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Fiction, stories, tall tales:
by contributors
(with an occassional illo by illustrators!)
Some of these text stories may contain sections with Mature content.
Recent
updates for this page:
*** Updates 24, 26 & 27 August 2008 ***
** Update 15 August 2008 **
* Update 11 August 2008 *
- Speed Week stories and art on linked webpages -
Update 26 August 2008: "Token Anarchist" Part Two; "Lady of Nîmes" Part 2;
"Lead Pipe Cinch" - plus Speed Week excerpts from serial stories.
Update 27 August 2008: "Token Anarchist" Part 3; "Lady of Nîmes" Part 3.
*** * Charlie Bellman stories * ***
by Antonia T. Tiger
Funeral in Berlin
Arrival: A news article
Posted: 4 August 2008
* Counsular Duties *
Perhaps a typical evening for a British Consular officer
* Picnic With Pistols *
A meet-and-greet with friends at an Eastern Island pistol range
*** Token Anarchist: Part One ***
A Speed Week dance begins at the British Embassy
Update 24 August 2008
*** Token Anarchist: Part Two: Wednesday morning ***
Captain the Lady Helen Todd & crew fly the Cloverleaf Derby
Update 26 August 2008
*** Token Anarchist: Part Three ***
Daring and skilled manuevers
Update 27 August 2008
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Radio Show Transcripts
Mature burlesque humor
"Fools' Gold" (29 April, 1937)
(Produced by W.D.Reimer, with material by E.O.Costello, M.M.Marmel, & J.T.Urie)
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Stranded Angel: Chapter 16C
Uploaded 1 August, 2008: A sample chapter
by Simon Barber - with art by Fredrick K.T. Andersson.
(Based on the comic strip by Fredrick K.T. Andersson,
with characters by Freddy Andersson,
Simon Barber, & David Reese Dorrycott.
Further chapters at http://www.naorhy.com/
"Stranded
Angel: Autumn 1936"
a serial Story (&
art) by Simon Barber &
Reese Dorrycott
featuring Angelica Silfverlindh from Freddy
Andersson's SilverAngel
comic strip,
and other
Spontoon characters
Part 10
Uploaded 16 May 2006
(additional chapters at other linked
websites September 2006)
Freddy Andersson 'SilverAngel' Art Upload 23 July 2006
(May
include the occassional mature
situation)
Freddy Andersson 'SilverAngel' Art Upload: 7
July 2008
*** Weapon plans drafted by M. Mitchel Marmel ***
from the story, "The Equalizer", by Reimer, Marmel, & Costello
***
Tales
from
Rain Island ***
stories by
Walter D. Reimer
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**
EQUALIZER ** ***
By Walter D. Reimer, Mitch Marmel, & Eric Costello
**
Chapter
One: Upload 15 August 2008 **
*** Chapter Two: Upload 24 August 2008 ***
*** A Busy Half-Century
***
BY
WALTER D. REIMER
A history of
the Rain Coast told in story
Part
One:
Proclamation: Upload 8 June 2008
Part Two: Recognition: Upload 20 June 2008
Part Three: Constitution: Upload 27 June 2008
Part Four: War (and Peace): Upload 7 July 2008
Part Five: Gunboats: Upload 22 July 2008
*** Part Six: Contracts: Upload 24 August 2008 ***
A Leaf
in the Wind
How Jian came from Kuo Han
to Rain Island.
(May include some Mature situations
and language.)
Chapter
3: Update 10 March 2008
Chapter 4: Update 14 May 2008
Chapter 5: Update 28 July 2008
Epilog: Update 1 February 2008
(ending this episode)
Events in the military intellegence and cryptography career of Ranua Milikonu;
serving the Spontoon Island Independencies, via the Rain Island Naval Syndicate.
(Continuing from "The Woodcarver's Son".)
The Woodcarver's Son
A young Spontoon Guide trains at the Rain Island Naval Syndicate
(Ranua Milikonu, previous to"Sub Rosa")
SEAHAWK
The adventures of Ensign Halli Amura, RINS, seaplane aviator.
Chapter 22 Upload 7 July 2007
(story complete)
An
Officer and a Shaman
An odd story of
mystery and intrigue set in the Rain Coast
(story complete)
Mission
of the Raven
A
ship of the Rain Island Naval Syndicate
(story complete)
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** Pursuit! **
-by
John Urie-
A
Spontoon Island serial story from the life of Katie MacArran.
(May
include occassional mature
situations)
Chapter
52: Update 22 July 2008
Chapter
53: Update 28 July 2008
** Chapter 54: Update 15 August 2008 **
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*** Keeping
the Lights Burning ***
an adventure of the Navigational Aid Service
by Richard
B. (Rick) Messer
An serial of the buoytender ship Ida
Lewis and her crew.
