Future Writing Projects -- Update

I am on track for finishing a short story collection at the end of the year. Tentatively titled "Tales of Adventure", My goal is at least 120,000 words, and so far I have completed 7 stories for a total of 77,000 words.

Here is the planned content for the collection:

Pooka Games -- In ancient Ireland, Medb hErenn must deal with a renegade Pooka that is terrorizing one of the villages in her kingdom. She hopes to avoid killing it, because it is a friend, but she cannot allow it to kill her people.

The Adventure of the Bouncing Sunny -- A lab accident causes Sunny to go bouncing through time, and see what her life with Eile will be like, all the way to the bitter end.

The Adventure of the Cockatrice Tribe -- Team Girl's 11-year old daughters, Connie and Liza, are shipwrecked on a Pacific island inhabited by vicious pirates and a tribe of feathered velociraptors.

The Adventure of the Dragon Momma -- In the online RPG Otherworld, Team Girl's characters Braveheart and White-Lion are hired to slay a dragon. What they find is a shrimpy little beast hardly bigger than a poodle. Then its Momma shows up ...

Demon Lovers (completed) -- Differel Van Helsing is caught in the middle of an apocalypse when all the men in the world are turned into demons and attack all the women in the world. Dr. Mabuse believes she can reverse it, but that requires Differel to go out where the demons can find her.

Zombie Walk (completed) -- Differel and her frenemy Lady Margaret (aka, Dribble & Maggot) are camping in Dartmoor when they are attacked by a horde of Zombies. Ordinarily, that would be a simple problem: just call in the troops to exterminate them. But the children who seem able to control the walking dead complicate matters enormously.

The Mansion of Terror -- In her third appearance, the Princess in Orange zaps Differel into a real-life survival horror video game to see if she can make it out of a house filled with demon-vampire-zombies alive.

Questions & Answers -- The CEO of an Umbrella Corp-style conglomerate kidnaps Differel and subjects her to torture to see what it would take to break her. Meanwhile, Aelfraed sends Team Girl and Dracula to find and rescue her.

The Key to Adventure -- Team Girl buys the contents of an abandoned storage unit at auction and when they search through them they find a key to another storage locker. This sets off a treasure hunt with more twists and turns than a maze. With special guest star Differel Van Helsing.

The Sewers of Khwarezm (completed) -- In the Dreamlands, Medb hErenn attempts to rescue a princess kidnapped by slavers, but is caught herself. They both escape into the sewers beneath the city of Khwarezm, but find that they have just exchanged one threat for another.

The Adventure of the Lost Temple (completed) -- In the Dreamlands, Team Girl find a legendary lost temple, but become trapped inside, and must pass a trial to survive.

The Pirates of Elissa -- In the Dreamlands, Differel helps her Dream-husband, Victor Plunkett, flush out a band of pirates, but get themselves caught. While the pirate queen takes Victor to be her sex toy, Differel must somehow escape, rescue him, and destroy the pirates' base.

The Adventure of the Surrogate Daughters -- Team Girl are sent to a Parallel Earth by Dr. Mabuse to set up a base for future investigation. They recruit two street urchins who look like Connie and Liza to help them negotiate the PE's culture, but end up in the middle of a gang war.

The Legion of the Dead -- Dribble & Maggot, with Team Girl, go back in time to early 2nd century Scotland, and help the Romans defeat a Zombie horde 10,000 strong.

The Adventure of the Contrite Vixen (completed) -- While babysitting Connie and Liza, Kojoro the Kitsune tells them a bedtime story about a fox-princess who must recompense a farmer and his wife for the chickens she stole from them.

The Adventure of Bojangles (completed) -- In an Alternative Reality, Eile is a down-and-out drifter thrown into jail for vagrancy, and there she meets Sunny, an alcoholic tap dancer. The friendship they forge survives even death.

The Adventure of the Booted Feline -- A fairy tale, in which Snowshoe Kitty turns peasant daughter Eile into a rich nobleman and marries her to Sunny, ward of the local aristocrat.

Misunderstood (completed) -- A paparazzo obsessed with a popular singer vows to follow her until he learns her secret no matter where it takes him, even down into the sewers ...