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Larry Hodges

writer

Ping-Pong Ambition

by Larry Hodges
Larry is a never-ending fount of ideas. He and I shared an apartment at The Never-Ending Odyssey workshop in 2016. We had a productive and enjoyable time, and somehow I avoided a drubbing from Larry in table tennis.
“Ping-Pong Ambition” by Larry Hodges, in Sporty Spec: Games of the Fantastic, edited by Karen A. Romanko (Raven Electrick Ink, November 2007).

Life and Death and Bongo Drums

by Larry Hodges
Life and Death argue over the fate of a time traveler.
“You are a problem,” Death finally said. “You were scheduled to die seventy years ago, during World War II, but since you hadn’t yet been born, I skipped the appointment.”
“Life and Death and Bongo Drums” by Larry Hodges, in Every Day Fiction, 20 February 2012.

The Sanctimonious Time Traveler Trap

by Larry Hodges
Bob travels from the future to save skydiver Harvey, whose chute is fated to not open.
Okay, Bob, why won’t my parachute work? And does everyone in the future dress like a cucumber?
“The Sanctimonious Time Traveler Trap” by Larry Hodges, in Quantum Muse, May 2012.

Eternity and the Devil

by Larry Hodges
Dr. Virgil Nordlinger makes a deal with the devil in which Nordlinger will formulate the Grand Unified Theory of physics, live on this Earth for another fifty years, and spend the rest of eternity in hell.
After solving GUT, I moved on to temporal studies.
“Eternity and the Devil” by Larry Hodges, in The Haunts and Horrors Megapack, edited by John Betancourt et al., Wildside Press LLC, September 2013 [e-book].

Penguins of Noah’s Ark

by Larry Hodges
A bust of President George W. Bush gets thrown into a time vortex, catching fire by friction, whereupon it sets out on its task to direct various pairs of animals to Noah’s Ark—most notably, the penguin couple of Mrs. Bleep and Mr. Bleep-Bleep.
The Bush bust passed through the vortex, catching fire through friction as it shot through time.
“Penguins of Noah’s Ark” by Larry Hodges, in Galaxy’s Edge, July 2016.

A Snowball’s Chance

by Larry Hodges
Trini feels responsible for the past twenty years of children who have been lost to the witch in the castle, and now she’s determined to ensure that the deadly cycle comes to an end.
I am the most powerful witch in the world, and you are armed with a snowball. Do you know what that means?
“A Snowball’s Chance” by Larry Hodges, in New Myths, September 2016.
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