14 May 2008: Chapter 13
*** 24 August 2008: Epilogue ***
Amelia Bourne-Phipps and her Diary
Art by Fredrik Andersson
character by Simon Barber
*** Extracts
from a Diary ***
edited by Simon Barber
(from the diaries of Amelia Bourne-Phipps,
while she attended
the Songmark Aeronautical Boarding
School
for Young Ladies,
located on Spontoon Eastern Island)
(May include the occassional mature
situation)
*** "Final Approach" ***
Diary Update 24 August 2008
A little decompression, rest, and relaxation before term starts
While Amelia's illustrated diaries will continue
to be uploaded in sequence on this website,
you may be able to read farther ahead at Simon
Barber's
'Spontoon
Tales' VCL archive
"Olympia" (Beryl & Eva Schiller
circa 1936) by Simon Barber
Better
Than the Rest
by Simon Barber
Beryl Parkesson tells a tale of her
school days at her English public school
Uploaded 7 July 2008
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A
new
student for Songmark arrives in September of 1936:
"The
Coral Curtain Mystery"
by Simon
Barber (and
Anonymouse)
(May include the occasional mature
situation.)
The
Misses Rote continue their education in:
Tales of Crusader
Dorm
"Case of the Missing
Misdemeanour"
Part 1: Uploaded 1 October 2007
Part 2: Uploaded 16 November 2007
(completing this case)
"The Case of the
Compromising Carbon"
(December 1936) Nancy & Alpha Rote encounter a
mystery of love
Uploaded 28 July 2008
Additional
Alpha &
Nancy Rote stories
are posted at
Reese Dorrycott's story archive:
http://www.naorhy.com
Open his
"Story" archive page and search
"Tales of
Spontoon" for the section "It's a Rote World"
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The
RED
DORM
A Story Archive by Simon
Barber
of
that dormroom of Anti-Socials & Socialists at Songmark Academy
25 November 2007 Update: "Shell Game"
Songmark Art References
and
Archive
Update 7 July
2007
(May include the occassional mature
situation)
Archive illustrations by Simon Barber, Kjartan, Tom Foster,
Ken Fletcher, Steve Gallacci, & O.T. Grey
Songmark Notes
20 August 2006 Art
Update
Dorm
members: Class of September 1934
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* Luck
of the Dragon *
by Walter
D. Reimer
A serial of a family of entrepreneurs thriving on the infamous Krupmark
Island.
(May include the occasional mature
situation.)
Chapter 137: Update 29 May 2008
Ending the section: "Luck
of the Dragon: Hobson's Choice"
Luck of
the Dragon:
Pilgrimage
Summer of 1937 - An obligation for Liberty - with the "Red Dorm"
Part Four: Update 27 June 2008
Part Five: Update 7 July 2008
[end of this episode]
* "Arrangements"
*
August of 1937, during
Speed Week -
a story featuring members of the Ni family:
Part
One: Update 16 July 2008
Part Two: Update 28 July 2008
* Part Three: Update 11 August 2008 *
"Luck of the Dragon" will continue in September 1937
with the story section: "Dealing a Cold Deck".
(Two story interludes from 1936 - related to Luck
of
the Dragon)
Snowfall
in New Haven
December 1936:
An Unlikely
Love Story
by Walter
D. Reimer
The
Red Priest
January
1937: A Case for Sgt.
Brush
by Walter D. Reimer
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Kocha
Koi
by Walter D. Reimer, Mitch Marmel,
& Eric Costello
Chapter 14 Upload: 22 July 2008
(Kjartan art added: 28 July 2008)
(ending this story)
The
events from Chapter 7 of Kocha Koi, told
from another
point of view:
Chivalry Isn't Dead
by E. O. Costello
Art by Fio Purrfetti - http://www.furaffinity.net/user/fio/
Uploaded 30 April 2008
by Mauricio Tavares
A cautionary tale of tourism and crime
Uploaded 14 May 2008
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Capt.
Gary's Log
sailing along with the Sloop, RED WOLF
(transcribed and edited by Wm. Van Ness)
Episodes & yarns from cruising the Spontoon sea islands!
A Log entry Uploaded 19 November 2007
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by EO Costello
Collections of short stories, and a serialized mystery, "The Wolf Without Wings."
Featuring Spontoon Island's first professional police detective,
a political refugee. Narrated by his assistant, Sgt. Brush.
Illustrations by Kjartan & Ken Fletcher
"The Wolf Without Wings"
by E.O. Costello
A serialized story complete in 5 parts,
introducing Sgt. Brush and Inspector Stagg.
"What Goes Up..."
by E.O. Costello
How Sgt. Brush became the first Detective in the Spontoon Island Constabulary.
(18 February 2007)
"Duet
for Pride
and Piano"
by M.Mitchell Marmel & E.O. Costello
Inspector Stagg has a part in this holiday celebration:
December 1936
The
Pickering
Papers
by E.O. Costello
An overview of the influences on
Cheif Constable A. Abel Pickering's career through December 1936
(Art update 10 August
2006)
The Pickering Papers:
A Clean Start
as told to Walter D. Reimer
by the prisoner Silas Lashley
of the Prince
Kropotkin Penitentiary, Tillamooka
Uploaded 24 December
2007
The
Catto Comeback
(Nominated for the 2006
Ursa Major Awards)
by M. Mitchell Marmell & E.O. Costello
Inspector Stagg (& others) go on journeys of discovery: January 1937
Part 15 Update: 29 November 2006
(concluding this story)
Inspector Stagg Radio
Plays!
