This page links to my short stories, organized by year.  I am encouraged that Ray Bradbury wrote one story a week and it only took him ten years to really get the hang of it.  I'm writing one story every two weeks.  That takes me about an hour a day, on average.  I started writing in 2012.  So by my calculations, you can start reading the good stuff in 2031.

WARNING: Any of the following stories may contain strong language, sexual situations, graphic violence, gross inaccuracies, obvious errors, snarkiness, robots versus kung fu, the explosive demolition of a stone golem, aliens, scary monsters, clowns, and Frank Zappa.  Some stories may not be unread.  /YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED

Short stories written in 2012

These first 10 stories are based on ideas given to my by my friends.  The ideas could be a single word, an image, or up to a paragraph of text.  Point being, writing on a random topic is a good way to learn to write to any old topic.  I list a link to the story, the idea as given to me (or shortened in a few cases, the genre I would put the story in, and the person who gave me the idea, to whom the story is dedicated.

2 - Lets Roll guy not on plane - Action - for Brent

21 - Nighthawks - Horror - for Cindy

3 - Snakes on a Train - Drama - for Shadow

1  - No ideas and no long term memory - Sci-Fi (meditation on the drake equation) - for Carl and Ali

18 - No matter what I do I look like an a**hole - Drama - for Mike and Christine 

20 - Interstellar Cosmonaut - Sci-Fi - for Noah

13 - Wumpits - Sci-Fi-Fantasy - for Harry

22 - Stressed out girl at work - Psychological Drama - for Zvi

23 - A bunch of old people talking - the gathering - please no axes. - for Danelle

6 - Ex-con gets a smartphone - Sci-Fi - for Don