The Navy's latest, armed-to-the-teeth Destroyer comes to the aid of a vessel that collided with an unknown creature, provoking deadly combat between prehistoric sea monsters and a modern military ill-prepared to counter such an adversary.Plesiosaur? Meet Man. Man? Meet Plesiosaur.But not your average CGI-exclusive dino-flick! I attempted to make this story scientifically grounded. That is, the creatures are not 500 feet long. The action is spiced up with an...

Four good-hearted but disaster-prone teens take jobs setting up mannequins for atom bomb testing in Nevada, leading to a weekend they won't forget.Teenagers. It doesn't matter what era: Arguing over which song on the hit parade is the dreamiest, surviving their parents, or finding a job that doesn't suck big-time.Oh, and returning the B-52 bomber you took for a test spin, stopping World War III, and saving the planet from atomic zombie chickens flooding out...

A former gunslinger is hired to escort a woman and her older, dying husband across post-Civil War America after the latter pleads he be buried in his Pennsylvania birthplace to avert a terrifying ghoulish force.This story originated when I pondered the vampire, zombie and werewolf mythologies, and what they might have been “before” Stoker, Romero and Chaney Jr. defined those genres in the public eye. How would frontiers-people deal with creatures such as these, wer...

A plain, lonely man takes a tourist trip to another dimension, falls in love with a relief worker from Doctors Without Borders, loses her in a devastating natural disaster, and must find her again, all the while figuring out how he can stay with her instead of going home at the end of his trip.Starting off in New York, but set mostly in exotic Chennai, India, “Dimensions” plays on the first blush of love that everyone's experienced, whether aged 15 or 75. My hope i...

A young brother and sister try to out-scare one another with bedtime fables, to prove who is the more irresponsible of the two.If the floorboard outside your room creaks after midnight, it may be the monster from the wardrobe down the hall, as it waits to take away any kids who deny their sleep!And if that isn’t scary enough: How about a neighbor’s tree house, or a fanciful wish at a campfire, or a popular eatery at the mall.Those don’t sound very s...

A wealthy shut-in, born with an unusual deformity, has his eccentric, anonymous life turned upside down after he helps a young, pregnant woman with amnesia abandoned at the roadside.“Sam Tuttle” is a contemporary tale of a quiet man who grew up with a heavy burden and who finally gets an opportunity to change his sad, lonely, weird life through the choices he makes when helping a young amnesiac. No Hanks/Ryan RomCom, this at times surrealistic love story show how y...

In 1949, a war-weary Soviet army colonel and a by-the-book NKVD agent go into action when communications from the top secret bomb-making city go dead just days after the country tests its first atom bomb.On August 29, 1949, the uneasy post-war peace is rattled by the 22 kiloton shockwave of the first Soviet atom bomb test. Now both sides in the Cold War have the ultimate weapon.But then the Soviet's most sensitive weapons-making city, Arzamas-16, which is n...

A teenage supermarket clerk, his slacker co-workers, and their incredibly cantankerous supervisor battle a horde of zombies that invade the store.After the doors close for the day at Big Bill's Supermarket, Alex "Flash" Burkson and his fellow part-time goof-offs labor alongside the even lazier full-time night shift crew.Yawn. The same old boring work: Who prices the most tin cans in 30 seconds? Who stacks a skid the highest without it collapsing? Who looks ...

My satires, or dark-comedies, have lots of frustrating realism, fanciful fantasy, biting metaphors, and always, always romance. Here are some of my best:Brighton and Hove: Hiding in a walled compound with survivors decades after a pandemic wiped out most of humanity, a decent man who tends court for the despotic leader seeks meaning to it all by switching places with a rebel hero he was forced to lock up.A Fine Day for a Beheading: When the...

Partiers around a campfire listen to four tales that range from the ghoulishly slapstick to the disturbingly agoraphobic to the shamelessly macabre, and lastly to one of thought-provoking but inspiring redemption.It’s Summertime, a crackling campfire at night, and a multi-generational beach party! Kids aged seven to seventy-seven crowd around hoping to be entertained, spooked, enthralled or all of the above."First up, a story that won’t traumatize the kids ...

In a houseful of fun and frolicking cats, the oldest feline must help his pals come to terms with the bittersweet cycle of life when one of the younger pets becomes seriously ill.Welcome to the world of Caesar, Gus and Julius – and don’t forget their owner, Penny!This is a story that delves into the depths of love we feel for the animals who share our homes, and the devotion they give us in return.“It’s Great to Have a Pet” is enjoyable for the enti...

Even if it is hard to pass up a good deal, surely nobody means for the toaster-from-hell to be handed down from victim-to-victim in an endless curse.Tagline 1: Burning toast was never this scary!Tagline 2: You won’t look at stuff in a flea market the same way again!Recycling, reusing and recovering, not to mention the satisfaction of finding a great deal: All noble objectives of modern Man.But what curses might you inherit when you adopt othe...