Kurt Pankau
Mostly sci-fi, often silly, occasionally heart-wrenching.
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Kurt Pankau is a software engineer in St. Louis. He enjoys board games, dad-jokes, and stories about time travel.
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Where The Shore Meets The Other Shore
Published Aug 21, 2020 · 877 words (4 minutes) · 2 views
Humor Science Fiction geographical engineering
An altercation during planet fabrication has implications for the stratigraphication. This one will be free in my newsletter and un-paywalled here eventually.
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10 Civilization-Ending Calamities I've Caused (And One Is A Lie)
Published Jul 18, 2020 · 442 words (2 minutes) · 1 like · 2 views
Fantasy Humor Satire Facebook meme elder gods of chaos and destruction
When gods meme. This one will be free in my newsletter and un-paywalled here eventually.
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Application For Temporal Readjustment
Published Jun 21, 2020 · 519 words (2 minutes) · 1 like · 166 views
Science Fiction flash time travel
Ms. Tapper would like to change her past. This was a more experimental flash of mine. Looking at it now, I get what doesn't work about it, but I still like it.
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Living In The Past
Published May 20, 2020 · 594 words (3 minutes) · 1 like · 125 views
Humor Sisters daylight savings time
A riff on DST from my Friday Flash Fiction project.
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The Ballad Of Gushy The Accident Fairy
Published Apr 18, 2020 · 514 words (2 minutes) · 118 views
Fantasy Humor Satire poetry potty humor nursery rhyme
A silly poem about a fairy who causes people to have potty accidents.
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The Sentence
Published Mar 21, 2020 · 579 words (3 minutes) · 1 like · 99 views
Humor Literary Fiction flash fiction meta courtroom drama
Some stunt fiction that I originally wrote as part of my Friday Flash Fiction experiment. The gimmick: the entire story is a single sentence.
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Dragon Steaks
Published Jan 11, 2020 · 591 words (3 minutes) · 87 views
I wrote this for my Friday Flash Fiction project a few years ago, and it's one of my favorites. It will go out free to my mailing list.
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Stefan The Wise
Published Mar 30, 2019 · 597 words (3 minutes) · 7 likes · 485 views
Horror Humor Science Fiction halloween ghost seance psychic
Stefan the Wise speaks to ghosts—and sometimes those ghosts include con artists and motormouths. Patrick Rothfuss chose this tongue-in-cheek tale to be adapted for Wisconsin Public Radio, available in audio here.
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Leaving Home
Published Mar 14, 2019 · 607 words (3 minutes) · 2 likes · 482 views
Science Fiction time travel sad
Chris never told his mother that he wanted to go and help police the timelines, but he's been accepted into the program and now it's time to say goodbye.
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