(166) rain

Something to do with demons.

(157) Devils May Care

A revived story and a revised plot:
A trio of college guys want an adventure for Halloween and their trick or treating fun. They fall into the hands of a demon slayer as he confronts his prey, the demon itself. Not a happy place to be if you want to lead a long life.

(165) A Night Under a Moonlight Sky

A management consultant arranges for a problem employee to spend a night under a moonlit sky, a night the employee will never forget . . . 

. . .  or live through

(160) The Practical Jokers

Sometimes a practical joke can go too far and have consequences beyond the imagination.

(158) Circus of Horrors

A boy goes wandering at the start of the 1930's Depression and discovers magic in the circus.

(WT 96) Never Again Fear the Dark

Apocalyptic tale of alien satellites isolating the earth.

(WT 82-A,B) The Penis Tree

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

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)

An idea about bamboo and possibly tiger cages.

(WT 55) Treasure Hunters

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)

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.

(WT 62) Tongareva

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 59) Jack and Jack

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

Short Ribs and Other Tasty Morsels (WT 58)

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

(WT 50) Carnival Sideshow Geek

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

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

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

(WT 35) The Donegal Manuscript

"The Travels and Discoveries of the Brothers Barnaby and Tag Canley
in the Jungles of Savage and Unmapped Africa.

A Written Account of the Years 1829 to 1935 by Tag Canley

We Share Our Fate as Brothers and Equals Must Share Life.
We Grew up as Turlough Ua-Tuathail of Caisleán Uí-Domhnaill and
Aodh Mac-An-Airchinnigh in Graignamanagh, Contae Chill-Chainnigh
Master and Manservant, But We Were Born Equals and We Will Die Equals.

Casuality Violation (WT 1)

I posted a chapter of this on my website. It's January's post. In the SCI FI folder:
TORCH, A TRANSFORM .

The second segment is also in the SCI FI folder:
SPACESHIP 2377

And an earlier segment:
NEW YEARS DAY - 2374

And the place it all started:
THE TEST SUBJECT

(WT 39) I knew this broad was trouble

I knew this broad was trouble from the first time she stepped into the Barfing Beagle. She wore bad-girl blue jeans and a street-slut halter. On one shoulder she cradled a Denebian Antimatter rifle. Conversations stopped. Heads turned. Her free hand held a cell phone to her ear.
"Which of those ass-kissing-weasels screwed the pooch this time?" she asked.

(WT 20) Bluetooth

JULY 30, 2007
- - more chapter openings

Me buddy Michael suggests a story about Bluetooth and becoming a robot. Oi! I thinks I'll take him up on it.