Available Stories
My newest stories. I’ve submitted them here and there but they haven’t been published yet. Let me know if you want to look at any for your magazine or anthology. The email I check most often is pugnature@gmail.com. Serious inquiries only.
Stories, arranged from shortest to longest:
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Roadmap of Recollection (929 words) – Brain surgery, prognostication, and a time travel element. What more could you want?
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The Limitators (1085 words) – DNA limitators have a visitor on the assembly line.
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Angels (1581 words) – A give-and-take between both sides of a painting’s canvas.
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Hitchcock, Take Two (1796 words) – At the end of his life Alfred Hitchcock is allowed to go back for a do-over. He makes some bad decisions and ends up working for Jerry Lewis.
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The Trade (2900 words) – They meet to trade baseball cards. One wins the battle, the other wins the war.
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John Ford’s Lost Movie (3873 words) – Nostalgic longing for the good old days of moviemaking. John Ford, Roger Corman, and John Wayne in a monster suit.
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WitSec (3954 words) – The government’s Witness Security department needs to work out a few bugs in its new “mind transfer” program.
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Hummingbird Justice (4317 words) – A mystery of a different feather. Hummingbird justice is rough justice.
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Gabo (6093 words) – Art where you wouldn’t expect to find it, and love dying hard.
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The Jocastans (7182 words) – Too good to be true? It gets even better.
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The Big Mo (7294 words) – “Hanukah with Muhammad” is just the beginning.
Some dos and don’ts:
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I don’t use overly foul language in my stories. It can limit appeal and violate standards. My ideas on the other hand, they may offend you. Boo hoo.
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I submit to print magazines only. An electronic component is fine, but it’s not really published unless it’s printed, is it?
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I’m currently using the pen name of “Ishmael Cheedy,” an anagram of Michael Sheedy.
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I don’t grant squirrely publication rights. We can work something out.
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I don’t use Artificial Intelligence. Any intelligence or lack of in the stories is strictly my own.