The Further Adventures of Captain Rogers

Bucky Smith walks out of the drugstore with his most prized possession, the latest issue of Captain Rogers, Space Commander, clutched in his hand. Eagerly, he opens it up and starts scanning the comic while standing in front of the drugstore. He is so engrossed in the comic he doesn’t notice the large boy standing over him.

“Hey! Buck-worm! Whatcha got there, another pansy comic book for babies?”

“You stay away, Bobby!” he shouts, trying to hide the comic from the larger boy.

“Gimme that!” he shouts and grabs the comic from the young boy's hands. The boy holds the comic out of the younger child's reach, as he tries to grab it.

“Oh, the little baby wants his comic! Well here it is!” Bobby cries out, tearing the comic book up in front of Bucky’s tear filled face. “Enjoy it baby!” He sneers and walks away while Bucky picks the pieces of his beloved comic out of the wet snow.

He holds the remains of his comic in his hands and runs home, tears in his eyes the whole way.

Inside the store an old man watches the tableau outside with a tear in his eye.

******

Bucky runs inside his house and past his mother, preparing dinner in the kitchen. She sees he is upset as he rushes upstairs to his room. She calls out to him but he doesn't stop. Inside his room he gets some tape and tries to tape together the tattered remains of his comic. But it is useless. Some pieces are missing, others are too soggy from the snow. After several attempts he gives up trying to save the comic and throws it aside and buries his sobbing face in the pillow.

******

Later at dinner Bucky is sullen. His mother tries to find out what is wrong, but he stays silent. After dinner he goes to his room where he stays until it’s time for bed. He finally falls asleep, dreading the next day when he has to face his tormentor again.

******

The next day is normal enough. After school he walks to the drugstore to see if there are any more issues of his lost comic. His heart sinks when he sees the rack is empty, no more comics. Just then the man comes from behind the counter and walks up to Bucky.

“Do you have any more Captain Rogers comics?” Bucky asks hopefully.

“I’m sorry, das all there vas,” the man replies sadly.

Bucky walks away, his head hanging down when the man calls out to him, “ Vait, meine Kinder. I saw vhat happened yesterday. Das kid ist a bully, a no-goodnik. I know his type.

“That’s Bobby Fuller, he’s ten years old. I’m only eight.”

“Das ist kein Unterschied. No difference, as you would say.”

“And he’s bigger than me, and STRONGER than me!” Buck adds emphatically.

“Still no difference, mein freund. He knows you see him as bigger und stronger und this gives him power over you.

“What can I do?” Bucky says, looking up at the old man

“Believe in yourself, stand up to this Bobby. Like most bullies he ist a coward at heart. He ist das dummköpfen! Stand up to him und he vill fail! Vait here, I haff something for you.”

Bobby watches while the old man goes to the back of the drugstore. He returns several minutes later and hands him a small object. “What’s this?” he asks.

“It ist ein a magical talisman. It hast been in my family fur many generations, it vill give you courage.”

“It looks like a coin. I can’t read the words on it.”

“Das ist ancient language. Keep the coin vith you all the time und it vill help you. Now go home, mein freund.” The old man then goes back to the counter and Bucky walks out the front door and back home.

******

Back in his home Bucky runs up to his room and looks at the coin closely under the light. He had never seen inscriptions like it in his whole life. Was it really magical? He looks at it until it is time for bed and then he puts it on the nightstand next to him and slowly falls asleep.

******

Bucky finds himself standing in the middle of a strange city. All around him are tall buildings and spires that go up until the tops are lost in the clouds. Vehicles like cars, but different fly through the air. He sees people wearing rocket packs also flying through the air.

Not only that, his clothes are gone. He is wearing some kind of silver suit with boots and a silver cap. Strange pieces of metallic cloth are on his shoulders and wrists. He looks around at people walking along and sees that they have a similar type of dress to his. Suddenly he realizes that he is dressed like the people in the Captain Rogers comic book. The buildings, the air cars, the jet packs, all just like the comic book!

“I must be dreaming!” Bobby says, gazing in wonder at the incredible sights around him. He is so engrossed by what he sees that he doesn’t notice the man standing behind him.

“Space Cadet Bucky Smith! Ten-shun!”

“What?” Bucky cries out, turning around in surprise.

“I said, ‘Ten-shun!’ They told me I could find you here. I expected to see a trained Space Cadet and not some kid gawking around like a tourist!”

