My twelfth collection of short works, written from March 2021, release date to be determined.
2021 (title may change)
Fiction
The Craft of Fools
The Curse of Lagas
Christ’s Christian Academy
It’s a Hard Life
Nonfiction: Short Wisdom
Poetry
“The Wasteland”
“Factory Farming”
“For Howard S. Dunn”
“Brennyn Jade and the Wind She Made”
My eleventh collection of short works, written from November 2020 to March 2021.
None But I Will Like These
Fiction
Language is Always Changing
Untitled Musings
The Rise of Authoritarianism
Background Story
Wilma
Mechanical Evolution
The Craft of the Wise
A Father on His Death Bed
Science-Fiction Story Idea
The Martian Dream
On a Walk
Poetry
“Moral Relativism”
“Those Who Do Not Understand”
“America”
“January 6, 2021”
“The Twelve Days of Trump”
“Susan”
“Distance-Learning Blues”
“Amanda”
“Conservative Populism”
“Eggs on Face and Sam”
My tenth collection of short works, written from April to November 2020.
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Fiction
Good Help
Situational Irony
Crossing the River by Barbara Stoner
Poetic Justice
Please Don’t Kill the Spiders
The Spice
An Alternate History
Juneteenth
The Battle of the Smartphone
One-Sentence Fantasy Story
The Sculptor
Allegory III
Blind
Poetry
“For Alanis”
“GOP 2020”
“The Storming of the Station”
“The Creative Process”
“Pandemic”
“A 2020 Irony”
“Words are Water I”
“Words are Water II”
“The Dancers”
My ninth collection of short works, written from December 2019 to May 2020.
“Robert Peate’s Notes from Quarantine is the ideal way to begin, end, or survive a pandemic. It is an enjoyable read: sometimes disturbing, sometimes funny, and always entertaining. I found myself wishing for more when I reached the end.”
—Ken Shelton
Fiction
Horror Hospital
Ancient History
A Sun Children Side Scene
The Big One
All the World
The Day I Went to the Store
The Power of Words
Allegory II
The Vi-Race
Solitude II
Isolation
Dad’s Night
Pandemic Problem
Poetry
“Birthday Poem”
“Cimate Poem”
“The Force Field”
My eighth collection of short works, written from November 2019 to January 2020. This book contains my first story not suited for those aged 17 and under, “Coming Forward”.
“’New Dawn Academy’ is brilliant.”—Howard McCord, author of The Man Who Walked to the Moon
Fiction
The Power of Joy
Two More Shorts (Universal Basic Income, The Talking Dead)
Coming Forward (TW: sexual assault)
‘Seventies Spy Movie
Philosophy Book
M. Night Shyamalamadingdong Story
The Shining with an Editor
New Dawn Academy
Elpa Test
The Accident
The Starved, or the Great Window
Poetry
“The Impartial”
My seventh collection of short works (fiction and poetry), written from July to November 2019.
“It’s a cultural counterpoint in prose.”— Jan Williams
Fiction
We Had to Destroy the Village to Save It
Sleep
The Rainbow
Killer Movie
Training
Greta
Four More Shorts (The Developer, The Universal Experience, Metaphor, Socialist Nightmare)
The Creature
The Tour
The Beast
Revolution
Poetry
“Opposite Day”
My sixth collection of short works (fiction and poetry), written from September 2018 to July 2019.
“Besides relating tremendously to much of the poetry, I must compliment you on your style, your observation, and on your imagination. ‘The Black Book’ and ‘The Pen and the Sword’ are particular favorites, but I really like the themes of strange realities and unfortunate (or not) circumstances that ring true if slightly not right [in other pieces as well].”
—Phil Potestio
Fiction
Marsa
The Item
Allegory
Phone Fantasy
The Black Book
Cathy
The Mission
The Pen and the Sword
My Dream
Poetry
“Traumas at Fifteen”
“The Choice”
“Crisis Actors”
“Pollution”
“Poem in Two Acts”
“Yankee Donald Dandy”
“One Moment”
“On the Norm”
“Classic Power Struggle”
“Teaching Poem”
“Lesson Learned?”
“Reading Too Much Into Things”
“Same Student, or I Wish I Had Time for Teaching”
“Local Celebrity”
“I’m from New York”
“Sunny Weather”
“Classroom”
My fifth collection of short works (fiction and poetry), written from July to September 2018.
Increasingly Incoherent Departures from the Norm
Fiction
Increasingly Incoherent Departures from the Norm
A Great Story
Masterman’s Revenge
Stories
Poetry in Motion
Justice
Poetry
“I Hate Everybody”
My fourth collection of short fiction, written from December 2017 to July 2018.
“Thank you for the creative and empathetic portrayal in ‘Sisters’. . . . I think you did a great job crafting the scenes.”
—Nkechi “Rachel Doležal” Diallo, author of In Full Color: Finding My Place in a Black and White World
Fiction
The Fountain of Youth
Perpetual Motion, Inc.
A Fresh Beat
The Mistake
Sisters
Education II
The Time Before
The Penalty
Expedition Notebook
The Society of Sensitives
The One
Equilibrium
Shooting Day
The Network
My third collection of short fiction, written from September to December 2017.
“A compelling and frightening book written in a spare style. Words dance on the page like bones above the grave. The words tell of love in death, cold wind, and endless war.”—Howard McCord, author of The Man Who Walked to the Moon
Fiction
The War
The Attack
Perma-Rest
Education
Separation
Four Shorts (Freedom, A Beautiful Vision, The Armed Teacher, Earth)
My second collection of short fiction, written from 2012 to 2017.
Mister Positive and Other Stories
Mister Positive
Roy (Blade Runner prequel)
The Vegans
Asking Why
Compromises
Libertarian Bed & Breakfast
Three-Paragraph Story
Solitude
My first collection of short fiction, written from 2008 to 2012.
“I saw a bit of myself in him. It’s straight bourbon right out of the bottle.”—Marshall DeMott
Mister Negative and Other Stories
Fiction
Chasing Kerouac
Neighbors
A Perfect World
The Deity
Mister Negative
The Creeps
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