Two familiar agents (32 and 33) ride bikes from the east Charlotte (NC, USA) neighborhood of Windsor Park to Cotswold Mall in southeast Charlotte on a splendid April morning. The route is meticulous……続きを見る
A man in his late 50s receives a package around lunchtime on his day off from work. He opens it, and a world of trouble jumps out.
Another tale in the ongoing psecret psociety pshort pstory pseries.……続きを見る
A very strange, multi-faceted, coarse-tongued, bizarrely costumed performance artist re-alights in Pittsburgh after a long national absence on a winter night at an East End dive bar. His act gets of……続きを見る
Agent 33 ruminates while gazing at the Willamette River in Oregon City. Agent 32 is not in the mood for anymore nonsense. And, who was passing over the I-205 bridge at 4:37:19 PM PDT on the 5th of S……続きを見る
On a splendid fall day, Al Niño calls in with unsolicited e-book advice for the author. However, the rambling conversation soon deteriorates once again.
Word count: 1616 (original manuscript).
Ratin……続きを見る
Agents 32 and 33 take a bike ride to NoDa (in northeast Charlotte, NC, USA). There they encounter some very interesting people at a Cajun restaurant. Bizarre conversations are overheard and recorded……続きを見る
A father and son go for an afternoon outing to the Natural Bridges (coastal southern Oregon) on an autumn Saturday. The son's new drone performs perfectly. Until a miscue at the end. The video foota……続きを見る
A Flemish father returns to the exact place where a horrible tragedy occurred years ago, seeking clues. The memory of the fateful day is still quite acute. Hopes for resolution sink into dissolution……続きを見る
The author recalls a winter walk with his dad and younger brother a half century ago in Raleigh, NC. They stumble upon some unlikely ruins. Thoughts of the future abound, and rebound.Length: 1919 wo……続きを見る
On a snowy evening in Sapporo, a young Asian lady wonders how to send her candid message to a person/robot in the 25th century. Her mind is a mile-a-minute. Suddenly she realizes that she may have b……続きを見る
On a snowy evening in Sapporo, a young Asian lady wonders how to send her candid message to a person/robot in the 25th century. Her mind is a mile-a-minute. Suddenly she realizes that she may have b……続きを見る
On a nice fall day in north-central Missouri, a concrete finisher discovers a most-intriguing object in the mix. Whose is it? What are the ramifications? And the odds?
Approx. 1300 words.
Rating: G ……続きを見る
Agents 32 and 33 search the outer Sunset district of San Francisco for signs of the fabled knowhere [sic] pub known as Sidle on N. They walk down Judah Street through the dense fog towards the invis……続きを見る
Four dozen mostly meta-real, sometimes semi-surreal, auspiciously autobiographical, and occasionally oddly ordinary short stories from 2010 through 2015 have been rounded up into one volume for your……続きを見る
Agent A~O (Al Nino) texts Agent 33 (the author) out of the blue on an overcast February day in Charlotte, requesting 'ideas'. He then calls Agent 33 to learn more about an upcoming novella involving……続きを見る
The author recounts a semi-fictional, very strange, at the time legal, mind-drug experience in San Francisco in 1992. When the young Asian lady disappears on the Lands End Trail, he is left doubting……続きを見る
Agents 32 and 33 of the psecret psociety return to Galax (Virginia, USA) on Christmas Eve 2016 to make amends for a previous short story. They go on an evening walk through the nearly deserted town,……続きを見る
Before going to watch the Liverpool - Hull City football/soccer match at an uptown pub, the author (Agent 33) and his wife (Agent 32) discuss the legendary Mr. Malloy (of San Francisco fame) at a St……続きを見る
Agents 32 and 33 search the outer Sunset district of San Francisco for signs of the fabled knowhere [sic] pub known as Sidle on N. They walk down Judah Street through the dense fog towards the invis……続きを見る
The first set of spelling rules (from 2010-11) for psecret psociety are gathered into this 1600-word short story. A basic sentence grows stranger with every spelling permutation. Of the nine spellin……続きを見る
In June of 1995, a man from Charlotte drives to a mountain lake in western North Carolina (USA) to test out his new kayak, and to check out a hard-to-reach waterfall. All is going swimmingly well. T……続きを見る
Two agents - one who is quite high and won't stop joking - discuss the CATS Gold Line streetcar alignment through inner east Charlotte (NC, USA).
Another psecret psociety pshort pstory.
Approx. 1200……続きを見る
Agents 32 and 33 take a harrowing bike ride through east Charlotte (NC, USA) to a Taco Bell. They recognize the exceedingly courteous African American employee (from previous visits) behind the coun……続きを見る
The author (future agent 33) and his now-deceased cohort in mind, Frank N. Peck (future agent 107), take a smoky drive in east Charlotte in 1981 (which is retraced in 2015). The topic of LED time di……続きを見る
The author (Agent 33) and his wife (Agent 32) return to the Golden Sands (hotel) at Carolina Beach (NC, USA) for a family Thanksgiving. A strangely short pier catches their attention. There, by chan……続きを見る
[[||]] … from the [virtual] inside flap …
All thirty-nine short stories from calendar year 2016 are gathered in this digital collection. Just like Psecret Psociety Pshort Pstories, Volume 1, these l……続きを見る
In a small Brazilian town in 2016, a young man who loves to fish - but doesn't make much money doing it - has fallen for a pretty young lady. However, this sexy, beautiful, middle-class lady is also……続きを見る
The author recounts a semi-fictional, very strange, at the time legal, mind-drug experience in San Francisco in 1992. When the young Asian lady disappears on the Lands End Trail, he is left doubting……続きを見る
[[||]] … from the [virtual] inside flap …
All thirty-nine short stories from calendar year 2016 are gathered in this digital collection. Just like Psecret Psociety Pshort Pstories, Volume 1, these l……続きを見る
Bill, a Gulf War veteran who is living in a camper on the outskirts of Arcata (California, USA), gets some bad news on a gloomy morning in late winter of 2014. With no savings, he starts selling. St……続きを見る
