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No Such Thing (2009)
Just
in time for Halloween 2009! This is a rewrite of something I did some twenty-five
tears ago, and while bigger is not always better, I think this time it is. A
lonely caver meets an equally lonely landowner with a cold, dark secret…the
perfect story for a rainy night, popcorn and cocoa. Mmm…vanilla!
The third new short story of a very productive second half of 2009.
Close to the Sky (2009)
A
love story that is actually based on true events. It's amazing what you can do when
you simply believe. The title was
suggested during a hiking trip with my little buddy Weston.
Feed (2009)
Something
that I encountered on the trail years ago that has stuck with me ever since;
there’s even a picture of the exact site this story was conceived on my Picture
Pages. The gist of this one is, sometimes being out on your own with nothing
around but nature and your imagination is a good thing. Sometimes it isn’t. You
decide…
‘Til You See God (2007)
The
first time I actually completed NaNoWriMo was in
2007, and while the story is not finished yet, there’s a good-sized chunk of it
begging to see the light of day. So…
No,
this has nothing to do with bricklaying, though that is certainly a noble
enough occupation. No, this is about another Brickyard, the one at 16th
and Georgetown in Indianapolis, and specifically about one not-so-young man’s
fevered (and oft-interrupted) dreams about it.
Unfinished,
or, the Big Yard Sale (2008)
My
2008 NaNoWriMo project…amazingly, complete (more or
less) in less than a month. Probably the single most productive twenty-six days
I've ever lived, this is based on characters from pretty much all of the stories listed below, and it
kinda explains the thought process behind each.
Crosses (2006)
You’ve
seen all those roadside memorials, I’m sure. Did you ever wonder what about the
stories behind them? Might there be more there than meets the eye? I did, and after about a week’s frantic
work, here’s what resulted…
Lemon Drops for the Green One (2005)
A
hiking trip, a general store, and an elderly woman with a pet goat…and a story.
Set in Tennessee’s spectacular South Cumberland and inspired, if you can
believe it, by an XTC song. I mostly wrote this during a slog down Fiery
Gizzard Cove during a stupendous thunderstorm.
Meadows of Forever (1990/Present)
My
first truly “complete” novel, still not exactly finished over fifteen years later.
It exists in one form or another in several homes. This is the first of the Breckinridge Books, and the novel that
made me believe in Magic.
The
never-ending story, the book I cannot seem to finish. Originally started over
20 years ago, it’s into its third iteration now and shows no sign of ending.
It’s intended to be the second of the Breckinridge
Books, although sequentially-speaking it sorta wraps around Meadows. God only knows when it will be
finished, but till it is, here are a couple of excerpts…
This
is actually a short segment (not even a chapter) which spilled from me during a
Great Plains Development class in
Another
segment of
The Peach Tree (2006)
Not
a tale I ever pictured myself making public, but there you go. This actually
started as a bit on a guy hearing voices coming out of the receiver from the
baby monitor in his infant son’s bedroom, but time and circumstances morphed it
into a, “I’m not much of a father” story, sort of a verbal self-flagellation.
Maybe one day I’ll get around to writing the baby monitor thing.
Gypsies (1986/Present)
The
last (well, maybe) of the Breckinridge
Books, this brings the epic to a more-or-less logical conclusion. Based in
no small part on true events and real people, believe it or not. This is a
short (well, rather long, actually) excerpt from what will probably end up as
the longest of the "trilogy".
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