This page links to my short stories, organized by year.
WARNINGS:
- 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. Ray Bradbury was probably a quicker study than I am. I am also writing one story every month. That takes me about 15 minutes a day, on average. I started writing in 2012. So by my calculations, you can start reading the really good stuff in the 22nd century, at the earliest.
- 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 2013
I spent a lot of time before work in coffee shops and wrote ten short stories in 2013.
The stories all turned out to be part of the same robots vs. kung fu story.
Of course, that encouraged me to make them into something bigger, which delayed those stories indefinitely. I now know experientially what a pit of unproductivity the "make it a novel!" disease is. It's halfway through 2014, and I've finally decided to start posting them, one at a time, as short stories. It's better this way. I'm happier. I like them as short stories better than as a stupid old novel anyway. I'm editing them before I post, so expect I'll fill this in with the 10 stories by the end of 2014, hopefully along with a bunch of other stuff I'm working on:
The Last Cell Phone
Spending all that time in coffee shops, I also wrote some miscellaneous things: you can get the full silicon valley coffee shop writing experience from this miscellaneous snippet I wrote. or read my response to someone interested in getting into programming
Short stories written in 2012
These first 10 stories are based on ideas given to my by my friends. They all need a rewrite or two. The ideas given ranged from a single word, an image, or up to a paragraph of text. Below, I list a link to the story, the idea as given to me (summarized in most cases), the genre I would put the story in and the name of the friend who gave me the idea.
1 - No ideas and no long term memory - Sci-Fi (meditation on the drake equation) - for Carl and Ali
21 - Nighthawks - Horror - for Cindy
2 - Lets Roll guy not on plane - Action - for Brent
3 - Snakes on a Train - Drama - for Shadow
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
I am currently writing ten of my short stories based on my own ideas. I'll post them at some point, as they have basically all merged into one big story. When I'm done with that I'll probably start in on stories for friends again, because that was a lot of fun, too.
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