Finding The Light In Her Smile
An Alpha & Beta Vignette
SO THE STORY GOES
Made Up Stories (spanning fiction genres) and Vignettes (spanning real life).
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THE TIDES BEAT
“When the moon rose... and a mermaid gleamed among the rocks.” ―Hermann Hesse
One of Those Hot Texas Nights...
Just as every picture tells a story... every song has a memory.
Next June's Moon
A drowned boy comes back each June...
The Girl in the Ramones Shirt
On an Ibiza night, a young man meets a woman in a faded Ramones shirt—but what feels like a first meeting may not be one at all.
31 Years Gone
Americana-blues-rock song for the cemetery scene in ONCE I WAS A GOOD MAN
DEEP OF NIGHT (free download)
A slow jazz, film-noir-style song created for THE RED NIGHT (an alternate-history novel set in 1948).
LEAVING TAOS
Two men discuss a murder, unaware that a stranger at the bus depot knows more than he dares to say.
Bob, Jane, and the Bomb
A darkly comic 1950s flashfiction scenario
Midnight, Where We Met
A song from an upcoming short story. You can also download the song for free (MP3 format).
No One's Princess
In Edgar Rice Burroughs’s A Princess of Mars, John Carter is carried to a dying planet and wins a princess. Here’s the draft prologue to my reimagined story.