Short Stories & Poems
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Frozen Chosin
An extract from Free Fire Zone, a collection of linked short stories by Dennis Maulsby, was released in 2016 (see book page to order the full book). Frozen Chosin received a first-place award in the 2014 Great War to End All Wars fiction contest and a first-place flash fiction award in 2020 from The American Oen Women’s Soul-Making Keats Literary Competition.
FRISSONS
A book of Haiku and Senyru’s
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Price: $10.00 (includes postage in the U.S. and handling).
Definition: fris·son noun frē-ˈsōⁿ – a sudden passing sensation
of excitement, a shudder of emotion.
Frissions is a poetry chapbook, featuring the author’s original cover art and twenty-six haiku, arranged by the season of the year. Twelve of these short poems have been published in national anthologies and literary journals, four of which have won awards in contests. These three line traditional poems fed the imagination, offering powerful images and ‘aha’ moments.
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version of Frissons.
Music by Elaine Erickson. Suzanne Lommler, mezzo-soprano,
James Poulsen, piano.
The Crow’s Story
The Crow’s Story is a new twenty-eight-page story featuring Father Patrick Donahey, hero of the book Winterset, stories of pixies, demons, and fiends. Available under separate cover.
Fearful for his safety, the good Father’s paranormal friends built him a cabin in the pine woods outside town. Stimied by his success in defeating paranormal adversaries, his spirit enemies have hired a Mafia hit team to take him out. Little do the criminal humans know that they are not just tackling Donahey but Crobeau, his witch owner, the Pooka sheriff, and a Baba Yaga outhouse.
Price: $10.00 (includes postage in the U.S. and handling).
The Kitsune Wedding
The Kitsune Wedding is a new eighteen-page prose chapbook telling the story of Father Donahey, hero of the book Winterset, stories of pixies, demons, and fiends coming up against the Aztec Goddess of Alcohol. Disguised as his housekeeper, she tries to defeat the Priest by pushing him back into alcoholism. Simultaneous with the attempt, a local Marine brings back his Japanese fiancé for a wedding financed by his bride’s Kitsune (spirit foxes) family. Donahey, riding the sheriff in his Pooka coal-black horse persona, is pursued by the goddess and her minions but ends up crashing the wedding. Surprise and shock all around.
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The Mall Maul
“The Mall Maul” is a new forty-six-page Rod Teigler story based on the novel Free Fire Zone. The ex-soldier and host to a second berserker personality finds himself trapped in the Mall when cat-like creatures from another dimension invade to kidnap humans as meat animals. Rod and Shelly, the local owner of an Asian art shop, find common ground to attack and defeat the mob of carnivores in a battle that begins in the central mall plaza, continues down the walkway, and ends in Victoria’s Secret.
Price: $10.00 (includes postage in the U.S. and handling)
Alien Moon
“Alien Moon” is a new thirty-two-page Rod Teigler story based on the novel Free Fire Zone. A mysterious government agency hires the ex-soldier and host to a second berserker personality to investigate the outbreak of a deadly virus in Africa. His daughter, who has inherited his dual personality flaw, is kidnapped by aliens and taken to their secret base on the dark side of the moon. She escapes and runs amuck in the giant conservatory used by the invaders to hold specimens of the flora and fauna of Earth and their home planet. Rod assembles a commando force to rescue his daughter, resulting in a running firefight in the enemy’s base.
Price: $10.00 (includes postage in the U.S. and handling)
KU
“KU” is a new book of sixty-eight poems describing the continuing evolution of the popular haiku poem in five chapters. Beginning with the traditional 5.7.5 American haiku, the book progresses to the senyru and freeform versions, to the recent introduction of ‘genre’ poems, scfsiku, fantasyku, and horrorku. A bonus sixth chapter offers examples of Haibun (prose and haiku hybrid) and Haiga (art and haiku combination).
Price: $14.00 (includes postage in the U.S. and handling)
Cave Canim! Beware of the Dog!
The cover shouts, Beware of the Dog, in six different languages. Inside twenty-six authors give you their serious and amusing observations of the family pet. Like Shakespeare said,
Let Hercules himself do what he may,
The cat will mew and the dog will have his day
Hamlet, Act 5, Scene 1
Price: $10.00 (includes postage in the U.S. and handling).
Listen to Dennis reciting his poem
Omaha Beach set to music.