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Story for Mertastic
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Eye of the Beholder
This story is done. It is a sequel to "...And We Will Have Snow," a continuation of the Culver family history, a story of shamans dealing with modern reality. Don't you agree we should have someplace to go if the climate catastrophe gets too intense? Flying their drones to the Moon, Mars, and beyond, Sedna and Newt j...
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Escape
Wonders happen every day when we're young. They're as natural at this age as a rainbow when it's raining on a sunny day or a nightingale's song in the transparent darkness of a starry May night. When adults, we get too serious, become devotees of so-called reality and betray the wonder-world of our dreams. Still, wond...
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Tesla, Mills, and Dark Matter
I've listed this short article as Non-Fiction, but can we really be sure of that when the topics are Tesla, Mills, and Dark Matter? What I have to say here is surely speculative, which may place it squarely in the Science Fiction genre. I'll leave it to you to decide. After that, if you want to read The Rest of the St...
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The Perfect Specimen
Two women. Poles apart in looks and lifestyle. But they share one thing in common.
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Ghosts of Culloden
This is an excerpt from one of 40 short stories in the OMP (One Million Project) Fiction Anthology. Historical fiction based around the Battle of Culloden -the last battle to be fought on Scottish soil.
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The girl with her face
Patricia is a recovering alcoholic who returns to the town where she had been a wife , and briefly, a mother. She is trying to recover lost memories around the trauma of losing her child, but instead sees a girl with her face. Strong emotions lead her to follow the girl and discover more about her past than she e...
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THE IMAGE
Jodie is a nature photographer by profession, captivated by the beauty of the natural world. An encounter with Monet's series on haystacks seen at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston inspires her to find an object in nature that she can follow through the seasons with her photography, much like Monet did with his art...
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Stone Circle
Is the ability to read minds a blessing or a curse? When Antonius's father dies, he must work to support his family. He finds employment as a servant in the Palazzo Ducal, home of Conte Valperga. Sixteenth-century Pesaro is a society governed by status, and Antonius has limited opportunities. When a competition is ann...
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ENCOUNTER AT TURKEY CREEK
An unusual encounter in Limestone County, Northern Alabama, in the Summer of 1861 following the secession of the first seven states of the new Confederate nation
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Starpath and Other Tales
Short science fiction and fantasy stories from my collection of old and moldy manuscripts.
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My Neck Has Moved, and other Oddities
Caution: poetry. Or at least verses that I fondly refer to as poems. I'll be also figuring out how to load things so I'll start with one (to set the stage.....or the bar :-) ) and then I'll try to put them in chapters by type. Well, roughly anyway, e.g. my "Church Poems" don't necessarily have anything to do with...
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The Contraption [Short Story]
[One Million Project - Fantasy/Sci-Fi Anthology] Russell Cornelius Brattle - a punctual and orderly teen - worked long hours as an apprentice tinker to provide for his broken family. His cousin Agatha - a free-spirited youngster - was eager to put her sewing days behind her and get her hands greasy. But she and her pr...
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The Unicorn and Other Poems
Mostly transcribed from a chapbook I made in 1982 and updated in 1991. Original contents were simple rhymes, sonnets, Christmas poems, light verse and others.
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...And We Will Have Snow
Global warming, global cooling, what if all the predictions are right? Or worse, what if all the predictions are wrong? Can humans truly hope to understand the complexities attendant on such changes, never mind explain their relationships and predict their effects? The people at WBI - Walden Bi...
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