Travel essays & short stories 

ESSAYS

"Travel" as a generic heading is perhaps a stretch in the cases of several of these short essays, but, like the Four Forners Mysteries, they all have place-oriented themes of one sort or another. They are presented here more-or-less chronologically, and it will be seen that there is a bit of repetition in a couple of cases. In others, I have updated obviously dated references.


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STORIES

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Lair is a short-short story appropriate for Halloween. I wrote it one winter after the winners of the Boulder Daily Camera's Haloween short-story contest appeared, thinking I would enter it the following year. But they didn't hold the contest again. Go figure.

Lair
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All Over the Place is a short novella for children in two parts. Both involve those mysterious childhood experiences that adults have forgotten and can no longer be part of. Part I: Pocket Full of Al suggests that not all common insects are as they seem, and Part II: Trollin' the Woods (which, for full disclosure, includes -- gasp -- some flatulence) involves help from an unexpected source.

Part I
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When the Wind Stopped, another short-short story written while house-bound just after Thanksgiving one year, provides a glimpse into how depressing late-autumn wind-storms along Colorado's Front Range can be.
When the Wind Stopped
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