While I don't often make forays outside the Journal Entries, I have over the years been struck now and then by a twisted idea that would not work within their framework. Much of Aimee', for example, came about as a result of my wanting to write less politically correct material than one could find in the sorta-utopian setting of the Journals.
Below are a few of the other things I've written over the years, ideas that have worked themselves out. Some are satire and parody, others merely thoughts that I thought needed expression from time to time. I seem to get the most press for the Alladin story, but I'm most fond of Repentence because it involved a lot of research and because, of all of the stories, it holds out the most hope
Jack and Annie's first adult adventure in Rome, where they meet Petronius Magister, eat hamburgers, and learn that satisfying one's desires does not always work out.
Jack and Annie meet the Marquis de Sade, who teaches them about acting, power, and the deceptive nature of humanity.
Jack and Annie go to Sicily to meet Sappho, discover that we all live in two worlds, and learn more about themselves than they imagined possible.
Jack and Annie visit a certain universe, discover that Wishes can come true, but when they do, you learn to have new, better wishes afterward.
What if the Destroyer of Kings, Angel of the Bottomless Pit, Great Beast that is called Dragon, Father of Lies, Lord of Darkness... repented?
The infamous story that ticked off Larry Niven.
I thought Raja far too sexy a character to leave alone. Besides, I couldn't let this be another tragic love story like Beauty and the Beast, where the heroine starts out with a hunky hero but ends with some limp-wristed prince.
Snarf! Snarf! Snarf!
This is what comes from listening to too much Phillip Glass.
Tron/Sark Slash. What more could you want?
I like ghost stories of a sort. I don't think this worked out quite the way I intended, but it's a nice story all the same.
I dashed this off one afternoon and spent a month revising it. Sadly, I never could get it into the exact form Gilbert and Sullivan used, but I still like it.
This was mostly a gift to my wife and an homage' to the many paranoid stories I'd read in my youth.
My Dungeons & Dragons gamebook additions from my college years (1985-1990).
