S.C.Virtes: Published Credits

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PUBLISHED THINGS CREDIT LIST
October 1999
Some sites are still linking here. My latest credits are here: Stories -- Poems -- Other

FICTION
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1. "The Twist" (F64) in Not One Of Us #1 (10/86)
2. "Writers Games" (F58) in Ouroboros #8 (10/87)
3. "Green Eyes" (F34) in 1130 Club #4/5 (12/86)
4. "The Truth About Blisters" (F89) in G.A.S. #2 (1.87)
5. "Squirrel #117" (F66) in Portents #2 (1/87)
6. "Patient Music" (F83) in Dark Starr (12/86)
7. "My Vengeance Game" (F64) in New Blood (never?)
8. "The Twisted Will" (F77) in Writers Bloc (Summer 87)
9. "Sandoth, Teller of Secrets" (F37) in Writers Bloc (???)??
10. "Sleepwalking" (F90) in Haunted Journal (???)
11. "Blank Space" (F54) in Space & Time #76 (2/89)
12. "Rash Motivation" (F59) in Dark Starr (8/87)
13. "Astral Sails" (F43) in Z Miscellaneous (5/87)
14. "Conifer Dreams" (F87) in Z Miscellaneous (11/87)
15. "The Voyager" (F104) in Other Worlds #1 (4/88)
16. "This Piece of Wind" (F106) in Weird Fiction Catalogue #2 (??)
17. "Touch of Blasphemy" (F27) in Nightmare Express (8/87)
18. "Johnny's Thunder" (F92) in Portents #6 (8/88)
19. "The Devil Test" (F80) in Haunted Journal (???)
20. "The Lawsuit" (F75) in Green Feather (???)
21. "Maze Curtains" (F94) in EOTU (4/88)
22. "Glimpse of the Abyss" (F126) in Night Slivers #2 (3/89)
23. "Vegetaria" (F118) in Dark Starr v3n2 (8/88)
24. "The Broken Guitar" (F76) in Dark Starr v3n3 (11/88)
25. "Consumption" (F93) in The New Penny Dreadfuls #1 (11/88)
26. "In the Hole & Not Alone" (F105) in Beyond #19 (1991)
27. "The Cameraman" (F116) in Bone Chilling Tales (1989)
28. "Log Cabin" (F132) in Starsong #8 (7/89)
29. "After the Advancement" (F117) in Other Worlds #5 (1993?)
30. "What Angry Children Say" (F140a) in Doppelganger #12 (10/90)
31. "The Pain of Completeness" (F144) in Stellanova v4#5 (10/90)
32. "Long After Abraham" (F148) in Xizquil #4 (4/91)
33. "Bricks" (F150) in Xizquil #5 (9/91)
34. "Shadow River" in Xizquil #7 (2/92)
35. "Beringia" in Xizquil #11 (6/93)
36. "Year of the Fly" to appear in Mindsparks (late 1994)(issue cancelled)
37. The Sign in Planet #7 (9/95)
38. "Stargazers: A Study" on Contes per a extraterrestres (Web, SPAIN) (11/95).
39. The Crossing in Museweek 10/31/95
40. "Johnny's Thunder" in MUSEWEEK (Web) (10/95)
41. Flea Market in Museweek 10/31/95
42. "Another Emergency" in Circuit Traces Dec 95
43. "Ms. North: A Quick Case Study" in Marbles Apr 96
44. "No One at the Bridge" to appear in Speculative Fiction & Beyond (never)
45. "Last of the Soft Things" in ANALOG (Jan 1997)
46. "Hill Street Dream" to appear in Opaque Delusions (never?)
47. "Interfering Angels" in ZipZap #3
48. Point of Exile at Talespinner's Tavern
49. "Hill Street Dream: in Electric Dreams v4n5 (5/97)
50. "Between" in Xoddity v1#2 (3/98)
51. "Tuesday Came Apart" in Maelstrom v1#3 (3/98)
52. "Maybe they were Symptoms" in Sepulchre v1#3 (spr 98)
53. "Steamroller" in Not One Of Us (Sep 1997)
54. "Stone Maiden" in AlphaDrive #1 (1998)
55. "Web Fingers" in Planet #22 (Jun 1999)
56. reprint "Johnny's Thunder" at Alexandria Digital Literature (2/99)
57. reprint "Long After Abraham" at Alexandria Digital Literature (2/99)
58. reprint "What Angry Children Say" at Alexandria Digital Literature (2/99)
59. reprint "The Twist" at Alexandria Digital Literature (2/99)
60. reprint "Voyager" at Alexandria Digital Literature (2/99)
61. reprint "Writers Games" at Alexandria Digital Literature (2/99)
62. "Another Inferno" in Not One Of Us #22, Sep 1999
63. "Homeward Found" in Cafe Irreal #2, Aug 1999
64. "White Forest: A Y2K Tale" in Fantasy, Folklore & Fairytales, Jan 2000 - link
65. "The Affix" in Eotu Online, July 2000
66. "Soul of Su-Malja" in The Peddler & the Cloud (antho) by Five Badgers Press, Dec 2000
67. "Bodyworld" in Ideomancer, Jan 2001
68. "The Emerald View" in Writer's Hood
69. "Another Blank Space" in Eotu Online, Dec 2000 issue

