This is a list of my online publications from the last few years. Most of these are science fiction or fantasy works with a little horror here and there, as well as a few non-genre pieces for good measure. Older pieces are published under my pen name J. Davidson Hero. |
Online Publications
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| The Dark Corner | After developing a very specific philosophy of life during the invasion of Normandy on D-Day, Walter Phillips finds himself in a nursing home after a long and prosperous life, facing the horror in the dark corner. | October 1, 2016 | Quantum Muse | Short Story | 3rd place winner in Short Story Horror Contest | |
| A Bullet in the Right Head aka La Sceriffo Mutante | In this science fiction homage to spaghetti westerns, Sheriff Earl is a mutant with two heads and two distinct personalities who is a force of law and order in a future west. Paco the Bull is a violent outlaw who is itching to outgun him. | May 31, 2015 | Cheapjack Pulp | Short Story | ||
| The Atomic Ray Plot | The year is 1950. Retired football player, Dutch Holt, has been asked by an ex-girlfriend to help find her missing father. What he uncovers is a conspiracy involving mysterious men in black, Nazi scientists, and the Chicago mob. | February 16, 2015 | Cheapjack Pulp | Short Story | ||
| The Amazing Professor Zaubermann's Travelling Galactic Menagerie | A two-headed rock boy on a distant planet pays for a ticket to a galactic menagerie with a fist-sized diamond. | July 5, 2014 | Aphelion Webzine: Forum Flash Index | Flash Story | Sample story for July 2014 flash contest | 10/27/2014 on Quantum Muse http://quantummuse.com/flashview.php?RecID=384 |
| Paragon | Everyone believes in the incredible powers of the superhero Paragon, except for one person. | May 1, 2014 | Aphelion Webzine: Forum Flash Index | Flash Story | Sample story for May 2014 flash contest | |
| Through Cats' Eyes | Marissa and her brother Lucca live in a post-apocalyptic future where their people have modeled themselves on the great cats of legend. Could their legends hold some truth? | April 1, 2014 | Aphelion Webzine: Forum Flash Index | Flash Story | Sample story for April 2014 flash contest. | |
| The Little Man | After a head injury, Darren must ride the bus to get to work. But when he sees the little man in green, he isn't sure whether he should believe his eyes. | March 1, 2014 | Aphelion Webzine: Forum Flash Index | Flash Story | Sample story for March 2014 flash contest. | 12/29/2014 on Quantum Muse http://quantummuse.com/flashview.php?RecID=386 |
| Snare | Night security guard, Garrity, rushes to the rescue of a team of scientists who have reactivated an alien probe that has been on Earth since the age of the dinosaurs. | February 2, 2014 | Aphelion Webzine: Forum Flash Index | Flash Story | Sample story for February 2014 flash contest. | |
| Claxon Needs Children | Tomás and his wife share an emotional goodbye with their young son as he prepares to travel to a distant planet. | January 6, 2014 | Quantum Muse | Flash Story | ||
| Coincidence | A lonely man who still mourns the death of his wife has a strange encounter with a cryptid on Christmas. | December 1, 2013 | Aphelion Webzine: Forum Flash Index | Flash Story | Sample story for December 2013 flash contest. | 2/2/2015 on Quantum Muse http://www.quantummuse.com/flashview.php?RecID=401 |
| Fallen Star | The wizard Black Tovanaar tries to recover a meteorite fallen from the star of magic, but someone else wants to recover it as well. | November 3, 2013 | Aphelion Webzine: Forum Flash Index | Flash Story | Sample story for November 2013 flash contest. | |
| The Heroic Age of Robots | First there was a golden age of robots, then silver, and bronze.... | October 6, 2013 | Aphelion Webzine: Forum Flash Index | Flash Story | Sample story for October 2013 flash contest. | |
