Short Story Listing

What Lies Beneath…And Beyond? (Image by Jan C J Jones, Freelancer Ink, © July 1, 2016)

Well, here it is, the complete listing of all my short stories and their dates…those already released on this site and those scheduled for release on this site…and their scheduled dates. As they get released I’ll update my Short Stories page, though this page may not be as quickly updated, if at all.

Admittedly, not all of these are short stories…some are poems, and one, “Nightdrive,” is an essay I put out on my Reality Check blog. And these are not every short story I’ve ever written. Just the better of them…and the ones I’ve found. There are many hand-written ones I haven’t gotten to, but those are the ones written during high school and earlier.

When I release my short story collection (scheduled for 2017), I will take only what I consider to be the best of the below-listed stories. My purpose in the free releases on my blog was to show the work in as close to their original form as possible, with only minor editing (though some did required more!), but when I put them into my short story collection I will edit harder…though (as it currently stands) I do not plan on updating them to present-day technology, et cetera. And yes, there are a couple new stories (2016) in this collection as well (“Rewrite” and “Broken Windows”…that latter started in 1997 [four double-spaced pages], but the remaining 19 double-spaced pages were written this year)!

The dates listed below are when they were released on my blog sites and is not their original creation (and copyrighted) dates. For those not-yet-released those are their scheduled release dates…though I may move them around. Short stories should technically be “quoted,” as in “Tail Gunner,” but I’m not gonna do all that; it’ll make it too busy looking, so I left all quotes off.

Feel free to forward or link to or reblog anything of interest, just give proper attribution.

Original copyright creation dates are all listed on the individual story postings.

Thank you for stopping by and taking the time to read and comment! These have all been hidden away for far too long (well, some can’t be hidden away long enough, perhaps…), been toiled over for years, in some cases, and it was so much fun revisiting them and giving the best of them renewed life!

1. Tail Gunner – 11/27/15
2. The Death of Me – 12/04/15
3. The World’s Greatest Writer – 12/11/15
4. The Coming of Light – 12/18/15
5. Dark Was The Hour – 12/24/15
6. Tick, Tick, Tick, Tock – 12/31/15
7. The Ice Gods – 1/1/16
8. Rainy Nights and Christmas Lights – 1/08/16
9. Fear – 1/15/16
10. Spirit of Hope – 1/22/16
11. The Ballad of fReD BeAn – 1/29/16
12. Brains – 2/05/16
13. Saint Vincent – 2/12/16
14. Entombed…Resurrection…Unbound…. – 2/19/16
15. Etched in Stone – 2/26/16
16. Bone Poem – 3/04/16
17. Clowns – 3/10/16
18. Garden of the Gods – 3/18/16
19. The Girl Who Chased Gargoyles – 3/25/16
20. Snow Paper – 4/01/16
21. Crypt of Vampyres – 4/06/16
22. Nightborders – 4/15/16
23. Red Hands – 4/22/16
24. The Chain Letter – 4/29/16
25. Contamination – 5/06/16
26. A Conversation With Hell – 5/13/16
27. Nightdrive – 5/18/16
28. Walkers – 5/20/16
29. Rewrite – 5/27/16
30. Blondie’s – 6/03/16
31. Allergies – 6/10/16
32. For Whom the God <burp> – 6/17/16
33. Bloodtales and Flies – 6/24/16
34. What Dreams Are Made Of – 7/01/16
35. Drive-Ins – 7/08/16
36. The Running – 7/15/16
37. Casa – 7/22/16
38. Spiders – 7/29/16
39. Plaything – 8/05/16
40. Freefallin’ – 8/12/16
41. The Way We Were – 8/19/16
42. Jumper – 8/26/16
43. The Lifter – 9/02/16
44. Attention Span – 9/09/16
45. Werewolf – 9/16/16
46. Seeing Things – 9/23/16
47. The Interview – 9/30/16
48. Shelf Life – 10/07/16
49. Blue Diamond Exit, Mile Marker 15 – 10/14/16
50. Red Envelope – 10/21/16
51. Love, What a Way To Go – 10/28/16
52. The Hallowe’en Tree – 10/31/16
53. A Sermon Unleashed – 11/04/16
54. Please Have A Seat, Mr. Jordan – 11/11/16
55. The Wreck – 11/18/16

Short Story Links

Links to all my posted short stories are here.