Short Fiction
Waiting for Rain: In India, a winemaker has beggared himself to pay for his daughter’s wedding and can no longer pay his weather bills.
Body Language : Near-future. Saskia, a puppeteer, is called in to help solve a kidnapping because the only witness is eDawg, a toy for which she did the motion-capture work. The kidnappers demand that the ransom be sent in on eDawg, and Saskia has to manipulate the puppet while pretending to be nothing more than a toy.
Some Other Day - Josie’s father managed to rid the world of mosquitoes when she was little. The unintended consequences still affect both the adult Josie and the world.
Trip, Trap, Tripping - The three Billy Goats Gruff retold in a NY walk-up, with a single mother and her tap-dancing daughters as the goats, and the guy downstairs as the troll. (I want to do a series of these, but darn, where do I market them?)
This Little Pig - Near-future. After the Oil Wars, private vehicles are largely considered taboo, but a young boy in the Netherlands covets a 1952 MG-TD. He starts work at a pig farm/methane factory where things go horribly, horribly wrong.
My Friend Anna - 61 word flash involving a tapeworm, bathtub and pregnancy.
Horizontal Rain - A New York contractor discovers that his job in Iceland is being held up because the crew believes in trolls.
Birthright - Near-future flash. In a world with severe birth control regulations, a couple has to decide whether to give up their birthright in exchange for enough money to finish college.
Death Comes But Twice - Epistolary short. A Georgian-era Doctor has discovered a cure for death, but it only works for twenty-four hours.
A Hand in My Colon - Bitter monologue by dying puppet.
The Promise of Chocolate - An unhappy single mother makes cupcakes for her son’s birthday. One of them contains cyanide.
Changed Itinerary - UFOlogist is abducted by aliens.
Salt of the Earth - On a sodium-poor world, where every scrap of salt is saved, a salt merchant’s daughter is killed by a salt-overdose.
Chrysalis : The Husiths undergo Chrysalis to become an adult, but the enzymes involved in the process scramble their memories. As a culture, they are obsessed with documenting their pupaehood, which is when the serious work takes place, before becoming a playful adult. Geroth is determined to put off his Chrysalis so he can finish his mathmatical treatise. He hires a human documentarian to help him retain his memories after Chrysalis.
Novel
Journey to the East: The Legend of the Monkey King YA Novel - Two American kids find themselves caught up in the oldest legend in China as they struggle to rescue their baby sister from the Bone
Tags: body language, China, fiction, Iceland, Journal, Writing
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