Howard Faxon: Stories

If we bootstrap ourselves to the stars what if we find that we're everyone's worst enemy despite our best intentions?
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A wounded child learns his place in life as he grows and becomes a doctor, then finds his true niche in a native american village. Caution: this is a very dark story. (Note: the sentence structure reflects the age of the main character in the first section.)
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The sun decimated our ecology. Man has expressed into distinct mutations. Despite being an eight foot tall ranger always on the move I gained the love of my life.
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A young man is chosen to inherit a two section farm if he can put up with contract. He has to be self-reliant for three years without modern conveniences.
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Are we butterflies dreaming that we are human or humans dreaming we are butterflies. Neither. We are SPIDERS dreaming we are human as we travel to colonize a planet.
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My new uncle let me know at my wedding reception that I was in for rocky times. The dirty bastard.
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Folks around the lakes in far southern Illinois are pretty insular--you'd no doubt call them rednecks. Our nameless hero inherits some land from a cannibal he met in the Joliet lockup. It turned into a retirement with a twist.
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borrowning from CMSIX, a man is given a chance to move to a new world with a wheel-barrow full of goods. The bad news is the people transported before him are mostly brutal criminals.
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An intelligent, creative man designs and builds a marvelous home out of the bones of a mountain. Against all odds, he manages to finally hook up with a woman that could be his wife. Her daughter, however, is a careless child of the times. The poor bastard's lesson is brutal beyond belief.
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A boy is kept alive by the sap of a red maple during a horrific disaster. So much more changes because of that tree.
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