Bucky gazes in awe at the man standing before him. It was Captain Rogers, just like the character in the

comic!

“Well, Cadet. Are you just going to stand there and stare at me?”

“Uh, no sir. Sorry sir!” Bucky replies, snapping to attention.

“I have an important mission and I was told that you were perfect for it, although now I have my doubts.”

“No sir!” Bucky quickly replies. “I’m ready for the mission!”

Captain Rogers looks at him for a minute and then speaks. “Very well. Get into my aircar. We have a meeting with the World President.”

Bucky climbs into the air car and within seconds they are zooming above the city and through the clouds.

“Buckle up! We're going supersonic!” Captain Rogers cries out.

Bucky does that and he sees the land below them zoom past.

“First time in a Space Force Air car?”

“Yes!” Bucky replies excitedly.

“Well, hang on! I’m going to open her up. We have to meet with the President as soon as possible!” He turned a knob on the control panel and the air car surges ahead. “The Presidential Palace is 10,000 miles away. We’ll be there in ten minutes.”

Sure enough, in ten minutes a huge building appears below them. Rogers cuts back on the throttle and the air car dives downwards to it. It lands on a large area with other similar air cars. Bucky gets out and follows Captain Rogers to a moving sidewalk that quickly takes them to the innermost part of the building. Finally they arrive at a large chamber with chairs arranged in a circle with the President sitting in the highest one in the middle.

Rogers walks with Bucky to a large disk in the center of the room that lifts them both into the air before the seated men.

“Captain Rogers,” the President says,” you are aware of the current state of affairs between us and the inhabitants of the planet Mars.”

“I am, Mr President.”

“The Martian’s have captured a Venusian scientist and his daughter and are holding them for ransom.”

“But that’s a violation of the Interplanetary Peace Accord! This could mean interplanetary war!” Captain Rogers exclaims.

“Exactly. That is why we have chosen you for this task. We want you to go to Mars, rescue the scientist and his daughter and prevent a war. Are you and your cadet ready for this mission?”

Captain Rogers looks down at Bucky who exclaims, “I’m ready!” Rogers smiles and speaks to the assembly, “We’re ready.”

“Very well, your ship is being readied for immediate launch. Good luck!”

The disk they are standing on moves upward and the ceiling opens up, letting them pass through it to the top of the building. Once there they see a silver spaceship in the distance awaiting launch. A moving sidewalk quickly takes them to the open hatch in the side of the ship where they get in.

In the control room there are two seats. Captain Rogers gets in the pilot’s seat and Bucky sits next to him.

“Strap yourself in Space Cadet, we lift off right away!”

“Yes sir, Captain Rogers,” Bucky replies eagerly.

Rogers holds a microphone and speaks into it. “Space Force Command, this is Captain Rogers. We are ready for lift off.”

“This is Space Force Command, you are cleared for launch. Lift off in 3…2 …1”

At one, Captain Rogers presses a button and the spaceship lifts off the pad and roars into space. Both of them are pressed back into their seats by the acceleration. Bucky had never felt anything like it, not even like the carnival rides. His sight grows dim and then things go black.

******

Just then Bucky hears the alarm beside his bed go off. He opens his eyes and he is lying in his bed in his room. He looks around the room, but the spaceship is gone. Everything is just the way it has always been. Rubbing his eyes he thinks it must’ve been a dream, but it seemed so real! He hears his mother calling him from downstairs to get ready for school. Still amazed by his realistic dream, Bucky gets dressed and goes downstairs for breakfast. After eating, he gets his books and lunch box. Going out the door his mother kisses him goodbye.

*******

Walking along in the snow, he joins other kids on their way to school, the dream still going through his mind. At lunch time he tells his friends about his amazing dream.

“You guys wouldn’t believe the dream I had last night! I dreamt I was with Captain Rogers and the Space Command! I was in his world and everything! We were going to Mars in a spaceship when I woke up!”

“That’s super neat-o Bucky!” Billie says.

“Yeah, I wish I had a dream like that!” another exclaims.

The rest of the day proceeds normally. Bucky tries to concentrate on his schoolwork while remembering the dream. He is still thinking about it so much he doesn’t notice Booby standing in his path.

“Hey little baby, gonna cry again for me, huh, little baby?”

“You leave me alone!”

“Make me!”

