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Twenty-five years ago this week, I wrote my first sci-fi adventure novel 'Say Goodbye To The Sun'. It was rejected by several publishers as 'too far-fetched' and one day I tossed the last known copy of the manuscript into a dumpster and forgot about it. 2002: An attic in Seattle. A copy of...

Hole Card I was keeping track of the days for a while but they found the pencil stub hidden under my mattress. I discovered it lying unnoticed in a pocket of my jumpsuit and tried to use it. Really stupid of me to keep it under the mattress, though. I should have known better. They find out...

PROLOGUE A cold and miserable rain had been falling on Washington D.C. for a week, casting a damp and oppressive pall over the city. Ashen clouds rolled overhead in an endless parade, dumping their heavy loads of moisture like worshippers filing past a shrine to throw pennies at its feet. A...

File Under: Non-Fiction 'Hutch' A Tribute for Memorial Day Well, I was in the old Regular Army back in the Seventies, but I didn't see any action. In fact, I joined up the month after Saigon fell and never got past Missouri. So, my service was pretty minimal. Every Memorial Day I...

Ishmael Beah now lives in the United States. His present life is much different than the one he lived in the mid 1990's. At age eleven, he was drafted into the Sierra Leone army to fight the rebels. Some of his friends were even younger, and had to drag their AK-47's along the ground because...

When I wrote this one, the length was restricted to 250 words or less... 'Memoir' Mrs. Sanders was crying again. It had been another difficult afternoon for her at the hospital, and now she was sitting in the kitchen sobbing quietly. Outside it was bright summer and warm. A few...

I have about a hundred and fifty of these flash stories in a file. They are for a possible book next year. This is one of them. Anything to get him out of the damn house, she thought. She scrubbed the sink to hospital white and carefully rinsed it before blotting it dry with a...

The merchant ship cruised slowly into the bay, slicing through cold water as smooth as glass. Sharp peaks of black stone towered above the harbor like the walls of a prison. Tiny icebergs floated silently across the water, reflecting their rainbow colors in every spectrum. A row of hills...

I sure hope this isn't a duplicate posting on the same subject. I don't think it is... The Internet Archive has got to be one of the best free sources on the internet. They are a rarity on the Internet: Free, legal, downloads of thousands of classic films, books, audio files, Old-Time Radio...

A bizarro-world short story. Feel free to tear it to shreds... Addiction The three officers opened the outer airlock door leading to the house. They waited for the standard green light to flash, and then removed their oxygen helmets before knocking. A blonde woman with thin hair...

It's creepy to read about TODAY'S internet and the advancement of computer technology as written by Bill Gates back in 1994. He actually wrote 'The Road Ahead' between 1992-1993. It's an amazing book, indeed. The first few chapters are a down-to-earth explanation of his early life and how...

'The land of jets and coffee' refers to Seattle, Washington since it's the home of Boeing and Starbucks...and good old Bill Gates. If you drive across the floating bridge between Seattle and Bellevue, you can actually see his house on the shoreline. It's probably better if you refer to my...