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This is a taste of the contents of (People First!, is a multi-genre book published by iUniverse, June, 2004. It is.one of three books of mine on my home page and Bibliography. Here are some samples - but the book holds MUCH more and I hope you'll buy! .This is a collection of 19 of my short stories and novelettes (2/3 previously published and 1/3 original) but each story has a main character with disABILITIES involved in exciting and challenging situations. Basic message: "Get off your ass and explore the possibilities". CLICK ON THE PICTURE OF THE BOOK TO GO TO THE PUBLISHER'S ORDER PAGE

A complete table of contents of the book is below these links. NOTE: all posted material is protected by copyright and posted only to inspire and inform (and entertain :-) )

Note: Links to the full text of reprints of some of my work have been posted here because of a direct disability subject, and other story links and non-fiction reprint links are in place on my Bibliography.

• The Cure (scroll down to "Featured Writer" for links to a bio and the story). Online December 1, 1998 in the quarterly Planet Magazine, this story features a quadriplegic writer paralyzed in a car accident that killed his wife. He has continued writing - if not living - and suddenly he is faced with a possible cure... and it terrifies him.
• Examination. Reprint of a science fiction story I did for the November 1990 issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact with a main character modelled physically on myself -- just a bit more successful (to give me something to shoot for). It's posted here since three neurologists wrote me through the magazine to get permission to copy the story for their M.S. patients. If they thought it could help, hopefully it can also help some people here (also posted/linked on my bibliography).
• I Just Need a Little Favor Tongue firmly in cheek, this slightly off-color story explores the etymology of slang as an alien observer breaks a non-contact rule to get help on a sensitive issue.
• I See My Love. Originally published in the Australian print/web magazine Inspire (regrettably out of print) this short romance is based on actual events that happened to a blind friend who was mugged and lost years of memory from brain damage.
• Siren Song, fictionalized true life story serialized in the April and May 1999 issues of Today's Black Woman. Suspense/romance short story about a police officer - paralyzed in a shooting and estranged from his wife (but gets her back after he finally tracks down the truth about his shooting). I wrote this after counseling the real-life officer (which gave me the idea) and with his blessings I sold the story (since it is VERY liberally fictionalized)
• Stranger on the Road. Originally published in SpaceWays Weekly, a Canadian subscription e-mail magazine that unfortunately closed, this story has a main character who is a writer with M.S. in a wheelchair, who, en route home from a science fiction con, picks up a hitchhiker claiming to be an alien observer (based on my trip home from a Worldcon in Chicago, when I... :grin:).
• To Die For. Murder/mystery story originally published in the July/August 1998 issue of \.(12-27-03: We, a magazine for persons with disabilities, their families and friends (out of business.) I am posting it here as it is a story balancing a copings vs a non-coping person - both with M.S. in a wheelchair.
• To Touch Life . Science fiction novelette with a female alien doctor who is recruited to try to heal a ten year-old multiple disability boy with traumatic brain injury who is now blind, deaf, and mute. Originally published in the December 1997 update of Dark Planet Webzine
• Writer's Resources. This page is an introduction to several superb websites for both established writers and those wanting to learn the craft.

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contents of People First!

== Introduction

== Introduction by Stanley Schmidt, Ph.D., editor of Analog Science Fiction and Fact, the longest continuously published and highest circulation science fiction magazine.

== Examination

(Science fiction: paraplegic male main character with multiple sclerosis)

First published in Analog Science Fiction & Fact, November 1990. Nebula Award recommended

== A Touch of Scandal

(Science fiction: paraplegic woman main character with spinal birth defect)

== Siren Song

(Suspense/Romance: paraplegic male main character who is a gunshot victim)

Two-part story first published in Today's Black Woman, April 1999 and May 1999

== Can You Hear What I See?

(Science fiction: deaf male main character)

First published in Analog Science Fiction & Fact, August, 1993. Nebula Award recommended

== Meeting Online

(Science Fiction/Fantasy: blind male main character, due to brain injury)

== To Die For

(Mystery: paraplegic male main character who is a gunshot victim

First Published in We (re-titled We Media), July/August 1998

== Night Mist

(Science Fiction/Fantasy: paraplegic male main character with Multiple sclerosis)

== Viewpoint

(Science Fiction: paraplegic female key character with Spinabifida)

First published in Analog Science Fiction & Fact, April, 1989. Recipient of a Honorable Mention in Year's Best Science Fiction, 7th Annual Collection (Gardner Dozois, Editor, 1990, St. Martin's: New York), and Nebula Award recommended

== I See My Love

(Romance: blind male main character)

First published in Inspire, May 2000

== The Cure

(Science Fiction: Quadriplegic male main character due to auto accident)

First published in Planet Magazine (print and online editions) Dec. 1998

== I Just Need A Little Favor

(Science fiction/Humor: paraplegic male main character with Multiple sclerosis)

== Defect?

(Science Fiction/Romance: female main character with Turner's Syndrome)

First published in Analog Science Fiction & Fact, June, 1991. Nebula Award recommended

== Vengeance is Mine

(Horror: male main character who is double leg amputee)

== Another Scarlet Letter

(Science Fiction: H.I.V. infected male main character)

First published in Absolute Magnitude, Spring, 1998

== It'll Get Better When THEY Come

(Science fiction: quadriplegic male main character, due to car accident)

== To Touch Life

(Science Fiction: Female alien doctor trying to cure a ten year-old boy with multiple disabilities)

First published in the online magazine Dark Planet, December, 1997.

== Stranger on the Road

(Science Fiction: paraplegic male main character with Multiple sclerosis)

First Published in SpaceWays Science Fiction Weekly, September 11, 1998 and re-printed in the July 2000 issue of MS Musings.

== Take a Load Off

(Science Fiction: Potentially terminal female heart patient)

First published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, November, 1999.

== Pulp Fiction: Playing With Problem Solving

(Non-fiction: using fiction writing for self-directed therapy)

First published in Inside MS, Summer, 1999 and reprinted in Dialogue (Multi-media magazine for blind and visually impaired), Winter, 1999

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