Fiction Short Stories

• “A Hundred Times” (July 1966) (short story)
• “Poof!” (Oct 1969) (short story)
• “Smooth As Ice” (Jan 1970)
• “The Human Fly” (Mar 1970) (short story)
• “Older than Springtime” (June 1970; reprinted in Coffin Break, Dell 1974) (short story)
• “Chance of a Ghost” (Sep 1970) (short story)
• “The Ghost and Mr. Grebner” (Nov 1970) (short story)
• “Pep Talk” (Dec 1970) (short story)
• “No Room at the Top” (Jan 1971) (vignette)

• “I Was a Star” (Apr. 1967) (short story)

• “Nose Job” (May 1974) (short story)

• “The Cool Water” (July 1960)

• “Can Such Things Be?” (June 1970) (vignette)
• “Encounter” (Oct 1972) (vignette)

• “Reach for a Star” (Feb 1964 (UK) #105, July 1964) (short story)
• “Goodbye, Sweethearts” (Aug 1964) (vignette)
• “And the Summer’s Young Yet” (June 1965) (short story)
• “Smooth as Ice” (Jan 1970) (short story)
• “A Slice of Pie” (Nov 1973) (vignette)
• “Charlie and the Evil Eye” (Jan 1974) (vignette)
• “The Memory Game” (June 1974) (short story)
• “The Urgency of the Situation” (Oct 1974) (vignette)

Rogue was first published in November, 1955 and was a direct competitor to Playboy magazine. The magazine ceased publication in 1965 yet had a powerful effect on American culture due to the broad editorial, artistic, and writing talent it utilized.

• “Hoff in Italy” (Mar 1964, vol. 9, no 2) (story and illustrations by Hoff; magazine front cover text: “Cartoonist Syd Hoff sent me a valentine all the way from Rome.”)

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• “Moment of Truth” (San Francisco Sunday Chronicle, Dec 15, 1963)