As I Was Telling You While Sleeping

by Mark Lind-Hanson

A collection of short stories by Mark Lind-Hanson includes: A young Indian boy coming to grips with warfare in prairie culture, an invasion of the southern California coast, a man who wakes up one day with the ability to hear his neighbor's thoughts, and draw places he has never been, a retired widow's encounter with a genie, a young man who goes on a rampage when his Fun Credits are revoked, an amusement park ride goes awry, a spaceship full of robots is put in charge of human space migration, a sour young playboy gets what he deserves, as does a cranky crusty redneck. All these and more in this collection of short stories written from 2011 through 2012 and originally posted at the author's blog (as well as Goodreads).

205 pages, ebook

First published April 21, 2013

About the author

I am a guitarist and composer as well as a writer. My sequel (separate from my coauthor Kevin Donohue's DeathCo, Mongoose Moon, & Waiting For Shiva) to Third Eye Patch is Bus Of Fools (Pub 8-18-13) Bus is intended to be general fiction, light humor & romance, while keeping a few characters from Patch.
The others (all written solo) are As I Was Telling You While Sleeping, a collection of short stories, a few of which make up a basis for Bus of Fools, Everything Is Beautiful In Its Own Way (a psycho-dramatic tragedy), and the Julian Plectrum series. set in medieval England:
If I Should Live So Long, Many Worlds Since I Left Home, and Oh What Will You Give Me; Fistfight at Judas Gulch is a Western humor fantasy which takes place in the California Gold Rush of 1850. Flight of the Oberon, is a "science fiction fairy tale,"
By the Waters of Oblivion, is set in ancient India at the time of Gautama Buddha, and concerns a young prince, exiled by his father for marrying a noncaste, but nonetheless due to inherit the kingdom someday. His wife is actually a reincarnated apsara, a musical deva with supernatural powers... And there are plenty of troubles yet ahead.
The latest one From A Starlit Shore is scifi, set on the planet of a faraway star, where people have no sense of any 'divine creation" and are free of the usual human trappings of 'embarrassment or sexual shame." On Ztam, Games are held each year which keep the population happy and well-sexed... it's a different place than you may imagine!
Finally, Pigpen's Black Forest Blues is a short story by my friend Kevin Donohue and myself which we came up over the holidays(21-22) in which the historic rock band's original "leader," mistaken for Jerry Garcia, is kidnapped by German Red terrorists during their 1972 tour of Europe. Will he even make it to Munich?
Historical fantasy, you might say...
All of these can be purchased at Smashwords.com in all ebook formats.
Samples (20%) are free! (As well as the entire Pigpen story)...