Category Archives: Sample Fiction

Some examples of Gene Stewart’s work.

N’awlins Shout

Posted on January 3, 2011 by Gene Stewart

…And it was only in retrospect that I realized what I’d done: I’d shouted at the devil. Just like the old folk advice tells you to do. Just like that old heavy metal song insists, too. Did it quite naturally and unconsciously… Continue reading →

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The Crime

Posted on January 3, 2011 by Gene Stewart

…Is it any wonder, then, that my knees buckle, my control leaves me, when I come home the very next night — the very night after I had shouldered the blame and made up with her, for the kids¹ sakes — to find her at it again?… Continue reading →

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God’s Getaway

Posted on January 3, 2011 by Gene Stewart

…Dodging the net, God walked down the avenue to the corner, where he found a pair of cops; they chased him, guns drawn, shouting, “Why’d you do it?”… Continue reading →

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Witch Tree

Posted on January 3, 2011 by Gene Stewart

…I told him this was a witch tree and that the spirit of a witch lived in it, and if he cut it down the witch would have nowhere to go… Continue reading →

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A Swirl of Green

Posted on January 3, 2011 by Gene Stewart

…A swirl of green in a dazzlingly blue sky: no one got a clear shot of it despite untold tourists’ cameras trained upward and gulping its leafy light. A swirl of green: history deflected with ricochet force as the unprecedented appeared, a sky isle, an emerald swirl suspended in a cerulean sky.

A swirl unfolded, that’s how it seemed to Jolie, who at nine did not question the sight of an island appearing overhead. She found joy in the sight and laughed delightedly as she bounced and pointed… Continue reading →

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King of the Sacred Lagoon

Posted on January 3, 2011 by Gene Stewart

…As Compton dashed up the stairs to the weather deck, to see who had screamed and why, Lassiter headed downward a deck and along the central corridor. He reached the locked door, this time on his right, but had no need to use his key — the door was torn off its hinges. “Oh Sadie,” he said, following the slime trail… Continue reading →

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