2024
iHeartRadio Podcasts
Want to hear some entertaining stories but don’t have a lot of time?
The stories in this podcast are short and tough or short and sweet. Few exceed ten minutes. Simpson has been writing fiction for a long time and has perfected the short short story. Subject matter varies considerably. Read by the author without editing, polishing, or any high tech gadgetry. Just the raw material for the listener’s listening pleasure. Sit back, turn up the volume, and enjoy.
The stories in this podcast are short and tough or short and sweet. Few exceed ten minutes. Simpson has been writing fiction for a long time and has perfected the short short story. Subject matter varies considerably. Read by the author without editing, polishing, or any high tech gadgetry. Just the raw material for the listener’s listening pleasure. Sit back, turn up the volume, and enjoy.
2024
Narrative Verse
Middle Class American White Boy
Third Edition
What is Middle Class American White Boy all about? Each “poem,” “story,” “yarn,” tells a tale of some life-altering experience in the author’s journey on this small planet.
2023
Diet & Exercise
You only get one body. No trade-ins. No do-overs. Best take care of it. Water it. Hydrate, baby. Feed it. Fruits and veggies. Cut down on the crapola. And get off your butt.
2022
Biography
A young pilot named Jimmie Mattern set out to become the first to circumnavigate the globe solo. Jimmie believed his flight could lift the spirits of a struggling nation.
2021
Narrative Verse
Middle Class American White Boy
Second Edition
What is Middle Class American White Boy all about? It’s sort of a memoir in verse. This Second Edition contains twenty stories from some crucial or mind-expanding time in my life.
2020
Westerns
Trail to Telluride
Natalie has started to hear voices. Typically, she hears two distinct voices. They tend to argue. One keeps telling Natalie she needs to go; the other tells her to stay put.
2020
Photography Books
Pardon-Me
Pardon-Me is story of the world’s largest runabout in words and vintage photos. It also reveals what motivates powerful men and what they will do to get what they want.
2019
Narrative Verse
Middle Class American White Boy
I want to tell the biggest story I can using the fewest number of words.
That, essentially, is the premise behind Middle Class American White Boy. This first edition contains 15 narratives.
That, essentially, is the premise behind Middle Class American White Boy. This first edition contains 15 narratives.
2018
Family Dysfunction
The Impostors
Park is a big game hunter in Botswana. When not hunting he lives in a posh Boston suburb with Vera and their three children. Back home Vera is slowly falling apart.
2017
Contemporary Storytelling
Gawd Bless Amurica
Meet America Augustus Mirth. August, he prefers. He’s a throwback to the Sixties, to the Age of Aquarius, to cross country trips in an old VW microbus and a fat bag of weed.
2017
Photography Books
Wooden Boats
of the
St. Lawrence River
The story of the powerful men who constructed castles and classic wooden boats in the Thousand Islands. At the center of the story loom David and Charlie Lyon.
2016
Family Dysfunction
Those
Murderous
Macbeths
Young Dane Macbeth wants to marry his penniless sweetie Ms. Melissa Brant. A lovely young couple deeply in love wants to wed. Who could possibly object to such a celebration?
2015
Occult
Love Among the Immortals
For centuries the Immortals have battled God and his dream of creating a peaceful planet. God desires love, beauty, & tranquility, and the Immortals seek war, pestilence, & chaos.
2014
Psychological Suspense
adrift
Megan has been saddled with a decade-long writer’s block. It was, she believes, brought on by marriage, stress, and finally the proverbial straw that has, just recently broken the camel’s back.
2013
Inspirational
The Ferryman
At the crack of dawn the ferryman opens his eyes to find an impatient businessman nudging him with his foot. He demands they cross the river. Immediately. Right this second.
2012
Mystery
Murder One:
A Love Story
Doug Campbell has kidnapped his father from the family vacation house in Kennebunkport Maine, hauled the old Senator down to Jersey, and locked him in the attic in the Campbell mansion.
2011
Historical Fiction
Annie’s War
The chronicle of one woman’s life from 1838 until 1923. But on a larger stage it is the story of 19th century American women stepping out into the dawn of a new age.
2010
Women’s Fiction
A Brief History
of Women in America
A mostly true story based on Elizabeth Hamilton’s fictional life about a slew of family trials and tribulations that did happen but maybe not exactly as she claims.
2008
Psychological Romance
The Affair
The Affair is about Bell. And Emily. And the beautiful Ava, who had been, as a young woman, one of the most alluring and sought after fashion models on earth.
2007
Coming of Age (YA)
The Passage
Big Jack offers to take Josh on a cross country adventure—Jersey to Montana. Big Sky Country. Josh is gung ho to go but Mom says no way. Josh says he’s going whether she approves or not.
2005
Psychological Suspense
Careful
Who You Cross
K is ticked off. K’s blood is a-boil. K fully intends to commit homicide. More than one, in fact. Careful Who You Cross, make no mistake, is a story first and foremost of revenge.
2003
Female Sleuth
3131 Ocean Avenue
Ray receives a call in the middle of the night. A woman with a sultry voice says she has a dead guy in her front foyer and she could really use Ray’s help. Dead guys are serious business…
2001
Psychological Suspense
The Editor
Sam’s new landlord is mysterious, beautiful, and blind. Far from being helpless, she plays a strange game with Sam’s tangled mind, and with his tortured soul.
2000
Psychological Suspense
The Hancock Boys
Come and meet The Hancock Boys. John and Will. Identical twins. Indistinguishable in every way. Right down to the life they lead. And the wife they share.
1998
Psychological Suspense
The Caretaker
Samantha, a faithful wife and devoted mother, is about to have every wish granted, every fantasy fulfilled. And she & her family are going to pay a steep price…
1996
Domestic Satire
Fingerprints of Armless Mike
In the eye of Hurricane Bertha, a man who has never really been honest about anything in his life, may finally discover the truth… and a terrible way out of his predicament.
1994
Political Satire
Full Moon Over America
On Inauguration Day 2001, a man just thirty-three years old, who has never had a job, and has no apparent political views–is about to be sworn in as President…
1993
Contemporary Storytelling
The Gypsy Storyteller
The tale of two men whose lives, from the time of their births, are fatefully linked. It is also the story of a devastating lovers’ triangle spinning wildly out of control.
1992
Family Dysfunction
This Way Madness Lies
Wild Bill Winslow falls down the back stairs of the old family mansion. He breaks a few bones, questions his sanity and immortality, and knocks himself out cold…
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