SCREENPLAYS / SCRIPTS
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1. "ARTHUR: The King, the Sword, the Legend" (CD-ROM Interactive Game, originally for Corel, later sold to Hoffmann & Assoc, who apparently decided not to sell it to the public!), 5 1/2 hours of dialog!
2. "The Adventures of Shrimp E. Shrimp" (SCV Systems), about 10 minutes of fun cartoon scenes.

POETRY
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1. "In the Blackout" in New Word #2 (9/86)
2. "Drowning" in Dreams & Nightmares #9 (10/86)
3. "First Light" in Dreams & Nightmares #9 (10/86)
4. "Warm Future" in Dreams & Nightmares #10 (11/86)
5. "Snared" in Golden Isis (Winter/86)
6. "For G.D." in Golden Isis (Winter/86)
7. "2 + 2 = 9.4" in Fennel Stalk (Winter/87)
8. "Force of Writing" in The Creative Urge (2/87)
9. "Conifer Dreams" in The Creative Urge (6/87)
10. "Escapes" in The Creative Urge (6/87)
11. "For Her" in The Creative Urge (6/87)
12. "Echelon Dreams" in Dark Starr (8/87)
13. "The First Flame" in Golden Isis (Spring/87)
14. "My Golden Isis" in Golden Isis (Summer/87)
15. "Masonry World" in Pink Chameleon #4 (1988)
16. "The Art of Acting" in Pink Chameleon #4 (1988)
17. "Lace" in Dreams & Nightmares #15 (5/87)
18. "Debris" in Dreams & Nightmares #15 (5/87)
19. "Just a Bottle of War" in Sen.Cit.Rep. v11n8 (8/87)
20 "Cloudy Dreams" in Sen.Cit.Rep. v11n8 (8/87)
21. "Baggage Claim" in Scavenger's Newsletter #50 (4/88)
22. "Staring" in EGAD! #4 (12/87)
23. "Another Revolution" in Sen.Cit.Rep. v11n9 (9/87)
24. "Memory" in Sen.Cit.Rep. v11n9 (9/87)
25. "The Network, Act II" in New Word #3 (12/87)
26. "Memorials" in Lil Demon Review #1 (11/87)
27. "My Creator" in Starsong#2 (12/87)
28. "Sea of Theory " in Sen.Cit.Rep. v11n10 (10/87)
29. "Branches" in Sen.Cit.Rep. v11n10 (10/87)
30. "Night" in Sen.Cit.Rep. v11n10 (10/87)
31. "Suburbia" in Sen.Cit.Rep. v11n10 (10/87)
32. "Helium Planet" in Alternative Fiction #6 (1988)
33. "The Shape of Things to Come" in Dreams & Nightmares #19/20 (11/87)
34. "My-Tosis, of Sorts" in In Transit v1n1 (3/88)
35. "Show and Tell" in In Transit v1n5 (7/88)
36. "Penpals" in Sen.Cit.Rep. v11n11 (11/87)
37. "Change" in Sen.Cit.Rep. v11n11 (11/87)
38. "Corporation Blues" in Sen.Cit.Rep. v11n11 (11/87)
39. "Visitors" in Lil Demon Review #2 (1/88)
40. "A Crystal Sea" in Stellanova v1n6 (8/88)
41. "Switch" in Lil Demon Review (5/88)
42. "Spin the Mirror" in SPWAO Newsletter (10/88)
43. "At the Pool" in Starsong #6 (1/89)
44. "Chaos Words" in SPWAO Newsletter v10n6 (12/88)
45. "Watchmaker" in SPWAO Newsletter v10n6 (12/88)
46. "Terminal Love" in SPWAO Newsletter v10n6 (12/88)
47. "The Roots We Never Think About" in Sen.Cit.Rep. v14n12 (12/88)
48. "The Night TV Died" in Sen.Cit.Rep. v14n12 (12/88)
49. "Pulse of the Town" in Sen.Cit.Rep. v15n1 (1/89)
