“A Fine Mess”

EBooks, Mask Stories, Short Stories

"A Fine Mess"“A Fine Mess” by David Michael

Short Story (2300 words)

Kenneth is the best gatherer among the survivors. Only a few can gather Strings, the floating, Frayed remnants of what was once the edible vegetation of the world. Which is why there are a lot fewer people now than Kenneth remembers when he was younger. He might be only ten, but even Kenneth knows that if you can’t catch Strings, you can’t eat. And if you can’t eat, you starve and you die…

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The Door to the Sky

EBooks, Novels

The Door to the SkyThe Door to the Sky by David Michael

Novel

Gods are at war. Dragons attack TV stations and winged gargoyles do battle with steam-powered behemoths. Gaia the Earth Mother and the woman called Blue lead the Weirdlings in their struggle against the Tyrant and his Compatriots, while the man who calls himself the Traveler walks through the chaos looking for The Door to the Sky.

Includes 2 Bonus Short Stories: “Fickle Reality; or That Explains a Lot” and “Encounter”.

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“Curtain Call”

EBooks, Mask Stories, Short Stories

"Curtain Call"“Curtain Call” by David Michael

Short Story (2200 words)

The White Hot Hemisphere Community Theater Company chose Shakespeare’s Hamlet for their first production after the cataclysm–and possibly their last before the end of the world. As a tragedy, as a play about loss and descent into madness, Hamlet seemed an appropriate choice, at least to those players who could still make nonliteral inferences…

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Demon Candy

Collections, EBooks, Trade Paperbacks

Demon CandyDemon Candy by David Michael

Collection

Four linked stories of Hell, and Life, and Life in Hell. Illustrated with paintings by Don Michael, Jr.

“Summer Breeze” – The demon Jike decides he needs a change.

“Inferno” – Undead hellcat Canto goes for a night out on campus of lust and gluttony and the other deadly sins.

“Sweet Tooth” – Donut baker Ted Millet, divorced and broke, has a new customer that makes his ex-wife seem almost human.

And in the novella “Afterimage” Emily M-Something March, dead and damned for thirty years, finds herself back in her home town with a fifty-foot demon looking for her.

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