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S T O R I E S

This is a nearly exhausted list of my stories ranging from the earliest stories from elementary school to the most recent, the award winners, the novels, the in-progress, and the abandoned failed projects.

Genres include: science fiction, fantasy, horror, mystery, drama, satire, comedy, slip stream, social sci-fi, psychological thriller

Personal favorites: Playing God, Independent Thought, Welcome to Areif O'rDeto, Behind the Eyes, Sans Design Frozen Tune, Hiring the Dead, Three Houses Before Home, One Unknown, Keres, Emerican Adventure, Bowling Shoes and Murder, Haven, Riff, White Elephant

 

 

 

A Day in the Life of Dr. Woods

Genre: Social Sci-fi, psyche
Status:
Complete
Date:
10/6/02-10/8/02
Words: 3,542

Richard helps the patients at the psychiatrist office, but when identities get scrambled, it becomes difficult to know who needs more help -- the patients or the doctors.


A Grain of Futility

Genre: drama
Status: Complete
Date:
12/8/01-3/28/02
Words: 26,442

A novella about Hallie Roquel, a girl who falls in love with Tayne Kythron, a vampire who Hallie's father has committed himself to capturing. Will a father's hatred for one boy go as far to kill his daughter's only love? Their friendship must stand the tests of time, danger, and even death.


Ouroborus: Confined to Eternity

Genre: Horror, fantasy
Status: Complete, not typed
Date:
4/12/02-7/24/02

Words: More than 7,212
As a sequel to A Grain of Futility, Ourborus encompasses the lives of Tayne and Hallie, their ancestors, and their descendents. Siele finds himself in an old house that haunts him with flashbacks of his ancestors, flashbacks that lead him to believe there is more in his bloodstream than human blood.

 


A New World

Genre: Sci-fi, fantasy
Status: Complete
Date:
8/9/01
Words:
6,645
The condition of the world reflects the way we treat others. When eight people plucked out of time from different worlds are brought to one empty canvas to create a new world safe from the Trikiis, they soon learn that if they can't get along, there will be no safe world. For anyone. Ever again.


The Adventure Club

Genre: Horror
Status: Complete
Date:
8/11/01-9/?/01
Words:
4,133

To get initiated, all Cory has to do is snap a picture of the fabled werewolf that roams the woods outside of town. No one told him it was just Chains in a furry costume. But when he returns to the group with his photograph of the werewolf, it's not Chains.

 


All Alone

Genre: Horror
Status: Abandoned
Date:
late 1997
Words:
1,152 +
Olivia and Lyle are staying at their grandparents for the summer. Their grandparents leave every night and don't return until the next morning. With the help of three local kids, they investigate their position and what they discover is not what they expected.


Aller Simple

Genre: Drama
Status: Abandoned
Date:
7/12/02
Janni, Zoe, Toscem, and Calliope are driving across the country, but they get involved in some government issues along the way. They make some new friends and some new enemies too.


The Almanac

Genre: Horror
Status: Abandoned
Date:
10/30/98
Words: 2,012 +
The wrong kind of school bus takes three elementary kids to a town of mummies, witches, vampires, ghosts, goblins, zombies, and werewolves. All they have to survive is a less than common almanac.


Are You Scared Yet?

Genre: Horror
Status: Complete
Date:
1996-7/8/01
Words: 1,639

A group of friends gather at Toby's house one night. They get a call from someone who will go to extremes to get an answer to one simple question.


Behind the Eyes

Genre: Science Fiction
Status: Complete
Date:
11/27/02-6/5/03
Words: 12,921
When two scientists recognize their fault in creating life from scratch, they attempt to bury the evidence, but their experiment comes back to haunt them years later, and it's wondering why they never gave it a soul. When a spiritual activist insists it have a soul, it decides to find one, take one by force if necessary.


Behind the Wall

Genre: Sci-fi
Status: Complete
Date:
5/26/01
Words: 7,195
A group of non-astronauts are testing out the new Faster Than Light Drive. When the new technology takes them to the end of the universe, the adventurers dare to peek through the wall to see what is beyond.

Here's a film that...doesn't really resemble this story...
Behind the Wall


The Boy Who Never Was

Genre: Sci-fi drama
Status: Abandoned
Date: 6/97-8/97
Words:1,716 +
Tyrone woke up with no memory of who he was or where he was from. He makes friends with a local girl and they try to unravel the mystery of his existence. But when he finds out who he really is, he's not so sure he likes who he is.

 


Cast and Crew

Genre: Horror mystery
Status: Abandoned
Date: April 2000
Words: 556 +

Two girls sign up for their summer job doing sets for a TV show. They even get to meet their favorite actor. But something not so normal is happening around the set...and they think that it's followed them home.


Celebration Dinner

Genre: Slip stream
Status: Complete
Date: 3/23/03
Words: 2,879
Matthew Mercer takes his family out to dinner at a diner from his past where he's known as a hero, but now, they don't want their hero to leave. Ever again.

