Memories Made Memories Lost

Another of Stan’s short stories, Memories Made, Memories Lost, has just been published. When Nancy and Harold’s father’s novel wins the Pooker Prize they have to scramble to find a copy of the book and read it before the prize ceremony. When they read the book, they discover some interesting things about their father’s life and learn much more when they attend the prize ceremony. This piece appears in the February 2024 issue of Spank the Carp on-line magazine. (StC Pond 79) To access the story on their site, click here: Memories Made, Memories Lost

If you like the story, take a moment to vote for it as your favorite piece in that issue of Spank the Carp. (Just click on the box in the upper right hand corner.)

Enjoy! Stan

Placebo Meadows Lecture Series

First of all, Stan Dryer has just published The Placebo Meadows Lecture Series in Defenestration Magazine. Come visit the Placebo Meadows Retirement Community and read the announcement of their current lecture series. Learn how to cash in on your friendships, how to productively channel your guilt and more. To read this short but informative announcement, click on: Placebo Lectures

Second, Stan has added a new section to his blog, Unpublished Stories. Here he will, from time to time, put stories he has written which seem to be unpublishable in current on-line magazines. Included will be some notes as to why Stan thinks a story has been rejected by publishers. The story he just added to this section is Coffee Beans, a story set at the end of the Civil War. If you are interested, go to http://www.standryer.com and click on Unpublished Stories. After reading the story please feel free to comment on it in the section at the end.

Finally, Stan recently had a story, Memories Made, Memories Lost, accepted by an on-line magazine, Spank the Carp. Unfortunately, it won’t be published until next February. Stan will send you a link to it then.

Happy Reading, Stan

Are those Educational Toys Safe?

Defenestration Magazine has just published Stan’ Dryer’s Educational Toys Review where the ETC reports on hazards on a number of educational toys and kits. Find out about the dangers in using the Make Your Own Nitroglycerine Kit, for example. To read this short but informative report click on: Educational Toys Report

Or you can find the story under Published Stories on http://www.standryer.com.

Stan has also recently published Three Dark Riders, another story in the Dustville Chronicles  When the three brothers come to Dustville to revenge their father’s death by killing the sheriff, Dan the shopkeeper and Coyote Woman step in and protect him. But the riders persist. Things end up in a three-against-one shootout and the sheriff finding his lady-love. This story was published in the July 2023 issue of Mystery Magazine. Unfortunately it is not available on-line at present. (For other Dustville stories, see Coyote Woman and Tracking Blackheart Bart under Published Stories on http://www.standryer.com ). You can order a printed copy of the July 2023 Mystery Magazine on Amazon.

Stan has one more story about to be published in Spank the Carp on-line magazine. He’ll let you know when it is available to read.

Cover Story in Mystery Magazine

Stan Dryer has just published a story, The Saga of Gentleman Bert, in the March 2023 issue of Mystery Magazine. It is the cover story with a full cover picture illustrating the opening moments of the story. It features Nancy Turgis, one of the main characters in Coyote Woman, in case you’ve read that story of mine. (Coyote Woman is available under Published Stories on http://www.standryer.com.)

Stan wishes he could give you a link to the story, but Mystery Magazine currently owns the publication rights so the only way you may read the story would be to purchase a copy of the magazine or subscribe to it.

However, you can see the cover illustration and read the opening few pages of the story in a couple of ways.

First, you can go to Amazon as if you are about to purchase the story. There you can see the cover illustration You can then click on the cover and read the first pages of the story. The link to the story on Amazon is: https://amzn.to/3IAdNZq

You can also see the cover on Mystery Magazine’s site and read the first few pages. The link to their site is: https://mysterymagazine.ca/ Look under “Back issues”.

Stan has a number of other stories out to magazines with more in the mill. He’ll let you know if any of these are published.

How would you like to have perfect good luck?

Stan Dryer has just published another story, Fred’s Lucky Day It appears in the January 2023 issue of Fabula Argentea.

Fred jumped at the opportunity to have one day of perfect good luck and the chance to win big at the Golden Choice Casino in Las Vegas. What could possibly go wrong? Come along and play some two-hundred-dollar chips with Fred by clicking here: Fred’s Lucky Day

Or you can find the story under Published Stories on http://www.standryer.com.

The Edge of Solitude

I wrote most of this story over 40 years ago. It is based on my experience when, in the summer after my freshman year at Harvard, I worked at a boy’s camp on Lake Timagami in Canada. The camp doctor was a young intern who later went on to work most of his life as a medical missionary in North Africa.

It is nice to see published your recollections of a peaceful moment in your early life. I hope I have at least partially portrayed the essence of a few short summer weeks in an almost untouched wilderness.

(If you haven’t read this story, you can find a link to it on Published Stories.)

Stan Dryer