Stories and Plays for Download
Free Sample Download
On this page, you can find a wide variety of my short stories, also a selection of short plays, all available for download in pdf format. All have been previously published, so they’ve been judged and validated by a number of talented editors and curators. For a synopsis of any given story, just click on the title.
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His Master’s Voice$0.00
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The Last Horse in Skopje$0.00
Literary Fiction
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A Sudden Education$1.00
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Born on Sunday$1.00
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Delicate$1.00
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From Utah to the Promised Land$1.00
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Good Underneath$1.00
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Hearts of Cobalt Blue$1.00
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Impalas$1.00
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Ms. Henry in Rehearsal$1.00
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Portfolio$1.00
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The Facts$1.00
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The Planting$1.00
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The Scorpion Blues$1.00
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Toshi’s Wife$1.00
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Two Completely Unlike Short Stories$1.00
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Two Stories of Commitment$1.00
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Two Stories of What Lies Beneath the Surface$1.00
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What Bison Feel$1.00
Fantasy
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A Calling on Song$1.00
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A Fairly Tale$1.00
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Magpie$1.00
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Mayor of a Flourishing City$1.00
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Robbie’s Zona Cero$1.00
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That Business with the Hole$1.00
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The Experts$1.00
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The Latest Incarnation of Secondhand Johnny$1.00
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The Mynah$1.00
Science Fiction
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Empathy Rocks$1.00
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The Haunting of Beethoven’s Fifth$1.00
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The Heisenberg Approach$1.00
Sword & Sorcery
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The Find$1.00
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The Keystone$1.00
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The Trade$1.00
Supernatural & Horror
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A New Grave for Monique$1.00
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A Perfect Wedded Bliss$1.00
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A Small Northern Inheritance$1.00
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Called on Account$1.00
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Customs$1.00
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Karen Addy’s Cat Flap$1.00
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One Winner Only$1.00
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The Demon Laplace$1.00
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The Surrogate$1.00
Surreal & Experimental & Essays
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Found Items$1.00
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Satire and Essays$1.00
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Two Short Surrealist Stories$1.00
Short Plays
The following short plays are included as free downloads. Most have been produced, several have been published in anthologies (including in multiple editions of Best Ten-Minute Plays), and a few have won awards.
The most recent titles are “The Rescue Party” and “A Bench in the Shade.” Plays written specifically for teen actors include “Caretta-caretta,” “Carly Lynn Redtop,” “Lockdown,” and “The Rising Cost of Vinyl.” The piece with the most productions is “End of the Rainy Season.”
To secure licensing and production rights (not free, but very reasonable), please contact me directly.
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A Bench in the Shade$0.00
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All Stood Still$0.00
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Caretta-caretta$0.00
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Carly Lynn Redtop$0.00
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Comfort Zones$0.00
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End of the Rainy Season$0.00
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Lockdown$0.00
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Migratory Birds of Iraq$0.00
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Mules$0.00
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The Last Chautauqua$0.00
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The Rescue Party$0.00
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The Rising Cost of Vinyl$0.00
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Twenty-Three Hundred$0.00