Presenting some of my fiction. Lately, if you browse my page, my fiction has taken the form of Photo Stories featuring 12" action figures. Before that, I used to write cartoons, comics, and short fiction much more frequently than I do now. Here are some of my stories:

[ The Repossession | Red Dust | The Great Fire | Raft | Redemption ]

The following are available as eBooks for Palm OS eBook readers. Note that these versions may be more up-to-date as I edited them before converting them to eBook format. These files are *.pdb format for upload to your Palm OS PDA.

eBook: The Repossession | The Great Fire | Redemption

For more information on Palm OS eBooks, visit the Palm eBook page.

• I have written short stories for as long as I could print my name. I read a lot of Science Fiction and Detective Fiction, both in short and long form. I now consider myself a better than average writer of short stories, who has not yet been published. Of course I haven't pursued it very aggressively yet.
  
  
• I have written a handful of stories I consider worth reading. Some of which are available for your reading pleasure. Or your reading pain. Whichever. I can't critique my own stuff.
  
  
• I started by writing several stories in the Near Cyberpunk era. Not quite cyberpunk in that the images on the computer screen have not yet graduated to the point of direct sensory input. There is still need for a monitor, and the datastream as I call it is just a 3D graphic representation on-screen. The stories take place some years before the Gibsonesque Cyberpunk era, during the formation of the punk culture that is fully realized in Gibson's world. One is called "The Repossession" and is about a young data transaction pilot who is hounded by the Student Loan people.
  
  
• In the Science Fiction realm, I have a story called "Red Dust" about the first mobile Mars probe which runs into a little snag on the surface of the red planet. This was written long before the Pathfinder mission, but does involve a mobile probe, unlike the real Viking mission. This was recently adapted to Photo Story format. You may notice the similarities, as well as the differences.
  
  
• "The Great Fire" is a story I wrote for the CBC's Great Fire Story Contest. The challenge was to write a story to commemorate the two Great Fires in St. John's' history. Most people wrote about characters that lived through it, but I wanted to add a Science Fiction twist. My story was told from the point of view of an observer who is obviously an outsider, but who could suspect how much of an outsider he was? This story recounted the Great Fire, as was the only criterion for the contest, but this fire was one that shouldn't have happened. The story did not win the contest, but was read on-air on CBC by Jim Wellman, and I have a copy of that on tape.
  
  
• "Raft" is about three amateur astronauts who crash land on Venus in their kit-built ultralight spacecraft, and how the two survivors get off the planet.
  
  
• "Redemption" takes us into the realm of Dark Fantasy. The story of a middle-aged alcoholic who has an encounter with a Guardian Angel who can see the future as easily as he can see the past and how that Angel saves the lives of a family. Not to be confused with my Doctor Who story, "Redemption" seen here.
  
  
• I have also written a few children's stories. I won't go into detail here, but I like them.
  
  
• I am by far most proud of the effort I put forth in my novel. "The Black Blade" is a working title only, and is a 150 page fantasy novel aimed at young adults, but I think it will cross over into adult market as well. It takes place in Newfoundland, and is about a race of small creatures before the Ice Age. I'm currently looking for an agent or publisher who would like to read it. Hopefully someone will read it before I die. If not, I've read it to my daughter several times, and she loves it. That's better than any publication anyway.

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