Short Fiction

All right, that was a fine story, but where do you find the proof?

Well, he caught the little man fair and square, and he got his boat back, and carried a pot of gold to make him rich ...

Sometimes it's not what you GET for Christmas, it's what you get taken away from you that makes the season bright ...

One thing marks all the spaces between the stars: silence. Be there joy, or despair, elation or loss, the vacuum of space marks each emotion, each triumph, each death in utter quietude. This is the life the spacers know, and strangely, crave. Most of the time the stars welcome those silent travelers, but there comes a different kind of explorer, and there is only one place left for that kind...

At the end of the rainbow, Johnny finds a pot of gold, all right -- stashed in with pieces of old boats and dirty leprechaun laundry.

The people have changed as the years have gone by, at least in names and faces. Only two things are the same, the bar itself, and the loneliness of the lives of its patrons. Anthony Driscol and Keri Sherwood have decided to change that ...

Kaine has amazing powers of recovery, but there is only so much strength left in him, especially when the visions that engulf him are so painful that his heart can hardly bear them. And there's no time to stop and ponder them with the Pale Traveler still out there somewhere, hungry for his life ...

Conclusion. Kara discovers the gruesome history of the house she lives in, and events finally convince her father that Kara was, after all, telling the truth.

Leprechauns and mushrooms and bears, oh my! Let's throw in some fish tacos and some more beer while we're at it ...

"And they all lived happily ever after..." Now just how does that work?

Was that whispering she heard? Or just some annoying random feedback from the hearing aids she wore? Could it be that Kara was simply an adolescent girl whose grief was overwhelming her imagination, or were there really shadows there cast by unseen shapes?

Andersen & Company values its workers' lives -- as a commodity to purchase, and and a resource to be used up. Rebellion is inevitable ...and yet ...

If it wasn't for the tiny lumberjack, it could all have been merely a case of really, really bad luck ...

Tied to your job and wish you had another?

The dead man is replaced -- by the most efficient worker they had ever seen. They don't know his name, but he is the herald of a new order, an order that will swell their paychecks and fill their lives...

The story behind some hangovers can be far more complex than beer, whiskey, brandy, and more beer. Sometimes the tale begins in a bar, but this time it won't end there ...

"Taking Sides" -- The idea of conflict over the results of weather really annoys a shaman.

Sometimes you need to ask before you fix a baboon's problems.

The town is called "Dust," and there is nothing left of anyone, not even the crumbled molecules that could call the town their namesake. The Seraphim Twins and Kuroda Kumiko know the reason for the destruction, and who they have to find to put an end to it -- but is this mission worth what it will do to Kaine?

What can you do with the unrepentant and unrelenting Bad Guy? Aser and Danner face the consequences of messing with the malevolent mage Rocklift.

Rocklift the Mage is on a mission to make certain that fools who interrupt her cash flow become extinct.

The long road ahead of a single mother is a hard one, and some things will naturally make it harder. But perhaps the hardest part of the journey is when you can actually see the last part of the road ahead of you, and know what will happen when you reach it ...

The long road ahead of a single mother is a hard one, and some things will naturally make it harder. But perhaps the hardest part of the journey is when you can actually see the last part of the road ahead of you, and know what will happen when you reach it ...

When you camp for the night, and get ready to have your evening meal, you really ought to make sure you know with whom you're about to share your fire.

What Hollywood has to say about zombies is purely theatrical ...

Bad boys should know better than to mess with the girl whose mother knows the ins and outs of voodoo ...

She was gorgeous. She was loving. She was marked for death ... but, well, how does an assassin deal with someone marked for death a long time ago? Horace and Clancy have a conundrum to resolve ...

Most of the time you're not allowed to cause discomfort or pain to people around you. But there is one nasty, notable exception ...

Past your prime? Snow on the ol' mountaintop? Been studying other people's walkers with an eye to which model might suit your lifestyle? Have you said, "Been there, done that," to just about everything that comes up in cocktail party conversations? Perhaps it is time for you to visit the Master and ask his advice ...

For some, pain is their mode of communication and their way of obtaining what they think they need.