 


The Chartroom Mystery

Genre: Mystery
Status: Abandoned
Date: 12/1/98
Words: 1,974 +

Someone's tampering with Val's Chat. A group of kids go out to seek the answer to the weird happenings.

 

 


The City that Belonged to One

Genre: Drama
Status: Complete
Date: 9/3/01
Words: 1,366
A dialogue-less tale about two people from opposite sides brought together against a common enemy.

 


Deleted

Genre: Sci-fi fantasy
Status: Complete
Date: 10/8/98
Words: 1,311
Search party volunteers Terry Dawn and Mitch Feyer find themselves in a loop, rescuing a boy from the same place every day until one day, no one even remembers he's missing.

 


Deleted II

Genre: Sci-fi mystery
Status: Completed
Date: 8/22/02
Words: 2,459

After Raven and Terry discover a time machine in a dead professor's basement, they need to call for the help of Mitch Feyer to solve the mystery coded in the professor's journal that will take them on a journey through the past that was and a future that wasn't.

 


Derec

Genre: Sci-Fi drama
Status: Complete
Date: 1998
Words:1,730
Derec has no dreams, no personality, no voice, but when Maggie follows him home from school one day, she learns that the truth behind his identity is out of this world.


Dependent

Genre: sci-fi
Status: Complete
Date: 12/23/03-12/27/03 (9:46am)

In the future where cell-phone induced cancer has wiped out most of the population, along with a new chemical in the atmosphere, one man is chosen to survive at the end of the destruction of mankind, but can he save the one he loves from the fate of the rest of the world?

 


Echoes in the Dark

Genre: Horror
Status: Complete, not typed
Date: 6/7/03-6/8/03
Sonny finds himself as the last man on Earth. Another race comes to Earth to live peacefully. A few decades later, humans are reborn and don't want to share their planet with this new species.


Elevation

Genre: Sci-fi mystery
Status: Abandoned
Date: 5/1/01
Words: 1,743 +
When famous actress Kristin Karl checks into the Grandview Resort, the body of a man is found in the elevator. The corpse has been dead for over fifty years. When five year old Mathew slips into the elevator, his parents don't know how old he will be when he gets out.


Emerican Adventure

Genre: Sci-fi Adventure
Status: Complete
Date: 1/20/03-6/13/03
Words: 59,417
When Emerica and Wyatt find themselves stranded in deep space, the universe opens her secrets to them, dragging them through space, time, and the heartaches of love and loss.


Fantasy

Genre: Fantasy
Status: Abandoned
Date: 11/24/02
Griffon is loud and crude. His brother, Hyphen, hardly utters a word. When the brothers are dragged into a fantasy world by an amnesia-afflicted oracle, Hyphen learns he has a voice, and Griffon learns when to shut up.


Fighting for a Future

Genre: Fantasy
Status: Abandoned
Date: 2/24/98
Words: 1,299 +
Five kids (Izzy, Drake, Mic, Stella, and Zoe) are brought together and trying to find out
what the higher power wants with them.


4Always

Genre: Sci-fi
Status: Abandoned
Date: 1998
Words: 939 +
An all-female rock band witnesses a crime, and now the convicts will do anything to hush them up. The FBI sends two agents to protect them, but they quickly learn that the only people they can depend on is themselves.


Future Friends

Genre: Drama
Status: Abandoned
Date: early 1998
Words: 3,181 +
The war is coming to an end, and it doesn't look good for the free races of the universe. Their last chance is four teenagers with special abilities to stop the enemy once and for all.


Goggled Eyes of the Imagination

Genre: sci-fi
Status: Complete
Date: 9/11/05 (noon to 2:22)
Words: 3,000
Izzy Reynolds is ten years old and his imagination has gone wild, or so others think, but what will they have to say when they learn he was right about the invasion of the robots from a planet in the Barnard system?


Gyre

Catching Art

Genre: Comical Satire
Status: In Progress
Date: 12/26/06-
Words: 35,765 +
Like a disease, art comes to At, but the citizens don't want it. They quarantine the inflicted. When Whey tries to bring an end to it, she finds herself kidnapped and dragged into the mountains where the Wicked Ones wait. Meanwhile Stanley tries to break out of art rehab.

Bowling Shoes and Murder
also available on audio

Genre: Comical Satire
Status: Complete
Date: 10/30/03- 12/?/04
Words: 58,554
When Stanley Gherkin gets thrown in the dungeon for allegedly stealing bowling shoes, it's up to his best friend, Whey, to rescue him. Using her luck that all the vampires in town mistake her for their goddess, she gets her vampire friend and secret-agent turned priest mentor to help break Stan out.

Goddess

Genre: Comical Satire
Status: Not written yet
Date:
Words:
When the vampires suspect that Whey is not their goddess, but perhaps Lida is, the two girls must fight over the role, the loser being sent to death. But when Whey and Lida's battle sparks friendship, they turn their attention to fighting off the vampires who are still wondering which one of them they're supposed to worship.

