Stephen L. Thompson's List of Published Works

Stephen L. Thompson’s
List of Published Works


A friend of mine once told me that they had trouble finding stuff on my website – there was too much stuff to go through. They wondered if I could put up just a list of my stories to make it easier to find a particular one. So this is what I’ve come up with. There is the title of the story which is linked to their listing on my Published Works Page which gives a more detailed blurb, the genre (SF, Humor, Social Commentary if I couldn’t think of something better) and a few word description. Hopefully this will help all of you find my stories.









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# A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

TITLE

GENRE

TAGS

2007

Fictional essay

Year in review

$100

Social Commentary

Wage slave

A Bill by Any Other Name

2008 Election

Tom and Jeremy, Obama detractors

A Bold Plan for Employment

Social Commentary

Firing millionaires

A Breath of Fresh Air

Political Commentary

“Misspeaks”

A Liter of Puppies

Writing Humor

Tom and Jeremy, 2008 Election

A Lost R

Social Commentary

Functional illiteracy

A Man of Few Words

Anthology

Flash Fiction

A Message

SF

Message from the future

An RI World

SF, Human Republic

AIs - I mean, IPs

After Their Kind

SF, Social Commentary

Clones, Religous fanatics

Agony in the Lab

Fiction

Young Romance, Awkward

Ahead-Back

Humor

Daylight Savings Time

Always With Us

SF, Human Republic

Apollo 1

Amongst Us

SF, Horror, Writing

Alien invasion

And so it Begins

Political Commentary

Political revolution

As All Bad Ideas...

Fiction

Old time religion

A Simpler Life

SF

Time travel

A Start

Dream Maybe

Alone on a deserted island

A Stream of Subtle Spectres

Religion

His Dark Materials, Tom and Jeremy

A Successful Life

Social Commentary

Wage slave

Athorists of the World, Say “Hi”

Religion

Atheist Solidarity Day

At Peace

Creative non-fiction

Campfire on a cold night

Awkward

Fiction

Odd work/sex scenario

Bad Neighbors

SF, Humor

Mad scientist upstairs

Bad Omens

Humor

Velvet Jesus

Bad Timing

SF, Humor

Time Travel

Battle to the Death

Fiction

War (?)

Beauty and Wonder

Religion

Atheism

Be Courteous

Humor

Loud sex

Beep

Fiction

Child’s reaction to Sputnik

Beetis

Humor

Story for Preston and Steve

Ben’s Time Carriage

Social Commentary

Founding Fathers, Time Travel

Bland New World

Social Commentary

Tom and Jeremy

Blank

Writing

Writer’s Block

Boys Will Be Boys

Fantasy

Boys being boys

Burning Issue

Social Commentary

Flag Burning

Bury ‘em Deep

Relationships

Unfulfilled dreams

Bush and Clinton Both Suck

Social Commentary

Political censorship

Buying Time

Fantasy, Social Commentary

Wasting time

By the Numbers

Social Commentary

Fame, 300 millionth American

Cage the Mind

Social Commentary

Education

Candidate C

Political Commentary

Third Party

Careful What You Read

Horror

What lurks in stories

Cat and Mouse

Fiction, Humor

Misidentifing someone, awkward

Cause, and Effect

Political Commentary

Will people follow someone they hate?

Change for the Better?

Religion

Megachurches and Jesus

Cheap Romance

Fiction

Lisa and Dave seeing the ISS

Classics Never Go Out of Style

SF, Human Republic

Building replica pyramids

Collateral Damage

SF, Human Republic

Lunar Colony needing to be self-sufficient

Coming With Forks

Holiday Humor

Thanksgiving

Crack

Writing

Writing too much

Crack Open My Skull

Writing

Looking for writing material

Curse

Writing

Too many ideas

Cursed

Writing

Too many ideas

Dad

SF

Time Travel, Genetic history

Damned

Fiction

Lisa and Dave arguing

Darth Chronosus

Humor, True

Darth Vader doesn’t have a watch

Deadworld

SF

Being reborn on another world

Death by Sexbot

SF

Sexbots

December 29, 2006

Social Commentary

Gerald Ford, Saddam Hussein

Decisions, Decisions

Social Commentary

Tom and Jeremy, Bill O’Reilly

Declaration of Offense

Political/Social commentary

Jonathon Davies

Deterrence?