Bucky tries to walk around Bobby, but the bully moves to block his path. Bucky tries to push past him but Bobby grabs him by the shoulders and pushes him to the ground. Bucky just sits there in the snow while Bobby stands over him.

“C’mon little baby, cry for me!”

“I’m not a little baby! I’m a Space Cadet with Captain Rogers in the Space Force!” he cries out, barely holding back his tears.

“Space Cadet!” Bobby roars with laughter, “Just like in those sissy comic books you read?” Bobby gets ready to start punching Bucky when two of Bucky’s friends show up.

“You’d better leave him alone!” one shouts.

“Who’s going to stop me?”he says with a sneer.

Just then another boy shows up and cries out, “We will!”

Seeing that he is outnumbered, Bobby gives Bucky a kick and walks away. Bucky’s friends help him to his feet and they watch Bobby walk away. Together they walk down the street to their respective houses. Inside his house, Bucky’s mother admonishes him for getting his pants wet in the snow and tells him to go upstairs to change, dinner will be ready soon.

The rest of the evening goes as usual. After taking his bath he notices the coin lying on the nightstand and remembers what the old man told him about it, to always carry it with him and it will give him courage. He reminds himself to take it with him the next day when he goes to school. He then goes to bed and quickly falls asleep.

******

“Are you okay Cadet Bucky?”

Bucky looks up and blinks his eyes. Captain Rogers is leaning over him. He is sitting in the chair in the control room of the space ship just like before.

“These Space Force ships can be kind of rough the first time.”

“I’m okay,” Bucky replies.

“Good. We reach Mars in thirty minutes and I need you ready.”

Bucky looks through the spaceship’s windshield and sees Mars up ahead, slowly growing bigger. Rogers is busy at the controls while he guides the ship to the planet. After thirty minutes the ship touches down on the surface. Rogers opens a hatch and they climb out of the ship and onto the surface.

Red Martian sand is all around them. Bucky gazes in awe at the scenery around him. In the distance they see a city with towering spires.

“That’s our destination,” Rogers says, pointing at the city. That is the capital city of Mars where the Martian queen, Shee-bah, is holding the Venusians captive.”

“Gosh, Captain Rogers, what do we do?”

“We wait for nightfall and then sneak into the city.”

“How will we get there?”

“With these rocket packs,” he replies, opening up a panel in the space ship.

“What if we meet any Martians?”

Rogers then gets out two weapons and hands one to Bucky. “These are Space Force Command regulation blasters. We only use them when necessary. Are you ready, Space Cadet Bucky?”

“I’m ready, Captain Rogers sir!”

“Good Cadet! Now let’s get these back packs strapped on and go rescue those people!

******

The two of them speed towards the city. By the time they arrive, the sun has set and it is dark. No one notices when they land just outside the city walls. Walking along the wall they quietly make their way until they reach a doorway in the wall. Rogers slowly opens the door and shines a flashlight into the darkness.

“This way,” he says and Bucky follows him inside. They come to another door and he opens it slowly. It shows an open, deserted courtyard.

“Which way, Captain?” Bucky says nervously.

Rogers looks around and points to an alley on the other side of the courtyard. Together they quietly move towards the alley.

“It’s a good thing Martians become dormant after nightfall. This will make things easier for us.”

“Gosh, Captain Rogers!” Bucky says.

“Shhh,” Rogers says as they go into the alley. At the end of it they see another open courtyard and an opulent palace in the distance. He points at it and says,” That’s our destination. The palace of Queen Shee-bah.

“Gosh, Captain! How do we get in?”

“I know a secret passage to the palace. I have a good idea where they are holding the Venusians. We set them free and get them back to their ship and then we go back to ours. Can you handle it, Space Cadet Bucky?”

“Sir, yes sir.”

“Good, Let's get going. It’s only a little further.”

Captain Rogers leads them to a door that opens to a passage going under the palace. Bucky follows him through the twisting turns, completely lost in the maze. Finally they reach a door and he stops.

“This is it. We are close to the room where they are holding the captives. Just a little further and we’ll be home free.”

Rogers slowly opens the door and looks around. Seeing the way is clear he motions Bucky to follow him. They walk across the room when suddenly it is ablaze in light. Armed Martians line the upper wall with weapons pointed at them, ready to fire.

