Short Fiction

Original Stories

“Rough Magic”

Miguel De Cervantes’s hero Don Quixote is tasked with a quest by exiled sorcerer Prospero from William Shakespeare’s play The Tempest.

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Original Stories

“Fiasco”

Short Story in Thrilling Adventure Yarns 2021

This crime-noir tale of betrayal and revenge is set in 1950s Los Angeles.

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Original Stories

“Chaos at Feast”

Short Story in Thrilling Adventure Yarns

A Lovecraftian-style horror-adventure tale. A renowned fortune-hunter travels to a heart of darkness, where he confronts an eldritch horror.

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Original Stories

“The Look on Your Face”

Short Story in They Keep Killing Glenn

Peter David presents this anthology of original short stories, each of which serves up a unique take on fictionally killing author, editor, and publisher Glenn Hauman.

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Original Stories

“Midnight Rider”

Short Story in Out of Tune, Book 2

A “weird Western” tale of love denied and trust betrayed, inspired by the classic folk song “The Suffolk Miracle.”

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Original Stories

“Our Possible Pasts”

Short Story in
2113: Stories Inspired by the Music of RUSH

An assistant U.S. attorney must prosecute for murder and fraud a woman who claims to have invented a machine that enables people to send their consciousness and memories back in time to their younger selves, but kills their bodies in the present.

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Original Stories

“Hell Rode With Her”

Novelette in Apollo's Daughters

February 1944. After ten years in exile, war-weary young mage Anja Kernova returns to the Russian village where she grew up. But there is no hero’s welcome for her — only betrayal and rejection, and the discovery of a dire new threat to Mother Russia that will put her courage and loyalty to the test.

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