Year in Review
Happy New Year, everybody!
This site has been in existence for about six months now and there are some who have faithfully read all of my short stories and essays since its creation. Then there are those who have come recently to the blog. I have written 11 (not counting author's notes and other commentaries) short stories and other various works since last summer, but most of those are now in my archives. Not many people want to go searching the archives for a story to read so I have decided to create this post so that anybody coming to the site now can easily link to any of my short stories, essays, and other stuff without having to search the archives to find them. It's sort of a Year in Review.
The following is a list of my previous posts, including a brief description of the work, and the titles are links to that post. I hope you find time to visit all of them and read them. Since I have classified this blog as a site for Christian Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror, they will be listed under these categories, with a fourth category for "other" because some of the stuff here doesn't exactly fit nicely into one of those categories. Some pages in the archive contain more than one of the posts, so if the one you are looking for isn’t at the top, then scroll down until you find it. Posts currently displayed on the site have no link but are listed anyway for your convenience.
FANTASY:
"There is No Dragon" My first short story here and the first appearance of Jared the Dragon Slayer and his side-kick Zede the Ferocious. Jared and Zede come across a village plagued by a man eating dragon. The two heroes see this beast for themselves and decide to rescue the villagers, but upon entering the village they find that the people deny that a dragon even exists.
"Stikora" Jared and Zede are asked to help a man with a monstrous, flesh hungry half demon monster in his home. Jared agrees, but is sure that the man isn't telling him the whole story.
SCIENCE FICTION: (this category can be quite broad and for the purpose of this post I include one story that takes place in the near future and another modern day story that serves as a prequel to it)
"The Enforcers" A group of Christian fugitives hiding in a former pastor's mountain cabin are exposed and their hideout is raided by government Enforcers who plan on taking them all to prison.
"Tribulation Game" (currently posted) A prequel of sorts to the Enforcers, a youth group in a modern day church participates in a game at church that mirrors the persecution predicted in biblical "end times" prophecy.
"Johnny" (parts one, two, and three, currently posted.) An ongoing story about a man in the year 2189 who returns from training at the United Earth Police Academy to find that his older brother may be a religious deviant, specifically a Christian. (Part four to be posted on Wednesday, January 4th)
HORROR:
"The Old Man" A man recently liberated from a sadistic slave master finds that the old monster has returned to take over his life again.
OTHER: (Stories, poems, essays, and something else)
"Civil Disobedience" A pastor preaches a sermon against society and the Church's lax attitude towards sin. His sermons spark controversy and soon he has to choose between preaching the gospel or obeying a new law that makes his message a hate crime.
"Darkness" Somewhere between a story and a poem, this short piece is hard to describe, but I think it borders on horror! In any case, I liked it and I hope you do too!
"Prose into Poetry" A couple of poems.
"The Path to Everywhere" A response to a question from my friend Wanderer, I look at the question, "If God is everywhere, how can there be only on way to get to where he is at?" The first of my little rants and the post that caused my hit counter to climb more quickly than any other.
"XMAS" (currently posted) Happy Holidays or Merry Christmas? Yeah, the holidays are over, but the questions are still relevant. Happy Balloon Animals Day!
One of my New Year's Resolutions this year is to post something on this blog at least once a week. It will either be a short story, a poem, an essay, or something else, and if I actually keep this resolution, next year's Year in Review will be a whole lot longer. Johnny Part Five is coming soon. God Bless and Happy New Year,
Arthur B Roberts
This site has been in existence for about six months now and there are some who have faithfully read all of my short stories and essays since its creation. Then there are those who have come recently to the blog. I have written 11 (not counting author's notes and other commentaries) short stories and other various works since last summer, but most of those are now in my archives. Not many people want to go searching the archives for a story to read so I have decided to create this post so that anybody coming to the site now can easily link to any of my short stories, essays, and other stuff without having to search the archives to find them. It's sort of a Year in Review.
The following is a list of my previous posts, including a brief description of the work, and the titles are links to that post. I hope you find time to visit all of them and read them. Since I have classified this blog as a site for Christian Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror, they will be listed under these categories, with a fourth category for "other" because some of the stuff here doesn't exactly fit nicely into one of those categories. Some pages in the archive contain more than one of the posts, so if the one you are looking for isn’t at the top, then scroll down until you find it. Posts currently displayed on the site have no link but are listed anyway for your convenience.
FANTASY:
"There is No Dragon" My first short story here and the first appearance of Jared the Dragon Slayer and his side-kick Zede the Ferocious. Jared and Zede come across a village plagued by a man eating dragon. The two heroes see this beast for themselves and decide to rescue the villagers, but upon entering the village they find that the people deny that a dragon even exists.
"Stikora" Jared and Zede are asked to help a man with a monstrous, flesh hungry half demon monster in his home. Jared agrees, but is sure that the man isn't telling him the whole story.
SCIENCE FICTION: (this category can be quite broad and for the purpose of this post I include one story that takes place in the near future and another modern day story that serves as a prequel to it)
"The Enforcers" A group of Christian fugitives hiding in a former pastor's mountain cabin are exposed and their hideout is raided by government Enforcers who plan on taking them all to prison.
"Tribulation Game" (currently posted) A prequel of sorts to the Enforcers, a youth group in a modern day church participates in a game at church that mirrors the persecution predicted in biblical "end times" prophecy.
"Johnny" (parts one, two, and three, currently posted.) An ongoing story about a man in the year 2189 who returns from training at the United Earth Police Academy to find that his older brother may be a religious deviant, specifically a Christian. (Part four to be posted on Wednesday, January 4th)
HORROR:
"The Old Man" A man recently liberated from a sadistic slave master finds that the old monster has returned to take over his life again.
OTHER: (Stories, poems, essays, and something else)
"Civil Disobedience" A pastor preaches a sermon against society and the Church's lax attitude towards sin. His sermons spark controversy and soon he has to choose between preaching the gospel or obeying a new law that makes his message a hate crime.
"Darkness" Somewhere between a story and a poem, this short piece is hard to describe, but I think it borders on horror! In any case, I liked it and I hope you do too!
"Prose into Poetry" A couple of poems.
"The Path to Everywhere" A response to a question from my friend Wanderer, I look at the question, "If God is everywhere, how can there be only on way to get to where he is at?" The first of my little rants and the post that caused my hit counter to climb more quickly than any other.
"XMAS" (currently posted) Happy Holidays or Merry Christmas? Yeah, the holidays are over, but the questions are still relevant. Happy Balloon Animals Day!
One of my New Year's Resolutions this year is to post something on this blog at least once a week. It will either be a short story, a poem, an essay, or something else, and if I actually keep this resolution, next year's Year in Review will be a whole lot longer. Johnny Part Five is coming soon. God Bless and Happy New Year,
Arthur B Roberts
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