Johnny Earthquake, a hard-boiled private detective, first appeared in "ALL TOP COMICS" in 1944. It is now 1957 and he and his partner, Rusty, are private detectives in Savannah, Georgia. Johnny just wants to put his troubled past behind him but fate has other ideas.
Another collection of short pieces, random thoughts and things that occurred to me in the middle of the night.
Caution: poetry. Or at least verses that I fondly refer to as poems. I'll be also figuring out how to load things so I'll start with one (to set the stage.....or the bar :-) ) and then I'll try to put them in chapters by type. Well, roughly anyway, e.g. my "Church Poems" don't necessarily have anything to do with...
Good and evil is not black and white ... The Academy is a school consisting of the characters of every story ever told. Heroes and villains take classes and teach together in harmony. But not everything is as it seems. A dark murderer lurks in the halls of this enchanted Academy, threatening the lives of students and...
Veda Vyasa's Mahabharatha brought an astonishingly beautiful and complex character in the form of Krishna as the eighth Avatar of Lord Vishnu, the hero of the Mahabharatha, the Lord of Dwaraka, the charioteer of Arjuna during the Kurukshetra War, a statesman par excellence, a warrior without equal and finally the love...
At the request of discerning readers desiring an actual ending to one of my stories once in a while (not that you're getting one this week either), I have created a two-part story out of last week's prompt. Nothing much has changed in the original, so no need to read "Brian's Story" unless you are looking for a refre...
A menagerie of flash fiction, hatched from ideas of many colors from here, there, and elsewhere: mostly fantasy but a sprinkling of sci-fi and contemporary.
If you're a small writer looking for recognition The Hidden Treasure Awards are for you!
Do you want biting political and cultural satire which cleverly and expertly sends up the idea of national and cultural stereotypes of our times and exposes the raw fetidness of our global iconographic zeitgeist? Well tough! There now follows a very very serious disclaimer that you will ignore at your peril ... i rea...
I'm a hoarder of information. Want a peek at my hoard of writing tips? I'm not a dragon jealously guarding a pile of riches. I'm glad to share! A hoard of tips... a horde of tips... Ah, that whimsical, baffling language puzzle that is English!
A collection of short stories and random thoughts, covering various genres and tropes. Expect the unusual.
"Sometimes, life calls us back to live again." Maggie Warner has the rare gift of a perfect memory concerning all the days of this life, and some from her past one. Dr. Robert Malone, a neuropsychologist with a memory inducing technology, can prove her claim about a kidnapping no one remembers. The support and encoura...
'In 500 Words Or Less' is a collection of short stories, all of them 500 words or less, written for the WattPad WriteOn Writers Weekend WriteIn.
Every weekend the WriteOn (by Kindle) team challenged us to create a 500-word short story from a given prompt. This is a collection from my brief time there.
There was confusion in the eyes of the seven year old Surangi as they dipped mango leaves into the sandal-turmeric paste to anoint her. She did not know what marriage meant, she was just told that she would move into a new home in a village far away and Yashoda mami would be her mother-in-law. Fighting back tears she...
You don't to be told what this is... It's all in the title and the cover of the book. These aren't mine... I just found them on the internet and I just wanted to make a book out of it.
