Short Stories
This page is for short stories, longer stories, and any other form of writing, except scripts, that could reasonably form the basis of a movie, television program, or video. Stories that also exist in script form may include a link (even if the script version is posted somewhere other than my scripts page.) Very simple "vignette" pieces belong on the Vignettes page.
All submissions are requested to be in HTML format.

The Arrow of Minia    Fred588@GO.COM
The Pits of Zendar    Fred588@GO.COM    Screenplay version
The Quicksand Pipe    Fred588@GO.COM
Stake Out  Fred588@GO.COM
 Dream #2 (The Way of the Fen)    Fred588@GO.COM (Those from a certain northeastern city may recognize a joke in the title of this one)
Stopping for Lunch (Name Withheld)
 Criminals Don't Get Far Here (Name Withheld) Screenplay version The Escape
The Y2K Bug Bog or The Rapture of the Deep
The Phobiovore
Justice Fred588@GO.COM
Holosuite6    Fred588@GO.COM
Thicket's Cave    Fred588@GO.COM
COMING SOON
A large collection of previoiusly published short stories has been received from Derik Jayson, past winner of the Lebon Prize for Quicksand Literature and will be apperaring here. The first of these classic tales appears today and additional installments will be posted in coming weeks.
Are you an artist?
If you are an artist, professional or reasonably talented amateur, I would be happy to have you display your work here in the form of an illustration or two for a script or story. Upon request I will also include your copyright notice and your email address where persons may contact you if interested in seeing more of your work. All I ask is that the illustration be clearly related to the story or script to which it is attached. The best approached would be, I think, to submit a series of three to maybe ten illustrations that all go with a single story. Please send such items to my email address or post them somewhere privately and let me know where to download them. Email attachements sent from totally unidentifiable sources that I do not recognize will not be opened due to the risk of viruses.
Are you a photographer?
The invitation to artists above applies to photographers, computer animators, and anyone with appropriate, relevant materials.

Comments Welcomed
Comments, constructive criticism, variations, and the like are welcome for all of my stories. I may even  post such items following the script unless the sender requests other wise. All comments will be posted anonymously unless the sender specifically requests otherwise. Naturally I prefer enthusiastic, glowing comments that compare me to the greats (I am referring to people like J. Thicket, Kaol, D Lodoski, etc., not Hemingway and Poe) but negative comments are acceptable too. (The negatives just go into the file marked 'meaningless drivel' instead of the one that says 'literary reviews.' Comments concerning works by other authors will be accepted for posting only if that is acceptable to the author, in which case the manuscripts will be followed by a notice saying "Comments Invited."
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