| The 13th Canto | A man talks a college friend into translating a medieval poem that is rumored to be part of a sinister occult book. | September 8, 2013 | Aphelion Webzine: Forum Flash Index | Flash Story | Sample story for September 2013 flash contest | 10/20/2014 on Quantum Muse http://quantummuse.com/flashview.php?RecID=385 |
| To Starboard and Eden | Chad looks to the space pirate ship as his only way to escape a humdrum life but the captain of the ship has a slightly different plan. | August 4, 2013 | Aphelion Webzine: Forum Flash Index | Flash Story | Sample story for August 2013 flash contest. | |
| The Bagholder | Wealthy Michael is asking his twin brother Gabriel to take care of his pet, a very special pet. | July 7, 2013 | Aphelion Webzine: Forum Flash Index | Flash Story | Sample story for July 2013 flash contest. | |
| The Kiss of the Gill Fish | Lorcan has been sent to Steller's Planet to study an offshoot of humans who have developed a symbiotic relationship with a native creature that allows them to breathe under water. | June 23, 2013 | Aphelion Webzine: Forum Flash Index | Flash Story | 8/8/2016 on Quantum Muse http://quantummuse.com/flashview.php?RecID=488 | |
| Into the Deep Dark Forest | The paladin's purpose is to protect his charge, Darf, especially from the ancient guardian of the forest. | May 10, 2013 | Anotherealm | Flash Story | 2nd Place Winner | 5/17/2015 on Quantum Muse http://quantummuse.com/flashview.php?RecID=418 |
| The Unicorn in Captivity | April 18, 2013 | Aphelion Webzine | Poetry - Sonnet | Included in Best of 2013 Aphelion Poetry | ||
| The Chrononaut | March 19, 2013 | Aphelion Webzine | Poetry - Sonnet | |||
| gynoide fatale | February 18, 2013 | Aphelion Webzine | Poetry - Scifaiku | |||
| Preparing to Jump | Prince Rin is trying to get across Zealot Space to save the woman he loves. What sacrifices will he have to make in this homage to space opera. | November 27, 2011 | Aphelion Webzine: Forum Flash Index | Flash Story | ||
| The Incredible Shrinking Mad | Mike got his power to shrink in a lab accident. To trigger the power he has to get angry, which is hard considering he's a pretty easy going guy. But when he's drafted to be a superhero's sidekick, his ability to shrink seems to improve exponentially. | August 28, 2011 | Aphelion Webzine: Forum Flash Index | Flash Story | ||
| Left Minding the Farm | 14 year old Calvin Morales lives in an impoverished city of the future that suffers from the effects of global warming and a financial collapse. His biggest concern is finding food. Only the Zhongguo Pan-America Corporation seems to have the resources to make things better. | August 25, 2011 | Kalkion | Short Story | 11/1/2015 on Quantum Muse http://quantummuse.com/story.php?RecID=742 | |
| Across the Maddening Gulf | As an H.P. Lovecraft collector searches for the truth, he meets another bibliophile who really believes in Lovecraft's mythos. | July 24, 2011 | Aphelion Webzine: Forum Flash Index | Flash Story | 10/13/2014 on Quantum Muse http://quantummuse.com/flashview.php?RecID=389 | |
| Shanghai Run | Toxic Tweak is a cyberpunk girl hacking her way to some vid for her client. But there are a few obstacles in her way. | June 25, 2011 | Anotherealm | Flash Story | 1st Place Winner | |
| The Blind Rebellion | In the ocean of a rogue planet without a star, a rebellion is poised to take place and Chittik and Bulboo await in the cold muck for the signal. | June 19, 2011 | Aphelion Webzine: Forum Flash Index | Flash Story | Challenge Winner, Included in Best of 2011 Aphelion Flash | |
| The Perfect Sauce | Meredith was happy. And why shouldn't she be? After all, everything was perfect... her boys, her man... even the spaghetti sauce left on the dirty plates had a certain perfection. | May 22, 2011 | Aphelion Webzine: Forum Flash Index | Flash Story | ||
| First Sight | Young Sebastian's friends keep moving away. The lastest is Jenny from across the street, but she's the one friend he is seriously afraid to lose. | April 24, 2011 | Anotherealm | Flash Story | 1st Place Winner | 4/11/2016 on Quantum Muse http://quantummuse.com/flashview.php?RecID=470 |
