Short Stories (Free)
Hunting for Turtles tells a story about two young boys on a mid-summer adventure. What I try to show with this short story is how the dualities between action and contemplation can be used to formulate a good team. By the way, I think there is a little of Tommy and a little of Jimmy in all of us. Read this story.
The Game tells a story about a group of young boys who are inspired by their high school basketball coach to give a more dominating team, the Krampton Tigers, a game that no one will ever forget. Personally what I like about this short story is the question-is it about the boys, or is it about the coach? And please let there be no bickering-there was only one way to end The Game, and that is how I ended it. With the initiation of my website, I dedicate The Game to my old high school basketball coach, the best damn coach that I ever had. Read this story.
The Love of Economics was written after spending nearly a two-year hiatus away from my literary career, while I consulted with IBM on a large government proposal that we tried, but failed to win. After losing the proposal due to a less than enlightened government decision, I thought I needed to gain at least something for my effort, and thus The Economics of Love came into being. I would like to make note of the fact that within this story I stole Castalia and the Feuilletons from Herman Hesse’s novel, The Glass Bead Game. I can only hope he would not be offended. Read this story.
A Slick Road was written because of two primary reasons: (1) Carrie Underwood’s presentation of the song, Jesus Take The Wheel, came into prominence about the same time (2) I was serendipitously introduced to Swami Vivekananda through my wife. It’s funny. After writing A Slick Road, I came to realize that the East and the West were really not apart in their thinking. While one makes you walk a finely-sharpened razor’s edge, the other makes you negotiate a very slick road. Read this Story.
Forgiveness brings together again two characters, Abi Robinson and Minor Egbart, from my novel Champion Standing. In this short story, which has nothing to do with the larger novel, I let Minor (my personification of Meister Eckhart) talk with Abi about the subject of forgiveness. Read this Story.