Articles by Jeffrey Carl Jefferis

Short

What can you not admire about penguins?

Jeffrey Carl Jefferis is a thirty-year-old freedom fighter. He has been pushing the envelope of word power for so long that his fingers are permanently stuck to the sealing glue.

Yes, the bad days can really be bad ...

Love breathes slowly, watching quietly, and nothing at all is better than this, except ...

There was only one thing he could think of that might be worse than death ...

You have it all, you can get it all, you know it all -- it's about success, in life, in society, in marriage, in work ... in getting out of the office ...

Tense and in Tacoma, both Jack and Beth have only one question in mind ...

It was a battle, and it was love ...

Now what do you have to live with, and what do you have to live without?

The dinner was heavenly, the location full of meaning, and the time was just right for that special gesture, those long-awaited words ...

When Fate is so cruel for so long, you start to accept injustice as a matter of course. But there -- in the distance -- comes a new thought, an exotic thought, a life-changing thought ...

It hurt, the sunrise. It burned neither his skin, nor his eyes. But it did hurt, the sunrise...

None of them had been written, but there were three stories that wanted told ...

If only the Powers That Be, who endow blessings and curses alike, would descend from their Jovian heights to give a guy a heads-up now and then ...

Novelette

These days, everyone who has a job wonders if it will be there from one day to the next. The termination slip could be in the supervisor's hand in the morning or at the end of the day. However, Mack is about to experience a whole new way to fight to keep his job ...

Not only is the battle being waged for an insane reason, with ludicrous weapons, but also, the opposing forces are making the rules of engagement up as they go along ...

A traitor is condemned, a traitor is uncovered. Is this when the tide begins to turn?

The last battle is upon them, but what of the attrition, what of ... the ending?