| Uneasy Lies | Zhiyuan is the human ambassador to the Fel on the planet Arun, and he hopes that joining with a plant based symbiont as the Fel do will give him the diplomatic advantage that humans desperately need. | April 24, 2011 | Aphelion Webzine: Forum Flash Index | Flash Story | Challenge Co-winner | |
| 2 Winter Tanka | December 15, 2010 | Red Poppy Review (originally Cherry Blossom Review) | Poetry - Tanka | |||
| The Hand That Feeds You | Angelo Algos and his enforcer Nicky Knuckles will do whatever it takes to keep the mob on top, even take on an associate with a supernatural affliction. | December 15, 2010 | Anotherealm | Flash Story | ||
| Driving Snow | November 30, 2010 | Every Day Poets | Poetry - Free Verse | |||
| Jolly Jane | July 22, 2010 | Everyday Weirdness | Poetry - Villanelle | |||
| The Colebank Continuum | Mr. Colebank is having a lot of trouble describing what he has seen. But then again, he's not even sure why he's being asked to describe it, or what the old man across the table from him and the big shiny robot really want to hear. | June 24, 2010 | Aphelion Webzine: Forum Flash Index | Flash Story | ||
| Rondo the Rustler and the Harem of Horath | In a land controlled by hideous mutants and giant cockroaches Rondo was an exception and he was determined to find the lost harem of women as perfect as he was. | June 17, 2010 | Anotherealm | Flash Story | ||
| Pound of Flesh | May 31, 2010 | Every Day Poets | Poetry - Sonnet | |||
| The Emerald Tablet | Out among the white dunes is a lost tomb and a treasure that only the obsessed Professor Sarwik can find. | May 27, 2010 | Aphelion Webzine: Forum Flash Index | Flash Story | ||
| The Magic of the Quooda | Frizzle was the village shaman... but his understanding of the true nature of the magic of the quooda shells was at odds with the needs of his people. That is until the village was attacked by the vicious and monstrous gant. | May 16, 2010 | Aphelion Webzine | Short Story | ||
| A Prism Perilous | Karsos the merchant is on a dangerous quest to help recover an ancient artifact. And he can't remember how he got talked into such a perilous voyage, that is until he looks again at his fierce and beautiful leader. | April 22, 2010 | Aphelion Webzine: Forum Flash Index | Flash Story | ||
| The Cryptozoologist | April 17, 2010 | Aphelion Webzine | Poetry - Sonnet | |||
| The Vision of the Ba'Droone | The Ba'Droone is the leader of an alien species on a far off planet. What effect will his latest mystic vision have on Rowan Voigt, the assistant to Earth's consul? | April 16, 2010 | Anotherealm | Flash Story | ||
| Nusquam | What if Jules Verne had never succeeded in publishing his first novel, and what if someone else wrote 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Alternative History. | March 25, 2010 | Aphelion Webzine: Forum Flash Index | Flash Story | Included in Best of 2010 Aphelion Flash | |
| Impacts | March 18, 2010 | Aphelion Webzine | Poetry - Scifaiku | |||
| To Boldly Wait | The Mare Inebrium is a bar that is famous across the galaxy, and there is no better place to meet strange and exotic aliens. Just ask the protagonist in this story. Part of the Mare Inebrium Shared Universe Project. | February 25, 2010 | Aphelion Webzine: Forum Flash Index | Flash Story | 3/18/10 added to Aphelion's Mare Inebrium Story Archive as part of the story Flash Crowd #1 - Points of View. | |
| 2012 | February 17, 2010 | Aphelion Webzine | Poetry - Free Verse | |||
| Homer Pound... | February 11, 2010 | Volume One | Poetry - Haiku | Part of The Very Best of the Local Haikus selected from V1's First Poetry Contest. Published as John David Rose. | ||
| The Wilcox Paradox | Max has always been fascinated by the people from the timesphere, but why have they decided to visit him now? | January 22, 2010 | Aphelion Webzine: Forum Flash Index | Flash Story | ||
| Lava Planet | December 21, 2009 | Aphelion Webzine | Poetry - Sonnet | |||
| The Cyborg | October 14, 2009 | Aphelion Webzine | Poetry - Sonnet | Included in Best of 2009 Aphelion Poetry | ||
