A hard-driven, middle-aged, male boss concocts a unique competition for his staff that will take place at night, on bikes, on an abandoned railroad in Appalachia (USA). The motive behind this off-ro……続きを見る
While watching the TSG 1899 Hoffenheim - Liverpool FC Champions League play-off match (first leg) in a Charlotte (NC, US) bar on a hot-as-hell August day, the author is accosted by a South American ……続きを見る
While watching the TSG 1899 Hoffenheim - Liverpool FC Champions League play-off match (first leg) in a Charlotte (NC, US) bar on a hot-as-hell August day, the author is accosted by a South American ……続きを見る
The author and a science lab facilitator have a more-interesting-than-ever-expected conversation with a waitress at a Mexican restaurant in Charlotte (NC, USA).
Approx. 1600 words.
If this autobiogr……続きを見る
[from the inside virtual flap]
All thirty-six short stories from calendar year 2017 are invisibly bound together in this digital document. Just like Psecret Psociety Pshort Pstories, Volume 1 (and V……続きを見る
It's sometime in the future on planet Earth, perhaps the 25th century or thereabouts. The humanoid robots have won out. And, what do these ultra-smart androids do for entertainment? Why, they replay……続きを見る
A Central American cell-phone technician has a startling change of plan half-way up a tower in Charlotte (NC, USA).
If this little vignette were expanded into an American movie, it would most likely……続きを見る
A middle-aged man, a home inspector, stumbles upon a short cipher in southwestern Virginia (USA). As he tries to solve it, the weather conditions worsen. Then there is a medical emergency. Later tha……続きを見る
A largely autobiographical tale about the author's experience at a Charlotte (NC, USA) bar for the Liverpool - AS Roma semifinal Champions League match (first leg) on April 24, 2018. A certain busbo……続きを見る
Are there really 26 types of Facebook users? Is that the exact number of categorizable personalities on the currently-very-popular social-media site? Maybe. But, probably not. Though, one for each l……続きを見る
The author (Agent 33) recounts a candid conversation with a Philadelphia Eagles fan in uptown Charlotte, while waiting for a streetcar to arrive on a muggy Friday morning. Some unexpected revelation……続きを見る
The author recounts a candid conversation with a Philadelphia Eagles fan in uptown Charlotte, while waiting for a streetcar to arrive on a muggy Friday morning. Some unexpected revelations. From ho-……続きを見る
An older couple's conversation while in a Munising, Michigan restaurant. A recent accidental death and a store robbery are discussed. The man begins to feel his sanity is being 'taken away'.
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Two young soldiers - an American specialist and a Romanian guard - are assigned an environmental task in southeastern Afghanistan in 2009. The area is very dangerous; Taliban attacks have recently o……続きを見る
The author has a random conversation with a school teacher from Michigan at a craft-beer bar/store in downtown Morganton (NC, USA) on an autumn afternoon. The answer to the final question was hiding……続きを見る
The author has a random conversation with a school teacher from Michigan at a craft-beer bar/store in downtown Morganton (NC, USA) on an autumn afternoon. The answer to the final question was hiding……続きを見る
The amazing one in the Big Apple, Al Nino, calls the pain-ridden, lowly author on New Year's Eve (2018), and launches a zinger-filled inquisition in reference to two bizarre dreams. Are they linked?……続きを見る
The amazing one in the Big Apple, Al Nino, calls the pain-ridden, lowly author on New Year's Eve (2018), and launches a zinger-filled inquisition in reference to two bizarre dreams. Are they linked?……続きを見る
A divorced father takes his teenage son and daughter up to a remote cabin in the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina, where he wants to tell them something very important about his - and their - futur……続きを見る
A divorced father takes his teenage son and daughter up to a remote cabin in the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina, where he wants to tell them something very important about his - and their - futur……続きを見る
In 2017 on the central California coast, a proprietary, just-developed prototype, first-of-its-kind quantum computing chip is stolen. A nautical chase ensues. And then an unforeseen calamity. Suspic……続きを見る
Set in Laos in 2015. A teenage boy with a hyper-wondering mind becomes entranced by an old electric fan. But, just before the fan answers his many questions ...
Approx. 1100 words.
Ok for all ages.
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Set in Laos in 2015. A teenage boy with a hyper-wondering mind becomes entranced by an old electric fan. But, just before the fan answers his many questions ...
Approx. 1100 words.
Ok for all ages.
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[from the inside virtual flap]
The 27-year-old author arrives in San Francisco, California in March of 1992, seeking fame and fortune as a wall (visual) artist. He settles in at a small Tenderloin s……続きを見る
Agents 32 and 33 traipse around San Francisco on a grey October day, finally alighting in the West Portal neighborhood. All is going relatively well, but thoughts of what might have been pervade. Un……続きを見る
A 60-something male befriends a 50-something female online. The two Pittsburgh residents both have not-so-positive attitudes regarding humanity, which they perversely enjoy. On a gray winter day, th……続きを見る
An interracial couple goes for their customary weekend exercise excursion at a park near the boundary with southwestern Pittsburgh. All starts out well enough. But then one of them makes a costly ba……続きを見る
An interracial couple goes for their customary weekend exercise excursion at a park near the boundary with southwestern Pittsburgh. All starts out well enough. But then one of them makes a costly ba……続きを見る
Do you play the Powerball or Mega-Millions lottery? If so, read this almost-completely-real-life short story, and hopefully you won't make the same multi-million-dollar blunder that Agents 32 and 33……続きを見る