Available Stories
This page lists the different short stories I have for sale through WMG Publishing in just about all electronic formats including PDF downloads through Scribd.com., a bunch of different formats through Smashwords.com, Kindle on Amazon, and soon other retailers such as B&N, KOBO, and iBooks.
Just click on the links to go to the story.
I’ll attempt to keep them in order by title. I have listed the story on sub-pages by genre. These stories will also be available in collections eventually on a sub page of this one. Novels will also have their own page. Check them all out.
And coming this fall some novels and collections in trade paper format.
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A Vanilla Three-Way with a Cherry
When the ghost of Marilyn Monroe joins you and your girlfriend for a milkshake with a cherry on top, things change in a relationship, sometimes for the better. Especially when your girlfriend thinks she is Norma Jean.
Available in all electronic formats on Smashwords, Kindle, and Scribd.
Published by WMG Publishing.
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Between Showers
All he wanted to do was wash his Rambler Classic, but the volcano blew and started dumping ash everywhere. And just would not stop. An end-of-the-world story for one man who just really wanted it to rain anything but ash.
Available in all electronic formats on Smashwords, Kindle, and Scribd.
Published by WMG Publishing.
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Black Betsy
Shoeless Joe Jackson made a mistake and was banned from baseball for life. Sometimes, in the Garden Lounge, the special jukebox lets a customer go back in time to a mistake and fix it. Shoeless Joe never had a chance to let the jukebox help him fix his mistake, but instead it allowed Shoeless Joe to do something even more important: Help a child become a better adult.
Available in all electronic formats on Smashwords, Kindle, and Scribd.
Published by WMG Publishing.
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The Call of the Track Ahead
Do you risk your life, your safety, and the women you love for a dream? Sometimes the answer is just a single step from a moving train.
Available in all electronic formats on Smashwords, Kindle, and Scribd.
Published by WMG Publishing.
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Dinner on a Flying Saucer
All a fella wants ta do is tell his wife about how he helped save the planet from them there evil aliens. But all she wants to believe is that he’s been drinkin’ and carryin’ on.
What’s a fella ta do?
Available in all electronic formats on Smashwords, Kindle, and Scribd.
Published by WMG Publishing.
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Ghosts of the Garden Lounge
The special jukebox inside the Garden Lounge takes a listener back through time to the memory from a song. But sometimes that memory can be deadly for the time traveler. And time-loops do exist, even in the Garden Lounge.
Available in all electronic formats on Smashwords, Kindle, and Scribd.
Published by WMG Publishing.
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Growing Pains of the Dead
Growing up is a universal desire of all kids, even those who died at the age of fourteen. Set in the primitive area of Idaho, this gentle ghost story tells of a young boy named Mathew who finally gets a chance to grow up one hundred years after he died.
Available in all electronic formats on Smashwords, Kindle, and Scribd.
Published by WMG Publishing.
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He Could Have Coped with Dragons
Have you ever wondered what your life would be like if you had made a different decision? A bar napkin with a strange saying and a cartoon dragon gives Richard Cone just that: A second chance.
A Jukebox world story.
Available in all electronic formats on Smashwords, Kindle, and Scribd.
Published by WMG Publishing.
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In the Shade of the Slowboat Man
When you are a vampire and live forever,
and the man you love does not, saying goodbye can be the hardest thing you ever have to do.
Nebula Award nominee for best short story of the year.
Available in all electronic formats on Smashwords, Kindle, and Scribd.
Published by WMG Publishing.
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Jukebox Gifts
A bar, five friends, and a very special jukebox that lets you time travel back to a memory for the length of the song. What could go wrong with giving such a special trip and the gift of a second chance to each of your closest friends?
Available in all electronic formats on Smashwords, Kindle, and Scribd.
Published by WMG Publishing.
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Luck Be A Lady
A Poker Boy story. Laverne, Lady Luck herself is missing. Poker Boy, Front Desk Girl, and Screamer are on the case as well as every other Gambling God and hero in the gambling universe. The three of them have the power to get to the truth of what happened to Laverne and save the world from unraveling. But without luck, they may not have the time.
Available in all electronic formats on Smashwords, Kindle, and Scribd.
Published by WMG Publishing.
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The Old Girlfriend of Doom
Even heroes can not always save the girl. As one of the greatest superheroes in all of the Gambling Universe, Poker Boy does everything he can to help, but when the damsel in distress does not want to be rescued from her own deadly breasts, what is a superhero to do?
Available in all electronic formats on Smashwords, Kindle, and Scribd.
Published by WMG Publishing.
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Peter the Hermit
What would you do if the world was going to be destroyed by an asteroid in five days? We all like to think we would not act like Peter.
Or maybe we would.
Available in all electronic formats on Smashwords, Kindle, and Scribd.
Published by WMG Publishing.
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Playing in the Street
Sometimes a lost gold mine offers up far, far more than just gold.
And sometimes a secret that has been kept for a hundred years should remain a secret.
Available in all electronic formats on Smashwords, Kindle, and Scribd.
Published by WMG Publishing.
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Sighed the Snake
Poker Boy has saved the world a number of times, but never from an alien. With the help of his sidekick, Front Desk Girl and Leverne, Lady Luck herself, Poker Boy must do battle with an alien snake across the only battlefield Poker Boy knows: a poker table. The stakes are higher than in the original Garden of Eden. To make matters worse, Poker Boy hates snakes.
Available in all electronic formats on Smashwords, Kindle, and Scribd.
Published by WMG Publishing.
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The Yellow of the Flickering Past
What’
s a guy to do when he kills his wife, sticks her body in a trunk in the basement, and then is stuck with her nagging him to take her to the movies just like he used to do when she was alive?
A really strange ghost story about love, death, and the movies.
Available in all electronic formats on Smashwords, Kindle, and Scribd.
Published by WMG Publishing.
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