50. "Silent Path" in Sen.Cit.Rep. v15n1 (1/89)
51. "Transformation" in Poetry Break v1n1 (1/89)
52. "Sky Grey Blues" in Poetry Break v1n1 (1/89)
53. "Country, I" in Poetry Break v1n1 (1/89)
54. "Palming" in Poetry Break v1n1 (1/89)
55. "Heart Space" in Sen.Cit.Rep. v15n2 (2/89)
56. "For J.W.: A Field of Tactics" in Sen.Cit.Rep. v15n2 (2/89)
57. "Night Air" in Sen.Cit.Rep. v15n3 (3/89)
58. "Strange Clockwork" in Sen.Cit.Rep. v15n4 (4/89)
59. "Whale Child" in Sen.Cit.Rep. v15n4 (4/89)
60. "Rejection, Act II" in Sen.Cit.Rep. v15n4 (4/89)
61. "The Network" in Starsong #7 (3/89)
62. "Dust Eternal" in Ellipsis... #3 (11/89)
63. "Politics by Paragraph" in Stellanova (10/89)
64. "Believing Everything" in Stellanova (10/89)
65. "Eternity by Paradox" in Stellanova (10/89)
66. "Waterbury December" in Sen.Cit.Rep. v15n11 (11/89)
67. "For Susan" in Sen.Cit.Rep. v15n11 (11/89)
68. "To M.P." in Sen.Cit.Rep. v15n11 (11/89)
69. "If Only" in Sen.Cit.Rep. v15n12 (12/89)
70. "Hold the People" in Sen.Cit.Rep. v15n12 (12/89)
71. "For A.C." in Sen.Cit.Rep. v15n12 (12/89)
72. "The Network, III" in Sen.Cit.Rep. v15n12 (12/89)
73. "Standing at Your Door" in Poetry Break (9/90)
74. "Satisfaction" in Poetry Break (9/90)
75. "Rerunmood" in Poetry Break (6/91)
76. "Wall Games" in Midnight Zoo (1993?)
77. "Fever Talk" in Midnight Zoo (v2#4, 1992)
78. "Family Holiday" in Haunts #26 (Fall/Winter 1993)
79. "Comforts" in Poetry Break v5n2 (5/93)
80. "View from the Mesa" in Radius (acc 10/94)
81. "Faded Chains" in Syndicated Weekly 6/95
82. "Absolute Drifter" in Syndicated Weekly 6/95
83. The Night Unbending (poem) in Planet #8 (12/95) (p52)
84. "Whether Alone" (P705) in Cat Machine (11/5/95)
85. "The Maze Revisited" (P127) in Cat Machine #9
86. "Street Fair (Vista)" in Coffee & Chicory (Winter 1996)
87. "Traces of Zeno" in Coffee & Chicory (Winter 1996)
88. Five poems in Thoth, 12/96
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91. "
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93. "Simple Torment" in Glossolalia #9, 12/96
94. "Golden Eye" in Eerie 4/98
95. "Cloudy Dreams" on Maelina's Poetry Page
96. "The maze revisited" on Maelina's Poetry Page
97. "Passages, act II" on Maelina's Poetry Page
98. "Separate Lives" on creation page, 8/98.
99. "Diamond Crossing" on creation page, 8/98.
100. "A Time for Heart" on creation page, 8/98.
101. "Motion in Vein" on creation page, 8/98.
102. "Beach Dance" on creation page, 8/98.
103. "Fly on the Wall" in TYPO Magazine v4#10 (Oct 1999)
104. "Glass Eels" in COFFEEHOUSE OF DESPAIR, 1999
105. "Color of Night" in COFFEEHOUSE OF DESPAIR, 1999
106. "Pyrophilia" in COFFEEHOUSE OF DESPAIR, 1999
107. "Last 100" in COFFEEHOUSE OF DESPAIR, 1999
108. "Once a Piper" in TYPO Magazine v4#11 (Nov 1999)
109. "Nemveti Darkness" to appear in Dreams & Nightmares, 2000

