This page provides links to short stories, novel fragments, stage plays, screenplays, and other creative endeavors. All downloads are Microsoft Word manuscripts in PDF format. Obligatory intellectual property notice: all content linked to herein is copyrighted. You are welcome to read at leisure on your own computer or print it out (if you hate reading on screen). Please, however, do not forward willy-nilly. Thanks.
Virus!
My self-published science-fiction comedy. Available for free PDF download below. Or, if you prefer to support this content, it is available for purchase at Amazon, either in print or as a Kindle e-book.
What if a computer virus could be transferred from machine to man? That provocative — if not downright silly — question is the basis of Virus!, a wild science-fiction comedy in the tradition of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. The Elite Computer Virus Task Force has a problem. Somehow, one of its most experimental — and dangerous — computer viruses has escaped. Battling this software outbreak are the no-nonsense General Piddle, scion of an intergalactically famous beat poet and blimp fetishist; the absent-minded Professor Fassbinder, whose scientific experiments inevitably result in the creation of giant mutants; extraterrestrial shapeshifter and pinochle enthusiast Zev Zyzzyx; and robot prototype Jet, the ultimate personal digital assistant who is a martial arts expert but has problems connecting to a printer....
This comic free-for-all takes our heroes (and villains) from the very depths of outer space all the way to downtown Denver, as they do battle with the Multiple Masters, a race of sophisticated supernatural beings....
“Take Offs and Landings”
Stage play under consideration for the Theatre Workshop at the Colonial Little Theatre in Johnstown, NY. Five characters are at a crossroads in their lives, personally, professionally, and spiritually. Trapped in an airport as their flight is delayed “indefinitely,” they think they know their destinations—until a mysterious force gives them the chance to reconsider their options...
“Past and Present Tense”
Stage play produced in a staged reading in November 2009 by the Theater Workshop at the Colonial Little Theatre in Johnstown, NY. It is Christmas Eve, and thirtysomething Daniel Harper is about to become a father for the first time. He hopes the birth of his child will help reunite him and his estranged brother Kevin, their parents’ “golden child,” who abruptly and mysteriously stormed out of their life one Christmas morning 20 years earlier. As both brothers plan to meet again, they each reminisce about the events of the past—and wonder what they mean for the future.
“Don Boing: Beneath the Music”
Humorous profile of the musician who was a legend in his own lunchtime.
“Crossed Over”
Long short story about a "TV dork" who claims he can talk to the dead—and the dead people he has pissed off.
“A Conspiracy of Prawns”
Part One of the “Moistville Trilogy” of staggeringly silly short stories. A chalk outline is found in a seafood restaurant. Is there a body that goes with it? Click the link below to download in PDF format.
“The Amphibian Brief”
Part Two of the “Moistville Trilogy” concerns a fiendish plot to capture all the world’s frogs and replace them with rubber replicas. What on earth for? Click the link below to download in PDF format.
“A Troubling of Goldfish”
Vampire goldfish?! Yep, that’s the very silly premise of the third story in the “Moistville Trilogy.” Click the link below to download in PDF format.
“Bossy”
Silly short story about a talking cow.
