New Stories

Even as my body of published work expands, I have a growing inventory of short stories that are ready and available for professional publication.  Titles and descriptions can be found in the chart below.  Novels ready and available for professional publication can be found and reviewed under the "Longer Works" navigation bar to the left.

"Ocean State Eleven" indicates stories set in my native Rhode Island.

"Sivil Galaxi" stories are set in my extensive fictional universe as seen in novels The Renegades, The Bedross Ambush, Uncommon Criminals, and A Woman of Distinction, and published short stories "Interstellar Sting," "The Spark Inside" and "The Fate of the New Companion."

First contact on the world Keppin as two members of the landing party--former spouses--find themselves obstructed by a blizzard.

Sivil Galaxi

 

Looking into the early days of the Sivil Galaxi during the colonization of Bedross.

Sivil Galaxi

 

Ocean State Eleven

At 4500 words, it is a longer short story, and it does contain stronger language, most of which is apostrophized out.

 

Thoroughfares for all Thoughts

This story had been accepted, but the magazine closed.  I do have full rights to be marketing the story elsewhere.

Ocean State Eleven

The meeting of a self centered shopper and a smart ass clerk will impact both their lives, all because department store purchasing agents really don't always exhibit much taste.

Mainstream humor at 2100 words.

 

Blushing Bride

Ocean State Eleven

These 2000 words prove that there's no bigger bitch than a bride on her wedding day.

 

Sivil Galaxi

Take a philandering pig and aliens that only look baseform, and things are bound to go wrong.
5000 words

 

Sivil Galaxi and Ocean State Eleven

Ocean State Eleven

3200 words of a haunted car in a tale of cause and effect

 

Love Refinished

Ocean State Eleven

This one's humorous literary mainstream with an experimental POV of a one-sided conversation as the narrator speaks to his wife.