Johnny Earthquake, a hard-boiled private detective, first appeared in "ALL TOP COMICS" in 1944. It is now 1957 and he and his partner, Rusty, are private detectives in Savannah, Georgia. Johnny just wants to put his troubled past behind him but fate has other ideas.

Another collection of short pieces, random thoughts and things that occurred to me in the middle of the night.

Around here, most animals affect outcomes.

Caution: poetry. Or at least verses that I fondly refer to as poems. I'll be also figuring out how to load things so I'll start with one (to set the stage.....or the bar :-) ) and then I'll try to put them in chapters by type. Well, roughly anyway, e.g. my "Church Poems" don't necessarily have anything to do with church - they were simply written at church. I do hope any amusement will not merely be all my mistakes in loading these.

A stab at turning weekend write-ins into a mystery novella, one week at a time.

Good and evil is not black and white ... The Academy is a school consisting of the characters of every story ever told. Heroes and villains take classes and teach together in harmony. But not everything is as it seems. A dark murderer lurks in the halls of this enchanted Academy, threatening the lives of students and teachers alike. Not only do romance and fun light up the dark corridors, but the threat of an unknown killer. Who is murdering the members of the school, and why? Find out in ... The Academy of Legends.

Veda Vyasa's Mahabharatha brought an astonishingly beautiful and complex character in the form of Krishna as the eighth Avatar of Lord Vishnu, the hero of the Mahabharatha, the Lord of Dwaraka, the charioteer of Arjuna during the Kurukshetra War, a statesman par excellence, a warrior without equal and finally the lover of the gopikas. So in between all this, who is Krishna? Primarily based on the Bhagawat Purana.

At the request of discerning readers desiring an actual ending to one of my stories once in a while (not that you're getting one this week either), I have created a two-part story out of last week's prompt. Nothing much has changed in the original, so no need to read "Brian's Story" unless you are looking for a refresher... Brian's Story: Written for the weekend write-in: "milestone": In 500 words, write a story in which a milestone is reached. Sophie's Story: Written for the weekend Write-In: "outcome": In 500 words, describe what happens when a childhood memory affects the outcome

A menagerie of flash fiction, hatched from ideas of many colors from here, there, and elsewhere: mostly fantasy but a sprinkling of sci-fi and contemporary.

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