Other Fiction
Miscellaneous fiction not related to my other series.
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 THE BELTERS' WAR
A new, unpublished novel by Christopher Stasheff. In an asteroid belt far from civilization, where law and order is weak and optional (when it's not for sale), a territorial dispute between miners quickly escalates out of control into a full-blown belter's war.
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Chapter 1 (17 pages, 4,929 words)
In the lawless asteroid belt, rustling rocks is a serious offense. But the Belters know how to handle it—by taking the law into thier own hands.
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Chapter 2 (15 pages, 4,094 words)
After fighting off a hijacking, the Belters visit an outpost of civilization on the asteroid, Port Alice.
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Chapter 3 (13 pages, 3,347 words)
Spindrift stakes his mining claim in the Asteroid Belt, and learns the political lay of the land... er, space.
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Chapter 4 (15 pages, 3,644 words)
Tensions escalate between Spindrift & Flannagan - to the point of violence.
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Chapter 5 (20 pages, 4,553 words)
Spindrift's drovers vow to avenge his death - by any means necessary, legal or not.
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Chapter 6 (12 pages, 3,020 words)
Spindrift's former drovers escape Flannagan's ambush, and prepare one of their own.
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Chapter 7 (16 pages, 3,910 words)
Spindrift's drovers quickly ambush and kill Pepper - but find themselves on trial for murder almost as fast.
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Chapter 8 (15 pages, 3,679 words)
Spindrift's drovers begin to loose faith in the law when Flanagan's thugs are tried and convicted of murdering Spindrift - and the verdict in immeadiately overturned by a judge in Flannagan's pocket.
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Chapter 9 (16 pages, 3,973 words)
Tensions rise as Flannagan buys more hired muscle, and Spindrift's drovers try to recruit a prospector for the increasingly inevitable conflict.
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Chapter 10 (15 pages, 3,930 words)
Spindrift's drovers, the Regulators, win over a new ally after helping the prospector Trick recover his stolen burro boat from Flannagan's "deputies" - but those thugs with badges just can't seem to keep themselves from picking new fights.
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THE FROG AND THE GROG
A new, unpublished novel by Christopher Stasheff where a wizard turns himself into a toad... but can't turn himself back!
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Prolouge: Too Much Magic (8 pages, 2,135 words)
For a powerful wizard, chanting a magic spell to shapeshift into a frog is an easy matter. Shapeshifting back, when you can no longer speak, is a bit more difficult...
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Chapter 1: A Royal Escape (11 pages, 2905 words)
The frog Cadavan seeks out the wizard Monahere, who can change him back into a man. Unfortunately, Monahere herself is rather busy arranging the escape of a ten-year-old king from a violent coup.
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Chapter 2: The Usurper (5 pages, 1,122 words)
The usurper king orders raids on his own peasantry, and a newly-knighted soldier begins to have doubts about his loyalty to the crown.
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Chapter 3: A Wandering Minstrel (9 pages, 2,207 words)
The boy-king Ned runs afoul of his own peasants, the usurper king hatches a plot agaisnt disloyal lords, and the frog-wizard Cavadan meets a friendly minstrel.
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Chapter 4: Friends & Foes (21 pages, 5,595 words)
The paths of the boy-king Ned, the frog-wizard Cadavan, and the minstrel Aelwyn all cross, while the Usurper King schemes toward tyranny and war.
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Chapter 5: Ballad Battle (21 pages, 5,837 words)
The minstrel Aelwyn fights fire with fire - or, more specifically, fights rumors and lies with rhythm and lyrics.
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Chapter 6: Student Teacher (14 pages, 3,605 words)
Between fighting off attacks, the minstrel Aelwyn teachers the knowledge spirit Musa better ways to educate than through boring lectures.
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Chapter 7: A Feral Friend (15 pages, 3,491 words)
A boy raised by wolves and the shire Reeve become Cadavan's newest traveling companions.
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Chapter 8: Spirits and Spirits (17 pages, 4,025 words)
Cadavan & his companions fight to protect the keg from an alcoholic ghost... and fail.
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Chapter 9: Princess Pandemonium (18 pages, 4,115 words)
When our band and their bottomless keg cross paths with seven princesses fleeing the usurper, chaos and comedy ensues.
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Chapter 10: Party Crashers (10 pages, 2,302 words)
Our adventurers arrive at the usurper's castle - where Princess Nadia is prompty captured and thrown in the dungeon, of course.
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Chapter 11: Protest Song (13 pages, 3,053 words)
While Cadavan & Jojo navigate the castle's sewers, Aelwyn sings the Usurper King a song protesting the current war with Ustared.
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Chapter 12: Asleep at the Switch (19 pages, 4,556 words)
Aelwyn's singing lulls the Usurper's court to sleep while Cadavan and Jojo free the rightful king from the castle dungeons.
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Chapter 13: Prison Break (11 pages, 2,622 words)
While the Boy King gathers supporters, the Usurper escapes the dungeons.
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Chapter 14: The Innkeeper's Tale (13 pages, 3,765 words)
Aelywn the Minstrel wins a barmaid's heart with his tale of the Wizard Frog... right before he gets arrested.
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Chapter 15: An Artful Ambasador (13 pages, 3,282 words)
Cadavan sends Aelwyn to the Kingdom of Azure to try avoiding a war, while the Usurper gathers supporters for a coup.
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The Ghost Girl (15 page, 3,886 words)
A new, previously unpublished short story by Christopher Stasheff. When a young man in colonial New England falls in love with a ghost girl, both the town's Puritans and an Iroquois shaman struggle to keep him in the land of the living.
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The Ghost Girl (15 page, 3,886 words)