 


Hiring the Dead

Genre: Horror comedy
Status: Honorable Mention 2005
Date: 9/7/03
Words: 3,044
Lillion, a suffering filmmaker, hires an all dead cast and crew for his new production, in hopes that evil will refuse to let his film fail. When the cinematographer takes equipment apart, the wolf mauls half the crew, the studio sends a Hollywood star, new pages get written, and the leading actor demands the director's soul, Lillion questions the cost of his art.

 


Home

Genre: Science Fiction
Status: Complete
Date: 8/25/98
Words: 1,808

A journey through time and space that shows home is home whether it be Earth or Mars.

 


Haven

Genre: Fantasy, social satire
Status: Complete
Date: 2-18-05 to 1/16/06
Words: 90,790

In a haven of artists, one of them goes missing. Now the artists have to leave the safety of their magic walls and go out into the real world where they are confronted with drugs, sex, violence, prejudice, hate -- things that never existed in the haven. Can they find their fellow artist, Callum? And if they do, will it be too late for him?

 


Hank

Genre: comical social satire
Status: Incomplete
Date: 2005
Words: 7,036 +

Hank decides to leave his university and search for ultimate truth by traveling around the world. Along the way, he finds himself caught up in a civil war, applying for jobs he doesn't want, and thrown in jail.

 


In The Meadow

Genre: Sci-fi
Status: Complete, not typed
Date: 1998
A group of school boys notice weird lights at night and the electronics going wonky. When they discover what the government is trying to keep under wraps, they hold the ultimate secret: We Are Not Alone

 


Independent Thought

Genre: Dramatic Satire
Status: Complete
Date: 9/3/02-10/6/02
Words: 3,391
In a world where everyone has the same memories, no one can make judgments about other people. But Dashiell was born different.

 


The Initiation

Genre: Drama
Status: Complete
Date: between 6/00 and 4/01
Words: 6,878

Once you join the team, you're in for life. One girl must decide if her freedom is worth risking the fate of the world.

 


It Wasn't Their Time

Genre: Suspense horror
Status: Complete
Date: 8/1/01
Words: 5,439
When Alex and her friends unleash the demon locked in a trunk in her attic, all they have to stop it is a ghostly video tape and some weird writing that only her guardian angel can read. There are 8 deaths, only 4 people die, and by the end, everyone is alive.

 


Journey to Never

Genre: Social Sci-fi
Status: Complete
Date: 5/12/01
Words: 1,488
Miles gets on a bus one day. The next thing he knows, he's in Never. How does he get home? Or does he even want to?

 


Jumbled

Genre: Social sci-fi psyche
Status: Abandoned
Date: 3/27/03
Words: 4,050 +

Get inside Kelso's mind as he finds himself in a strange place with strange people as they have to solve puzzles and escape death to get out. They're all from different places, different times, and with different motives. But they'd better hurry. They're beginning to forget...


Kalem

Genre: Sci-fi
Status: Complete, not typed
Date: 8/00
Larry and Nick, right out of high school, drive to Kalem where everyone is fleeing the city. It's up to them to get to the bottom of the mystery behind Kalem.


Kalem II - College of Nightmares

Genre: Horror
Status: Complete
Date: 9/98-6/99
Words: 5,270

After what happened in Kalem, Larry decides to enroll in Granite College, but it too has its paranormal secrets. His new friend Becky learns that Larry has some secrets of his own.

 


Karl Sampson

Genre: Sci-fi drama
Status: Abandoned
Date: 3/28/04
Time travelers will do anything in their power to keep Karl Sampson from falling in love, but Karl has a plan of his own. Can their love survive the threats and the bloodshed around them?

 


Keres

Genre: Historical Fiction Horror
Status: In Progress
Date: 6/30/04 (7:50pm) -
Words: 1,883 +
Tourists who went into the canyons never came back. People who never went in are coming out. Visitors claim to hear strange noises and weird visions at night. Something even has the locals spooked. Is it the ancient Anasazi taking their revenge? Aliens? Celestial phenomena? 

 


Lashio

Genre: Sci-fi
Status: Complete
Date: 8/19/02-10/27/02
Words: 3,482
Lashio's species lives peacefully on their planet, minding their own business, but when the humans arrive, all peace ends.

 


Leonie

Genre: Sci-fi
Status: Abandoned
Date: between 8/02 & 11/02
On a planet where the eight societal statuses remain separate, war shreds the caste system. Citizens find themselves facing the realities of classes they didn't even know existed, or existed for their benefit.

 


Life Smart

Genre: Drama
Status: Complete
Date: 3/13/01
Words: 3,281
Luna's life sucks. So do the lives of her friends. She learns from them it's not important to be book smart or street smart. Just life smart.

