Two more of my short stories have joined Timewinder on the Kindle.

Not in My Backyard is a short story that was originally published in Of Unicorns and Space Stations, #3 in 1993. It’s a time travel story. Holt Bloom looked like an ordinary salesman when he visited the office of a professor at Harvard University one afternoon in 1935. What he had to sell, however, was far from ordinary: a notebook computer from the 21st century.

The other story is Shades of Darkling Nights and Other Colorful Metaphors. It was published in Plot Magazine, in the Spring 1995 issue. Before it landed there I had submitted it to Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Fantasy Magazine. Marion Zimmer Bradley herself wrote me a very nice rejection letter, commenting that the title was the best one she’d seen all that year. She said it almost made her buy it. Almost. Ah well, Plot Magazine snapped it up and paid me the princely sum of ten dollars for it. Now it’s available on the Kindle for $2.99, or if you have Amazon Prime, you can borrow it for a month for free.

Shades of Darkling Nights and Other Colorful Metaphors tells the tale of Maurice Bolder, who was a writer living a quiet, ordinary life. Until he was sued by the ghosts and other creatures of the night for pain and suffering caused by leaving his electric lights on all the time.

If you’d like to purchase or borrow either or both short stories, just click on the story titles above. Or go to Amazon.com and just type in my last name. That’ll also show you my published books. They’d make delightful Christmas gifts.

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