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​ -Captain Arnold is a mind-boggling excursion into alternate realities with stories designed to stretch your view of our Universe.  Robots, angels and ghosts will be your companions as you travel through a life that could have been and struggle to change a life that should not have been. 

Wander into your old neighborhood and find yourself in front of your old house to find someone rather familiar lives there. Enter the dreams of a dying child. Go back in time to save your father. Join the never-ending march of the doomed. Live a life you never had. Translate voices to what they really are saying. And five simple observations will make you question your view of the universe. 

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"CAPTAIN ARNOLD is filled with a collection of short stories designed to feed the imagination, warm the heart and stir that what if mindset we all have." 
Tome Tender 

"Science fiction, fantasy, ghosts and odd angels, a wide swath, and a fun read. Get it, and enjoy."
Steve Perry - New York Times Bestselling Author of Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire
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"... these stories are meant to make you wonder, to question what is real, and not just safely in the volume. To jolt you out of your cocoon of normalcy." 
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Full Review by Piers Anthony

MY SHORTS - A Collection of Award-Winning Short Stories

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"Arthur Doweyko's collection of short stories covers a wide swath of time and space, with a few O. Henry turns and twists you might not see coming. Some will make you smile, and others will make you think. A delightful read." - Steve Perry, NY Times Best Selling Author
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A collection of 13 thought-provoking award-winning science fiction and fantasy tales guaranteed to change your view of the universe.

Featuring:
The Probability Machine - A peek 5-min into the future when you are murdered
​Harry and Harry - Harry teams up with Harry to save their wife
​Andrew The Last - Andrew the cyborg is the last human and must decide whether to go fully artificial
​P'sall Senji - a policemen makes a deadly choice during a first alien contact
​The Boy Who Couldn't Lie - Luke finds he cannot lie
​Blue Ice - When something hits you on the head, you better hope it's not blue ice.


These and other excursions into the what-if mind of Arthur M. Doweyko are both spell-binding and bewildering. Grab a cup of coffee and tighten your seat belt.
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P'sall Senji

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Honorable Mention, L. Ron Hubbard Writers of  the  Future 2012

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First Place - 2013 Preditors and Editors Readers Poll - Best SF/F Short Story

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As visitors from the stars were being welcomed by the President, standing nearby, Henry  Willoughby patted the revolver in his pocket. The time had come to save the world.
Finalist 2012 Royal Palm Literary Award.
2012 Aliens Among Us, Pulp Empire, ed. Nick Ahlhelm

2013 Contact: Stories of the New World (Dreamscape Press, David Nell, Editor)
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The Probability Machine

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My first published short story. I was always fascinated by computers, especially in being able to program them to do almost anything. This story is about a special computer designed to predict the future.
The Absent Willow Review, ed. Bob Griffin, Feb 2010. Winner 2010 National Fantasy Fan Federation Award (Third Place).
Available in My Shorts (pub 2016)


The Boy Who Couldn't Lie

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This is one of those "What if?" stories. Luke is generally a good kid, and usually doesn't lie, but when he really has to, watch out.
Blue Crow Magazine - Easter, The Blue Crow Press, ed. Andrew Scobie, Apr 2011.
Finalist 2011 Royal Palm Literary Award.
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Guardian Angel

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It was on a trip to Las Vegas that I got the idea that it might be nice to have a proactive guardian angel, in particular, one that could help me out once in a while. No such luck.
Christmas Angels, Whortleberry Press, ed. Jean M. Goldstrom, 2011.
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What Goes Around

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It's 1869 and we're in Deely's Creek, a gold mining town at the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. Events are about to unfold which will lead the town doctor to believe in miracles. 

Magical, ed. Kelly Ann Jacobson (Nov, 2014)

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Andrew The Last

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Honorable Mention, L. Ron Hubbard
Writers  of  the  Future 2013

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Andrew Seegers was the last of his kind... an android with a human brain. When he gets the news that Systems are on their way with an upgrade...an artificial brain, Andrew wonders if he would still be himself.
Finalist 2013 Royal Palm Literary Award. 
Published by the Bethlehem Writers Roundtable, May/June 2016)



Nothing to See Here

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Honorable Mention, L. Ron Hubbard Writers of  the  Future 2014

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Honorable Mention, 2016 Writer's Digest Writing Competition 

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Grady Pearson saw something in his cornfield that would forever change the way he viewed his life.
Finalist 2014 Royal Palm Literary Award.
​Escape Pod (21 Apr 2017)

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Five Reasons to Wonder

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2nd Place 2019 Writers Digest Competition - Personal Essay
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Lost and Found

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On a snowy evening, a man finds himself across the street from his childhood home. What he discovers living there undoes the very fabric of time.
​Published in Stories That Need to be Told, ed. Jennifer Top (2020)

Harry and Harry

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First Place - 2012 Preditors and Editors Readers Poll - Best SF/F Short Story

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An unusual tale of time travel.  Harry Simson's wife is dying of cancer. The catch is that Harry can only travel into the past, and that can only happen as long as the time machine has been left on. The premise is based on actual research being conducted by Dr. Ronald  Mallett at the University of Connecticut, describing a closed time curve device.
Aurora of the Mists, Aurora Wolf Press, ed. Michael Pennington, 2011.
Martin T. Ingham's The Temporal Element Anthology (April 2013).
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Linda

