"We just came from Model UN. We were representing Russia, but we didn’t win any awards."
"What was your biggest accomplishment of the day?"
"Annoying Chad and Bolivia. We were on a committee with them, but they wouldn’t let us have any input, so we voted against our own resolution."
The Guardian Cats of New York City: The Watcher On The Shore Is Back!
The cats keep the ancient bargain.They are still among us, hidden here and there; the cats who remember the Old Compact: you provide a home for us, feed us, take care of us in our illness, and we will protect you from the dangers of the night. They operate below the sight lines of humanity, dealing with dangers that we would never notice until it was too late. They remember the old magics of…
The Curse on Omelas
Here is the truth of Omelas:
It is never just one. Never just one whose misery buys the pleasure of Omelas.
There are dozens. Hundreds. Thousands. There are pits next to the palaces.
Some serve directly. They live in the pits and the slums and the outskirts and each day they travel to the palaces where they cook the meals and clean the rooms and wipe the baby butts and make the…
The Guardian Cats of New York City: The Black Dog is Back!
The cats keep the ancient bargain.They are still among us, hidden here and there; the cats who remember the Old Compact: you provide a home for us, feed us, take care of us in our illness, and we will protect you from the dangers of the night. They operate below the sight lines of humanity, dealing with dangers that we would never notice until it was too late. They remember the old magics of…
The Day The Children Danced
It was three generations from the time a starman said “Let all the children boogie” before the children finally did.
No one knew how it happened or why, or who put the album in rotation,
But somewhere out in the outlands, at the crossroads of nowhere and everywhere, where the night wind blows in off the desert and the highways stretch out into forever, a radio station with chrome walls and…
The Guardian Cats of New York City: Kodama’s Courage is Back
The cats keep the ancient bargain.
They are still among us, hidden here and there; the cats who remember the Old Compact: you provide a home for us, feed us, take care of us in our illness, and we will protect you from the dangers of the night. They operate below the sight lines of humanity, dealing with dangers that we would never notice until it was too late. They remember the old magics of…
Out On The Airwaves
There is a radio station out there at the crossroads of nowhere and everywhere. Out in the outlands beyond all lands, where the night wind blows in off the desert and the highways stretch out into forever.
Where the Sun never rises to bring the mundane morning, but the Moon is always full and bigger than she should be and she shines down a silver day as the stars gleam bright in the vast black…
The Guardian Cats of New York City: Shin-Nephura’s Neighborhood is Back
The cats keep the ancient bargain.
They are still among us, hidden here and there; the cats who remember the Old Compact: you provide a home for us, feed us, take care of us in our illness, and we will protect you from the dangers of the night. They operate below the sight lines of humanity, dealing with dangers that we would never notice until it was too late. They remember the old magics of…
Field Hospital is Back!
Medic in a greater war.
On an Air Force base in the middle of the desert, Captain Eileen Brennan waits to treat the casualties of a war that everyone back home thinks is over. But today, she will treat the wounded of a war far greater than the one she thought she was fighting.
The first story to be republished is now back up!
For a long time only available as a chapter in The Clan Brennan…
For Real This Time
Back in March, I gave notice that I would be taking down short stories posted on my blogs and republishing them on Amazon. For various reasons, that didn’t happen yet. But it will happen soon.
I’m going to be away from my computers for the whole week next week, but after that, we get started. As promised back in March, I’ll be taking the stories down from my blogs and republishing them at…
The Real Galactic Superweapon: The Skywalker Bloodline
So I was thinking about Star Wars the other day, as you do, and I had an entirely non-canon but interesting idea:
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