Stephen Schrum: 11 books

The Future's Passed is a collection of poems by Phorkyad Acropolis, the performance poet Second Life avatar of Stephen A. Schrum. This collection includes very short works and haiku, along with longer works, some of which have appeared as audio pieces and others have been performed as part of...

What good is a silent oracle, we may ask. Then again, what good is consulting an oracle whose advice and prophecy one then ignores?This is a collection of poems by Phorkyad Acropolis, the performance poet Second Life avatar of Stephen A. Schrum. This collection includes very short works and...

First things first: if asked the Bernard Pivot Personality Profile question, "What turns you off?" Schrum’s answer would be, "Buttcracks and willful ignorance." So that’s where the title comes from. This volume contains a representative sampling of Schrum’s writing from 1977...

In March of 1885 Aemelja Umber travels to New Mexico in her airship; there she expects to find the First Vampyre, who has created a legion of followers, some of whom killed her parents and destroyed her hometown. To her surprise, she instead finds Stephano Alchimi, a Renaissance alchemist made immortal...

A collection of poems and songs, including some older works as well as some works so recent the ink is not yet dry on the printed version. The material ranges from classically-influenced pieces ("Ariadne" and "My Helen"), philosophical observations ("Childhood's Paradise Lost") and some post-apocalypic...

"Be careful what you wish for," they say—and be even more careful if Hell is listening in….In a small town, a comatose patient is believed to be a conduit to the afterlife. When someone visits her, talks to her, and makes some kind of wish or prayer, the wish comes true. Word gets out and...

The two short plays in this book deal with the topic of aliens--although they make only one true appearance. "Aliens! 3 Miles, Turn Left" is a monologue by a man who, one night, found aliens in his backyard, and reacted as many humans would--by killing them. But what to do with the bodies?...

Immaculate Misconceptions is an amusing (and sometimes serious) memoir of life growing up in Catholic grade school and high school. Why is it titled "Immaculate Misconceptions?" This designation applies to the simplistic explanations, half-truths, canonical misinterpretations, and outright disinformation...

Bob, a young supermarket bagger, moonlights as a “dog assassin,” to rid the world of “alarm clock dogs” and other canines that disturb their suburban neighbors. All is well until he meets Amber; some of her comments cause him to question why he doesn’t feel powerful as cannibals do when...

In a Prologue, we see Osiris attacked by Set, and chopped into pieces. Isis, Osiris' wife, searches for him, while Set and his followers unleash chaos on the world. Meanwhile, Bob, a young supermarket bagger, moonlights as a “dog assassin,” to rid the world of “alarm clock dogs” and other...

These three pieces, originally entitled, “Three Related Monologues,” present the stories of three men who had been through some sort of abduction experience, but not always an abduction by aliens. In each, a man has a Faustian encounter with a woman, a manifestation of the “ewig Weibliche,”...