Category: Short Stories

  • What’s Next?????

    What’s Next?????

    Now that I have completed The Crystal Crux Series, what do I write next? For the past 7 1/2 years my mind has been pretty focused on these books and it strange moving on from it – or am I? Nothing is officially in the works yet, but I have…

  • Yes, It’s FREEE

    Yes, It’s FREEE

    While writing The Crystal Crux series, I have branched off on ideas and chapters that I decided were unnecessary to the story but added some color and insight to the tale. I have started uploading these to Smashwords as free supplements to the series.  Please download and read them.  Tell…

  • Raid on Chamonix

    Raid on Chamonix

    I just wrote a blurb on my latest short story on my other website, thecrystalcrux.com. Raid on Chamonix is available only on Kindle. It is a short and easy read, grisly and dark, as is much of The Crystal Crux series. Follow the link below to check it out. Click…

  • The Grand Transition

    The Grand Transition

    In 1986, I lost one of my brothers to complications from Duchene’s Muscular Dystrophy. I wrote a short 600 word article on my experience at his bedside the night he died. I won the 1989 WRWA Jade Ring contest with this article. This is a very short piece and includes…

  • Pinball

    Pinball

    I was going through some old files tonight and ran across this short story I wrote for a contest and forgot to enter it.  Scatterbrain. Anyway, the contest gave writers the first sentence.  “You don’t have enough points, sir.”  I think the story was supposed to be under 250 words.…