YEAR TEN:
- Christmas Miscellany 8 – This year’s Christmas episode consists of four stories — one of them a Christmas tale. In “Crispas Echo,” we travel back to 1985 for a tale of summer school friendship and…Taco Bell! “A Very Strange Day (On Our Neighboring Red Planet)” is about the first human mission to Mars running into a very surprising discovery. In “Dick is Dead,” two accountants end up unlucky and forced to attend the funeral of a weird coworker on behalf of their department. And finally: “Christmas Spirits,” in which three famous Christmas ghosts have had enough, and set a pharmaceutical CEO straight on Christmas Eve.
- The Legend of Mighty Missy Stewart – Join Mighty Missy Stewart and her badger buddy, Tamarack, as they come of age in a time of expanding frontiers and rugged lumberjacks!
YEAR NINE:
- Overwinter – In this celebration of solitude, Daniel’s life is changed forever after spending five months alone on an island 13 miles off the coast of Maine.
- Mudlarking – When Eva Barrett decides to give mudlarking on the Thames River foreshore a go, she finds something very strange during low tide.
- It’s Never Too Late – When Stanley Gladstone takes his time machine for a test run, he gets more than he bargained for when it breaks down, leaving him stranded in 1983.
- Christmas Miscellany 7 – This year’s Christmas episode consists of three stories — one of them a Christmas tale. “The World Beneath Her Brush” is about a globemaker—and I really like it! “The King of French Fries” is not only a story from the point of view of a parking lot-dwelling grackle, but it’s also accompanied by an original song. “Suburban Home” is about aging punk rockers battling their homeowners’ association over Christmas decorations.
- Old Growth – You are a lumberjack alone on the side of a mountain with whomever—or whatever—killed your fellow loggers.
YEAR EIGHT:
- Lakeview Estates – The residents of Lakeview Estates Mobile Home Community battle the city and developers in an attempt to save their homes from demolition to make way for a golf course.
- Firing the Muse – When Warren Quinn trades his existing workaday muse for a more literary muse, he gets much more than he bargained for.
- The Song of the Stone – Zander Pierson’s dissatisfaction with living the life others expected from him leads to a stone in a Swedish forest that also called to Einvaldr Brúnn at a turning point in his life in the early 860s.
- Rockbiters – Find out what happens when the Forgefire brothers, while mining in an asteroid belt called The Delve, discover something that changes the lives of an entire solar system. (Yep, it’s Dwarves in Space!!!)
- Christmas Miscellany 6 – “When Anders Came Home for Christmas”: An estranged family member returns home on Christmas Eve; “Santa’s Sad Helper”: An unemployed factory worker takes a job as a Santa’s helper in the hope of making enough money for Christmas presents; “The Nutcracker and Elf”: Tradition and modernism battle for the true spirit of Christmas; “The Red Thief”: A new friendship forms when items begin going missing; and “Trollson”: The legend of the Sleeping Mountain.
- Tin-Hearted Man – When Big Nick Champeau is taken by the Thunder River, his lumber camp speculates what his life might have been like before becoming a lumberjack.
YEAR SEVEN:
- In the Margins – When Kenna Baynes discovers a strange book in her college library, she finds something in the margins that changes her life forever…
- Godspeed, Crazy Mike – Crazy Mike is dead behind the maintenance barn and the quaking bog man is missing. It’s up to detectives Gary Vandiver and Beatrice Mule to figure out what happened…
- Gerald’s Grail – While knocking around an antique shop with his grandmother, a teenage geek finds something that changes his life in a most curious way…
- Revisions – An author tries to finish construction on her recently-deceased mother’s home while writing her second novel — the follow up to a New York Times Best Seller.
- Christmas Miscellany 5 – “Stories of Fine Taste”: The stories behind two recipes. “Reply All”: Cheryl’s not standing for office gossip about her and a co-worker. “Drifted”: A character from the second Christmas episode ends up stranded on a mountain with something more naughty than him…
- In Cypress Slough – Two deadhead loggers find something remarkable in the Piney Woods of East Texas, putting them at odds with a large timber company.
YEAR SIX:
- Milkboy – When two friends use a bulletin board system to create an online persona to tease their best friend, they get more than they have coming to them for their deception.
- Calling Out of Time – When Amir discovers a phone booth that seems to magically appear on the corner in his neighborhood, he does everything he can to change the worst thing that ever happened to him and his family….
- A Deathly Mistake – When Death mistakenly harvests the soul of the wrong John Smith, John’s life — and After Life — are changed forever.
- Christmas Miscellany 4 – “Tracks”: A tale of drifting friendship. “Homecoming”: Callan returns home for his annual visit with his father. “The Last Wish: If a genie grants you three wishes, and the first two don’t work out as planned, what should you do with the third? “Monkey-Wrenching Suburbia”: A story about misplaced teen angst in 80s suburbia. “Christmas in Kansas”: Most people reach an age when they recognize their parents’ flaws. Is it a gift, or a curse?
- Geocached – When Wayne finds strange items in geocaches along the old lumber roads of northern Minnesota, he becomes obsessed with discovering who’s leaving the items behind. What he finds changes his life forever…
YEAR FIVE:
- The Cold of Summer – Four strangers come together when they contract a mysterious illness from an old woman in line at a pharmacy.
- Pepper – A father returns as a reincarnated, talking dog in an attempt to make amends with his estranged son.
- Under the Big Top – An FBI agent nearing forced retirement races to solve the case that’s haunted him for years. Will he find the break he needs at a traveling circus?
- Christmas Miscellany III – “My Grandmother Wrestled Bears”: A drifter returns home to her grandmother’s house for the holidays. “The Beast in the Back”: The truth behind the success of BigBoxMart. (You might remember BigBoxMart — and the manager, Susan — from last year’s Christmas episode.) “Lost and Found” A family finds more than memories when the family patriarch passes on before the holidays.
- The Lumberjack of Williamsburg – An entrepreneurial podcast takes a turn for the worst…and then just keeps going…
YEAR FOUR:
- Booger – A kid makes a monster in his bathtub for a very specific reason…
- Alone in HQ – After the apocalypse, a lowly office worker is alive and alone in headquarters…keeping an old way of life going in the hope that things will one day return to normal…
- Taller Than The Moon – A trip home to visit his parents brings with it a flood of memories for Michael Stokowski.
- Christmas Cuts – Three Stories – “The Crock”: A woman’s battles with her mother-in-law take an unexpected turn. “Greetings”: An out-of-work special effects makeup artist gets a job as a big-box store greeter. “Naughty”: A naughty little boy gets what he deserves and learns about the the spirit of the season.
- Waking the Lumberjack – The funeral service of wrestler “Big Papa” Howe, the Ontario Lumberjack, does not go as planned…
YEAR THREE:
- Dear God – A panhandler is given a magic postage stamp.
- The Race to the End – The 100-year-old son of the oldest man to ever live plots to kill a 123-year-old man about to break his father’s record.
- 7 Stories – Seven pieces of micro-fiction, including a Christmas story.
- The Hidebehind – Something lurks in the woods outside a lumber camp in this story I SWEAR is NOT about lumberjacks…
YEAR TWO:
- Memorial Park – An after-school fight pits the meanest kid in Walt Whitman Junior High School against one of its shyest geeks.
- Cubicle Punks – Two aging punks come to grips with who they once were…and what they’ve become today.
- Bobo – A kid’s party clown comes to grips with what he’s become.
- El Concusso – A professional wrestler can’t remember who he is after hitting his head against the ringpost during a match in Mexico City.
- The Art of the Lumberjack – When Erik Nilsson has a minor heart attack and finally reads a book left to him by his father, he finds something that will change him forever.
YEAR ONE:
- Strange Audio – A podcaster discovers some ghostly audio while editing an episode of his show.
- Purvis – In 1984, a Dungeon Master struggles with keeping the few friendships he has together, all while dealing with a vicious bully.
- Shadow Dancers – Find out what happens when four boys figure out how to separate their shadows from their bodies…
- Fly Me to the Moon – A homeless man who talks with birds is convinced he can talk with his dead wife on the moon…if only he can fix a broken radio he found in a dumpster.
- Standstill – When she was younger, Maddy’s grandfather gave her a pocket watch that does much more than simply telling time.
- The Weight of the World – An exhausted single father comes to grips with his children and dating issues during a visit to his psychologist.
- The Other Side – After a divorce and layoff, Daniel breaks into his childhood home to see if something in his closet all those years ago is still there…
- A Magic Life – A sneak peek at the first chapter of my novel, A Magic Life. (About a girl born in a circus in the 1920s, and her rise to fame in the 40s and 50s.)
- Rabbit Eyes – The owner of a software company becomes very uneasy when he discovers someone close to him is trying to control his mind.
- Looking for Dogs – Dicky Wingfeld has it all: a great job, a loving wife, and a new house. But Dicky also has a problem: a father who cannot seem to stop collecting junk.
- Horus – Sarah Nelson gets more than she bargained for when she answers a job for a writer’s assistant and must deal with the writer’s parrot, Horus.
- Mr. Knowitall – Jerry’s brother inherited the family business — his sister, the family fortune. All Jerry got was a toy Magic 8-ball that does more than expected.
- Pride of the Red Card – A mechanic is happy to hear his son wants to sign up for football; that is, until he realizes what his son really means is soccer…
- Gutterball – English bulldog named Gutterball (and the family who loves him) must contend with the dog’s bad habit of eating everything in sight.