Category: Short Stories

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The Second Woman, A Blue Golem short story

February 11, 2026

Download in a variety of formats at BookFunnel I keep a standing table at Varro’s, a cafe on the narrow end of Commissary Row not far from my office. It’s out of the way, which suits me. There’s a small fountain in the center of the street where the lovers and the pigeons gather. I…
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The Bent Constable is now live!

January 14, 2022

Last Friday, I had an idea for a short story that takes place in the first third of the novel about Clay’s first investigation, I wrote it up over the weekend, and I made the story available today for people on the Golem Mailing List. It’s about how Clay Golem is caught between the mob…
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New Clay Golem Short Story Coming Soon!

January 8, 2022

UPDATE: I finished writing the story, which I’m calling “The Bent Constable.” It’s a novelette of just over 10k words. It’s more intricate and dark than expected, but was a lot of fun to write, and it came together really quickly. I hope to have it ready to send out to the Golem Mailing List…
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I Wrote Another Thing

November 10, 2019

My task for the marketing Write To Publish class this week was to write something for someone special and then read it to them. I wrote this for Linda, who is my Pyrynne. The password for this story is the first word of the title, jeopardy. She sat on the edge of the desk and…
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Protected: Jeopardy, A Tale of the Blue Golem

November 10, 2019

There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

So I Wrote A Thing…

November 2, 2019

I’m taking an online writing / marketing course called Write To Publish by Joe Bunting et al and one of the things I did this week was write a short story which I called THE ROBBERY – A TALE OF THE BLUE GOLEM. The story is a scene adapted from my Fantasy / Noir novel,…
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Protected: The Robbery, A Tale of The Blue Golem

October 29, 2019

There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

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