• the distance to the competition - a spy story inspired by the competence Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer attempted to portray in the movie Top Gun.
• infinite loop - contemporary fiction inspired by a story in Arthur Clarke’s Tales from the White Hart.
• what you left behind - juvenile fiction, inspired by the Concrete Blonde song She Said.
• the heart’s loneliness - high fantasy inspired by Spider Robinson’s rationale for not writing fantasy, because our world is interesting enough (“Show me a spell to cure the heart’s loneliness, and I’ll listen.”)

...more to come