Makeshift

by Donald J. Bingle

MAKESHIFT is a short story (approximately 5,100 words) which mixes fantasy and magic with imagination and the science of noetics in the tale of a very special young man recruited to a world of wonder and weighty responsibility.

Best known as the world's top-ranked player of classic role-playing games for fifteen years, Donald J. Bingle is an oft-published author in the science fiction, fantasy, horror, thriller, steampunk, romance, and comedy genres, with eight published novels and novellas (including The Love-Haight Case Files (Books 1 and 2), Frame Shop, Flash Drive, Wet Work, Net Impact, Forced Conversion, and GREENSWORD) and more than sixty shorter stories, primarily in themed anthologies commissioned by DAW and in tie-in anthologies, including short fiction in The Crimson Pact, Steampunk'd, Imaginary Friends, Fellowship Fantastic, Zombie Raccoons and Killer Bunnies, Time Twisters, Front Lines, Slipstreams, Gamer Fantastic, Transformers Legends, Search for Magic (Dragonlance), If I Were An Evil Overlord, Blue Kingdoms—Mages & Magic, Civil War Fantastic, Future Americas, All Hell Breaking Loose, The Dimension Next Door, Sol's Children, Historical Hauntings, Hot & Steamy—Tales of Steampunk Romance, and Fantasy Gone Wrong.

Many of Don's stories are electronically available, individually or in genre collections, including "Writer on Tales of Gamers and Gaming," "Writer on Tales of Humorous Horror," "Writer on Tales Out of Time," "Writer on Grim, Fair e-Tales," "Not-So-Heroic Fantasy," and "Shadow Realities." Donald J. Bingle is a member of the International Thriller Writers, Horror Writers Association, International Association of Media Tie-In Writers, GenCon Writers Symposium, and Origins Game Fair Library. You can visit him on Goodreads, Twitter, and Facebook, or at his website at donaldjbingle.com.

Audible Audio

First published February 19, 2012

About the author

Donald J. Bingle (sometimes credited as Don Bingle) is the author of Frame Shop, a mystery thriller set in a suburban writers' group, Net Impact, a spy thriller which incorporates real-world conspiracy theories, Wet Work, the follow-up adventure to Net Impact, GREENSWORD, a dark comedy about global warming, and Forced Conversion, a military science fiction novel set in the near future. He is also the co-author (with Jean Rabe) of The Love-Haight Case Files, an urban fantasy about the legal rights of supernatural creatures in a magical San Francisco. He has also written a variety of short fiction in the fantasy, science fiction, horror, and comedy genres, and also in gaming material, including stories in the Dragonlance and Transformers universes and in a variety of DAW themed anthologies. Many of his published stories have been collected by theme in his Writer on Demand TM series. He was the world's top-ranked player of RPGA Classic roleplaying game tournaments from 1985-2000.

Reviews

[Ami · Rating 3 out of 5]

Makeshift is a rather unique look at the creation and maintenance of the universe in a short story. There’s very little background information on the main character but the story itself was entertaining.

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