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. 

Romance is in the air!

So here I am, Some 40+ years writing professionally and I'm — quite honestly — having perhaps one of the best years ever. I have several projects in print, as well as several more awaiting publication. 

This past week I just finished off laying out a book project for a new client, and am starting on the layout of a magazine for one of my longest-running clients. I have three prose short stories out for publication, five comicbook scripts in various stages of production. I'm getting set to launch a comicbook Kickstarter with a new publisher, as well as brand new offer to script a one-shot (with the possibility of sequels). 

Still, none of that is what I really want to write about today. As of the 1th of this month (just two days ago as I type this, 8/15/22) I'll have my third (yes, third) prose short story out in print with Writers Unite (a Facebook group to which I belong). The anthology Writers Unite: Dimensions of Love, is a two volume set of short stories.

My story, entitled The Way Back appears in the second volume of the set, and I'm very excited to have it appear in this set as penning a romance story is so far outside the type of writing I've been doing for the past four decades. 

Over the years I've written ad copy for radio, print, direct mail, and the web; I've written marketing material as well as technical and procedure manuals. I've worked as a journalist, done hundreds of interviews, written reviews of films, books, comics and more. Still. This romance story is honestly one of the coolest things I've ever written. Hopefully others will enjoy not just my story, but the full run of stories in the series.

The anthology is available on Amazon in both print and ebook editions, the links for both editions are below. (The links will lead to both version of each volume.)

Writers Unite: Dimensions of Romance, Volume One:

https://www.amazon.com/Writers-Unite-Anthologies-Dimensions-Love/dp/B0B92R1MDV/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1660659855&sr=1-1&fbclid=IwAR3FkDE2NbLHLgVwRRkwCo94GYu9zr8PieM2xo6oHnuOWMrSiAfTw9Qp_JA

Writers Unite: Dimensions of Romance, Volume Two

https://www.amazon.com/Writers-Unite-Anthologies-Dimensions-Love-ebook/dp/B0B8QKWQ93/ref=sr_1_1?crid=282ELDNTBFQ33&keywords=Writers%20Unite!%20Anthologies%20Dimensions%20of%20Love%20Volume%20two&qid=1660659890&s=books&sprefix=writers%20unite%20anthologies%20dimensions%20of%20love%20volume%20two%2Cstripbooks%2C52&sr=1-1&fbclid=IwAR1bcj5sJ17_tNeMiPp-7w61oE8acP7UzZmjtoE82khV4e7CPGTcqp0j58w

As an aside, a second romance story of mine has been posted online over here:

https://bardsy.com/stories/story-reader/?story_id=3682&utm_source=pocket_mylist