 


Lupe's Escape

Genre: Horror
Status: Incomplete
Date: 7/24/02-
Words: 9,816 +
Lupe thinks her summer camp is hell. That is, until she learns it's crawling with vampires, ghosts, aliens, wizards, werewolves, and zombies.

 


The Museum of the Strange and Unusual

Genre: Fantasy, Set up story
Status: Complete
Date: before 1998
Words: 1,648
A story that encompasses all the other stories. Taylor meets a strange man who leads him to an even stranger museum. The boy finds the reading room, picks up a book, starts to read, and hasn't stopped since.

 


New Friends

Genre: Sci-fi
Status: Complete
Date: first grade, 1993 or 1994
Words:703
It was weird enough that Robbie's best friend disappeared, but when another kid shows up at his door acting like they've been best friends forever, Robbie doesn't know whether he should keep searching for his lost friend or settle for what he's got.

 


Nightmares

Genre: Fantasy
Status: Complete
Words: 3,381
Gale has been having dreams that connect somehow. She receives messages. Is someone trying to contact her through her dreams? If so, what do they want?

 


One Unknown

Genre: Sci-fi, social sci-fi, satire
Status: In Progress
Date: 2/25/03
Words: 12,944 +

Didier Tranh is the president of the USA in 2156 and Koffi Fordum is his personal assistant. The Moon Republic has declared war with Earth. Didier wants to go to war, but Koffi has an alternative. They decide to unfreeze the Legendary Heroes from their 100 year old sleep. Now it's up to Massimo, Wyzmann, Sita, and Race to save the world. Unfortunately, they are not who everyone says they are, and Koffi has to take things into his own hands.

 


Partners

Genre: Drama
Status: Abandoned
Date: 8/98-1/99
Words: 4,872 +
Larissa joins a military to battle evil. It's up to her and her three combat partners to stop the evil King RuTut once and for all.

 


Phoenix

Genre: Sci-fi horror
Status: Complete
Date: 11/23/01-11/24/01
Words: 6,257
People say that the Phoenix3000 never returned because the engine malfunctioned, but the passengers know about the ghosts. The Phoenix4000 reaches the planet the 3000 headed for, but the inhabitants of the new world don't plan on letting the astronauts return to tell Earth about their findings.

 


Playing God

Genre: Sci-fi
Status: First Place Winner
Date: 8/13/02
Words: 3,121

What happens when the ruler of the universe loses his memory?

 


Project Rudimentary Chaos
also available in comic book version

Genre: Comedy
Status: Incomplete
Date: 9/13/02
Words: 21,961 +

Ten evil scientists with unusual abilities are scattered across the world. With the government's low budget, all they can afford to hire to stop these evil geniuses is a music band called Simple Assault and all their roadies...and groupies...and stalkers.


Riff
 
Genre: Dark Fantasy
Status: Complete
Date: 1/17/08 8pm
Words: approx 70,000

The world is turned upside down when angels and demons engage in epic battle inside a thirteen year old boy. Angels fall to Hell. Sin rises to Heaven. And the human race is scattered across the battlefield as they come to grips with that famous myth—freewill.

 


The Reality Series

Revenge

Genre: Sci-fi suspense
Status: Complete
Date: 9/15/01-9/19/01
Words: 5,888
James and Tower are brought together by a series of events orchestrated by the mysterious JJ Anders.

 Rescued

Genre: Horror
Status: Complete
Date: before 8/01
Words: 5,328
Six people who find themselves suddenly in a labyrinth cannot understand why they are stashed in this nightmare and by whom, until they come to the end of the maze.

Rebels

Genre: Sci-fi
Status: Complete
Date: 8/11/01
Words: 3,148
Six survivors of the world's destruction journey out toward the mainland to see if anyone else is left on this dismal world, but they end up battling for survival themselves.

 Returned

Genre: Fantasy social sci-fi
Status: Complete
Date: 8/8/01-9/15/01
Words: 2,883
When Sam, Paul, and Daniel lost their leader JJ Anders to the wild and dangerous ocean, they seek a new leader. Jason struggles to lead this band of rebels in training, but then they encounter Joanne who believes she can help them get JJ back.

 


Run-Away

Genre: Sci-fi
Status: Complete
Date: 5/22/02-9/27/03
Words: 6,634
River is rich and unhappy. She runs away from home. Just when she's about to give up on living on her own, she meets Grady in a truck stop. He offers to take her into the real world where she finds that the construction of reality is made by TV producers.

 


Retreat

Genre: psych drama
Completed: yes
Date: 9/10/05
Words: 4,310

Dustin retreats into his mind and makes up stories behind the people and things he sees. By the time he learns that he was right about them, it's too late to save himself from the conspiracies he cooked up.

 


Rearranging Lives

Genre: Flash fiction
Status: Complete

Date: 7/26/04 9pm-10pm
Words: 740
One tenant moves too much. The other has been stuck in the same apartment forever, but she sees more variety than her neighbor.

