Posts Tagged ‘stories’

Short Stories: The Light of the World

Posted: March 2, 2017 in Short Stories
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Thanks to my lovely wife I got a night to myself, away from kids and responsibilities.  I closed up in a coffee shop and dedicated myself to my favourite creative pursuit.  Have a read and let me know what you think in the comments.  Thanks for taking to time to explore my work.

Drew

 

 

“This is probably a waste of time.  

 

So much of our time and effort and resources have all been for nothing, so I feel this small waste of time is only fitting.  We conquered the stars, we escaped the death of our own planet.  I guess if you are still out there somewhere and you somehow get this message…  maybe you can learn something from it.”

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Short Story: Weather When Requested

Posted: January 4, 2017 in Short Stories
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I am enjoying a return to writing and hopefully will have opportunity to stretch my creative needs more often.  Thank you for your interested and for accepting the sporadic nature of the updates on this site.

 

 

 

Weather When Requested

 

“That’s impossible!”

A slow grin crept onto the face of Cecil Leach, a climate scientist and hobbyist inventor.  Mostly a homebody, he occasionally liked to hang out in coffee shops and people-watch.  Lost in his own world, typing away on his laptop, he was startled by the quizzical proddings of a young woman that, even at first glance, appeared to be his polar opposite.

Eden Teller had a bright streak of green in her wild hair, unapologetic horn rimmed glasses and she seems to be wearing every conceivable colour at once.  She had an infectious smile and evidently harboured no hesitation in walking up to a complete stranger, mid work-flow, and asking: (more…)

Short Stories: Through the Eyes of a Drone

Posted: July 25, 2014 in Short Stories
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Drone eye

Through the Eyes of a Drone

A Multiversal Yarn by Drew Torchia

Bartholomew Alvarez was walking to work on a perfectly typical day. He worked for a problem solving think-tank organization knows as Unfuckers Inc. Because it was their business model to be “outside the box” thinkers, their rather non-PC name had granted them more business than it lost them. Bartholomew’s title on his business cards even listed him as a “Professional Unfucker”.

They had worked for major employers looking to downsize and be more efficient, small companies looking to keep up with modern technology but more than anything they worked with police and government authorities to evolve search and capture techniques, getting criminals off the streets faster than ever before. If everything worked smoothly the company would be bankrupts in days but in our busy modern reality, Unfuckers Inc. was an overnight success. (more…)

Intro and explanation of the plan here

Posted: July 24, 2014 in Intro
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I have always been fascinated with the complexities of modern society.  It is interesting to think of all of the little innovations humans have brought to the world.  What would happen if they didn’t all happen in the exact order that they did?  What would happen if one new item was thrown in the mix?  Where would that leave us?  What would happen if “x” technology or geo-political movement were to happen today?

Multiverse theory suggests that every decision made by every human divides the universe into each of the possible outcomes of that choice.  There is a universe where you chose the green car instead of the silver one and that choice affected life in that universe.  I will endeavour to write short stories about these alternate histories and potential futures with the intent of eventually turning a selection of deserving tales into full novels. 

I invite and encourage comments to tell me what stories you liked or dislike and what caused you to feel that way.  Feel free to propose ideas for future stories and let me know if you read one that you feel deserve the time and effort of writing a full novel.  Thanks for visiting.

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