER" is the story of a mix-martial-arts fighter turned secret agent who gets deeply involved in the politics of an alien planet.

In the SCI-FI folder:
CAGE FIGHTER

'Til the rains from heaven did fall (WT 36)

2008-07-05T23:05:00.003-04:00

A story about the incarnation of Death stopping the apocalypse with help from his friends, one of whom is the Biblical Cain.

A WORM'S EYE VIEW OF KARMA (WT 37)

2008-05-26T10:00:00.002-04:00

This is a story about worms and Ragnarok.

POSTED

In the OTHER Folder:
A WORM'S EYE VIEW OF KARMA

Mud Men (WT 40)

2008-05-06T17:44:00.003-04:00

I posted this story on the web for the 5th of May.

It was one of those ideas that just struck like lightening and was complete in 12 hours.

MUD MEN