Stories

A brief encounter at the park and a saying becomes true to life.

2007 Fairy Tale Anthology

One Part Science Fiction, One Part Fantasy, but completely human to the core.

What is the sum of two and two?

2013 Anthology

When a miniscule planet has a colossal weather problem, the Storm Singer arrives at the 11th hour to save them... until they renege on their payment. A science fiction retelling of Grimm's "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" with a darkly modern twist on the fairy tale's ending.

Two reserve flight officers on commerce patrol duty encounter an alien ship unlike anything they’ve seen before. There is only one thing to do, follow protocol and board the ship. Unfortunately, one of them encounters something from the distant past of human existence on Earth.

A Young hunter stalks his prey through the wilderness only to quickly come upon something unexpected that would change his life forever.

2008 Spring Anthology

One for sorrow, two for joy, three for a girl and four for a boy.

Five for silver, six for gold, seven for a secret never to be told.

I am sure many of you, like me, learned this children's nursery rhyme about magpies. According to an old superstition, the number of magpies seen predicts whether you will have good or bad luck. Something I came across subsequently, was the existence of many variations on this rhyme, some more sinister than the children’s version.

One of those is incorporated into this short story about boyhood abuse.