Published Short Stories

"Daylight" in Short Attention Span Mysteries

"Daylight" is the story of a tenured Chicago detective who intuitively links a piece of string to a homicide.

http://www.kerlak.com/sasm.html

"Pictures from the Elsewhen" in Time Intertwined

"Pictures from the Elsewhen" challenges our conventional perception of time. In this story, a boy discovers he has an uncanny but inexplicable ability to "know" things he has no way of knowing. Is he psychic? Can he foretell the future? Or is he simply in "in the elsewhen," another dimension of time, with the ability to see fragments of events in the present, past, and future?

http://www.kerlak.com/timeintertwined.html

Ten Quarters, Five Dimes, Two Nickels, and Five Pennies

Published in 2005 Ultra-Short special edition of "The Binnacle," from the University of Maine at Machias. This is the story of a woman's clever response to disappointment on her wedding anniversary.

http://www.umm.maine.edu/faculty/necastro/binnacle/short_2005.asp?q=binnacle/short_2005.asp

Soul Eater

Published in the 2007 Ultra-Short special edition of "The Binnacle" from the University of Maine at Machias. This story explores the ancient Mexican art of making sugar skulls for the Day of the Dead celebration.

http://www.umm.maine.edu/faculty/necastro/binnacle/short_2007.asp?q=binnacle/short_2007.asp

Beer Thirty

Published in "Doorknobs and BodyPaint, Issue 25, August 2004. This story examines a relationship threatened by signs of infidelity.

http://www.iceflow.com/doorknobs/DOORBODY2.html

Forbidden Fruit

Published in Doorknobs and BodyPaint, Issue 36, November 2004. This story reveals a glimpse into the Moscow's black market and how a young woman provides for her family.

http://www.iceflow.com/doorknobs/DOORBODY2.html

Night Owl

Published in Doorknobs and Bodypaint, Issue 37, February 2005. This powerful story recants the fate of the Romani gypsies, forced out of Berlin in 1936 in preparation for the Olympic games and the power of a dying grandmother to save her granddaughter.

The Blue Wall

Published in Issue 43, August 2006. In this story, fate plays games with a man who faces the untimely resurrection of an affair.

http://www.iceflow.com/doorknobs/DOORBODY2.html

Pink Remorse

Published in Doorknobs and BodyPaint, Issue 44, November 2006. This story focuses on the realization of true, unselfish love after its too late.

http://www.iceflow.com/doorknobs/DOORBODY2.html

Blissfully Violet on Cotton Sheets

Published in Doorknobs and BodyPaint, Issue 44,November 2006. This whimisical story is my favorite example of my own prose poetry.

http://www.iceflow.com/doorknobs/DOORBODY2.html