Revisionist Stories

"A Wintering Place" is a sequel to Mary Shelley's novel "Frankenstein" and is set in the Siberian arctic. The story first appeared in the journal Eleven Eleven.

"An Untimely Frost" is a novel that's available from Twelve Winters Press (twelvewinters.com) in print, Kindle and Nook editions. It's set in 1830s London and is inspired by author Washington Irving's rumored courtship of Mary Shelley, creator of the novel "Frankenstein." The novel is both historically accurate and stylistically experimental.

Our world leaders and academics debate AI rights and electronic personhood while the influence of machines over markets and industrial production grows exponentially. Is it too late for humanity to maintain control of Earth? Millennia too late?

Logan Thatcher is a survivor in post-apocalyptic Australia. He has no goal in this sad excuse for a life, he has no reason to live, he has no one to help him through it. He is trully alone. With as many things that have happened he still has not been able to embrace the sting of death that has enveloped all that he once held dear. Follow this lone survivor through his meaningless existence in the remains of the world, and see just how low the human race can bring itself.

When Kid meets Morris at ten years old, his life changes from a lonely existence in a house full of turmoil to a hopeful future in music. A solid friendship turns fragile as money, alliances, and betrayal cause it to finally collapse. Despite losing trust in family, friends, and love, Kid learns to stand on his own, confident in his talent, emerging as a true leader and a star. This is Kid's journey from age ten to nineteen, before he saw anybody laughing in the purple rain. I wrote this in 2012 hoping to have it done for the 30th anniversary of PR. Since I didn't finish it in time, I put it to the side. Guess it's time to dust it off the shelf...revise...maybe finish it. 55 Chapters

The setting for "Men of Winter" is deliberately vague but seems to be Russia, especially Siberia, in the earliest decades of the twentieth century. The protagonist, Hektr Pastrovich, is a journalist and poet who travels to the front of a war his beleaguered country has been fighting for nine years. He's searching for information about a mysterious vagabond who calls himself the "Prince of Ithaka" and along the way he meets a beautiful and charismatic woman. The novel is a sort of sequel to Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. Visit tedmorrissey.com.

Each poem in this collection describes a painting or a sculpture: some, a re-vision of a classic; others, an original work not yet realized. Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Dali, Botticelli, Monet, Rodin are among the artists whose work is re-imagined. (free downloads of complete collection at chriswind.net)

Dinosaur Nazis. Custard metamorphosis. Baking cults. Secret organizations. Murderous child detectives. Space fetuses. Medieval Mars. A robot empire. Diners at the edge of reality. Satan. Time travel. Omniscient machines. Apple pie. In a hostile diner apocalypse, one family risks it all to get back to those they love. Cover Art by Gabby Garcia (Acrylic Rabbit), Interior Collages by D. Forest Gamble

Tefaaya was born in the church and was committed to the Lord from her birth. At 32, she's broke, single, and hopeless. She prays for a time machine miracle and gets taken back to when she was 6 to do it all over again. Armed with everything she knows, how will it go? Will her life finally be perfect? What's a perfect life, anyway?

The pilots threaded their way through the bursts of flak with an adroitness born of desperation. I was in the first seat by the clamshell doors. The jump light shone amber above my head, casting a pale yellow glow on our nervous faces. I was trying desperately to hold on as the seat buckled beneath me, and then the light turned green and I stumbled to the open door. The plane exploded. A wash of broiling heat slammed against me and picked me up and hurled me straight out into the open air. I was lucky, my parachute was still intact. I hung under a canopy of silk watching as the broken pieces of the transport plane spiralled towards the ground, spewing bodies. There was nothing I could do. I landed in a clearing, hid my parachute like I'd been taught and headed to our rendezvous. Five of the forty men in my platoon made it out alive. The 31st platoon was no more. My submission for Word Vibes II. The keyword for this story is 'convoluted'.

Was Ganondorf truly the evil, power-hungry King we have heard of him to be? Were Link and Princess Zelda truly destined to destroy him for the salvation of Hyrule? I don't think so. Let's assume that the general track of the story holds, and that some historical events did actually happen: when Link was a child Hyrule 'seemed' to be in great shape. In 7 years after Ganondorf supposedly burst onto the scene and messed things up, some set of events happened that led to the collapse of Castle Town and the Royal Family, a much worse condition for the Kokiri, Gorons, and Zora, and devastation for the Gerudo as well. The last and most important assumption is that none of the characters we know of were any more or less selfish, power-hungry, or selfless than the average person in Hyrule, and that they actually embody all three of these characteristics and more at different times in the events described in LoZ: OoT This story is my attempt to write out the actual history of the events described in moral, legend-like terms from Ocarina of Time and how we came to know the Legend as it is today, rather than this recounting of the actual historical events and actions as they happened.