Dwayne Phillips: 116 books

Six short stories about writing and writers from Dwayne Phillips. This anthology includes: Will Write for Food, Predator and Prey, The Patron of the Arts, The Old Book, Too Much Too Much Not Enough, and Two Walls and a Roof.

An old man lives alone in a rusting house trailer. His home is about to become a golf course. A rising television reporter wants to cover a story about how new golf courses are enabling economic recovery. She finds something quite unexpected when the two meet.

Todd Hindle was going to college, but not now. Someone has stolen his future. Mr. Martin will help Todd set the record straight. All is set, but in the crucial moment Mr. Martin reveals something about himself.

John wanders into Third Route, Mississippi and the Postmaster job. Something seems wrong to John. Then one day he sees something in the bed of a farmer's pickup that he wasn't supposed to see.

Gilbert Manson has just signed a contract to write a novel. He will buy a new computer and move to a farm outside the city to write the novel. Too much, too much. The publisher, however, has a "just enough" idea.

Bob Broussard has returned to southwest Louisiana a few years afternoon Hurricane Rita. Something is wrong - the wrong people are working in the wrong businesses serving the wrong customers. Bob searches for answers and finds that the hurricane has changed everything forever, including the home where Bob grew up.

There are times in life when I am glad when someone taps me on the shoulder and returns me to sanity. Unfortunately, on this night when a stranger invited me into a mysterious building with no windows, no one tapped me on the shoulder.

Two software developers are struggling to build a product before their supply of ramen noodles runs out. A venture capitalist arrives with a contract, but he also brings a baby and a banjo.

Disaster prosperity is something that no one mentions publicly, but all public officials understand. If you have a disaster, money flows in and prosperity reigns. If you are ready, you look good and move up the ladder. The only problem is that no one can arrange a weather disaster. No one, that is, but the weather master.

A student goes to The Human Test Laboratory for a part-time job. Maybe he will watch TV or use a couple of new products. He learns that he can make much more money by participating in a 72-hour test. He agrees, but has no idea what will happen for the next 72 hours.

While scrounging for food, I found something that changed my life: a typewriter with ribbons and paper. I would record the history of the world after the event for those in the future. The event, however, was blurry in my mind. I kept seeing different events and couldn't decide which one was true. What would I type for the future?

An old man writes his memoirs without writing a word. He cuts and pastes everything.

John William Smith is running for President of the United States. He is conducting his entire campaign on a blog. And something happens - people start working for his campaign and he is on the ballot in 41 states on Election Day.

Four people are in a coffee shop when time freezes for everything outside. One of the four seems to know what is happening and claims to have caused it.