Here are some of the stories I've written. A couple were left out

since they now embarrass me (these were written arount 1976). A

couple were left out because of language or violence or (gasp!) sex!



This story is a prose poem which I wrote in late 1985 while in Bob

Bauche's class in Northern Virginia. I was also fairly involved in

the church we attended so there is some mysticism in The Boat.



The great detective, Mr. Holmes, "said" that he thought that isolated

country crofts were were the worst crimes took place. I rather suspect

that industrial parks are the modern equivalent of these crofts. Who knows

what some of those shops are for? Thus, Andy's Boatshop is presented for

your reading pleasure.



This story is a mixture of a Lycanthrope story and a satire on out legal

system. Have you ever wondered what the legal results would be if were-cats,

were-dogs, etc. were commonplace. If so, then read Cat Killer.



Former President Regan has taken credit for the ending of the Cold War. However,

many civilians don't seem to realize what those of us in the Navy knew in the

middle 1980s: we slid very close to nuke war. I was in the Navy, stationed just 

outside Washington, DC in the middle 1980s and we were worried. This lead to a

story about a nuclear war threat I called News AT Eleven!.





The Lottery is somewhat reactionary. While it has nothing to do with the

Shirley Jackson(?) story, it is about a bloody subject. I wrote this in Bob

Bauche's writing class; there were a lot of people who disliked it. The instructor

told me I'd looked "right wing" when he met me. (OK, I was in the Navy then

and had to have short hair and work out a lot.) This liberal liked it; a Marine 

I used to know (a very conservative man) liked it also...



The Unlamated is a diatribe against family violence, a comment on Illinois

politics of several years ago and a puzzle to be solved...



This is a story about rituals; I wrote after a "bureauacry overload" during my

second tour on Guam (in the US Navy).







It is traditional to put in a blurb that says: "ANY RESEMBLANCE BETWEEN THIS

STORY AND...yadda, yadda, yadda. Well, there is only one character in one of

my stories which was named after a real person; this was a "rectum" who made

it his business to torment me in junior high school.  I'm not saying if this

character is in any of the stories I've presented for your reading pleasure.