Mike Bozart: 109 books

Two young soldiers - an American specialist and a Romanian guard - are assigned an environmental task in southeastern Afghanistan in 2009. The area is very dangerous; Taliban attacks have recently occurred. Who will be 'the soldier'? Approx. 1900 words. Probable rating: PG-13 (13 and older). Loosely based on something a vet relayed to the author.

Do you play the Powerball or Mega-Millions lottery? If so, read this almost-completely-real-life short story, and hopefully you won't make the same multi-million-dollar blunder that Agents 32 and 33 did. While driving to a bar in uptown Charlotte to watch the Aston Villa - Liverpool football/soccer...

That day in question was Wednesday, February 10, 2016. For most people it may have been an ordinary day. But for the commuter-bicycling author, it was a day when a very, very, veeeery expensive, forever-to-be-haunted-by blunder was made. That day is chronicled from awakening to crashing. Approx....

Back in 1970, an unmanageable Australian lad can't wait to see the world. After fleeing from adult supervision once again, he decides to hitch a ride on a DC-8 jetliner docked at the Sydney airport. It all starts off real well in the wheel well. But, then ... Closely based on a photo-captured...

Hua is a young woman from remote northwestern China who takes a factory job in Shanghai. The work is tedious, wrist-aching and spirit-defeating. The hours are very long. On her only day off, she receives a phone call relaying some tragic news. Once back in her village, reminders of the forever-gone...

While watching the TSG 1899 Hoffenheim - Liverpool FC Champions League play-off match (first leg) in a Charlotte (NC, US) bar on a hot-as-hell August day, the author is accosted by a South American man who comments on the game, and then agrees to answer an octet of questions. His replies are quite...

A late-twenty-something, still-getting-to-know-each-other, content Asian American couple goes to the Bridge Day festival in Fayetteville, West Virginia in October of 2006. All seems to be going well on the autumn-splendor drive up I-77 from Charlotte. But then a veteran BASE jumper has a severe mishap....

The author recounts a candid conversation with a Philadelphia Eagles fan in uptown Charlotte, while waiting for a streetcar to arrive on a muggy Friday morning. Some unexpected revelations. From ho-hum ordinary to hysterically absurd. 1500 words PG-13-rated. (language)

In the mid-1970s in east Charlotte (NC, USA), a young man chances upon a peculiar woman in the forest surrounding his neighborhood. Approx. 1600 words. Sex: No. Violence: No. Drug usage: Yes. Strangeness level: Moderately high. Mr. Malloy: Absent.

A 20-something, struggling Latino American actor gets a strange letter in the mail on a desultory Hollywood afternoon. He then decides to act on the letter's invitation and takes a flight from Los Angeles to Portland (OR). In the PDX airport, he accosts a cute Latina, and they pass the dead time with...

The author (Agent 33) and his teenage son (Agent 66) are passing an American football in their back yard on a fall day in east Charlotte (USA). When dad kicks the ball - errantly - an aerial dilemma ensues. A possible remedy crashes out.  Approx. 1500 words. If this little, largely...

An American IT professional takes a short-term assignment in the Netherlands. He settles in Amsterdam. Soon he notices a man with a unique cadence who passes under his window on a very exact schedule. When he investigates further, he gets quite a shock. Though, his new Dutch girlfriend has her doubts. Approx. 1,600 words. If this little tale were a movie, it would most likely be rated PG-13

Two agents - one who is quite high and won't stop joking - discuss the CATS Gold Line streetcar alignment through inner east Charlotte. Another psecret psociety pshort pstory. Approx. 1200 words. A quick fun read that won't railroad you into a collision.

On a cold January evening in 1986 at Carolina Beach (NC, USA), three future agents embark on a mission to investigate a flashing hotel sign, some fifty feet above the ground. Everything does not go as planned. Some found graffiti presages a calamitous future event. A 2100-word short story featuring the late, great Frank von Peck.  Another one in the psecret psociety pseries.