International Politics

Nuclear War

Devious Muse

Writing

Games Muses play

Didn’t See That Coming

Humor

Outsmarting psychics

Distant Fields

SF, Human Republic

Growing up in a starship

Do I Have an Idea for You

Writing

Selling ideas

Doomed to Repeat

Political/Military Commentary

Third Iraq War

Downhill

Social and War Commentary

Tom and Jeremy, Hiroshima, 9-11

Dreamcatcher

SF

watchmydreams.com

Dreams

Social Commentary

Religous equality

Driving Home

Photo Essay

My driving home for Thanksgiving 2007

Dustbin

SF

Combating Global Warming

Easy?

Fiction

Young romance, Spam Gods

Education is Important

SF

Alien biology class

Ein Volk

Social/Political Commentary

Bill O’Reilly, Republican Re-education Camps

Empty Calories for the Soul

Fiction

The Meaning of Life

Empty Chair

Writing

Unreliable Muse

Endangered Memories

Writing

Embarrassing memories

Endorse This

Political Commentary, Rant

Political endorsements

ENOUGH!

Social Commentary

OJ

Enslavement

Social Commentary

Doing what you’re told

Ever Onward

SF

War

Everybody’s Published

Writing

Mike and Sue

Explore the Future

Writing

Importance of Science Fiction

Eye of the Beholder

Fiction

Lisa and Dave, differences in height

Faire 2008

Photo Essay

Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire

Fallen Soufflé

SF

Alien invasion

Falling

Social Commentary (?)

Wage slave

First … Contact?

SF

First alien contact

Fist of the State

Social Commentary

Torture

Flicker

Fiction

Ghosts

Fliered Up

Political/Military Commentary

Tom and Jeremy, Iraq War

Fliered Up II

Political Commentary

Tom and Jeremy, Bush Impeachment

Flight Into History

SF, Social Commentary

Last space shuttle mission

For Appearance’s Sake

Social Commentary

Wage slave

For the Greater Good

SF

Overpopulation

Forgotten, but Forgiven?

Social commentary

Osama bin Laden as children’s author

Freedoms

Social Commentary

Veterans Day

Freelancers

SF, Human Republic

First Contact, Technological change

From the Past, to the Future

SF, Human Republic

Olympics

Fruit Bearing Tree

SF, Horror

Alien abduction

Fun Ways to be Fired

Humor

Office Jousting

Future Letters

SF (?), Fiction

Future letter to Santa

Gauntlet

Writing

Very short stories

Gay Tehran

Social Commentary

Homosexuality

Gladiators

Political/Social Commentary

Tom and Jeremy, Election 2008

Good for the Goose

SF, Social Commentary

Alien invasion, Religious fanaticism

Good Samaritan

Creative Non-fiction

Helping those in need

H. A.

Social Commentary

Haters Anonymous

Hallelujah

Religion

Televangelist con

Hand Me That Piano

Writing, Humor

George Carlin, Tom and Jeremy

Happy Anniversary

Writing

First professionally published work

Happy Darwin Day

SF

Time travel, Evolution

Happy or Not, the End Will Come

Social Commentary

Human extinction

Happy to be Wrong

Social Commentary

Judgment Day

Hat in the Ring

Political Commentary

Jonathon Davies, Independent President

Haunting

Fiction

Buried regrets

History Lessons 1

Social/Military Commentary

Fighting an unpopular war

History Lessons 2

Social/Military Commentary

Brutality of war

History Repeating

Social Commentary

Unwanted immigrants

History Will Forget

SF, Political Commentary

Time Travel, Politics for the people

How Many

SF, Human Republic

Necessary War

How to Gut a German

Humor

Something weird I did in high school

Humanity’s Future?

