An Ounce of Prevention
Like most people, Jason Fisher wanted to make the world a better place, but he doubted he would ever have the chance to make much of a mark. Then a “woman” came to him, asking his help to save humanity by threatening it.
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Published in August 2016
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Seventh Story Stockpile
Contains the following stories. Linked stories were previously published.
“The First”
“Be Prepared”
“Thinking Ahead”
“Right Time, Right Place”
“Double Trouble”
“Community Improvement”
“Patch of Green”
“Four Score and Dear God!”
“Waiting”
“This Ride Isn’t so Joyful Anymore”
“Silence”
“Boobie Rhinodoodle”
“You Always Forget Something”
“Just Another Brick in the Wall”
“The End”Over the years, I’ve posted several short stories on websites that later – for one reason or another – died. While the corpses of some of these sites are still around where you can read my stories, many have vanished from the internet. And since there are few sites that will publish such previously published works, the only way you could read them was if I self-published them in a collection.
In addition to such “lost” stories, I’ve included some new stories that – for one reason or another – I felt I’d have a hard time finding someone to publish them. So Seventh Story Stockpile basically contains stories I didn’t know what to do with. Now I can move on to other projects.
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Published in July 2018
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Useless Cogs
Contains the following stories. Linked stories were previously published.
“Useless Cog”
“Monkey See, Monkey Record”
“From Out of Town”
“It’s the Little Things”
“The Dim Past”
“Mars Day”
“Housebreaking”
“Prior Claim”
“Faulty Programming”
“Pink Disk”
“Deadbeat”
“It Will Come to Everyone, Eventually”
“Invisible Strings”
“The Buzzing of Flies”
“Life and Politics”
“Just Kill Me”
“No Longer Number One”
“After Their Kind”
“Too Much of a Good Thing”
“Past Camp”
“It’s Possible”
“Fruit Bearing Tree”
“Reset”
“The Lonely Widow Gambit”
“Cage the Mind”
“Eyewitnesses to History”
“Final Wish”
“Dust to Dust”
“Our Brothers and Sisters”
“Remember to Forget”
“I Don’t Want to Grow Up”
“The Time Will Come”
“Project Heaven”
“Perfect Fit”
“Read the Fine Print”
“Backup”
“Bitter Medicine”
“Of Course”
“The Flames of History”
“Final Resting Place”Useless Cogs is a collection of forty, science fiction stories by Stephen L. Thompson. The stories range from only a few dozen words to a few thousand and are filled with time travelers, AIs, clones, aliens, even sexbots, although not often as you would imagine. As examples, there’s a time traveler that’s always a step behind, an AI that’s late on rent, and a sexbot with bad software. Some of the stories are humorous, some horrifying, and some … depend on your point of view.
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Published in October 2020
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The Uncapped Pen
Contains the following stories. Linked stories were previously published.
“So Little Time”
“Pages to Fill”
“The Sophias”
“The Reasons Why”
“Writing Pains”
“Crack Open my Skull”
“Idiot 2.0”
“Should be Rebooted and Often”
“Quieting the Voices”
“The Point”
“Hot Foot”
“Free Crap”
“Musing”
“Hidden in Plain Sight”
“Side Benefits”
“It's Tough Being a Writer”
“Bottomless Pit”
“Figures”
“An Honorable Ending”
“Grandma Nora's Poems”
“A Light Drizzle”
“Not Another One”
“Can't Hack It”
“Twice as Bright”
“Mercy”
“Beware Writers Bearing Beer”
“Just a Bag”
“Some Things are Best Lost”
“Who Killed the Butler?”
“Devious Muse”
“Wandering Fingers”
“An Assignment”
“A Supportive Family”
“W.A.”
“Dead Horse”
“Birth Pains”
“Into the Flames”
“Everybody's Published”
“Odyssey”
“Life”
“Empty Chair”
“Weird Times”
“Do I Have an Idea for You”
“Tick Tock”
“What's in a Name”
“Not Today”
“The Most Unexpected Places”
“Merry Christmas”
“Project Alexandria”
“More Than Just Words”Most beginning writers are given the advice to “Write what you know,” which often results in lots of stories of authors arguing with their muse, the frustration of having too few – or too many – ideas, and other such topics familiar to writers. The Uncapped Pen contains fifty of Stephen L. Thompson’s short stories dealing with some aspect of writing. Some were written over a decade ago, while some were written just for this collection.
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Published in October 2023
Available on Kindle for $3.99 or equivalent.
