I write and tell stories. I always have and I always will. Tantalizing Teasers gives you a taste of those stories, with a new passage twice each month. Story Summaries presents a brief description of each of the 12 short stories in my first book, Origination. If you read it, please leave a review on the Amazon page!
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Origination contains twelve tales of inner mind and out matter, written over a period of more than 40 years, from my high school days (I Am) to 2025 (Scrimshaw Jones).
Tiny little Switzerland runs a speeding ticket scam on even tinier littler Liechtenstein. The Historian tells a group of children the tale of how Liechtenstein fought back and changed the world.
Dr. Andrew Rigby has just been promoted to Director of Proficiency Testing at the Junior College of American Pathology. Under normal circumstances, this would be cause for celebration, but these are not normal circumstances. There’s not just a fly in the ointment, there’s a rampaging elephant…
Long after the bombs stop dropping, long after the screams die, long after even the radiation stops registering, one thing remains. It perseveres, it persists, it prevails. Once unleashed across the human body politic, it cannot die and we cannot rid ourselves of it. It tracks us, it categorizes us, it is perfunctory and meaningless. Yet here it still is, a given that even Davi recognizes and bows to.
What price would you pay for the most exciting day of your life? Emily didn’t ask that question, but she’s going to find out anyway.
It is said that artistic perfection is subjective and therefore never can be achieved objectively. But what happens if an artist creates an objectively perfect piece of art? This is the first story in a series that continues with Blanque’s Suburbia and Scrimshaw Jones.
Appearances can be deceiving and often are. A picture-perfect house in the suburbs disguises more than one mystery, as a performance artist named Blanque is about to find out. This is the second story in a series that starts with Creating a Masterpiece, follows with Blanque’s Suburbia, and then continues with Scrimshaw Jones.
When art is truly great, some say it takes on a life of its own. Two travelers journey to New Mexico to experience the art of rock carver Scrimshaw Jones, one looking for his own artistic path and the other seeking to escape, or at least to come to terms with, his past. This is the next story in a series that starts with Creating a Masterpiece and Blanque’s Suburbia.
Sophomoric hijinks from college freshmen in which two dummies meet a third dummy. Who outsmarts who remains to be seen.
Once upon a time, food fights and panty raids really happened at stodgy universities, just as portrayed in the historical video chronicle that is the only reliable record of the period, Animal House. In this story, the raid targets ice cream instead of panties, which happens to play much better decades after the fact since people have come to their senses about rude invasions of privacy for the sake of filching clothing that possibly still bears the skid marks of an intimate relationship with the crack of someone’s nether regions. However…we still love ice cream!
A businessman who is out of touch with the times and with his customers grapples with resurrecting his struggling business. He enlists help from above and below, but what are you going to do when your customers are a bunch of fickle humans who don’t even know they’re customers?
The concept of a time machine is ridiculous. If people went back in time, history would have the inconsistent spray of an alpine river cascading down the mountain and overflowing through fields of boulders after the Spring thaw. History would change on every whim with all the predictability of a ricocheting ball in an unimaginably huge Pachinko machine. But what if time travel didn’t work like that? What if time itself didn’t work like that?
When your garden affects and reflects the health of your universe, you tend to your garden very meticulously. Very meticulously. But when the Aristocrat owners ask The Gardener to perform a dubious task never before attempted in The Garden, The Gardener must reluctantly carry out the task and change existence forever.
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