Mike Robertson

• May-2023
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Like most children brought up Roman Catholic, Richard regularly attended confession. He never quite know why but until he was in high school, he never questioned the purpose, if not the substance of the sacrament. An incident involving a priestly ves...

• Mar-2022
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He was only fifteen years old and a recent graduate of grade nine when his parents began to request, if not demand that he start earning his own money, a replacement for the allowance he had been receiving from since he was in the fifth grade. From h...

• Nov-2021
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In 1949, an architect and amateur magician named George Fenwick was to leap from an apartment building that he had designed and first occupied when it opened in 1936. Twenty six years later, John and Patricia Delaney rented the same apartment that Ge...

• Sep-2020
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He was 71 years of age and had lived in the ramshackle shack at the unfortunate address on Donegani Avenue for several years now. He had remodeled it somewhat, mainly on the inside where he added pine paneling to separate the few parts of the place f...

• Nov-2018
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Picture Windows Two faces staring out of two windows in two separate houses in two separate cities separated by more than fifty years interests, fascinates, and eventually obsesses the same observer, first when he was a young boy, then when he was a...

• Jul-2017
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A letter written by a seriously ill middle aged man facing the end of his life is found in a safety deposit box after he passes away. The document, immediately thought to be Jack Quinns last will and testament, sends his oldest friend on a quest to f...

• Jan-2016
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Looking for short, compelling reads that offer a little bit of everything? Three Stories is the short-fiction collection for you. Horror, drama, romance, humor, big decisions - this eclectic collection will take you on a journey through the lives of ...

• Apr-2015
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Sometime in the late 1950s, on the steps of an unknown church, somebody takes a black and white photograph of an assembly of boys making their first communions. Above the heads of eight of the boys, who are all fated to die within the next twenty yea...

• Sep-2014
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John Wilson is an excellent guitarist, who has imparted love of the instrument to his fourteen year old son, Caleb. Despite years of instruction, he is continually frustrated by his inability to master the B chord. His band overcomes this shortcom...

• Jan-2014
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The original Smart Aleck Chronicles was published to little, if any notice in 2007. This was followed five years later with the release of a second volume. As noted in the prefaces to both these collections, their intended purpose was to present to r...

• Jan-2012
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The original Smart Aleck Chronicles was published to little, if any notice in 2007. As noted in the preface to that volume, it had neither plot or identifiable structure, its intended purpose being to present a series of entertainments on a wide ran...

• Sep-2011
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All Space Viking David Morland wants is a better life for himself and his family. But he gets more than he bargained for when he tries to set up a raiding base in the old Federation....

• Oct-2010
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• Feb-2010
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"These Memories Clear" is a collection of forty short stories, of various lengths, genres and subject matter. Many of the stories in the collection are drawn from childhood memories that may or may not be actual recollections. From one page observati...

• Sep-2007
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The original Smart Aleck Chronicles was published to little, if any notice in 2007. As noted in the preface to that volume, it had neither plot or identifiable structure, its intended purpose being to present a series of entertainments on a wide ran...

• Feb-2007
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Paul Waite is a hopelessly middle aged man with two sons, a heart condition and a conventional disposition. He unexpectedly loses his wife of 20 years to a traffic accident. Gone and Back follows Mr. Waite as he makes his farewell to her. In finalizi...

• Jun-2005
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Memories of growing up on the West Island of Montreal during the 1950s and early 60''s are the subject of this aptly entitled collection of fourteen short stories. Sometimes hopelessly conventional and sometimes strangely surprising, each story is a ...

• Apr-2004
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This small collection of eightshort stories is an impressive anthology of distinctive stories told indistinctive ways by an author who cannot seem to settle on one particular typeof story or one particular style of writing. There is the magnificently...