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
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. $0.00 Kindle Unlimited |
P'sall Senji
Honorable Mention, L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future 2012
First Place - 2013 Preditors and Editors Readers Poll - Best SF/F Short Story
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) Read Excerpt The Probability Machine
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). FREE READ on WATTPAD The Boy Who Couldn't Lie
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. Read excerpt. Guardian Angel
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. Read excerpt. What Goes Around
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) Read excerpt. Andrew The Last
Honorable Mention, L. Ron Hubbard
Writers of the Future 2013 
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
Honorable Mention, L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future 2014
Honorable Mention, 2016 Writer's Digest Writing Competition
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) Read excerpt. |
Harry and Harry
First Place - 2012 Preditors and Editors Readers Poll - Best SF/F Short Story
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). Read Excerpt Linda
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. Read excerpt. Hedda
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. FREE READ Cold Heart
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.
Read excerpt. Cherry Creek
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) Read excerpt. Edge
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. FREE READ Teacher's Pet
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. Read Excerpt The Translator
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) Read excerpt Retirement
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 |
Little Snowy MountainsHonorable Mention 2013 Writers-Editors Network International Writing Competition
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. FREE READ Companion
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. FREE READ Flib734
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. Read excerpt. The Catch
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
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
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. FREE READ Mars 1
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) Read Excerpt Brain Child
Growing a brain from scratch. What could go wrong? Published in Kraxon Magazine (Sep, 2016) Read excerpt The Vault
Sometimes it's just not easy keeping someone locked up.
Published in Fifty Flashes - Anthology ed. by Jean Goldstrom (Jan, 2017) |