Paleobotany Gone Bad (WT 72)

An idea about bamboo and possibly tiger cages.

My Flashy Shorts

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

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

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...

(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 The sharks have left and been replaced by dolphins.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

NYMPHS AND SATYRS (WT 51)

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.

(WT 50) Carnival Sideshow Geek

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

Poseidon's Bounty (WT 45)

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

'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.

Mike's Tribe ( WT 27)

It's about koteka's and trees.

In the SCI FI folder:
NEW HORIZON

(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 31) Frankie and Robin

It was Halloween night, but there'd been no trick or treaters at the home of Frankenstein, who was about to go to bed when the doorbell rang. He opened the peephole.

"Pizza delivery." A handsome young man crowned with golden curls, waxed and polished horns curved up over his head and cloven feet stood holding a checkered pizza box. His smile charmed. His eyes invited. Frankenstien scowled, or tried to.

(WT 28) The Body in the Bathroom

"Thanks to a nasty divorce, this house is a bargain -- five bedrooms, three baths, media room, pool, 5 acres sitting next to a county park, only used on Sundays for grandma's tea parties." The agent unlocked the double door and entered the grand hallway decorated in creams, reds and golds. Rick and Rhonda wrinkled their noses.

"Something smells and it ain't roses," Rick laughed.

(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.

(WT 22) Squeezy and the Rump Rats

The second story of Detective Reedy and Priority Homicide:
Reedy meets up with a friend from his past and breaks open a white slavery ring.

Emmisary to the Sun World (WT 5)

The portion of the story I wrote:
EMMISARY TO THE SUN WORLD

(synopsis)
Of the many alien races discovered by human explorers, the humanoids of Epsilon Orionis are unique. They can absorb and manipulate pure energy with their metallic bodies. Earth initiates a secret operation to obtain the technology. Eager to succeed, Ambassador Spanner Templeton, Captain Randall, Lieutenant Buck Owen and First Mate Milo Orrington secretly guide the crew of the Dreadnought Apollo and a cohort of marines through their conversion to metallic humans regardless of the consequences.
A xenophobic cabal of humans has opened a gateway to another dimension. In a misguided effort to preserve the purity of the human race, the xenophobes will allow the inter-dimensional aliens enslave and isolate the human race, maintaining its purity. Only the metalized humans can prevent alien domination and enslavement.