 


Safari Avoid Your Adventure Trip

Terror Town

Genre: Horror
Status: Complete
Date: 1997
Words: 3,340
Cameron and Kris move to Terror Town. Kyle shows them around their new scary town. That night, Terror Town lives up to its name. Or dies up to it's name.

Forever Lost

Genre: Horror
Status: Complete
Date: 1997
Words: 964
Kyle has always hated Terror Town. When Terror Town decides to return the favor, he's sent to a world beneath the graveyard.

Dino Dudes

Genre: Horror
Status: Complete
Date: 1997
Words: 2,414
Cameron and Kris are sucked down the sewers and are spit out in a place where the locals are dinosaurs.

Imagine if you Will

Genre: Horror Sci-fi
Status: Complete
Date: 1997
Words: 1,482
When an alien called Clip comes to Earth to settle down, he finds the one town where he'll blend right in.

Soles of the Spirit

Genre: Horror Sci-fi
Status: Complete
Date: 1997-2001
Words: 1,526
Cameron and Kris get new shoes that have been used by real celebrities. Or so they say. But the shoes have taken some attitude from the celebrity and given it to the new wearer.


Sans Design, Frozen Tune
also available on DVD

Genre: Sci-fi
Status: Complete
Date: 1/1/03-1/2/03
Words: 3,778

When prisoners underground suddenly lose all methods of communication, they know that their captors are trying to stop the spread of news -- news of escape.
Communicate any way you can.

 


Sealed Fate

Genre: Sci-fi Fantasy
Status: Complete
Date: 2/16/03
Words: 3,656
Baylee struggles to grip her existence as her life slips into different realities. Every road she finds herself on points in the same direction.

 


Searching for a Past

Genre: Fantasy
Status: Complete, not typed
Date: 1998
Everyone knows her history but her. When she finally does discover her past, she's willing to stay there. Forever.

 


The Sight

Genre: Social Sci-fi
Status: Complete
Date: 11/3/01-11/17/01
Words: 3,274

Being a single mother can be hard. Especially when your daughter sees things no one else can see.

 


Spread the Word
 

Genre: Fantasy
Status: Complete
Date: mid 2001
Words: 2,899
His visitor has the secret to the universe, but if she tells him, it's his responsibility to pass it on. But some don't want to hear it.

 


Stop by on your way to the Cemetery

Genre: Drama
Status: Abandoned
Date: 3/9/98
Words: 706 +

After Jessica's boyfriend is killed in an auto collision, she becomes dysfunctional. She won't eat or sleep. Her grief threatens her life. So her boyfriend decides to pay her a visit.

 


Seven Stars
also available on DVD

The Game

Genre: Fantasy
Status: Complete
Date: 4/20/02-8/14/03
Words: 28,431
Seven people with special powers are brought together to help stop the almighty expiration date, but first they must complete a test -- a game show sent by the mysterious company Dacion, but everything goes wrong when the game is interrupted by assassins.

Dacion

Genre: Fantasy
Status: Complete
Date: 8/16/03-8/22/03
Words: 16,618
The seven are left in the care of Dacion, but even Dacion isn't safe anymore, as they've been infiltrated by a fallen angel and an assassin seeking revenge. Meanwhile Alek falls in love with one of the employees and Dax tries to escape the planet.

Home

Genre: Fantasy
Status: Complete, script only
Rating: B Scale 2
When the seven are sent home to rest, Dacion blows up, leaving them with no insight on how to save the world except the random clues that lead them to magic stones.
 

 


Three Houses Before Home
also available on DVD

Genre: Psyche
Status: Complete
Date: 2/27/04 (4pm)
Words: 6,385
Each of David's friends insists they are the only ones that exist and that the others are figments of his imagination. Which one is right? And would David rather be crazy or alone?

 


Trilogy

Drakellette

Genre: Horror Drama
Status: Complete
Date: 1999
Words: 5,258
Cathy meets Max on her vacation to a tropical island. They get into a spat that quickly escalates to a life and death situation, but when her friends leave her for dead and her enemy saves her life, she must wonder whose life is actually at stake and by whose hand.

Documentary

Genre: Horror Drama
Status: Complete
Date: 8/2/00
Words: 2,770

When stranded on a deserted island, she said she'd rather be with her greatest enemy than be so alone. She gets her wish, but there's nothing she can do because he'll stop at nothing to kill her.

Aquarius

Genre: Horror Drama
Completed: Yes
Date: between 3/21/00 & 10/31/01
Words: 3,358
Picking up a hitchhiker changes Cathy's life. He seems like the perfect guy, but he has a secret that puts him on the most wanted list. Now it's up to Cathy to keep the hunter from killing him on his birthday. 

 


To Kill a House

Genre: Horror
Status: Abandoned, not typed
Date: 11/4/02
Six outcasts come to a haunted house one night. When it declares them as the enemy, they must devise a way to kill it before it eats them alive.

 


Together Forever

5,875 words total

Together Forever One

Genre: Sci-fi Horror
Status: Complete
Date: 1995?
When Jessie gets stuck in another dimension, she's not sure she can trust her new friend, Nick, who is half human half dinosaur.

The Hunters

Genre: Sci-fi Horror
Status: Complete
Date: 1995?
When Jessie's father and ex-boyfriend voyage into this dimension to rescue her, the first threat they see is her dinosaur friend, Nick, who, as they see it, must be destroyed.

Portals

Genre: Sci-fi Horror
Status: Complete
Date: 1995?

When Jessie finds a ride off this planet with a group of other humans, Nick will do anything to make her stay.

 


Undercover

Genre: Drama Sci-fi
Status: Abandoned
Date: 1998
Five kids from different times, the wild west to the distant future, are joined together to save the world, assuming they can save themselves first.

 


Voyage to Another Dimension

Genre: Sci-fi
Status: Abandoned
Date: 1/1/99
Words: 1,567
Mikey was adopted. When he searches for the identity of his real parents, he finds they are from another dimension and want him back. But that would mean leaving his best friend and adopted parents who have been more of parents to him than his real ones.

 


The Walls of Reality

Genre: Sci-fi Horror Suspense
Status: Complete
Date: 4/16/01
Words: 3,257

The walls of reality are easily broken if one can hold back the fear of what's outside. Once they are broken, there is no mending them.

 


Welcome to Areif O'rDeto

Genre: Psyche Social Sci-fi
Status: Complete
Date: 8/10/02-8/11/02
Words: 7,926
Daz stumbles onto a small town. But now he can't get out. With the help of a new friend, they attempt to get to the bottom of this mystery. The only alternative is to stay in Areif O'rDeto... forever.

 


The Welcomers

Genre: Sci-fi
Status: Complete
Date: 12/98-3/18/99
Words: 2,347
One kid from each of five planets has been kidnapped and transported to another planet. The gods lift a finger to direct them in their vital purpose in the creation of a new planet.

 


White Elephant
 

Genre: Social Sci-fi Psyche
Status: Complete
Date: 4/2008
Words:

If you had the chance to give away anything--student loans, addiction, disease--and give it to someone else, would you? And what if they were family?

 


 

The White Room
 

Genre: Social Sci-fi Psyche
Status: Complete
Date: 9/28/01
Words: 2,115

A girl in an insane asylum decides to take a stroll in the real world.

 


World Peace

Genre: Horror
Status: Complete
Date: 6/26/02
Words: 2,689
All they wanted was a little peace on Earth. Instead, they summoned the most dangerous vampire gang in all of history. Their mission? To destroy those who Summoned them (and anyone who gets in their way).

 


Zack Attack Radio

Genre: Sci-fi
Status: Complete, not typed
Date: 1999-2000
Molly, Nicole, and Randy know something weird is going on when the residents of their safe little town start acting like zombies. All the evidence points to the new radio station. Could this be an invasion?

 


Alternate Universe Survivors

Science Fiction Comedy Series

The Journey Begins
also available on VHS

Episode 1
Status: Complete
Date: April 2000
Words: 7,070
Girl group Serenity and boy band Raison D'ętre are flung into another dimension where they must get through boot camp and all the people that are after them. Will they ever make it home?

Rainy Day Man

Episode 2
Status: Complete
Date:
Words: 5,623
After escaping the boot camp world, Serenity and Raison D'ętre land on a world where it rains all the time. A man called Ian offers to take them in, but it sounds like Ian's a murderer and his basement is haunted.

Fame and Fortune

Episode 3
Status: Complete
Date:
Words: 5,921
Serenity and Raison D'ętre land on a world where they are superstars. The lifestyle is so tempting, they're not sure they want to return home at all.

Hotel of Death
co-written with Brianna Muth

Episode 4
Status: Incomplete
Date:
Words: 3,334 +
Serenity and Raison D'ętre are trapped in a hotel with singing moose, wolves, Mr. Brain, a water monster, spiders, and haunted Braille. Will they ever find their way out of the labyrinth of hallways?

Welcome Home

Episode 5
Status: Complete
Date:
Words: 7,334
Serenity and Raison D'ętre think they've finally found Earth, but it seems that while they were away, the world has undergone some technological changes -- the common people don't have any technology, but the police are robots and they've declared Brad a threat to society.

Evil Twins
written by Nicole Margenau

Episode 6
Status: Complete
Date:
Words: 5,701
Serenity and Raison D'ętre meet their greatest enemy yet -- their twins. They are transported to a Mars-like planet where they come face to face with their past and alternative selves. And a goat called Jordan.

Horror Classics

Episode 7
Status: Complete
Date:
Words: 6,488
Serenity and Raison D'ętre land in a cemetery haunted by every infamous villain throughout history. Can they make it out without becoming just another corpse in the graveyard?

Big City Blues
written by Whitney Bower

Episode 8
Status: Incomplete
Date:
Words: 3,069  +
Serenity and Raison D'ętre meet up with their evil twins again, but this time it's in the big city where their counterparts have an advantage.

Geekville

Episode 9
Status: Complete
Date:
Words: 4,639
Serenity and Raison D'ętre meet two more dimension-hoppers named Byrd and Nikki. With music, the rock bands decide to teach this village of brainy kids how to have a little fun, but when the Portal Police show up to arrest them for traveling illegally, they must turn the geeks into troops.

Snow and Ice

Episode 10
Status: Complete
Date:
Words: 4,389
Serenity and Raison D'ętre land in Alaskan tundra where they must survive polar bears, thin ice, an avalanche, mountaineering, and the abominable snowman.

Identification Crisis
co-written with Whitney Bower

Episode 11
Status: Incomplete
Date:
Words: 688 +
Serenity and Raison D'ętre's minds are jumbled when they land on a planet that is jumbled itself. Can they sort out whose mind is in whose head? And how can they sort it out again?

Restless Romans

Episode 12
Status: Complete
Date:
Words: 6,242
Serenity and Raison D'ętre are in the Coliseum in Rome, but it's haunted with battle-ready gladiators. They must solve clues to find precious stones hidden around the decrepit building in order to get their dimension-jumping chip back.

Flashback

Episode 13
Status: Complete
Date:
Words: 6,058
Serenity and Raison D'ętre spend the night in a shack, where they reminisce about how their bands started and how they all became friends.

The Adventure Ends
co-written with Whitney Bower

Episode 20
Status: Complete
Date:
Words: 6,037
Serenity and Raison D'ętre learn that Byrd and Nikki have been pulling the strings this whole time, but when they try to put an end to them, the evil duo sends them into a labyrinth while six of them are left in a collapsing room. Time is ticking down. Can they make it back to the palace in time to save their friends?

The Real Story Starts
written by Whitney Bower

Episode 21
Status: Complete
Date:
Words: 3,950
Serenity and Raison D'ętre gain two members to their team, Lindsey and Cole, when they find themselves in a ghost town where a bomb threatens their lives.

Bleed the Wrong

Episode 22
Status: Complete
Date:
Words: 4,666
Serenity and Raison D'ętre enter an underwater world. The first season had been all fun and adventure, but nothing could prepare them for this.

Oasis
written by Whitney Bower

Episode 23
Status: Incomplete
Date:
Words:
Serenity and Raison D'ętre are stuck in an oasis in the desert where they encounter giant bugs, dinosaurs, treacherous waterfalls, and more.

High School Lock-in
co-written with Whitney Bower

Episode 24
Status: Complete
Date:
Words: 6,760
Serenity and Raison D'ętre find themselves in Serenity's old high school where dimension traveling researcher named Chad-Lee. The staff is haunted. They also acquire two new members, Mandi and Nate.

Myths and Legends

Episode 25
Status: Complete
Date:
Words: 7,906
Serenity and Raison D'ętre are made CGI. They now must travel through this world of dragons, griffins, sphinxes, and other things no one thought was real.

Haunted House
written by Whitney Bower

Episode 26
Status: Incomplete
Date:
Words:
Serenity and Raison D'ętre are locked in a haunted house with no chance of escape.

Revolve and Resolve

Episode 27
Status: Complete
Date:
Words: 8,650
Serenity and Raison D'ętre are on a world that keeps changing. One minute it's a carnival, and the next it's a sheep pasture. The group gets separated across different versions of the world, unable to relocate each other to get out of there.

Four Lakes
written by Whitney Bower

Episode 28
Status: Incomplete
Date:
Words:
Serenity and Raison D'ętre are scattered across the land of the lakes.

Riddle Me This

Episode 29
Status: Complete
Date:
Words: 9,535
Serenity and Raison D'ętre are trapped in the mummy's tomb inside a pyramid. They have to crack codes and escape the reanimated dead.

AUS Novel

Status: Incomplete
Date:
Words:
Raison D'ętre's history of saving the world from the Portal Police species, Peems.

Hours of Darkness: The Rebel Chronicles

A Taste of Reality

Episode 1
Status: Complete
Date:
Words: 34,488
Chad-Lee and Byrd team up with Lyle to stop the Peems, but their first mission will need some more working bodies. They must call on the powers of Serenity and Raison D'ętre back from their normal lives and into an evil Peem tower for their very last mission.

Reminiscing

Episode 2
Status: Incomplete
Date:
Words: 3,794 +
Chad-Lee, Byrd, and Lyle recall their pasts and how they got involved in dimension-hopping and battling Peems.

Fan-Fiction
Although perhaps not the most prestigious type of writing, fan-fic is a good exercise for writers to practice writing in other people's voices and working within pre-defined borders.

Reincarnation

Angel
Status: Complete
Date: 10/27/00
Words: 7,597
Someone wants to steal a pink gem from an LA museum. Angel's on the case. Someone is harassing a local actor. He comes to Angel Investigations. Cordelia and Doyle try to help him, but what they don't know is that these two cases originated in the same place where Angel's got some history.

Guardian

Angel
Status: Abandoned
Date: 7/22/01
Words: 2,393 +
Blue, alien, poisonous spiders are attacking LA. Angel's on the case. Being slightly Distracted by Darla and Drusilla, Angel Investigations (Cordelia, Wesley and Gunn) Get a little visit from an old friend. Now Angel has to team up with his worst enemy, Wolfram and Hart, to defeat the evil spiders.

The Road to Apocalypse

Angel/Buffy
Status: Abandoned
Date: 3/02
Words: 3,238 +
Whistler gets a band together including Lindsey McDonald, Oz, and a girl named Nea. Now they can help when the apocalypse comes!

Awakening

Buffy
Status: Abandoned
Date: 5/22/02
Words: 422 +
Keri and Doronica come to Sunnydale. Keri's a vampire and he wants to settle in with his human girlfriend, but they get tied up in Buffy's problems. Keri was hoping to avoid the slayer this trip, but now Buffy's waken up from her Sunnydale delusions, and adjusting back to the real world.

A Dark Cloud in the Devil's Mouth

Shivers II
Status: Complete
Date: 6/16/01
Words:
Diaries of the people who disappeared into the Devil's Mouth Canyons right before the user shows up in Cyclone.

Book of Time

Diadem
Status: Complete
Date: 11/10/01
Words: 5,051
Pixel, Score, and Helaine end up on Pixel's world by accident. It seems to be taken over by two magicians. Can the three magic-users stop them? Or will they too be trapped in virtual reality forever?

End of Episode Three

Animorphs
Status: Third place award
Date: 9/26/98
Words: 327
Marco has a dream of the evil yeerks taking over. When he wakes up, it's not much better.

The Enemy

Animorphs
Status: Complete
Date: 7/21/99
Words: 10,202
Tobias' mom shows up, and they have a new enemy, Deems. They must destroy the Deems and free Loren from the Yeerk in her head.

Vampyr Bytes

Reboot
Status: Complete
Date:
Words:
Zeek is a vampire user. Put together-Vampyr. He's come to MainFrame with amnesia. Maybe the MainFramers shouldn't try and help him recover his memory. There are people looking for him. They want him deleted, but he can't even remember being bad.

Uzer

Reboot
Status: Complete
Date:
Words:
Pascal is a user. He's living in MainFrame. Zeek snaps to the scene. They knew each other back on Earth, but weren't fond of each other. A game drops. Now they have to help
each other in order to send a signal to the user and beat the user to reach MF again in one piece.

It's Elektrik

Reboot
Status: Complete
Date:
Words:
Elektra is a format Zeek had created as a user. She wants Zeek to continue training her but will Zeek listen or will he have another one of his meltdowns?

Mynd Hypnotyzer

Reboot
Status: Complete
Date:
Words:
Kip comes to MainFrame. He organizes the net by getting rid of anyone who does not belong such as virus', gamesprites, users. He hypnotizes Elektra into falling in love with him, and tries to take over the net from MainFrame's Principal Office.

The Offspring

Reboot
Status: Complete
Date:
Words:
Ruben Harris is from the distant future. He's Zeek's son. Ruben finds a bit about his past while Zeek finds out a bit about his future.

White Moon Fire

Reboot
Status: Complete
Date:
Words:
Five local sprites start a band while Kip decides to pay another visit to MainFrame.

Home From the Highest Tower

Reboot
Status: Complete
Date:
Words:
Tower's back to investigate. Unfortunately some certain time travelers know his future, including his death. Can they bare to face someone who they know dies? Should they try to take the risk of altering the future to save him?

The Web is Out There

Reboot
Status: Complete
Date:
Words:
CGI. Trust no one. Not even this former Guardian. He teams up with Fax Modem and Data Nully to solve the mystery of the core. Tower, Turbo and the rest of the collective call them to delete Kip and any digitized users that might be hiding amongst the MainFramers.

Three Times Three

Reboot
Status: Complete
Date:
Words:
Kip escaped. Graph jumps to the scene. He teaches three locals how to learn a little magic, attempting to restore the peace and harmony back to MainFrame. Unfortunately, there seems to be a steep price to pay. Is it too late for our foursome?

The User World

Reboot
Status: Complete
Date:
Words: 5,311
Graph, Zeek, Maggie, and Kayne are trapped in the user world. Kip and Elektra have followed them, and Kip plans to take over not just the digital world, but the real world as well.

Daemon

Reboot
Status: Complete
Date:
Words:
A new virus comes to town calling himself Daemon. Him? Knowing is supposed to be female, the MainFramers question the true identity of this virus.

Guardian Chronicles

Reboot
Status: Abandoned
Date:
Words:
A story of Tower (created by Elektra) and his life in the super computer moving up from a young boy to being on the top ten guardians of the Super Computer.

 

(c) J Leigh Nelson 2007-2008