Short Fiction – Dave Olson's Creative Life Archive

“Shoebox” story collection / chapbook, 1987-1991

January 28, 2019

Sometime around 2004, i went to a pal’s wedding in Connecticut – knowing i would see some old pals from […]

January 25, 2018

I heard that if you die in a dream, you’re actually dead. I keep waking up. I also heard that

January 20, 2018

His Part: I’m lying in bed and my wife is stabbing me in the forehead. My skull is hard and

March 22, 2015

Escalante Flash Flood From Community College to Canyon Bottom (draft) With my right hand, I gripped on to the side

March 22, 2015

Note: This story uses several lines from the fine Canadian band, Blue Rodeo’s album “Diamond Mine” which served as a

March 22, 2015

“Where you going?” His first question. A little vague. Well I’ll tell you. That’s a toughie. I wish I knew.

March 22, 2015

I see the sun. For some reason I didn’t think they had the sun here in the daytime. Just at

March 21, 2015

I knew I was completely in love with her the night she made the bean soup. Fourteen kinds of beans

April 6, 2014

Note: Thanks to the long defunct Provo band, “Trees” for the title and the also defunct newspaper “the Stinking Desert