Science Fiction and Fantasy Short Stories. A new story will be published
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An erie tale of darkness and heroism which I may expand on later. The latest rejection from Asimov Magazine.
ARTHUR'S WORLD
As any game player knows, sometimes it's hard to remember where the game stops, and reality begins. Especially if the computer decides to download your soul.
AN OLD FRIEND
A friend is a friend, no matter where you find one. The fact that he could wipe Washington off the face of the map, should mean little to a true friendship.
REPRIEVED
Bobby finds that the person you meet in the dark, may not be all he appears to be. After in inter-system
flight in a space ship, Bobby finds that he knows everything. How can the smartest ten year old boy on
Earth help his poor family survive?
THE STRANGER
Published in Boundless Realm October 1998, and Science Fiction Creators 1999.
He was a man who had no name and needed none. In a world with few people he was simply called "The Stranger". He was a loner, a hunter, and a mountain man. The day he met a scholar who read to him from a 200 year old western novel published in 1968, was the day that changed his life. He brought the scholar out of the wilderness, so the scholar could rebuild a world.
Published in Boundless Realm November 1998. Saprophytes
When an orange mold covers Los Angeles and turns the citizens into flesh eating
super strong zombies who are immune to bullets, it's up to one Marine Corps
corporal to save the Earth. If he can escape from jail.
Creation By Fire
May be published in Boundless Realm December 1998.
Nearly destroyed by enemy ships a man is burned, broken and his memory is gone. His only form of identification is a police badge and he finds that he is one of the galaxy's top police officers. His amnesia forces him to accept a supplemtary memory
transfer from previously downloaded old memories, so he can complete his
mission. The transfer wipes out all of his old memories, which is
acceptable until he finds out the badge did not belong to him.
RICHIE THE DRAGON
When a scientist spliced genes together randomly, rather than losing a contract on defective DNA, he knew he might be creating a monster capable of eating a group of Japanese tourists. But his monster turned out to be a 20 foot long dragon, who could capture hearts, rather than tourists.
REMOTE EXPLORER
In the distant future there is no more French Foreign Legion. Now you join the Remote Exploration Corps, where they stick your body in a fluid tank for three years and your mind operates a lifelike robot on a distant planet.
JACK THE DEMIGOD When his project supervisor decides to kill him, rather than being fired, Jack outwits him and survives. Then he becomes the sole thought donner for the new Demigod Computer which was designed to run the universe. The computer becomes him, and together they seek revenge, and have a little fun with their newfound power.
BLACKWING Being the outcasts of the space fleet, few people take notice when Black Wing is given every dirty job in the universe. But when aliens attack they become the sole salvation of mankind.
Here's a good one, try this out. It's called Faries, Trolls, And Staff Sergeant Maltin.
The First Sender. The First Sender is a small hairy alien humanoid which is trained to
move things with his mind. After being kidnapped by humans, he joins forces with other's
to fight a common menace.
THE COMMANDER CODY SPACE GUN WARS, Chapter One Despite the unusual title this is the first chapter of serious novel
about an alien political take-over of the modern day world.
Back-engineering of alien technology produces powerful weapons
disguised as children's toys. When these toys reach the hands of
small pockets of resistance, they become the lethal weapons they
were designed to be and mankind's hope for salvation. But the real
question is, who is the true enemy, us or them?