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I began these stories over many years. When I was working, in school, and raising a family. I wrote mostly poetry, but I've always had a bent to express myself with more words, even chapters. Poetry is fun, a way to meet interesting and like-minded people. I managed fair success at it.

What I've really wanted is to tell stories. Even since grade school, I've written or begun many works through the years, a few were even submitted in the days of SASE, before emails and PDFs. They, including the sailing and news articles I'd written, are lost. And so I start anew, or from scraps.

- dalton, July 14, 2025

COMPLETE STORIES, MISC. WORK     

- Terror in the Ski (need base stats, second edition in WIP)

CURRENT PROJECTS

>> WIPS- Works begun since 2024, substantially started

-Spoonful    (10 sections of 500 words/in process)- nearing completion

- About Your Drugs (6-7 sections, 300-500 words each)- nearing completion

-A Long, Close Reach to Avalon- (Short story, about 100 words, near done)

-Abda (18 hours in Qatar)-(4 sections of 700 to 1000 words/in process)

-Popeye- Return to Sweet Haven Village-(4-5 sections of 500 words)

-Reyn- The Eternal Wonder Cat -(10 sections of 700 to 1000 words)

    -Also: Relative to Reyn- Stories with Dirtysocks, etc.

-The Rice Hack- (dark satire- est.1200 wrds. first draft complete)

PENDING

-The Nook Saga- (electronic adventure/five to ten pages)

- Stories from the Dogbox- (short family tales/300 to 1000words)


EARLY WORK BEGUN, INTEND TO FINISH AND BLOG

>>>Stories begun during the last century and through 2016

-I was in Your Apartment Today (currently submitted/782words)

-Judas- (biblical satire, parody / est-1000 words) 

-The Mountain Man- (biblical satire, parody/est. 2000 words

-Evergram- (harsh critique/est-700 words)

-Drowning at the Mapleleaf Bar- (tragic humor/min 1000 words)

-For a Smoke- (crime adventure/est. ten to 15 pages)

-Hobo Parrots- (bitter parody/est-7pages)

-How to Be Thrown Out of the Boy Scouts- (true adventure/5-10pgs)

-Transports Through Time- (Sci-fi parody/est-20pages)

-The Vertical Plank Story- (yoga satire/est-three to five pages)

- Off Ramp- (PTSD, revenge/short story-novella?)

- One Man's Guide to Bathroom Etiquette- (instruction-humor/2-3 pgs)

-The Salton Sea Story- (true adventure/three to ten pages)

-Gradual Graduations- (novel/250 first draft pages completed, destroyed by ex.)


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