Writing

I have been writing for as long as I can remember.  I have written many articles, essays, short stories, and three novels: two middle-grade fiction and one science-fiction called "Exiled!" which takes place in the Pangalactic Empire. Below are a number of short stories that I have written in that world. I will also be posting some short stories here that I have written.

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Articles and Essays

On Writing

• How Not to Not Be Funny (published in the Hunger Mountain Journal March 2017)
  

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Fiction

Index of Stories by Posting Date

Tales from the Pangalactic Empire

• Lieutenant Steele and the Clone Riots (posted 2/26/2014)
• Commander Lucan and the Saboteurs (posted 3/7/2014)
• Private Steele Leaves Her Comfort Zone (posted 3/14/2014)
• Riaz and the Close Call (posted 3/21/2014)
• Deepa and the Things She Did Not Know (posted 3/29/2014)
• Commander Lucan Goes on Safari (posted 4/6/2014)
• Private Steele Takes a Break ( posted 4/11/2014)
• Dr. Ak Hatches a Plan (posted 4/18/2014)
• Introduction to Universal Forces (posted 4/28/2014)
• Deepa Learns a Lesson (posted 4/18/2016)

Other stories

• The Man in the House on the Hill (posted 12/31/2016)

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Tales From The Pangalactic Empire

    These tales take place between a few hundred and a few thousand years in the future. Their exact date is not relevant, because you, the reader, are human and have not yet developed time travel, so you will be dead long before they occur.

     The narratives all concern individuals who are connected in some way to a certain interstellar transport ship whose crash landing is the subject of Exiled! A Pangalactic Novel. If you have read that book, I hope you'll enjoy these vignettes. If you have not read it, then these stories should whet your appetite.  I do encourage you to read the novel, because it is not only destined to be one of the most popular works in the history of human publishing (exceeded only by a two-volume series that purports to discuss morality or some such, and a seven-volume series that takes place in a British boarding school).  The difference between Exiled! and those works is that it, and the stories below, are all completely, literally, and without any exaggeration, true.

     I should know. I was, am, and shall be there, when they occur.  Who am I?  That is explained in Introduction to Universal Forces.

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Chronological Index of Pangalactic Stories

• Introduction to Universal Forces (??? EY)
• Riaz and the Close Call (-20 EY)
• Private Steele Leaves Her Comfort Zone (-8 EY)
• Deepa and the Things She Did Not Know (-7 EY)
• Private Steele Takes a Break (-7 EY)
• Deepa Learns a Lesson (-7 EY)
• Commander Lucan and the Saboteurs (-7 EY)
• Lieutenant Steele and the Clone Riots (-6 EY)
• Commander Lucan Goes on Safari (-6 EY)
• Dr. Ak Hatches a Plan (-6 EY)

The tales are listed in the rough order in which they took place, and the approximate amount of time, in Earthyears, prior to the events of Exiled! (-10 EY means 10 years before Exiled! begins)