From above a single voice calls out to them. “Well, Captain Rogers, we were expecting you! You didn’t think it was going to be this easy did you?” Queen Shee-bah cries out gleefully.

******

Just then Bucky is jolted awake in his bed by the alarm going off. He looks around, the armed Martians are gone. He had the dream again and it seemed so real! What’s going on? He dresses and has breakfast as usual, trying to figure out what’s happening to him. Just as he is going out the door for school he remembers the coin upstairs in his bedroom. He rushes back upstairs, puts it in his pocket and runs out the door.

At lunch time he tells his friends about the dream he had last night.

“I tell you it was so real! I was on Mars with Captain Rogers. And there were Martians and ray guns and all sorts of neat stuff!”

“Wow. It must really be neat to be on Mars with Captain Rogers. I wish I had dreams like that,” one said.

“Do you think you'll have another one?”

“I don’t know. But I think we’re in trouble, with the Martians discovering us. But I’m sure Captain Rogers will figure a way out.

******

The trip home was uneventful. Bobby wasn’t there and Bucky had no problems going home. After his bath he put the coin on the nightstand, turned out the light and went to sleep.

******

Bucky woke up in a dark room. He thought he was still in his bedroom until he saw his hands were chained to the wall. Across the room he could see that Captain Rogers is chained to the wall too.

“What happened, Captain Rogers?”

“I'm sorry Bucky. I should have expected this. Queen Shee-bah knows me. She had this all planned out and I walked right into it with you at my side. I’m sorry.”

Just then the door opens and Queen Shee-bah walks in, surrounded by guards. She looks at Rogers with disdain.

“Did you really think it was going to be so easy, Rogers? Tomorrow I will sacrifice you to the Ragnor along with those Venusians!”

“Do that and there will be war!

“Yes!!! And my ships will conquer the Earth and Venus and I will rule the Solar System!”

“How could someone so beautiful be so evil!!” Captain Rogers cries out.

“Think about that in the time you have left,” she says and leaves them.

After the door closes Bucky calls out to Captain Rogers. “Gosh Captain Rogers, what do we do now?”

“I don’t know. It looks bleak. But we may have one small chance and it all depends on you.”

“On me?”

“Yes. These chains are made for someone bigger. But I think you, with your smaller hands, can work their way out of them. Try to get your hands loose.”

Bucky squirms his hands and after several minutes he is able to get them loose. He crawls over to Rogers, careful not to alert the guard and tries to loosen Rogers manacles.

“I can’t help you. What do we do now?”

Rogers looks around the cell. Near the ceiling he spots a small window. “That window. It’s too small for me, but you can make it through. Then you have to make your way to the queen’s chamber. I know she will keep our blasters there. Get them and use them to stun the guards. Then unchain me.”

“I…I can’t do that. I’m only eight. I’m afraid.”

“Bucky, you are a Space Cadet. One I chose specially for this mission. Now everything depends on you. You can do it.”

“I’ll do it!”

“Good boy, now get going. Sunrise is just a few hours from now.

Bucky goes over to the wall and by standing on a table he is able to reach the window. Once there he opens it and is able to work his way through. Captain Rogers was right. Anybody bigger than him wouldn’t have been able to crawl through it.

Once outside he sees the way is clear. Following the directions the Captain gave him, he works his way to the Queen’ chambers. Several times he has to duck out of sight to avoid guards walking by. He’s very afraid, but he remembered what the Captain had told him, that he was a Space Cadet and everything depended on him.

Finally he sees a large open room. Across it are a pair of ornate doors. That has to be the queen's chamber! But it’s out in the open and two Martians with blasters are standing guard on each side. Bucky moves back into the shadows. There’s no way for him to get inside without them noticing. Just then he bumps against a vase and it falls over, shattering on the floor.

The guards hear the noise and run over to investigate., In a blind panic Bucky dashes out of his hiding place before they reach him and runs down a hallway with the guards behind him. He runs down the hall and sees a small vent in the wall. He pulls it open and plunges into darkness.

******

Bucky awoke to find himself on the floor and the alarm going off. He was no longer in Queen Shee-bah’s palace running away from her guards, but back in his own room. He gets up from the floor and rubs his sore bottom. It seemed so real. Was he really in a Martian city or was it all a dream? He eats breakfast as normal and goes to school. He couldn’t wait to tell his friends all about the latest dream.

