David W Landrum fantastic stories medium length stories Monday, April 3, 2023 Obligation by David W. Landrum <i>The Michigan mafia are backed by ancient black magic, and Alessia regrets having to fulfil her obligation; by David W. Landrum.</i><br><br>Alessia Bernini dreaded the visit of Lucia Sandro. Her coven of <i>strega</i> - witches - owed the Sandro family obligation. If Lucia had been wise or even a little mature, her <i>strega</i> friend would not have been so apprehensive about granting her bequest. But Lucia was vain, fool… Read more Labels: David W Landrum fantastic stories medium length stories 4 comments:
David W Landrum fantastic stories long stories Monday, June 20, 2022 Play in Time by David W Landrum <i>David W Landrum's tale of a romance between a reclusive physicist and an anachronistic thespian echoes Shakespearean themes of predestiny. </i><br><br> Min Yuan liked working for a physics laboratory. She had trained diligently, mastered her subjects in undergraduate and graduate school, and taken the job she had always dreamed of having. She did mathematics to calculate and describe the dynamics of sub-a… Read more Labels: David W Landrum fantastic stories long stories 3 comments:
David W Landrum fantastic stories long stories Friday, April 1, 2022 The Mirror by David W Landrum <i>David W Landrum's reimagines Snow White as a soaring fantasy tale, told from the perspective of the sorcerer's apprentice.</i><br><br> We should have known better. Trying to conduct an affair in the house of a sorcerer seems to me, now, supreme foolishness. But when are lovers ever rational? When you are enamored, head over heels in love, the sensible dissolves. It did for Rosfirth and me. I had been … Read more Labels: David W Landrum fantastic stories long stories 2 comments:
David W Landrum medium length stories real life stories Monday, December 20, 2021 Tokyo Memory by David W. Landrum <i>Musician Stephen falls in love with an entrepreneurial woman who prioritises her career over him, provoking him to stray with a Japanese temptress; by David W. Landrum.</i><br><br> Stephen met Niobe when he was playing guitar and banjo for a local production of a musical, <i>The Cotton-Patch Gospel</i>. She had the part of one of Jesus' sisters. She had given him a smile when she met him at the first rehearsal. <br><br>… Read more Labels: David W Landrum medium length stories real life stories 1 comment:
David W Landrum long stories real life stories Monday, September 6, 2021 Into White by David W. Landrum <i>In Grand Rapids MI, an albino woman strikes up a relationship with a local athlete, to the chagrin of her bandmate; by David W. Landrum. </i><br><br> I am an albino girl. I have no pigment in my skin. My hair and flesh are white - and I don't mean <i>white</i> in the sense we usually use the word, as in "Caucasian." I mean white like a piece of paper or a marshmallow. I have <i>Type 1 Oculocutaneous Albi… Read more Labels: David W Landrum long stories real life stories 3 comments:
David W Landrum long stories pick of the month real life stories Friday, August 28, 2020 The Konigsberg Affair by David W Landrum <i>In Nazi Germany, a US diplomat discovers a clandestine smuggling operation, and must make a difficult choice; by David W Landrum.</i><br><br> My secretary told me the meeting with Golper was on and that he was waiting for me at a small restaurant seven miles away. Since it was urgent, I left at once. I stuck the reports of the incident that involved him into a diplomatic case, headed to the garage, and threw … Read more Labels: David W Landrum long stories pick of the month real life stories 4 comments:
David W Landrum fantastic stories medium length stories Friday, March 20, 2020 Barbarian Reed by David W. Landrum <i>A lonely flautist is cast back in time as a test of his strength and compassion; by David W. Landrum.</i><br><br> The night Carson went back in time, he had pretty much given up on Ling. She did not seem interested in dating him and the one night they went out had been - well, not exactly a disaster, but discouraging as only a date gone wrong can be. He sat next to her when the symphony performed, saw her at… Read more Labels: David W Landrum fantastic stories medium length stories 5 comments:
David W Landrum fantastic stories medium length stories Friday, July 19, 2019 Jory's Grove by David W. Landrum <i>A powerful witch is called upon to help protect a group of young girls who are dabbling with forces they do not understand; by David W. Landrum.</i><br><br> As a <i>strega</i>, Alessia knew that there were still places in the world where the natural and the supernatural intersected. There were portals or, as she had once read in Neil Gaiman's novel, <i>Neverwhere</i>, places that had a lot of time, where all the time … Read more Labels: David W Landrum fantastic stories medium length stories 4 comments:
David W Landrum fantastic stories long stories Monday, August 20, 2018 Brigid's Fire by David W. Landrum <i>Musician Mathias Berends meets an Irish goddess, but her sister is determined to keep them apart; by David W. Landrum.</i><br><br> Brigid told Mathias she had come from Ireland as an exchange student. She said she liked the sequence of songs about fire he often did when he performed. <br><br> "How did you decide to do something like that?" she asked. <br><br> He smiled. "I got the idea from something I saw on… Read more Labels: David W Landrum fantastic stories long stories 2 comments:
criminal stories David W Landrum medium length stories Friday, March 23, 2018 The Case of the James Bond Killer by David W Landrum <i>When Sherlock accepts a case in which a killer is re-enacting scenes from James Bond, his American assistant Dr Ophelia Turnberg proves indispensable.</i><br><br> <b>Sherlock Holmes Case #2, 1966</b><br><br><b>Narrated by his assistant, Dr. Ophelia Turnberg</b><br><br> The scene in <i>Goldfinger</i> where they show the woman who has been murdered by being painted gold shocked me. The camera focused on her suddenly. A scary blare of discordant br… Read more Labels: criminal stories David W Landrum medium length stories 4 comments:
criminal stories David W Landrum fantastic stories long stories Friday, September 22, 2017 The Case of Stagger-Lee by David W Landrum <i>David W Landrum transports Sherlock Holmes to the swinging scene of 1960s London in a case narrated by his new assistant, Dr. Ophelia Turnberg.</i><br><br> <b>Sherlock Holmes Case #1, 1966 </b><br><b><br></b><b>Narrated by his assistant, Dr. Ophelia Turnberg </b><br><br> You heard the music everywhere you went back in those days. Almost everyone under the age of twenty-five carried those small, portable transistor radios, so you heard the music… Read more Labels: criminal stories David W Landrum fantastic stories long stories 4 comments:
David W Landrum fantastic stories long stories Friday, August 5, 2016 The Selkies by David W Landrum <i>David W Landrum tells a tale of Hollywood actresses, mythical Irish sea creatures and vast sunken treasures on the shores of Lake Michigan.</i><br><br> Right at the beginning of the tourist season, we got blasted. Wind swept water over campgrounds, collapsed docks at marinas, flooded boat launches, littered streets with broken trees branches, and shut down power. Everyone scrambled to fix things. In a resort… Read more Labels: David W Landrum fantastic stories long stories 7 comments:
David W Landrum futuristic stories medium length stories Sunday, March 20, 2016 Purr by David W Landrum <i> On diversely populated space station Brahmadanda, Wallach sets out to confirm an erotic rumour without causing a diplomatic incident.</i><br><br> "It's a myth - just one more space myth, and I've heard a lot of those - or you're trying to pull one over on me for a laugh." <br><br> Garnett smiled. "I can see you've not been on this side of Alliance space before." <br><br> It was true. Wal… Read more Labels: David W Landrum futuristic stories medium length stories 4 comments:
David W Landrum futuristic stories long stories Sunday, September 6, 2015 Iridium by David W Landrum <i>Eyoline poses as a sex worker on a mission to infiltrate a gang of space pirates and assassinate their leader, for the good of the Merovingian people; by David W Landrum.</i><br><br> "So why don't you want to work with your own government?" Menv demanded. He had a reputation for getting right to the point. <br><br> "Because iridium is so rare they'll confiscate the mine the moment they find ou… Read more Labels: David W Landrum futuristic stories long stories 4 comments:
David W Landrum futuristic stories long stories pick of the month Friday, June 6, 2014 Liaison by David W Landrum <i>David W Landrum tells the story of Eyoline - soldier, judge, governess, lover - who returns to military service after surviving a brutal sexual attack by an enemy alien species.</i><br><br> Eyoline knew Jon was on Planet Glinn, but she wanted to find him off duty. Black Diamond monitored her constantly when she went on assignment, and she had had enough of people nosing into her private life of late. She met… Read more Labels: David W Landrum futuristic stories long stories pick of the month 2 comments:
David W Landrum fantastic stories medium length stories Sunday, March 2, 2014 The Phantom Hitchhiker by David W Landrum <i>Musician Sossity Chandler has another encounter with the supernatural in David W Landrum's latest tale.</i><br><br> <i>Rough gig</i>, Sossity Chandler thought as she drove back to the motel. The crowd had been rude, drunk, and she had not been able to win them over. She performed song after song to scant applause, heckling, and, sometimes, boos and catcalls. When she thought things could not get worse, a group o… Read more Labels: David W Landrum fantastic stories medium length stories 2 comments:
David W Landrum fantastic stories long stories Sunday, February 16, 2014 Straight On Till Morning by David W Landrum <i>Musician Chauncey searches for his lover, and finds himself trapped in a sexually liberated parallel world populated with slave-owning fighters and Gaelic poets; by David W Landrum.</i><br><br> Chauncey drummed his fingers on the wooden arm of the chair. He had a gig that night and, more importantly, a dinner date with Sossity Chandler. He had opened for her a couple of times during her last tour of England.… Read more Labels: David W Landrum fantastic stories long stories 1 comment:
David W Landrum futuristic stories long stories Friday, November 30, 2012 Antigone by David W Landrum <i>A goddess rises against the Terran Alliance, and Captain Lorac is called in to defend the planet of Antigone; by David W Landrum</i><br><br> We heard the commotion - shouting and, I thought, singing. Though it did not sound threatening, we took up positions with weapons at ready. A group of figures emerged from the massive trees on the ridge above us. <br><br> We held our blasters at ready but lowered them a little … Read more Labels: David W Landrum futuristic stories long stories No comments:
