Welcome. Can I first tell you how my collections work? If yes, just keep reading the next few sections.
If you prefer to go straight to the new story lists, scroll down about a third of the way through the page to where you see the photo of a red building. That’s the first story in the current list.
Newest Posts
I use blog POSTS mostly for new story announcements. If you follow my blog, these are sent to you automatically. After that, the newest ones are easy to find because they automatically appear to the right (on full screens) below my photo. For smaller screens, you may have to scroll to the bottom of any page to see this list of links.
Newest Pages (Stories)
I use blog PAGES for actual stories, essays and articles. They’re not automatically sent out to followers but are almost all available in various menus or indexes. When I create a new story, I create a page for the story itself then create a post that announces the story and points to that new page where it can be found. It is all very quick and easy to find and read one.
The Information before each story title is the,
– – – [Date of Publication] :: [Inspired-by Code] :: [Word Count] :: Story-Title
– – – e.g. 220925 :: N2W :: 2680 :: Story-Title
My Date of Publication format = YYMMDD, i.e. 221115 = November 15, 2022.
Inspired by coding:
– – – CR99 = Carrot Ranch 99-Word Story Challenge,
– – – N2W = KL Caley’s weekly, New 2 Writing #WritePhoto Challenge,
– – – SC3 = Marsha’s Story Chat entry & year number, i.e. 3 = the third year bundle
– – – GAW = for anything I pull out of thin air or hair.
When a story is pushed from this page by newer stories, their lines will be moved to a menu sorted by story type and, for fiction, length with newest being first.
– – – I Recall = My not-so-normal Memoirs
– – – Fiction -> Micro < 99-Words = Carrot Ranch inspired 99 word stories
– – – Fiction -> Flash 100-1000 = Quick read stories of this length
– – – Fiction -> Short 1000 – 6000 = Normal length stories
– – – Fiction -> Novelette = 6K – 15K = Longer stories
– – – Fiction -> Novella = 15K – 50K = Stories that approach book length
This page was last updated: 2023-12-02
But, enough with the details already! Let’s get to the stories!
Newest Novelettes and Novellas
211212 :: GAW :: 9624 :: The Last Helping of Roadhouse Stew
– – – Genre: Historical Fiction.
This story is set at the Washoe House, just north of where I was born and raised, near Petaluma, California, US. In the 1800s and early 1900s. Roadhouses were combinations of shipping and travel hubs, restaurants, bars, inns, speakeasies and brothels.
From carriages to cars, this is a fictional story of a young woman who grew up at the Washoe House, suffering from the environment her mother brought her into and some of the mystery and drama that came with it.
210101 :: GAW :: 11741 :: Ayem Notthymn: The Second Door
– – – Genre: Credible Human Drama.
This story is set in the state of Oregon, US and in the mountains of the Willamette National Forest, east of Eugene, Oregon.
A young graduate has landed a great job working for a highly popular author as his personal editor. It seems to be the perfect job until she gets a phone call from the hospital as his emergency contact that he’s been in a horrific accident. She rushes to assist, but immediately starts to find clues suggesting that he’s not the man she thought she knew and struggles to decide how or if she can keep helping and working for such a man.
211114 :: GAW :: 16398 :: Defending Canopy Station
– – – Genre: Hard Science Fiction
Hard SciFi means that the science I use can extend to where technology might be in a few years and such as I use science as a backdrop, it has to line up with known facts.
In this case I explore some of the implications of trying to fight where the speed of light and the extraordinary power of kinetic energy both matter.
There is a big battle brewing between the new asteroid mining habitat and sovereign nation named, Canopy Station, out near the orbit of Jupiter – and China. The station has only recently declared their sovereignty, but Chinese leaders believes they are entitled to seize the productive mining facility with its elegant, giant, twin counter-rotating cylinder habitats. Both have center axles covered with thick, established ivy that provides both oxygen and a lovely green sky for all the residents living and working on the inside cylindrical walls. The station has no real weapons, but they know the Chinese ship coming for them is the most formidable spaceship ever produced. A wheel-chair bound materials engineers thinks she has the answer to how the underdog station can meet and win the battle somewhere in the void well away from Canopy. Can this crippled engineer possibly defeat the powerful enemy vessel?
Newest I Recall Stories – Laughing at my life in Petaluma and afterwards
A Life and Breath Event
Don’t Worry. Brie Happy.
One Child’s View of Economics
Newest 99-Word Stories – 30-second fun reads
240208 :: CR99 :: Lost & Found In SanFran
230428 :: CR99 :: A Clarified Mosaic
230412 :: CR99 :: Mastering Her Beast
230322 :: CR99 :: Some Injuries
230214 :: CR99 :: If Not Jam then …
230105 :: CR99 :: Finding A New Balance
Newest Flash Fiction: (100-1000 words) 2 to 4 minute long reads
221104 :: N2W :: 856 :: A Place To Think
221027 :: N2W :: 900 :: Through the Autumn Fog
22102 :: N2W :: 199 :: Lucy’s Halloween Costume
221015 :: N2W :: 980 :: Surrogacy For The Lost
220909 :: N2W :: 907 :: The Inductee
Newest Short Fiction: (1K-6K) 3 to 30 minute long reads, but most are less than 10
240123 :: SC3 :: 1643 :: Unexpected Fireworks
230109 :: N2W :: 1967 :: The Quiet Love and Wisdom of Melvin
221226 :: N2W :: 1299 :: A Glimpse of Christmas Past
221218 :: N2W :: 2117 :: The Best Christmas Gifts Ever
221119 :: N2W :: 2396 :: A Squirrel’s Tale
Newest Non-Fiction :: Tutorials and other Essays
Chats With an AI: Chemistry: Temperature Vs. PH
Technology for Poets: Accelerometers
Newest Coffee Shares: A weekly on-line meeting of friends
I tried but could not keep this section current without finding a lot of spare time to re-task – so I’m giving up. To find my newest Coffee Share essays;
- Best: Use the search tool at the top right of almost every page from my site. Just type in “Coffee Share” and a list will appear. This shows the newest posts and pages first, but because I publish mostly pages then announce them with posts, you’ll get what looks like duplicate hits. So, if you see a match that starts with “New Coffee Share . . .” that will be the post I created to announce the new page. The very next item will normally be the original page with the essay you’re looking for.
- Not as current: Go the to index page for all my coffee shares. This list I have to maintain by hand so depending on work and stuff – I may be behind in updating it but what is listed is sorted (and named) newest to oldest. The newest essays are at the top of the list. The link to get there is in the title of this section above [or you can just click here].
Gary A Wilson Stories 