SF

Humanity as footnote

Human Nature

SF

“Real” alien invasion

I Don’t Like Spam!

Social Commentary

Tom and Jeremy, Spam

I’ll Vote What He’s Voting

Political Commentary

Pointless political endorsements

I’m Glad I Only Watched

Creative Non-fiction

The Mother of all Paint Battles

I’m not Crazy, Honest

Writing

coming up with odd words

If It’s OK Now...

Political/Social Commentary

Jesus stumping for a Senator

If Only

International politics (?)

The end of the Nobel Peace Prize

If Only it Were That Easy

Writing

Tripped writing breaker

If They Only Knew

Political/Military Commentary

9-11

Impacts

SF, Human Republic

Asteroid impacts, Mercury base

Impossible Mission

Religion

His Dark Materials

In the Spirit

Religion

The Holy importance of Christmas Trees

In the Victor’s Footsteps

Fiction

War

Inroads

Fiction

Growing up in rural America

Into the Flames

Fiction, writing

Bonfire for bad poems

Introduction to The Silence of Reason

Fictious biography

How great I am

Is It Insanity?

Fiction, writing

My 30 Stories in 30 Days Challenge

It Ain’t Over

Social Commentary

Gay Marriage

It Ain’t Pretty

Rant

Messy work space

It Wouldn’t Be Enough

SF, Social Commentary

Time Travel, Birthers

It’s a Guy Thing

Social Commentary

Male-Female differences

It’s a Job

SF

Sexbot quality control

It’s All in the Marketing

Humor?

If it sells …

It’s Only a Matter of Time

SF, Social Commentary

Robotic assassins, Robotic police

It’s What’s Important

Social Commentary

The news of local disasters

Jedi ER

Humor

Jedi without limbs

Jonathan Davies’ Stand on the Issues: Economy

Political Commentary

Jonathon Davies

Jonathan Davies’ Stand on the Issues: Immigration

Political Commentary

Jonathon Davies

Jonathan Davies’ Stand on the Issues: Iran

Political Commentary

Jonathon Davies

Jump the Gun

Social/Political/Military Commentary

Attacking those who might attack

Just Another Day

SF

Artificial meteor showers

Just Five Minutes

Fiction, Humor

TV for those who hate their jobs

Just Kill Me

SF, Social Commentary

100 years at the same job

Just One More Word

Humor/Writing

Following contest rules

Kids

SF

Space travel

Language Barrier

SF/Humor

First “contact?”

Last Man, I

Fiction

“Last Man on Earth”

Last Man, II

Fiction

“Last Man on Earth”

Late Night Swim

Fiction

Being different

Life

Fiction

Living

Life From Death

SF

Mind swaps

Living Dangerously

Fiction

Lisa and Dave arguing

Lost in MySpace

Social Commentary

Ideas - good and bad - lost

Lummox Day

Humor

Will the Lummox see sweat?

Major Korton

SF, Humor

Why we can’t hear the aliens

Makes You Wonder

Political Commentary

Jonathon Davies, Running for President - cheap

Memorial

Political/Social Commentary

Iraq War Memorial

Merry Christmas

Humor (?)

Getting back at relatives

Money Talks

Social Commentary

Helping people one bill at a time

Musing

Writing

Overactive muse

My Dream Life

Wish fulfillment

Trebuchet

Never Again

Social Commentary

Homosexual genocide

No Hurry

Social/Political Commentary

Somebody - else - should do something

No Substitute

Fiction

9-11

Not Another One

Writing

Be given ideas

Not My World

SF, Human Republic

Fish out of water

Nothing to Sneeze At

Religion

Fanaticism

Number 25

Writing

Write or Live, or both?

Of Course

SF, Humor

Alien visitation

Omen?

