Short Stories Books

In October of 1992, the author (future Agent 33) takes an interesting bus trip from San Francisco to Portland (OR). He has a very strange dream with an iconic image in a North Portland motel room. When he later goes hiking in Forest Park, a surreal adventure begins after finding some liberty caps...

A simple story of young discovery and animals that do remarkable things yet documented. A summer of fun for two children destined to love the small animals in life and remember their summer of the turtles.

Agents 32 and 33 of the psecret psociety take in a minor league baseball game in Charlotte in April of 2014. They are almost struck by a baseball, but it curves and becomes a just-inside-the-foul-pole home run. Agent 33 keeps recalling a San Francisco Giants - Los Angeles Dodgers game back in 1992...

Agents 32 and 33 take a trip from Charlotte to the NC Zoo in Asheboro on a cool and cloudy April day. They see and comment (in the usual bizarre fashion) on the zoo-enclosed animal species. Monique is elated when she sees her favorite animal: a giraffe. A conversation between a pair from Nash...

Agents 32 and 33 take a harrowing bike ride through east Charlotte to a Taco Bell. They recognize the exceedingly courteous African American employee (from previous visits) behind the counter and exchange pleasantries. Their food arrives and all seems quite ho-hum normal. The 5-star employee then...

This is the second edition of a collection of twisted tales (now 12 stories in 77 pages). Enjoy! An elder meets a surprising fate. A hiker has a strange encounter. A woman with an inflated self-image gets deflated; another makes a 360 degree turn. Someone attends an unusual convention.

Agents 32 and 33 search the Outer Sunset district of San Francisco for signs of the fabled knowhere [sic] tavern known as Sidle on N. They walk down Judah Street through the dense fog towards the imperceptible Pacific Ocean. Without any success, they take a break in a coffee shop at Ocean Beach...

Two familiar agents (32 and 33) ride bikes from the east Charlotte (USA) neighborhood of Windsor Park to Cotswold Mall in southeast Charlotte on a splendid April morning. The route is meticulously noted (for map freaks). Once at the desired restaurant, a seating error is remedied and an odd...

Agents 32 and 33 take a bike ride to NoDa (in northeast Charlotte). They encounter some very interesting people at a Cajun restaurant. Bizarre conversations are overheard and recorded. Then the magic granules take effect and they are the ones spouting off surreal lines to the shock of the patrons...

The initial in-person meeting of future agents 32 and 33 on Siquijor Island in 2010 is recounted in this 2100-word psecret psociety pshort pstory.Includes a reference to the 'Bottled' pshort pstory.