My Writings

author of novels, novellas and short stories

Doctor Smithers’ Groupie Cosmology, Chaos and Classic Cars Waiting for Ms Right Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow . . . Sanctuary Butterflies and Bludgeons Perpendicularity Guardian of the G…

A Song for Small Furry Creatures: "Our leaders must be made aware of the perils that we dare when youngsters are allowed to wear inappropriate underwear."

author of novels, novellas and short stories

Haskell and Jennifer, in the company of her long-dead parents, travel sideways through time to experience alternate realities in different and diverging timestreams. http://earlcarlson.com/welcome-3/books/world-enough-and-time-2/#sthash.Vw3oyZaa.dpbshttp://www.amazon.com/World-Enough-Time-Harley-Staggars/dp/0692361634/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1421271060&sr=1-4

"Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow" A young soldier, in the midst of a battle raging on a Pacific island, suddenly finds himself in a brightly lit corridor, with no idea where he is or how he got there. This story, under the pen name, Harley Staggars, appears on-line in the February 2014 issue of Eunoia Review. htp://eunoiareview.wordpress.com/2014/02/22/tomorrow-and-tomorrow-and-tomorrow/

"A Bedtime Story* for Shoe-Bearing Creatures" What's an octopotamus to do when he finds himself so far away from the Sea of Serendipity on the lawn of Mr. J. Wimpole Flusterbut? The drawing is by the late Professor Herman Somberg, a good friend and art professor at the University of Minnesota. * with footnotes

This book is a collection of four short stories: Cosmology, Chaos and Classic Cars; Guardian of the Green Door; Doctor Smithers’ Groupie; and Somebody Died. Though humorous in tone, the stories reflect the writer's thoughts on life and death, the soul, reality and imagination, and the nature of time. http://www.amazon.com/Blasphemy-ebook/dp/B003VRZVPS/ref=sr_1_5?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1349459005&sr=1-5&keywords=earl+carlson

"Fifty Miles North of Nowhere" is a collection of short fiction set in a small logging community in northern Minnesota. Adventures in a Skinner Box; One Last Sad Song for Peggy Mattyce; Damnation; and Malicious Mischief. http://earlcarlson.com/welcome-3/books/snoose-boulevard-and-points-north/#sthash.QH7ff984.dpbs http://www.amazon.com/Fifty-Miles-North-Nowhere-ebook/dp/B009EV22YS/ref=sr_1_2?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1349459005&sr=1-2&keywords=earl+carlson

This book consists of six stories set in the Snoose Boulevard neighborhood: Found Objects; Rites of an Urban Spring; First Battle of Snoose Boulevard; http://earlcarlson.com/welcome-3/books/snoose-boulevard-and-points-north/#sthash.QH7ff984.dpbsFAWAMBALOHR; Second Battle of Snoose Boulevard; and Wide World of Winter Sports .

Harry had escaped from sepia-toned reality of middle-America out into a kaleidoscope of color in the South Pacific. In a very real sense, he had run away to sea; he was now beyond the reach of the brothers’ insidious schemes and the constant sniping of their lazy-bitchy wives. He had left all cares and worries behind him. But he had also left Emily behind and, though he retained no actual memory of her, he was aware of a burning emptiness in his soul – an emptiness that only Emily could…

It is Christmas Eve at the Cardboard Box Hotel, and Tokay Red doesn't need his pushy sister telling him how to celebrate. For once, his good friend and mentor, Wise Henry the Geek, is no help at all. Little Ernie, caroleer for quarters, serenades the pigeons under the overpass. And Dee wanted to go cowboying in Texas. How ever did he end up in the sub-zero winds of Minnesota? http://earlcarlson.com/welcome-3/books/snoose-boulevard-and-points-north/#sthash.QH7ff984.dpbs

This novella is serialized in Novella T. http://www.novella-t.com/subscribe/ "How does one prepare for a duel? What are the details that must be arranged? If one has already drafted a will and made one’s funeral arrangements; if one has no family to inform; no pets for which to find new homes; no rents in one’s life in need of repair; no letters to write; no goodbyes to be said; then how does one fill the hours between the challenge and the sunrise three days hence?"

Found ObjectsIntroduction to the CompanionRites of an Urban SpringNo SmokingUpdateAesthetics, Perceptual and ConceptualReport from the FrontGreat IdeasA Brief History of the Snoose Boulevard Renais…

Found ObjectsIntroduction to the CompanionRites of an Urban SpringNo SmokingUpdateAesthetics, Perceptual and ConceptualReport from the FrontGreat IdeasA Brief History of the Snoose Boulevard Renais…