General fiction

Fun at work

On Another World

SF/Fantasy

Exploration

One Against Many

Social Commentary

Changing the world, one question at a time

One Can Hope

SF

Commercial Spaceflight

One World

SF, Social Commentary

Religious fanaticism

One Small Sorrow

Social commentary

Personal death

Oops

SF

Crop circles

Options

SF, Human Republic

Cost and necessity of war

Our Brothers and Sisters

Politics, SF

Clone rights

Our Father, Who Art in Our Wallets

Religion

Consume-en masse

Overwhelmed

Writing

Too many ideas

Parallel Opinions

SF, Social/Political Commentary

Parallel World, Cheney

Parallel Opinions II

SF, Political Commentary

Parallel World, Anti-satellite

Penny

Fiction

Kids

Perfect Justice

SF

Computer as a Judge

Pink Disk

SF

Firing an AI

Pissed Off

Horror

Attacked by books

Polireligionatics

Political/Religious Commentary

Atheist Party

Politically Cynical

Politcal Commentary

Tom and Jeremy

Potter ‘07

Fiction

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Praise the Gods

Fiction

Good parking spots

Preston & Steve’s Campout for Hunger 2008

Photo Essay

Donating to the campout

Priorities

Work

“Working hard”

Project Heaven

SF

Technological immortality

Pull of a Trigger

Social Commentary

Tom and Jeremy, Political assassinations

Questions

Writing

Why do you write science fiction?

Ramble

Fiction, Writing

Tom and Jeremy, Rambling

Rebel

Writing

Demanding muse

Rejection

Writing

The dreaded rejection slip

Relics

Fiction

Time capsule

Rude

Social Commentary

Virginia Tech massacre

Run for Your Lives

SF

Giant monster attack

Senseless Violence

Humor

Cartoon violence in the real world

Shield Your Eyes!

Religion

Atheist ads

Simultaneous

SF

Alien attack, with sex

Size Doesn’t Matter

Fiction

Going up against Mother Earth

Sleep Tight

SF, Horror

Downside of cryonics

Small Step

SF, Human Republic

First person on Mercury

So Alone

SF

Cyborg blues

So Little Time

Writing

Too many ideas

Some Days

Fiction

Killing time at work

Some Things Are Best Lost

Writing

Mike and Sue

Some Things Never Change

SF, Human Republic

Family vacation

Speak Up

SF

Not being on top

Spoiler

Writing

Tom and Jeremy

Star-Spangled Ploy

Political Commentary

Flag burning

Steve’s Hawaiian Odyssey

Photo Essay

My trip to Hawaii

Steve’s Hawaiian Odyssey, Part 2

Photo Essay

My trip to Hawaii

Steve’s Hawaiian Odyssey, The Wedding

Photo Essay

My trip to Hawaii

Steve’s Hawaiian Odyssey, USS Arizona Memorial

Photo Essay

My trip to Hawaii

Strange Worlds

Fiction

Relationships, being weird

Super M

Fantasy

Superhero, lesbian, BDSM

Surging Towards …

Political Commentary

Iraq War

Surprise

Fiction

For my book.

Tagged

Fiction

MySpace Tag

Take Me To Your Dealer

SF

Aliens and drugs

Testing

SF

How smart are we?

That’s Not Funny

Fiction

Lisa and Dave, “bad” jokes

The Apartment

Fiction

A guy and his apartment

The Day

Fiction

Long lasting impact of teachers

The Duh Age

Social Commentary

Tom and Jeremy

The End Results

Writing

What happens when you write 30 Stories in 30 Days

The Few

SF, Social Commentary

Too many men, too few women

The First Frontier

SF

People returning to the Earth

The Geek Maneuver

Fiction

Geeks and women

The Greater the Risk

SF

Commercial space

The Grey Masses

Social Commentary

Longevity and Social Security

The Headless Gnome

Fiction, Humor

Is that what I think it is?

The Honeymoon’s Over

Fiction

Young couple

The Honored Dead

Writing

Those who die because of writing

The Invisible Cliff

SF, Tway

AI Civil War

The Kingdom of Beer

SF, Human Republic

What would you do on Pluto?

The Last Librarian

SF

The “future” of books

The Least We Could Do

SF, Human Republic

Honoring all who serve

The Mongoose Sleeps in Pajama Bottoms

Work Humor, I’d tell you

but I’d have to kill you.