"A Window Into the
Soul"
"All Is Not Gold That Glitters"
"A Greenhouse Divided"
"The Light That Failed"
Radio-play Transcripts done from the NBC radio network series in 1938:
"The Adventures of Inspector Stagg"
by EO Costello
"Bright
Lights"
by E. O. Costello
Dr. Meffitt, Medical Examiner, narrates an investigation
by Sgt Brush and Inspector Stagg
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The
Willow Pages
by M.Mitchell Marmel &
EOCostello
Episodes featuring the resourceful Minkerton's
operative
Willow Fawnsworthy,
revealing some secrets of her past and surprises in her
future.
Including:
"Meet Jane Doe"
"Contrition: It's Not
Just For Breakfast Anymore"
14 September: Art added to the Willow & Reggie Art
Archive
The
1,001 MORNINGS
of
Reggie Buckhorn
Character
by EO Costello in
collaboration
with Simon Barber,
and stories by a herd of fellow contributors.
28 January 2007
Update:
"Plantation Punch"
Reggie Buckhorn is firmly against
all adventuring and
Saving theWorld,
when he's in the Spontoons. Actions like these would
interfere with his ability
to enjoy a quiet glass of refreshment. Or two.
Or three.
Nevertheless, Reggie makes his impact felt on Spontoon
society,
in his own high-spirited fashion. Snooty head-waiters
and impatient rozzers,
you have been warned! Pour yourself a generous G&T
and read about Reggie's
various attempts to combat the boredom of the hours
outside
cocktail hour.
Let's
Doe It [Let's Fall In Love]
The Romantic Misadventures of
Reggie &
Willow!
characters & stories by M
Mitchell Marmel & EOCostello
Beginning with their meeting in
September
1936, told from both points of view.
Including: "Sire Relief" with art by Susan Rankin
(Art nominated for the 2006 Ursa
Major Awards)
"Inocenta Until
Proven Guilty"
by
EO Costello & Mitch Marmel
Leslie duCleds has his own romantic entanglements!
(episode complete)
Sympathy From The Devil
by
E.O. Costello, M. Mitch Marmel, Walter Reimer, & J.T. Urie
A Spontoon Story
set in the People's Republic of New Haven
with a definite Halloween horror story atmosphere.
Posted 19 November, 2007
"Valentines
Dazed"
by EO Costello, Mitch Marmel, & Walt Reimer
January
& February of 1937, as experienced by Willow & Reggie, &
friends.
Chapter
23: Update 2 December 2007
ending this episode
"Opening Day"
by E. O. Costello
Gwladys Buckhorn and
her Family at Home
Posted 21 June 2007
Reggie & Willow's Art Archive
(with additional characters and illustrations)
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Radio Show
Transcripts!
Written by E.O.
Costello, M. Mitchell Marmel, W.D.Reimer &
guest writers
"Who Walked In? The Story of the Four Fools"
A
short history by Walter D. Reimer
"The Four Fools"
Mature burlesque humor
(Produced
by W.D.Reimer, with material by E.O.Costello,
M.M.Marmel, & J.T.Urie)
'Military
Morons'
Posted
21 June 2007
'Trouble
At Mill'
Posted
8 May 2007
"Syndicated Saps"
Posted 17 December 2007
"Tropical
Troublemakers"
Posted 13 January 2008
"Fools' Gold" (29 April, 1937)
Mature burlesque humor
"The Highwayman!"
Show
2: 'The Honey Trap'
Update
2 December 2006
Show
3: 'Tavern of Death'
Update 25 March 2007
"The Headline
Chaser"
Show 1:
'Curiousity Exiled the Cat'
Update
12 October 2006
Show
2: 'If You Can't Stand the Heat...'
Update
15 October 2006
Show
3: 'Copra and Robbers'
Update 30 November 2006
"Rosie's
Place"
The 1938 Christmas show:
"Gift of the Magpie"
Update 23 December,
2006
The Adventures of Inspector Stagg
Show 4: Update
23 July, 2006
"Bright
Lights"
By E.O. Costello
Dr. Meffitt, Medical Examiner, narrates an investigation
by Sgt Brush and Inspector Stagg (Upload 13 June, 2007)
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"Spring
1936"
a
Story (& art) by Simon Barber
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Reese Dorrycott's "OHARU" stories
(incorporating "Nightmares Are Not Always Dreams"):
Starting late May 2006, revised & new chapters
may be found at Reese's archive:
(a Mature rated website)
http://www.naorhy.com/
Check his "Stories" page under the new archive title:
"Tales of Spontoon"
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