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Based on a character in Algorithm, Linda is a story of a young girl in 1978 Cuba waiting to meet with her family to undertake a dangerous escape from the island.
Slices of Life, Peppertree Press, Oct 2010
Finalist 2011 Royal Palm Literary Award.
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Hedda

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Another short based on a character in Algorithm. Hedda focuses on the life of a  coal miner's wife in the 1950s Wilkes-Barre region of Pennsylvania.
Slices of Life, Peppertree Press, Oct 2010.
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Cold Heart

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Just another small planet revolving around a giant red sun ... but of course, there's more. The planet turns out to have a warm side and a frozen side, and these sides switch places once in a while ... and the natives, well they're really quite special.
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Cherry Creek

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In the summer of 2011, Lidia and I visited Cherry Creek, Nevada. In the late 1800s this town was a thriving mining center. Now it's a ghost town. If you listen real close, you can hear the wind speak.
Finalist 2012 Royal Palm Literary Award.              
Ghosts: An Anthology of Horror from the Beyond, David Tyson, ed. (May 2015)
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Edge

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Everton was on mankind's second interstellar mission. Little did he realize that when he reached for the stars, he could touch one.

The online magazine, Litro, ed. Emily Cleaver, 2013.
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Teacher's Pet

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After one of his bug-eyed students plays yet another cruel prank on Sam, a high school teaching unit, he formulates a very special punishment.




Published in AntipodeanSF (Issue 195, September, 2014), Ion Newcombe, ed.
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The Translator

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Gerrard is gifted. He's invented a Translator for the Science Fair. It analyzes animal speech and deciphers its meaning into English. Then he finds out it works on humans, too.
Published in Third flatiron Anthology (It's Come to Our Attention), ed. Juliana Rew, 2016)
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Retirement

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Retirement is not everything Tim expected. In fact, it's not anything anyone expected.
Published in the Alien Dimensions Anthology #10, edi. Neil Hogan, 2017


​Remember Me

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Sometimes people just forget your name. Sometimes they forget you.
Published in Askew Anthology Vol 6, ed. Dusty Grein, 2018)

Son

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Two Mechs come up with a very unique plan to escape a mining operation on Ceres. Sometimes people just forget your name. Sometimes they forget you.
Published in Change (A Space Coast Writers' Guild Anthology, 2019) also in Captain Arnold (Anthology, 2021)

Captain Arnold and the Zantharian Invasion

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A little boy, Arnold, copes with a terminal and painful disease and dreams of being a hero. One day, his robot nanny shows up in his dreams. 
​Published in Captain Arnold (Anthology, 2021)

Little Snowy Mountains

Honorable Mention 2013 Writers-Editors Network International Writing  Competition 

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Dr. Armstrong Pearl has just dug up something rather unsettling - a human skull beneath a 65 million year old sauropod fossil. Incredible enough it would seem, until he discovers the skull is his.
September 2013 Bohemia - Rifts in Time. 
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​In the not-so-distant future AI programming will advance to the point of infusing self-awareness. When this happens,  some issues may turn up ... like what will it mean if you turn off the program, or worse still, murder it?
Glasschord - Future Shock, ed Daniel James McCabe, Oct 2011.
Finalist 2011 Royal Palm Literary Award.
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Flib734

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A story of dementia, a story of friendship. Fred copes with loneliness by discovering an intelligence in the mainframe.
Accepted for publication, Abandoned Towers Magazine, ed. Karin Abel, 2012.
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The Catch

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Flash fiction short story with a Sterlingesque ending. Mom and daughter wait for the men to return from their fishing expedition.
Let's  Talk, Peppertree Press, ed. Bruce Cameron, Oct 2011; Daily Flash 2012: 366 Days of Flash Fiction, Pill  Hill Press, ed. Jessy Marie Roberts,  2012.

The Zoo

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Another flash fiction short. This time we're in the Zoo.
Let's Talk, Peppertree Press, ed. Bruce Cameron, Oct 2011; Daily Flash 2012: 366 Days of Flash Fiction, Pill Hill Press, ed. Jessy Marie Roberts,  2012.

Blue Ice

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What if a machine was developed that could use your DNA to predict when you would die? Wouldn't you like to know? Maybe ... maybe not. But don't worry, everything is not as it seems.
Schlock Magazine, ed. Michael Vella, 2012.
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Mars 1

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Shay woke up too early from stasis on the long flight to Mars. If it wasn't for the voices he'd have gone insane.
The Were-Traveller - Alien Tech, Oct 2014 (ed. Maria Kelly)
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Brain Child​
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Growing a brain from scratch. What could go wrong?
Published in Kraxon Magazine (Sep, 2016)
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The Vault

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Sometimes it's just not easy keeping someone locked up.
Published in Fifty Flashes - Anthology ed. by Jean Goldstrom (Jan, 2017)

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​The March

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Sequoyah discovers The March is something that will never end.
Published in The London Reader, Spring, 2019

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Billy and the Time Machine

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Going back in time does not necessarily require a time machine - but the consequence could be just as dire.
Published  in the FWA Create An Illusion collection 2020.