| Odyssey | August 12, 2009 | Aphelion Webzine | Poetry - Scifaiku | |||
| Love's Elixir | Rosamund is trying to make an elixir of immortality, but the strange man from the future may threaten her plans. | July 23, 2009 | Aphelion Webzine: Forum Flash Index | Flash Story | 12/11/11 on Creator and the Catalyst | |
| Memento Mori | July 14, 2009 | Aphelion Webzine | Poetry - Free Verse | |||
| Bonickhausen's Hectopede, or The Perambulating Steam Bridge | A boy dreams of being an airship captain until a mysterious French inventor pays a visit to the boy's father. | June 25, 2009 | Aphelion Webzine: Forum Flash Index | Flash Story | ||
| The Ship of Theseus Paradox | June 11, 2009 | Aphelion Webzine | Poetry - Sonnet | |||
| The Descent | Captain Onger is the master of the airship Aurora and all that he surveys. But what price does he pay when he goes too far? | May 21, 2009 | Aphelion Webzine: Forum Flash Index | Flash Story | 12/15/11 on Creator and the Catalyst | |
| Keiji’s Kaiju | Daigila is not your run-of-the-mill pet. But Keiji thinks he is. | April 23, 2009 | Aphelion Webzine: Forum Flash Index | Flash Story | 12/11/11 on Creator and the Catalyst | |
| Sword and Scalpel | It's Doc's birthday, but it's just another day of suspense and politics aboard the Aphelion Explorer spacecraft. Part of the The Aphelion Solar System Explorer Shared Universe Series. | March 26, 2009 | Aphelion Webzine: Forum Flash Index | Flash Story | ||
| Cyberpunk | March 11, 2009 | Aphelion Webzine | Poetry - Scifaiku | |||
| The Clone | February 12, 2009 | Aphelion Webzine | Poetry - Sonnet | |||
| Salviati's Siren | Marooned on a distant planet, Sola Gardiner must find a reason to live. Will a fascinating discovery help? | January 23, 2009 | Aphelion Webzine: Forum Flash Index | Flash Story | Challenge Winner | |
| Forever the Day | Creating a Christmas tradition for a small girl lost in space becomes Dewey's most important work. | December 18, 2008 | Aphelion Webzine: Forum Flash Index | Flash Story | Challenge Winner, Included in Best of 2009 Aphelion Flash | 12/29/09 on Creator and the Catalyst |
| Cassie's Burden | Police officer and witch, Cassie LaPorte, has an experience that will stay with her for the rest of her days. | November 21, 2008 | Aphelion Webzine: Forum Flash Index | Flash Story | 12/15/11 on Creator and the Catalyst | |
| The Uncommon Bodgewick | Edwin Bodgewick is a chimney sweep who's also an evil henchman in this graphic tale of Victorian horror. | October 23, 2008 | Aphelion Webzine: Forum Flash Index | Flash Story | Challenge Winner | 12/11/11 on Creator and the Catalyst, 10/31/14 http://flashinginthepark.blogspot.com/2014/10/halloween-throwback-flash.html |
| The 9 Ways of Truth | Here's the first 200 words for a story about a man who is dropped on a hostile planet. | September 25, 2008 | Aphelion Webzine: Forum Flash Index | Flash Story (Intro Only) | Challenge Co-winner | |
| Speeding Towards... | What if every time you used your superpower you got older, a lot older. | August 21, 2008 | Aphelion Webzine: Forum Flash Index | Flash Story | ||
| Universal Toads | August 12, 2008 | Aphelion Webzine | Poetry - Free Verse | |||
| Our Tribute for the Suzerain | Mundane items like spoons and socks disappear by the millions from Australia every year. But where are they going? | July 24, 2008 | Aphelion Webzine: Forum Flash Index | Flash Story | 12/11/11 on Creator and the Catalyst | |
| The Crab of Gamma Doradus | July 6, 2008 | Aphelion Webzine | Poetry - Free Verse | |||
| Death and Taxes | A grizzled warrior learns about the only certainties in life when the tax collector shows up after the warrior's greatest feat. | June 26, 2008 | Aphelion Webzine: Forum Flash Index | Flash Story | 12/13/09 on Creator and the Catalyst | |
| Osiris Rising | June 10, 2008 | Aphelion Webzine | Poetry - Sonnet | Included in The Best Poetry and Filk Music of 2008 at Aphelion Webzine | ||
| Elegy for Bardo | May 13, 2008 | Aphelion Webzine | Poetry - Sestina |
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