Collected Short Fiction
David R. Bunch
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Title Page
About David R. Bunch
Bibliography
Short Fiction Bibliography: chronological
Short Fiction Bibliography: alphabetical
Fiction Series
1953
Through Crisis with the Gonedaidins
The Mad Man from Machinery Row
1954
How Can a Man Be Himself?
1956
Manunkind
1957
Routine Emergency
1959
In the Jag-Whiffing Service
A Glance at the Past
The Flesh-Man from Far Wide
Was She Horrid?
1960
Riders of Thunder
A Little Girl’s Xmas in Modernia
The Complete Father
In the Complaints Service.
Strange Shape in the Stronghold
Remembering
Penance Day in Moderan
Getting Regular
A Husband’s Share
The Warning
1961
In the Empire
The Time Saviour
The Final Decision
We Regret . . .
Last Zero
A Small Miracle of Fishhooks and Straight Pins
1962
On the Sunniest Day of Spring
The Survey Trip
Ended
Awareness Plan
The Reluctant Immortals
1963
Black Cat Weather
Somebody Up there Hates Us
Survival Packages
One False Step
The Hall of C D
Sometimes I Get So Happy
1964
Keeping it Simple
They Never Come Back from Whoosh!
Training Talk
All for Nothing
The College of Acceptable Death
The Failure
A Vision of the King
2064, Or Thereabouts
Home to Zero
Let Me Call Her Sweetcore
1965
Investigating the Bidwell Endeavors
Make Mine Trees
Reunion
Playmate
The Little Doors
The Walking Talking I-Don’t-Care Man
1966
The Miracle of the Flowers
1967
Incident in Moderan
The Escaping
1968
That High-Up Blue Day that Saw the Black Sky-Train Come Spinning
Of Time and Us
A Scare in Time
The Monsters
1969
How it Ended
Any Heads at Home
In the Time of Disposal of Infants
In a Saucer Down for B-Day
A Little at All Times
1970
Learning it at Miss Rejoyy’s
No Cracks or Saggings
In the Land of the Not-Unhappies
Tough Rocks and Hard Stones
1971
Thinking Back (Our God Is a Helpful God!)
The Butterflies Were Eagle-Big That Day
New Kings Are Not for Laughing
One Time, a Red Carpet . . .
Head Thumping the Troops
New-Metal Mistress Time
And So White Witch Valley
The Bird Man of Moderan
Bubble-Dome Homes
New-Metal
Of Hammers and Men
The Stronghold
To Face Eternity
In the Innermost Room of Authority
The Problem
Educational
The One from Camelot Moderan
Has Anyone Seen This Horseman?
Interruption in Carnage
Will-Hung and Waiting
Price of Leisure
The Joke
Doll for the End of the Day
Holdholtzer’s Box
1972
Unwarranted Departure
Training Talk No. 12
Two Suns for the King
Up to the Edge of Heaven
The Lady Was for Kroinking
The Good War
1973
Breakout in Ecol 2
The Dirty War
Seeing Stingy Red
Moment of Truth in Suburb Junction
1974
Alien
Short Time at the Pearly Gates
In the Land that Aimed at Forever
At Bugs Complete
Among the Metal-and-People People
1975
End of a Singer
The Strange Case of the Birds
1978
Mr. Who?
Send Us a Planet
Pridey Goeth
1979
When the Metal Eaters Came
A Little Girl’s Spring Day in Moderan
1980
New Member
The Strange Rider of the Good Year
Steel-Walking Nightmare
1981
On Passing By Those Icy Stones (And Yes, Columbia!)
Please Help! Save Our Bugs and Pile Our Birds
Some Thought & Advice for Our Planet’s Second-Place Mountain
Headlines by the Dozens, (Right in My Own Kitchen)
In the Ball of Frosted Glass, (With a Big Pink-Lavender Load)
Thing in the Night Mist
(Hope), (Ambition), (Anticipation!)
Practicing
The Great-People Personal All-for-Myself Dream, (Sure I Write Science Fiction—Why?)
Let Us Gather . . .
1982
With Gimlet-Point Eyes
Ants Elephants . . . and Yeah!
December for Stronghold 9
Peace Offer
1984
From the Fishbowl
1985
And Thank You, Tommy Edison (All Your Lamps Are Magic)
One Wish!?
The Heartacher and the Warehouseman
1990
For Tomorrow, Daphalene
We Hardly Ever Waked Phene
1991
Keep me informed
Preparation
On Acid Rain and Other Bad Man-Things
1993
Our House
Control
First Day, First Job, Girl
The Soul Shortchangers
1994
This From-Far-Up-There-Missile Worry
1997
A Saint George Pens a Note to His Dragons