Lunchtime took forever to arrive and as he sat down to eat, his friends crowded around him.

“Did’ja have another dream like before?” one asks.

“Yeah, about Captain Rogers! I have an old comic where he goes to Mars to fight a giant monster!”

“We were tricked by the evil Martian queen! And we were thrown into a dungeon and we were chained and I had to escape to save us and I was discovered by the guards and they chased me and I escaped them and then I woke up in my room!” Bucky says breathlessly.

“Wow!”

“Cool!”

“What are you going to do? How will you escape from the guards and rescue Captain Rogers?”

“I don’t know, but Captain Rogers said I was a Space Cadet and he’s depending on me!”

******

That evening Bucky hurriedly finishes his homework, quickly eats his dinner and then dashes upstairs to take his bath so he can get to bed and go to sleep.

“My, my, his mother.” says, “I’ve never seen him so eager to go to bed!”

His father simply says ‘hmph’ and goes back to his paper.

In his room Bucky gets into his PJ’s, sets the alarm and makes sure the coin is on the nightstand next to his bed. Lying in the dark, he is so excited, it is over an hour before he falls asleep.

******

Bucky is a dark room. At first he thinks he is still in his bedroom but discovers it is a ventilation duct. Shafts go off in all directions, He looks out the vent in the wall and chooses a shaft that goes the same way he had just come.

Bucky follows the shaft and looking out through the vent, he can see the large room with the guards back at the queen's bedroom doors again. Slowly moving along, he follows the shaft, hoping it will go into the bedroom.

His hunch turns out right. Through the next vent he can see the inside of the bedroom and the blasters are lying on a table by the wall across the room. But the queen is in the room, sitting at a table with a large mirror on it, brushing her hair.

“Just you wait Captain Rogers! I’ll make you pay for spurning me. Together we could have ruled the universe!” the queen says.

Just then there is a knock at the door that interrupts the queen.

“What is it!” she shouts.

A guard comes into the room. “Still no sign of the escaped earther, your majesty!”

“Find him or Captain Rogers won’t be the only one fed to the Ragnor at dawn!”

“And the earther wishes to speak with you also.”

“Probably to beg for mercy,” she says smiling to herself. “Very well, take me to him,” she says, getting up and leaving the room.

Bucky waits till she is gone before carefully opening the air vent. He dashes over to the table and gets the blasters. Going over to the door he carefully listens for anything. Slowly opening it a crack, he sees that the guards are gone. He slips outside and runs across the room, back to the dungeon to free Captain Rogers.

He manages to make his way back to the dungeon where Rogers and the Venusians are being held. A single guard is there, sitting at a table.

Shrinking back into the shadows, Bucky doesn’t know what to do. He has a blaster, but he is afraid to use it. He stands there for several minutes, frozen by fear. Suddenly he feels a large hand on his shoulder that jerks him out into the middle of the hall and throws him to the ground.

“Well, well. What do we have here? The puny earther that escaped? The queen will reward me richly for your capture, puny earther!

Bucky looks up at the Martian towering over him, fighting to hold back his tears.

“Oh, is the little earther sacred? Did I frighten him?” the Martian says mockingly.

Just then Bucky puts his hand in his pocket. He feels the coin the old man gave him, remembering how it will give him courage. He grabs the coin and looks straight at his tormentor.

“I’m not a puny earther! I’m Space Cadet Bucky and you are a big doo-doo head!”

He then takes the blaster out of his jacket and fires it at the Martian, who falls over, knocked out by the blast.

Bucky grabs the keys from the unconscious guard's belt and runs over to the cell door. He unlocks it and quickly frees Captain Rogers from his manacles. Bucky hands him a blaster and he puts it in his holster.

Rogers then grabs the keys and frees the Venusians from their cells. The female Venusian wraps her arms around him and cries out, “It’s Captain Rogers of the Space Force! We’re saved!”

Rogers quickly removes himself from her embrace. “No time for that now, maam. Space Cadet Bucky! Are you ready?”

“Yes sir, Captain, sir!”

“Then let’s go!” he cries out.

Together the two of them fight the mass of attacking Martian guards, blasting them with their blasters with the Venusians close behind them. Finally they reach a courtyard with an air car sitting there.

“Get in!” Rogers cries out. Everyone gets in the car. From a balcony above them Bucky can see the Martian queen shouting at them.

