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 Bitter Man Can Dream”

SF, Humor

Aliens, dating

“A Bold Plan for Employment”

Social Commentary

Firing millionaires

“A Breath of Fresh Air”

Political Commentary

“Misspeaks”

“A Downside to Success”

Writing

Predictable plots

“Agent 202”

Humor

A stupid Groundhog Day story

“A Golden Age”

Fiction

Old TV shows

“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 Man of Few Words”

Humor

The joys of going to work

“A Message”

SF

Message from the future

“An Ounce of Prevention”

SF

Time travel, universal war

“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

“Backwater”

SF, Humor

Alien radio

“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

“Being Sick Sucks”

Writing

Not being able to call in sick

“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

“Day 366”

SF, Human Republic

Discovery’s future

“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

“Did You Think Otherwise?”

Religion

Jesus today

“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

“Dust to Dust”

SF

Realistic alien invasion

“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

“Enigma”

SF, Human Republic

Alien artifact

“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

“Eyewitnesses to History”

SF

Going back to D-Day.

“Failure to Communicate”

Humor, religion

How God communicates

“Faire 2008”

Photo Essay

Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire

“Fallen Soufflι”

SF

Alien invasion

“Falling”

Social Commentary (?)

Wage slave

“Family Rituals”

Humor

Thanksgiving traditions

“Final Resting Place”

SF

What will happen to the last generation born on Earth?

“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

“Fluid History”

SF

Alternate history Gettysburg

“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

“From Out of Town”

SF

Dimensional dating

“Fruit Bearing Tree”

SF, Horror

Alien abduction

“Fun Ways to be Fired”

Humor

Office Jousting

“Future Letters”

SF (?), Fiction

Future letter to Santa

“Future Tour”

SF

Battlefield tour

“Gauntlet”

Writing

Very short stories

“Gay Tehran”

Social Commentary

Homosexuality

“Give it Time”

SF

Online proselytizing

“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

“Housebreaking”

SF

Sex clones

“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

“I Wouldn’t Be Surprised”

Politics

Anti-Obama

“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 Name of Ideological Purity”

Politics

Both parties suck

“In the Spirit”

Religion

The Holy importance of Christmas Trees

“In the Victor’s Footsteps”

Fiction

War

“Indivisible”

Politics/Religion

Pledge of Allegiance

“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 Came Out of the Night”

Fiction

Suspense

“It Makes Perfect Sense”

Religion

Burning bibles

“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

“Land of The Dumb”

Fiction

Stupid signs

“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

“Mercy”

Writing

Killing ideas

“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

“Never Done”

Writing

Stupid joke

“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

“Planning Ahead”

Fiction

Gold vs. guns

“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

“Prophets”

Skepticism

The End of the World

“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

“Revenge”

Fiction/Humor

Siblings, Christmas

“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

“Side Benefits”

Writing

Not having to go to work

“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

“Talking With Ants”

Fiction

Would aliens talk to us?

“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 Future of Memory”

SF, Humor

Funny story

“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 Horror”

Horror, Humor

Halloween scare

“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 Perils of Spring”

Writing

Borp

“The Poor Deluded Fool”

Creative Non-fiction

Who really wins arguments?

“The Price to Pay”

SF

Writing, alien contact

“The Problem of Individuality”

Fiction, writing

Can you be too original?

“The Return

SF

Return mission to the moon

“The Time Will Come”

SF

Uploaded personality

“The Truth Points to Itself”

Religion

His Dark Materials

“The Unerring Word”

Religion

The word of god

“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?”

“There is a Time for Humor”

Fiction

Lisa and Dave, “bad” jokes

“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

“Time Out Chair”

Humor

Grammar Nazies

“Tip Your Driver”

SF

Pizza delivery

“To A T”

Humor

Writing groups

“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

“Unkilling Your Grandfather”

SF

Guide for unkilling your grandfather

“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

“Worst Foot Forward”

SF/Religion

Bad science for religion

“Worth a Million”

Politics

Newt Gingrich

“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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