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Flash Fiction: Old School
George found it amusing, Martha’s attachment to old technologies. There was the grandfather clock in the living room with its big brass pendulum and the Latin inscription on its face—tempus fugit—or as Giuseppe the barber liked to say: Time, she fly. There was the old electric typewriter and pack of postage stamps at her work [...]
Continue reading...Short Story: Harlan’s Finger
20. January 2012
The vacuum cleaner wasn’t working. After three weeks on the road, Harlan wanted to clean out the van, get rid of the stray potato chips and gas station receipts and pea gravel tracked in from motel parking lots. He wanted to give the van a real going-over. But when he ran the nozzle across the [...]
Continue reading...Short Story: The Masterpiece
25. November 2011
Below is perhaps the most sentimental short story I’ve ever written. It involves death, relationships, and all that stuff. I have also posted it on Smashwords in case you want to download a free copy for your ereader. Here is the short description I provided there: “When a novelist learns that he is dying, he [...]
Continue reading...NaNoWriMo Begins
1. November 2011
This morning you may have heard the starting gun for NaNoWriMo or the erroneously named National Novel Writing Month. It really should be GloNoWriMo, substituting Global for National. Hundreds of thousands of people around the world try to write at least 1,666 words each day for 30 consecutive days at the end of which (theoretically) [...]
Continue reading...Pussy
21. October 2011
Note: Part way through writing this piece of flash fiction, I got my testicles caught in a band saw. Industrial accidents are a horrible thing. Always wear protective clothing. Billy-Bob turned to Jethro and said: “Hey man, let’s drive into town and get us some pussy.” “Yeah, BB. You know there’s nothing I love better’n [...]
Continue reading...Flash Fiction: A Coney Island of the Heart
30. June 2011
After they peeled the tape from the door frame and pulled her head from the oven, the cop came at me, hat in hand, with the obvious question. I felt far away and shrugged. I didn’t speak until the cop rhymed off the cliché about poets and passion. On the coroner’s report, there’s probably a [...]
Continue reading...The World’s Most Boring Story
24. June 2011
Explanations follow new phenomena like tails follow dogs, or so Dean claimed as he did his eloquacious best to pitch the idea of a symposium to the chair of the English Department. Dr. Fenton was a portly man twice Dean’s age who had a reputation for driving his underlings to the point of collapse then [...]
Continue reading...Life Imitates The Land
18. June 2011
I’ve made no secret of the fact that, in writing my novel, The Land, I used my brother-in-law’s organic farm as a rough model for the setting. And while the characters — husband, wife and two boys — bear a superficial resemblance to my brother-in-law and his family, it doesn’t take too many pages before [...]
Continue reading...Free Sex With Dead People
17. June 2011
As of this morning, my short story collection, Sex With Dead People, came available for free download in multiple formats from Smashwords. Here’s the short blurb: What do you do if the subway breaks down mid-tunnel and you have to pee? If Leonard Cohen unexpectedly arrives for dinner, how close should you let him get [...]
Continue reading...Story: Death of a Publisher
12. June 2011
When Igor entered Boris Panofsky’s office, it felt more like he was descending to a crypt than climbing to the pinnacle of a publishing empire. The famous shelves of signed first editions stood in a gloom. The only light came from a banker’s lamp on Panofsky’s desk. The great publisher sat just beyond the lamp’s [...]
Continue reading...Hogtown! Chap 25 – Toronto Pride
10. June 2011
Chapter 25 is the final chapter of Hogtown! A Novel of the 2010 G20 Summit in Toronto. This is it! There ain’t no more. Well … that’s not exactly true. In effect, this is a polished first draft. In the language of the web, this is Hogtown 1.0. Now I need to tinker with the [...]
Continue reading...Story: St. Theresa of the Dandelions
27. May 2011
“St. Theresa of the Dandelions” is one more in a growing collection of flash fiction stories which I call “Terrors of the 21st Century – Tales of Suburban Banality.” In the next couple of weeks, I’ll be publishing a book-length collection of these tales as a free ebook. They may not be as wholesome as [...]
Continue reading...Hogtown! Chap 24 – Good Furniture
23. May 2011
At the end of the evening, I had intended to stomp back to my apartment, to inflict the silent treatment, to ignore Johnny for half a century, but as he began to describe how the cops hauled him off to a field, and as I gazed at the shining black semi-circles below his eyes, my [...]
Continue reading...Story: Urine Love
20. May 2011
“Urine Love” is even yet another in a growing collection of stories which I call “Terrors of the 21st Century – Tales of Suburban Banality.” In the next month, I’ll be publishing a book-length collection of these tales as a free ebook. They may not be as wholesome as reading Anne of Green Gables, but [...]
Continue reading...Story: The Sidewalks of Kilimanjaro
12. May 2011
“The Sidewalks of Kilimanjaro” is yet another in a growing collection of stories which I call “Terrors of the 21st Century – Tales of Suburban Banality.” In the next month, I’ll be publishing a book-length collection of these tales as a free ebook. They may not be as wholesome as reading Pilgrim’s Progress, but they’re [...]
Continue reading...New eFiction from David Allan Barker
Hogtown is my gift to the Occupy Movement. Download from Smashwords for free.
Sex With Dead People is an ebook collection of short stories. Download from Smashwords for free.
The Land is an enovel. Preview here or buy for your favourite ereader. Also available as an audiobook.
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3. February 2012
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