Lovers' Point on the Monterey Peninsula

Story Bits
Monterey Shorts
Stories by Fiction Writers of the Monterey Peninsula
Cover Art by Dan Koffman
Foreword by New York Times Best Selling Author Brian Herbert


DancersReunion

Walter E. Gourlay
A retired university professor obeys an inner urge and drives across the continent.  He finds himself back in 1943 at Fort Ord, California, at a reunion where he meets his former Army buddies and his long-ago love.  Is it time travel? Or....?

DiverMortuary Beach

Mark C. Angel
Two young men come to the Monterey Bay area to explore its depths.  They find that scuba diving there can be a wonderful adventure, or a perilous risk

DiverThe Lizard Catcher

Lele Dahle
Ten-year-old Rose was looking forward to a dreary summer, until the day  her mother took her to the egg farm where she saw a girl about her same age....A story about friendship, love and loss, told within the idyllic landscape of a rural  Carmel Valley remembered.

DiverMonte-Ray Gun

Byron Merritt
A comedic, futuristic view of the Monterey Peninsula as seen through the eyes of a retro-police detective and his spineless partner as they try to solve a murder of an alien found in the Monterey Intergalactic Aquarium.

DiverBorscht in the Bay

Ken Jones
Long time Pacific Grove resident Clarence “Woody” Woodall has his life upended when he sees what he’s sure is a Russian landing party invading  his  hometown in the middle of a star-studded autumn night.

DiverResurrected

Chris Kemp
A perfectly normal young woman — who happens to be the daughter of a witch — takes a forced sabbatical with the mother she can’t stand.  When the  destination turns out to be an uncanny parallel world, she finds nothing is what it  seems, including her mother.

DiverA Flash of Red

Frances J. Rossi
A Flash Of Red is a whodunit-styled story set in Pacific Grove,  California. Although meant  to entertain, it is also intended as a modern-day parable in which appearances can be deceiving.

DiverIf the Tubs Could Talk

Pat Hanson
If the Tubs Could Talk...is a fantasy that occurs to an overstressed woman as she takes a workday reprieve at one of the Central Coast's mystical hot springs.

DiverA Place to Heal

Shaheen Schmidt
The story of a man who’s lost his soul to the tyranny of a high-paced L.A. life, then starts a different journey after visiting the Monterey Peninsula. 

Diver Dot's Dad Visits Dinosaur Town

Mike Tyrrel
Join a father as he travels to his daughter’s not-so-imaginary place, where she’s the reigning Queen in a land of meat eating dinosaurs.  Enjoy the role reversal, as the dad discovers he is the frightened problem child, while his daughter is the soothing adult enforcing seemingly absurd rules.

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