IN HUMAN FORM
Wendy remembers nothing about the farmhouse fire that killed her father. She doesn’t remember her father or even her own name. Her guardian, Jared Parker, has learned that she is not human, that she is not of this world at all. But he doesn’t tell Wendy, even when he sees her falling in love with police officer Aaron McCormick. When Butch Cruickshank, one of the young punks who set fire to Wendy’s home, guesses her secret, he brings ruthless millionaire UFO hunter Earl Vaughn to town. Vaughn has offered $10,000 to anyone who finds an alien artifact, and an android is certainly worthy of the prize. When Vaughn becomes convinced that Wendy is not human, she becomes a pawn in his scheme for world domination.
$2.99 digital, $12.95 paperback
THE MOANING ROCKS AND OTHER STORIES
A collection of 16 short stories ranging from commonplace to bizarre and from deadly serious to whimsical, with the author’s commentary on how each one came to be written.
Included in this collection are:
Pushcart Prize-nominated story “Ball of Fire”, in which Jill Tanner’s UFO sighting makes her a laughingstock in this small farming community—until everyone starts having close encounters of the weird kind.
“What’s Wrong with Being A Nurse?”, in which Chris’ seven-year-old daughter Suzy wants to be a human sacrifice.
“A Friend of the Family”, set in a desolate future world where practicing medicine is illegal and doctors have been replaced by healers, one medical man risks his life to help a member of a Healer’s family.
And “The Moaning Rocks”, in which George Winterholm believes the old legend about death coming to the prairie is just superstition until he comes face to face with it on a cool autumn evening.
$2.99 digital, $10.95 paperback
THE LAST BUS AND OTHER STORIES
26 short stories by David Kubicek. Included in this collection are:
Games Machines Play—A computer holds a college student hostage until he complies with a peculiar request.
Spare Parts—On the day of his wedding, Mike Thayer learns a shocking truth about himself when something odd falls out of his ear.
Safety First—William Fawth’s car is programmed to help him develop safe driving skills, but its attitude grates on his nerves.
The Last Bus—For $15, Local businessman Wilson Brakhage will take you on a tour of the wreckage remaining from the worst tornado disaster in Nebraska’s history.
Blood—Is a cougar mutilating the cattle? Or is there a darker, supernatural force at work?
Keeper of the Shrine—A college student working the night shift in a photofinishing plant learns a life lesson from a dead spider.
With each story, the author gives his commentary on its background and how it came to be written.
$2.99 digital, $12.95 paperback
BEDTIME STORIES
Three fairy tales: “The Hawk’s Head Tree,” “A Bear Needs a Territory” and “The Green Yarn,”
Digital only, $0.99
SILENT NIGHT AND OTHER HOLIDAY LORE
Short articles about holiday history collected from David Kubicek’s blog and other online publications over a 10-year period.
Digital only, $0.99
RAY BRADBURY: SPACE AGE VISIONARY
In 1975, while majoring in English at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, I began what would become a two-year project of analyzing Ray Bradbury’s writings and drawing conclusions about how they were influenced by his early life. This is the resulting thesis, which I completed in 1977. Also included in this book is my article “Ray Bradbury, the Salvation Army, and I,” which first appeared on my blog in 2019.
NOTE: This is an academic work, so it will likely only interest academics and rabid fans of Bradbury’s writing. It is available from Amazon.
$0.99 digital, $6.95 paperback
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