Look for My Stories on the Web

The other day I made a blog post to some of my older articles that can be found on the web. that post can be found here. Now I'd like to make a similar post, only I want to point you to some of my short fiction writing that appears only online. These links art to several short stories of mine that appear on various websites. Check them out, perhaps you‘ll enjoy them. 

This first one is to my take on the backstory to a superhero called The Owl. This particular character is not the Owl who appears in Marvel comics, but one that appeared a generation earlier in the Now defunct Dell comics. Dell published in the ‘50s & ‘60s but has long since gone out of business and the company‘s characters have slipped into the Public Domain. I work with a group of creators who have taken up creating new stories utilizing these characters. We call our publishing venture InDELLible Comics, and our various magazine-sized comics can be found on Amazon. The image of the Owl that appears inside the InDELLible logo at the top of the page was drawn by Carl Morgans. 

Night of the Owl

This next story is something that I wrote at a comicbook convention where we were having a contest to write a flash fiction story. As one of the moderators of the the event I didn't actually compete, but was so entertained by the concept, I penned my own flash fiction.

And Then, Everybody Died!

Another flash fiction story of mine (this one limited to exactly 500 words) is online in another place, this one posted by Weird Fiction Quarterly WFQ comes out (as its name implies) four times a year, we are now wrapping up our fifth issue (Winter '23). I've had work appear in each issue. We are also planning an omnibus hard cover of the first four issues, look for it and the other issues on Amazon

Whiteout

This nest story was a romance story that I penned to enter a contest on Barsdy (I didn't win, but my story is still housed over there.

Good Morning, Cupcake

Next up is a story that I have up online at Writers Unite, a website of writers to which I belong. Writers Unite has published a number of print anthologies. I've had work appear in three of them (with a fourth appearing in print soon).  

Cat Got Your Tongue

My story is the last one in a thread of  10 stories, so when you get to the page, do a search for the title and you'll go right there. 

This just in. I have a new Christmas horror story posted over here called The Yule Cat. It based upon an ancient Icelandic legend. The story is $1.25 as a download, but well worth the price.

Once again, you can also find copies of books that I'm in on the web, just go looking for them. 

Look for me on the Web!

As some of you already know I've been writing professionally for several years. The thing is that while I have long been attributing the start of my professional writing career to the publication of Amazing Heroes #5 in 1981, the truth of the matter is that for three years prior to that article saw print I was working as a radio ad copywriter for a a few different radio stations in and around CT. Needless to say, I've actually been writing for 45 (not 42) years.

While the addition of a mere three years may not seem to mean a great deal, it actually alters our own personal perception of our understanding of our own legacy as a writer. And frankly, that's kind of a very cool thing for us. 

Needless to say, while the bulk of our writing has appeared in print (and a small segment was broadcast over the airwaves) over the past couple of years an even smaller (though growing) portion of our writing has appeared exclusively on the web. 

Thus, it is with this understanding, we have decided to gather in one place, a series of links where we can post those links so that anyone interested, and see and access them. Hence, in no particular order, here they are:

This first link is for a print publication called Government Technology where I (in my role as Deputy Registrar of Voters in my hometown of Norwalk, CT) wrote about how we utilized technology in our local elections.

Norwalk, Conn., Uses Technology to Better Run Elections

This next piece I wrote while I was living in Richmond, VA, and it was written for RVA Magazine

Comic Books and Creators Come to Richmond, Unite in Local Online Community

This first article  for Bleeding Cool where I reviewed Sean Howe's book, The Untold Story of Marvel Comics, The second one was a reprinting of an article I had written years earlier, while the third was to promote a then upcoming series.

Alternate Theories Add To The Secret History of Marvel Comics

Death of a Hero

Chasing Gods With Eddie Nunez And Stephen Lapin

This next article was written with my long-time collaborator, John A. Wilcox for Relix Magazine, and it was when we interviewed Frank Zappa for the 2nd tie (and he called us "The Wacky Guys").

Frank Zappa Meets The PMRC

All of these were articles I wrote, a second posting will be about a series of short fiction stories I penned over the past couple of years that are currently being hosted on a number of online sites.