The Most Important Lesson

Humor/Horror

Your niece is driving!

The Poor Deluded Fool

Creative Non-fiction

Who really wins arguments?

The Problem of Individuality

Fiction, writing

Can you be too original?

There is a Time for Humor

Fiction

Lisa and Dave, “bad” jokes

The Return

SF

Return mission to the moon

The Truth Points to Itself

Religion

His Dark Materials

The Witch of Duh

Humor

Story for Preston and Steve

The Yellow Staters

Political Commentary

Red, Blue, Yellow?

There are Some Things …

Fiction

“So, who in your hometown is a swinger?”

They Can’t “Win”

Political Commentary

The other guys are always wrong

Things I want to do before I die

Essay

Life list

Third Rail

Social Commentary

Social Security

Thirty Second Movies

Fiction

Watching commercials by choice

Thou Shalt Not Hate

Religion

Religious fanaticism

Tick Tock

Writing

Forced to write

Ticket to the Future

SF, Writing

The importance of Science Fiction

Tickle, Tickle

Fiction

Young love

Tip Your Driver

SF

Pizza delivery

To Be Lost

SF

Will this be future entertainment?

To Club, or Not to Club

Political Commentary

Who decides who can join X club?

To Explore

SF

Why explore space

To Live on in Unexpected Ways

SF, Human Republic

An odd way to remember George Carlin

Too Literal

Fiction

Taking things too literally

Too Little, Too Late

Fiction

When to say, “I love you.”

Train Wreck

Social Commentary

Celebrity death

Under the Bed

SF/Fantasy

Monsters growing up

Unhappy Anniversary

Fiction

Living with heartache

Unrealized Fame

Fiction

Do you know if a writer has written about you?

Unrequited Email

Fiction

Awkward, young romance

Urgent Report on Humans

Photo Essay

An alien visit to a comic convention

Until the End

Fiction

True love

Use it, or Lose it

Fiction

Mind numbing jobs

Vote With Your Fists

Political Commentary

Happy Punch-Your-Politician Day

Waiting at Home

Horror/Writing

A source of ideas

Walls

International politics

American aggression

Wandering Fingers

Writing

Author cheating on novel

War Against Time

Social Commentary

Surviving without the latest “thing”

War Without End

Social Commentary

War, History

We All Have to Leave Sometime

Fiction

Telling someone they’re in your will

We Is Smart

Social Commentary

“Modern life”

We’re Doomed

Social Commentary

Fascination with celebrities

Welcoming Committee

western

It’s only 25 words

Well Protected

SF

The President’s “Secret” Service

What About Tomorrow?

Social Commentary

Wage slave

What I did on Black Friday

Photo Essay

Self explanatory

What is Fate?

Fiction

Awkward, young romance

What Kind of Bliss is Ignorance?

SF

Time travel, unrequited love

What the Hell

Religion

Christian theocracy

What Would Jesus Do?

Religion

Ten Commandments shrines

What’s in a Name?

SF, Humor

The first Martian

What’s in a Name?

Writing

Mike and Sue

When Did That Happen?

Social/Political Commentary

American politics trumps everything

When Will it Stop?

Political Commentary

Super-long campaigns

Whiners

Political Commentary

Only voting for “Perfect” Candidates

Who has the Will?

Religous/Political Commentary

“Holy” War

Whore

SF

Alien “encounter”

Why Science Fiction Writers Make the Best Lovers

Fiction

It’s the truth

Will Any Survive?

Humor

December 22, 2012

Wishes

Fiction

“Wish in one hand and crap in the other...”

Wizard World 2008

Photo Essay

Wizard World

Wordwrights Holiday Dinner 2008

Photo Essay

Wordwrights

Wordwrights Holiday Dinner II

Photo Essay

Wordwrights

Worth Fighting For?

Religion

Consume-en masse

Would That be a Waste?

Humor, Fantasy

Deleting spam

You Can’t Please Some People

Humor

Being a prick at work

You Will Pee

Humor

Over use of technology

Your Gods are False

Religion

I’m right, you’re wrong!

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