Hello all, the paper version of the No Regrets anthology is now available at Createspace.  The link ishttp://www.createspace.com/4722855.  It will also available on Amazon in a few days.

No Regrets anthology with my story (see posts below for details) is now available as e-books on Smashwords www.smashwords.com/books/view/421428 and on Amazon www.amazon.com/No ... /dp/B00J5SE68A/ref=sr_1_8 ...    Paper copies should be available soon.  I won't make any money if anyone buys this book, but it would be nice to know if people read my story and have comments.

Link to interview about my latest story.
Hello all,  as mentioned in post immediately below, I have a story being published by Silly Tree Anthologies.  They have been doing interviews with all the authors.  My interview appears today on the Silly Tree blog.  Link is www.sillytreeanthologies.blogspot.com

Another short story of mine, ‘Benjamin Franklin Ford and his quest for a new world’, will be appearing in No Regrets: It’s time to move on… a soon to be published collection of short stories and poems by Silly Tree Anthologies.  The book will be available from Silly Tree in both electronic and softcover formats.

The theme for submissions to this volume was ‘As one year closes and another begins, you realize that some things need to be left in the past for the next year to be truly new’.  My story is set in a post-apocalyptic future after environmental disaster and military strife have reduced civilization to a pre-industrial society that shuns all the modern technologies deemed responsible for the chaos.  My hero, Benji Ford, decides on the last days of the twenty-first century to abandon his efforts to convince people that their problems stem from human misuse of technology, not the technology itself.  He ventures forth to establish a technology-embracing community that will demonstrate the validity of his arguments.

My story ends as he sets off into the unknown alone in a cart drawn by two oxen.  I am currently working on a longer work that will describe Benji’s trials and tribulations as he attempts to establish a community that embraces technology.

A fateful Encounter is my first published story.  It was submitted to the Sixth National Short Story Contest conducted by Polar Expressions Publishing, a small publisher in Maple Ridge, British Columbia.  My story didn't win any awards but was chosen as one of the limited number (less than one third of the total entries) published in The Sun Shall Rise: A New Collection of Canadian Short Stories, edited by Rachelle McCallum.  It was published in November, 2013.
The 750 word story was inspired by a real event, my observation of an obese man and a woman in a wheel chair in the check-out queue of a grocery store.  The description of the two people and the story I developed, however, are entirely imaginary.