Comedy Stories

Book 2: Elias and Mara are preparing for a wedding and a child, but their house has concerns of its own. Beneath it, an intelligence is learning how to protect a family that still isn't sure it should be allowed to stay.

The Songleton Care Home hold an end of season minibus outing to the seaside for a short weekend break in Autumn. The volunteer driver is local MP Monty avoiding a driving ban. Monty's wife has arranged Monty's community task, why? The passengers are old, with health and mobility issues. Sally likes George but George converses with his dead wife. The Nurse Sofija is not who she seems to be. And Boris, the latest to join the trip, is Russian pretending to be Belgian, protective of his heavy bag.

Combat medic Vance Riker only wanted to save the wounded Valtharian princess bleeding out in a crashed dropship. He didn't plan to trigger an irreversible genetic bonding. Or get her pregnant with quadruplets. Or accidentally start peace negotiations that would end a twelve-year war. Now he's married to alien royalty, director of an interspecies breeding program, and committed to fathering twenty hybrid children. His mother-in-law is a eight-foot warrior empress. His sister-in-law hunts human ma

Originally just meant as a simple stroke story, this grew into a comic space romp with lots of transformations and sex. My first published story from back in (mumblemumble). It has gone through several edits and tweaks.

A romantic dinner, a charming entomologist, and one very enthusiastic off-menu dish. Technically Edible is a comedy of manners about the distance between good intentions and good judgment. Measured, in this case, in legs.

Santa Claus is forced to carry out market research on how families enjoyed Christmas. (Note: this is set in a Southern Hemisphere country, where Christmas is celebrated in summer.)

What began as a simple desire to watch birds from the office window became an arms race between a determined homeowner and a squirrel of supernatural persistence. Along the way: a sword fight, a severed tail, a lesson from Vlad the Impaler, Yankee ingenuity involving a flagpole and a box wrench, and the dawning realization that the squirrel may be winning. M v. R is a comic essay about stubbornness, resourcefulness, and the humbling experience of being outsmarted by something that weighs 18oz.

A letter of apology in lieu of an RSVP to a party invitation

Army Life...no really Story
A story about some of the early days of my second deployment to Iraq and some amusing things that happened.

Wonder Woman is ALWAYS rescuing Steve Trevor. She finally decides that she is entitled to a REWARD. She doesn't ask for much, just his clothes (all of them).