Melodrama Stories

An eleven-part story relating an exchange of messages between a disaffected galactic explorer and an increasingly exasperated staff at home-planet mission control.

A security scout is sent to a distant planet to investigate a disturbance from its sensors.

Non-fiction: A description of how the police use dogs to help enforce the law.

Love was in the air. Life was free of care. The future was bright. The 1960's should have been the beginning of 'Pax Americanus'¦ 200 years of 'The American Peace'. It wasn't.

A tale of an ancient compulsion comes again to a man lost to his past.

'Man In Debt' is a novella-length piece in fourteen chapters. Largely in correspondence form, it concerns a battle involving a wily borrower, his lender and their two firms of lawyers. The principals move from hostility to quasi-friendliness. Their legal representatives go the opposite way, with farcical results.

A meeting aboard a star-craft on a luxury curise to New Belgium leads to an affair of the heart that one of them, will never forget.