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Magic Mushrooms

mushrooms tree

PHOTO PROMPT © Sandra Crook

Lin came to harvest another batch of Yun Zhi or what most people called turkey-tail mushrooms from the dead and rotting tree in the field behind her house. Her arthritis had been acting up again and the tea always seemed to help.

“What the…?” She took off her glasses and cleaned them but the wee ones were still there, sitting on the mushrooms or sometimes using them like stairsteps. The little folk each had a pipe and were madly puffing away.

“Contains PCP or don’t you know?” said one with a silver beard.

“They’re all getting high.” Lin’s mouth gaped.

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My “Tom Corbett, Space Cadet” Short Story “A Monolith in the Regolith” is Now Available!

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Promotional image for my short story “A Monolith in the Regolith”

As you all (hopefully) know, about a year-and-a-half ago, my novel Our Legacy The Stars: A Tom Corbett Adventure became a reality thanks to the fine folks at Starry Eyed Press. It had started out life as a serialized story (something I’d always wanted to do) on Amazon’s now defunct Vella platform. From there, it went into book form, a full-length tale based on the 1950s television show with the science and locations updated for our current understanding of our solar system and space.

More recently, I had the opportunity to continue Tom’s adventures in the short story A Monolith in the Regolith (the original title was The Monolith of Mars but another story in the anthology had Mars in the title so mine was changed).

The anthology, Tom Corbett, Space Cadet: An Original Short Story Anthology is now available on Amazon in both Kindle and paperback formats and my story is pretty much a sequel to Legacy including characters I introduced in my novel.

Here’s a sample of what you can expect (Note: I’m also promoting this on my substack but with a different excerpt featured):

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My New Stories in “Drabbles: First Contact” (2025)

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Promotional image for my stories in the anthology “Drabbles: First Contact.”

My first publications for 2025 are now available in the Starry Eyed Press anthology Drabbles: First Contact (Amazon US). Click the following for the global link.

For those of you who don’t know, a “drabble” is a complete story that is exactly 100 words long, no more, no less.

“First Contact” is a reference to humanity’s first encounter with an extraterrestrial species. These contacts can be friendly or terrifying or a lot of other things.

Twenty-six authors contributed a total of over thirty drabbles to this anthology. It is currently available for Kindle but will also be coming out soon in paperback.

Four of my stories made the cut:

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UPDATE: How to Read (like and comment on) the Serial “Our Legacy, The Stars: A Tom Corbett Adventure”

Tom and Joan

Promotional image for the television show “Tom Corbett, Space Cadet” with Frankie Thomas as Tom Corbett and Patricia Ferris as Dr. Joan Dale.

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I know I just announced my space opera serial Our Legacy, The Stars: A Tom Corbett Adventure last week, but I wanted to give everyone an update.

To test the Kindle Vella platform for the story, I clicked the Follow button. So now I’m “following.” It didn’t ask me to sign up or for any money. I didn’t get any email announcements or anything. However, when I clicked the URL to the serial today (as I write this), I saw that episode 2: Flight to Freedom had been published yesterday (Saturday, April 13th).

I clicked on it expecting to get a “pay me” notice, but instead, I got the second chapter. The first chapter’s still there as well. I clicked on the second chapter and it was immediately available to read.

So far, I’m doing all this on my home computer rather than a tablet or phone but please stand by.

There are two IMPORTANT things to know if you read these stories:

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Read My Serial “Our Legacy, The Stars – A Tom Corbett Adventure” Now!

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Promotional image by “Starry Eyed Press.”

If you like my work, buy me a virtual cup of coffee at Ko-Fi.

I am totally thrilled to announce that my 16-part serial “Our Destiny, The Stars” featuring Tom Corbett, Space Cadet is now available through Kindle Vella.

If you’re old enough, you may remember the Tom Corbett television show which ran from 1950-1955, pretty much pre-dating even me. When the fine folks at Starry Eyed Press asked me if I’d write a brand new Corbett adventure, one modernized with our current understanding of space travel and knowledge of our solar system, I was over-the-moon excited.

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