Over the years, for my own amusement, I've written many short stories, novellas, and have three novels in and a children's picture book in progress. I'd love to have your feedback!
Below are a sampling. The stories with PDF links are the complete text, not just samples or extracts.
Works In Progress
My Own Story - Children's picture book - A girl who loves reading stories jumps into a book to write her own story.
9/11 Ballet - Novel - On 9/11, a lonely and uninspired 40-something woman's life is upended when a mysterious ballet literally falls from the sky.
Protected Witness - Novel - A man in the Witness Protection Program goes on the run when his new identity is pierced.
Death By Query - Novel - When an author sends a query letter to a publisher, it sets off a chain of murders.
Novellas
Mo's Time is a coming of age story about a young woman traveling through time on a spiritual journey to find her true self.
Genres: Non-religious spiritual, Inspirational, Fiction
Audience: 10+
Length: 77 pages
Word Count: 22,000
Comparable: Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
Short Stories
In La Fille Aux Cheveux De Lin (The Girl with the Flaxen Hair) a teenage pianist auditions for a competitive spot in music school.
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Audience: 12+
Length: 4 pages
Word Count: 1170
Comparable: Skylark by Allison Whittenberg
Waiting For Lightspeed tells the story of humanity split by competing world views: those who go and those who wait.
Genre: Soft Science Fiction
Audience: General
Length: 24 pages
Word Count: 7,600
Standards finds embittered lounge pianist Gary Markle in a twisty world where only he remembers any of the great pop and jazz song standards.
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Audience: General, 18+ for language, drug references, drinking, smoking
Length: 25 pages
Word Count: 7,100
Note: I wrote Standards around 2000, then in 2019 the movie Yesterday was released with basically the same premise. Bad timing for me.