A smattering of short fiction

There's a paradox to putting fiction on a personal website:

So... aside from linking to what I've published elsewhere, all I can offer here is some miscellany whose home is the cracks between modes of creative viability.


LET'S START WITH THE SHORT STORIES I'VE SOLD...

"Begin One Way" - published in December 2019 by Leading Edge.

"Intercalary Time" - published in July 2022 by Mythaxis.

"Duck Button" - published in February 2025 by Anotherealm.  (Silly quote at the top not mine.)

AND DON'T FORGET I've got poetry, novels, songs, and fan fiction to read (about) too!


...But for your entertainment and the enrichment of posterity, here are some older works of mine that live contentedly between the cracks.


TOO ABSURD FOR PRINT

The Story of Dinah and Her Quest for Impossibility
With apologies to Hormel Foods

A Random Creation Story
The world's least authoritative explanation for how the moon came to be

A Bug Story
On a certain squickiness regarding the way insects may seem to work

Walking Whale
On the surprisingly deliberate origin of dolphins


BELONGS IN A FULL COLOR PICTURE BOOK

The Curious World: Chapter Two
An excerpt from an intricate puzzle book I will likely never create.


AN UNFINISHED STORY ABOUT A DEFUNCT CASUAL VIDEO GAME WITH NO STORY

Gearheads: The Unthinkable Prophecy
Because sometimes characters who aren't characters are the most inviting to color in.


MISSED THE DEADLINE

Halloween Drabbles
I was going to submit these to a contest, but the deadline expired while I was preparing the submission.


WRITER'S GROUP EXERCISES

The Tale of Irtica
Even squirrels have their eccentric geniuses.

The Tale of Asembro
I can't believe I wrote a thing about a ninja.


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