Short Stories

Two agents - one who is quite high and won't stop joking - amusingly discuss the CATS (Charlotte Area Transit System) Gold Line streetcar alignment through inner east Charlotte. Another psecret psociety pshort pstory. Approx. 1200 words. A quick fun read that won't railroad you into a collision.

Agents 32 and 33 take a trip from Charlotte to Blowing Rock (NC, USA) on a sleety March afternoon. The next day they do a cold-air hike up to the fire lookout tower on Flat Top Mountain. Notes are gathered and stories are left behind. Includes words and phrases submitted by other agents. A...

The 1990s - especially the early years - in the North Davidson arts and entertainment district (NoDa) of Charlotte (NC, USA) are recounted in this 2200-word short story. Three of the early major NoDa figures who are now deceased (Terry Carano, Joe Behm, Bruce Gillenwater) are included in this...

Three agents drive up to Boone (NC, USA) from Charlotte to search for the elusive Jim and Jill characters on a cold December day. They discuss possible scenarios and motives for Jim's fleeing on the Blue Ridge Parkway as a snowstorm starts. The car crashes. But, where are the bodies? Who really...

The author recounts a visit to his favorite downtown Asheville coffeehouse Beanstreets, in April of 1998. An intriguing 'cosmic' conversation at an adjacent table is overheard and transcribed. Just another legendary day at the award-winning java joint. A 1900-word psecret psociety pshort pstory.

Agents 32 and 33 find themselves in downtown Salisbury (NC, USA) on a July afternoon in 2014 and decide to go for a late lunch. Notes are hidden and advice is given. All while a World Cup soccer match plays overhead. Another one in the psecret psociety pshort pstory pseries. [approx. 1300...

It's an exodus: elves are leaving the city of Mandeville in droves, seeking new livelihoods and homes. For Arrian Dale it's the perfect escape, a chance to leave the mines behind and make the best of his youth. But when his people are slaughtered and his parents enslaved, he finds himself alone...

On a cold January evening in 1986 at Carolina Beach (NC, USA) three future agents embark on a mission to investigate a flashing hotel sign some fifty feet above the ground. Everything does not go as planned. Some found graffiti presages a calamitous future event. A 2100-word short story featuring...

Once in San Francisco, Agents 32 and 33 decide to take a trip to the curvy section of Vermont Street on Potrero Hill. Along the way a man tells them about a very unique game that was once played on the street. While walking back, they find 'the one that got away' under a shrub. It's catch and...

Back in the summer of 1985, three young dudes paddle a pair of inflatable rubber boats over to a deserted, very small marsh island in the Wrightsville Beach (NC, USA) sound. Soon the 'elixium' starts to take effect. Space gets distorted. Words sound strange. Then there's a medical situation to...