“I’ll get you Captain Rogers and I’ll make you pay for this!” she screams at them.

“Hang on everyone!” Captain Rogers cries out as he pushes the throttle to full. The aircar zooms up and they fly over the city wall. The city quickly falls behind them in the distance, but air cars fly out of it following them.

“Gosh Captain Rogers! More air cars are following us! What do we do?” Bucky cries out.

“No time to waste. As soon as we get to the spaceship, get ready for emergency take off!”

“Yessir!”

Reaching the spaceship, Rogers orders everyone up the ladder to the control room. The last one in, he slams the hatch behind him, just as the Martian air cars surround the spaceship.

“Strap yourself in Cadet! Everyone else, lay on the floor, this is going to be rough!”

Rogers jumps into the command seat and quickly pushes the launch buttons. The engine roars to life and the spaceship zooms upward into the red Martian sky.

In his seat Bucky struggles to remain conscious as his chest presses in on him, but the thrust is too much and he blacks out.

******

Bucky wakes up in his room, his body still shaking from tension. Was it a dream, he thinks? It seemed so real. Just like the others. He eats his breakfast quietly and leaves for school. At lunch time, he breathlessly tells his friends about the latest dream, who listen in amazement.

Walking back home, they are still with him as he talks about the dream when Bobby stands in front of him, blocking his path.

“Well, if it isn’t the little baby who dreams he’s a hero!”

“Leave me alone, Bobby. Go away!”

“Make me,” Bobby says, putting his face up to Bucky’s. He then pushes Bucky, who falls back onto the snow covered sidewalk.

Bobby stands over Bucky while he lies in the snow. His friends just stand there, too afraid to do anything.

Bucky looks up at Bobby towering over him and he remembers the Martian guard in his dream. He reaches into his pocket and feels the coin the old man gave him. He remembers how he was afraid then but it gave him courage to fight the guard.

“C’mon baby, cry for me,” Bobby says, sneering at him.

Grabbing the coin in his pocket, Bucky looks at Bobby and says with determination, “I’m not a baby!”

He then pulls back his leg and kicks his tormentor in the shin with his boot. Bobby fries out in pain and Bucky quickly kicks him in the leg again. Bobby cries out again and he falls to the ground. Bucky then jumps on top of Bobby, pinning him to the ground.

Bucky then starts punching, slapping and wailing on his helpless tormentor. Years of suffering caused by this bully come out of him and he continues to slap and punch him while his eyes are blinded by tears. Finally it stops when he feels someone's hands on his arms, holding them back.

“Das ist enuff, mein freund. It ist over now. The druggist pulls the two boys apart. Bobby gets up, his face all bloody and runs away. The druggist wipes Bucky’s face and dries his tears.

It ist over, he von’t bother you anymore. He has no more power over you.”

“I did it,” Bucky says, still gasping for breath. “The coin gave me courage.”

“Ach! Das coin did all this? Das coin ist nothing. I have several of them.”

Bucky looks up at him in amazement. “You mean the coin isn’t magical?”

“Ach, nein, meine Kinder." Vhat you did came from inside,” he says, pointing at Bucky’s heart. “You did vhat vas inside you all the time. Always remember that.” Are you goot now, meine Kinder?’

“Yes, I guess so.”

“Then run along,” the druggist says, smiling at him.

Bucky was never tormented by Bobby again. A month later he walks in the store to get the latest issue of Captain Rogers. While he stands at the cash register to pay for it, the old man behind the counter smiles at him.

“Und how are ve doing today, meine Kinder?"

“Okay, Bobby doesn’t bother me anymore,” Bucky replies, handing the druggist a dime for the comic book.

“Das ist goot. Vait here, I haff something for you. The old man disappears in back and returns a few seconds later. He hands Bucky a new Captain Rogers comic, different from the one he just bought.

On the cover he sees Captain Rogers fighting Martians and a young boy is next to him. On the cover it says ‘Captain Rogers and his pal Space Cadet Bucky!’.

Bucky looks up, his eyes wide in amazement at the druggist.

“Not a bad likeness, ja? It ist yours, now run along meine Kinder.

THE END

Bio:"I have submitted other stories for Aphelion as well as Schlock magazine. I have stories published in Of Poets, Spies and Unearthliness and Dickensian Steamfantasy-A very different 1800’s by Rogue Planet Press. I am now fully retired, and I can now write in my new home...

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