Sherry Thompson

Tree House Tales: a Collection of Short Stories, Non-fiction Shorts, Artwork, and Extracts from Five Narenta Tumults Novels Sherry Thompson First edition

TREE HOUSE TALES, is a collection of short stories, fantasy, humor, suspense, SF, horror & beats me; fantasy art, anecdotes, poems & novel extracts.Here's the annotated table of contents.  ~~~  Fantasy Mostly: I Need a Horse; A Sailor's Tale (mythic tale); Sisyphus (interlinked horror story); Circles (aliens & daydreams); Garden Mosaic (poems); Daisy & the Paper-Mice (2 sides of a paper trail); The Windowed Door (prose poem); Luckiest Hunter Ever (story outline, story-telling suggestions); The Dragon's Tail Tale (tall tale fantasy); No Substitutions (Parental love & Fantasy adoptions); Winter's Season (a what if); Smashed Fairy Song Cycle (humor); Dream, With Joey (strange luck w/ a side of paranoia); A Dream with Bowling (Confidential informant in hitman land. With bowling); The Queen of the Tor Sidhe (poem); Shadow Harper (new take on an old tradition); The Pumpkin Smasher (Mother Goose vs the FBI. With trolls); Gajit's Research Expedition (SF, undergrad research papers, culture shock); Dingle (finish the story challenge); The Last Battle (novelette: faerie tales, horror & war) --   ~~~~~  Reality, Whatever That Is.  ~~~~~  Preteens, Horses & Aliens; Baffled by the Green Door; Fandom 101; How I Learned to Hate Phones; A Fannish Internet Sub-Creation of a Hyper-Dimensional Pocket Universe; Sherry's Cake is Major Hit at Coffee Hour Film at 11; EgoBoogling or what artists, authors, actors & musicians do when they ditch work; Catzis#1 by the human, Catzis#2 by Khiva & Vartha; Rainstorm Coming (scattered drops of poetry); Hurricane Hazel (an 8-year-old's memories); Between Worlds (poem re Ocean City NJ)END OF REALITY (that's a relief!)   ~~~~~  How I Write  ~~~~~  Extracts from 5 Narenta novels:  Seabird, Earthbow, Marooned, The Gryphon & the Basilisk; Da Boid, Da Tree-rat 'n' Da LoserA Smidge of Plot, A Glob of Character: Vartha the Stoah (Earthbow and G&B);Bert-and-Marsha-from Hoboken (Marooned).Illustrations.