Posts under ‘Short Stories’

Yuppie couple goes back to the land – sells trendy Toronto pad, he quits his job as Head of Hostile Takeovers at DigestCom and she quits her job as a patent lawyer. They use all the money from the sale of their pad to buy a small plot of land on Galiano Island and live out of a lean-to eating deer meat and wild berries. They suffer severe caffeine withdrawal and can’t beat their insomnia. Hilarious adventures ensue.

Everybody knows (by now) about Adam and Eve and ‘Let there be light’ all cast into (surreptitious) darkness by an overzealous Angel of Such: Beelzebub. Lesser known, though, is Beelzebub’s younger brother Bozzlebub, who is more commonly known, to those few who know him, as Boz.
This eclipse is not so unusual; many sibling sets have [...]

This piece appeared in the first and only issue of Mosaic: A Magazine of Arts, Sciences & Everything in Between, which evolved into this website.
In the beginning there was nothing. Lots and lots of nothing. Then one day a voice rose from the great nothingness singing: “Head and shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes, [...]

This children’s book with an ecological theme was represented by the Farber Literary Agency, New York, NY. The authors are no longer represented by the Farber Literary Agency, and the story remains unpublished.
Read the Hugh Manatee .pdf.

This short story was written for a course in creative writing at Cornell University during Mark’s undergraduate studies.
Read the The Cape of Lost Hope .pdf.

This short story was written for a course in creative writing at Cornell University during Mark’s undergraduate studies.
Read the Cure for a Broken Lollipop .pdf.

This short story was written for a course in creative writing at Cornell University during Mark’s undergraduate studies.
Read the Do Unto Others .pdf.