Summary: Vienna is a small Midwestern town like a hundred others, but if you look closely, it has its stories. Collected here are five stories from Vienna, where ordinary people encounter the big questions of life. In “Transitions,” a young man has to decide whether he’s ready to grow up. A…
Summary: Nick Hayden presents a print version of his first 50 flash fictions as originally published at www.worksofnick.com. Along with the original stories, this book contains new author notes on the processes and ideas that helped in the creation of 50 different “worlds.” Proceeds from this print version go toward the…
Summary: Nick Hayden presents a collection of five of his favorite short stories. Holding the collection together is a sense of wonder, desire, and mystery–a sense that something exists that we haven’t quite found yet. Features the Stories: The Memory – It was a memory more precious than any other she had,…
Summary: Natalya is an American mom and wife with a Russian name working as a spy for the Brazilian government in a Midwest American town. Balancing dual identities is dangerous–and sometimes comical–especially when her husband hasn’t a clue. Morana is on a suicide mission to transmit a bestial virus to her…
Summary: Adventurer Fitzwilliam Fitzwallace sails into unknown seas in search of wonders, women, and wealth. But after wrecking upon a lonely island, all he wants is a drink of water. Excerpt: I had willingly joined the legions that dove into the unknown. The romance of this world stirs my soul; I…
Summary: When they joined the Story Project, they shared only one thing: a desire to tell stories. They didn’t know that they were the story. In the wake of Cassandra Talbot’s sudden departure, Katrina takes charge in her no-nonsense manner, but the other members forget that she has issues of her…
Summary: The Story Project is the dream of one man, but it is the lives of thirteen others brought together over the course of one year. Their journals chronicle loneliness, longing, and love as a house of strangers struggles to become a community. But it seems everyone hides a secret…. They…
Nine years ago today I married my wife. I read this at our wedding, and it still applies. Love you, Natasha. I see you now just as I always have: A woman garbed in white, my Beautiful: Your hair’s a crown of fire around the sun Of the face that…
A few weeks ago, friend and fellow writer Nathan Marchand suggested that we swap short stories. He would write in one of my worlds and I would write in one of his. He chose Vienna, USA, because I’d been promoting it. He came up with “The Discarded Gift,” a Christmas story…
“Please take a seat.” Delilah sat, facing the tribunal. Her three judges studied her, sly intelligence in their eyes. “Delilah Thompson has asked to transfer out of her Society,” stated the center judge. His nameplate read Bailey. “Let the questioning begin.” The tribunal examined her. Delilah met each gaze. The…
According to a press release from the Facebook Team, the social-networking site will publicly unroll even more ways to “like” starting this holiday season. “Obviously, we first let users ‘like’ each other’s posts, then we added the ability to ‘like’ people’s comments,” explains Facebook PR Director Melvin Yutzy. “We decided…
Seuss-enthusiasts have heard whispers for many years of the fabled sequel to Green Eggs and Ham, one of the Doctor’s most well-known books. I have recently obtained, through my many contacts in the publishing underworld, a electronic copy of this mystical book. After much examination, I have determined that if…