Writing

A list of my fictional works, available in various publications.  (Word counts in parentheses.)  You should be able to find the pieces through MikeSheedy.com.  Contact me if you’re interested in reprints.

  • A Cure for Stupid  (1889)

  • A Foam-Bell More or Less  (4152)

  • A Streetcar Named Lugosi  (2063)

  • Ambulance  (360)

  • Artist, The  (5129)

  • Attack of the Zoombies, The  (2515)

  • Autonomous Zone, The  (3577)

  • Battle of Venice Beach, The  (3268)

  • Big Clock Blues  (2619)

  • Bug Lord  (4450)

  • Chinkapin Park (2055)

  • Cognitive Dissidents, The  (41,312).  Contains the short stories “Hammy and his Father’s Head” (2172), “The Trial of George W. Bush” (1408), and “Donna’s Dungeon” (1734)

  • Coincidence Theorist, The  (1031)

  • Confession of Saint Paul, The  (9465)

  • Contest, The  (28,556)

  • Conundrum of the Otters, The  (13,026)

  • Corporate Head  (2660)

  • Covid—The Movie  (886)

  • Crisis Actor, The  (4005)

  • Crossborne  (17,543)

  • Dictator, The  (255)

  • Drifter in 4-D, The  (28,921)

  • Edge of the Coin, The  (61,123)

  • Eight-Year-Old Man and the Pulp Monster, The  (6255)

  • Election and the Woof of the Storyline, The  (6220)

  • Ether Ore  (1226)

  • First Amendment Art Farm  (5578)

  • Fit Punishment  (2543)

  • Follow the Science (764)

  • Foolproof Futures  (482)

  • Frozen Lightning  (4497)

  • Funnyman (2387)

  • Game, The  (1850)

  • Ghost of Dan Smoot, The  (2203)

  • Goodbye  (2279)

  • Goppeldänger, The  (3199)

  • Hairman, The  (3258)

  • Halving of the Calves, The  (6566)

  • Hammaman’s Parallel Universes (3713)

  • Helena Glance  (7361)

  • Hunters, The  (30,611)

  • I Bury the Living  (1865)

  • I Thought to Myself  (1942)

  • I Will Not Meet Thee as a Man  (3944)

  • I Will Restrain my Imagination  (418)

  • If Thy Right Hand Offend Thee  (4710)

  • In the Electric Mist with Dan Smoot (3084)

  • Intubated Breath of Truth, The (3708)

  • Inseminatory Space Traveler, The  (455)

  • Interrogation Room, The  (893)

  • It Takes Four to Tango  (1353)

  • Keynote  (2335)

  • Long List, The  (3586)

  • Maintenance-Free Head, The  (54,198)

  • Molted Names  (26,781)

  • Mouse  (2773)

  • Mr. Reesa  (2560)

  • Now is th Tim  (30,507)

  • Nurse, The  (1626)

  • Painstakers, The (6213)

  • Posy Toe  (30,469)

  • Preternaturalists, The  (3187)

  • Proper Title Revealed at End  (357)

  • Rembrandt Heist, The  (2690)

  • Scoreboard  (10,887)

  • Secondhand Genes  (32,297)

  • Secretary of Woke, The  (3330)

  • Shedder  (4192)

  • Short List, The  (1950)

  • Snipe Hunt, The  (2320)

  • Soul Mates  (1170)

  • Spectrogryph, The  (7102)

  • Story Quilt, The  (4600).  Contains the short stories “Coventry” (135), and “Gift a Wish” (460)

  • Switcheroo (4870)

  • That Sadist Sheedy  (380)

  • The Living, the Dead, and the Double-Dead  (114,000)

  • The Matriarchs (6535)

  • Toomer Davis and Rose Island  (62,986)

  • Trancehall Music  (6144)

  • Turn the Page  (100)

  • Vote Early, Vote Often  (444)

  • Vote, The  (3820)

  • Wade Thruitt’s Greatest Hits  (23,971)

  • Wartz Courts Death  (7793)

  • Washing Clothes in the River  (4510)

  • Weight of the World, The  (2406)

  • What Ha’e the Dobkins Willy?  (4035)

  • What Was I Thinking?  (2325)

  • Where’s the Rest of Me?  (1547)

  • Wish I Were There  (8272)

  • Yin and the Yang of It, The  (6617)

  • You Die Twice  (2150)