Note: Sen.Cit.Rep. = Senior Citizen Reporter

ARTWORKS
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1. "The Twist" in Not One Of Us (10/86)
2. "Fiberface" in Doppelganger #9 (11/88)
3. "Life & Death" in Doppelganger #9 (11/88)
4. "A Signal of Change" in Scavenger's Scrapbook 1987
5. "A Signal of Change" in Golden Isis (Fall/86)
6. "Greetings" in Golden Isis (Fall/86)
7. "Green Eyes" in 1130 Club #4/5 (12/86)
8. "Squirrel #117" in Portents #2 (1/87)
9. "Sleepers" in Dark Starr (8/87)
10. "The Art of Acting" in Pink Chameleon #4 (1988?)
11. "Data Skies" in Pink Chameleon #4 (1988?)
12. "Balloons" in Pink Chameleon #4 (1988?)
13. "Airlock Humor" in Dark Starr (3/87, back cover)
14. "American Koan" in Alternative Fiction #3 (4/87)
15. "Coming Home" in Convergent Realities #6 (4/87)
16. "Coasting" in Convergent Realities #6 (4/87)
17. "Totem" in Dark Starr (12/87)
18. "Tracks" in Panoply #2 (10/87)
19. "The Voyager" in Other Worlds #1 (4/88, front cover)
20. "Butcher Knife" in Terror Time Again (1988)
21. "Better Luck in the Next Life" in New Word #3 (12/87)
22. "Thin Man" in New Word #3 (12/87)
23. "Mutants" in Dreams & Nightmares (1989?)
24. "Arachne" in Dreams & Nightmares (1989?)
25. "Flamework" in Dreams & Nightmares (1989?)
26. "Keeping Secrets" in Dark Starr (6/88)
27. "Patience" in Dark Starr (8/88)
28. "Spaces" in Dark Starr (8/88)
29. "Port of Call" in Other Worlds #2 (12/88)
30. "Mutation" in Other Worlds #2 (12/88)
31. "Gargoyle" in SPWAO Newsletter (10/88)
32. "skeletal thing" in SPWAO Newsletter (10/88)
33. "untitled" in SPWAO Newsletter v10n6 (12/88)
34. "Taking Apart the City" in Starsong #7 (3/89)
35. "First of Trees" in Xizquil #8 (9/92, front cover)

GRAPHICS FOR SOFTWARE
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1. 95 Animated Cursors & 95 Icons for Windows 95, DSR, 11/95 (some animated cursors)

2. 365 Days of Off-the-Wallpaper, DigiDay, 1/96 (a few wallpaper patterns)

3. DayBrowser (1.0), scv systems, 10/96 (1.1: 2/97)(all icons & splash image)

4. ZipAdvisor (1.0), scv systems, 2/97 (1.2: 5/98) (all icons & splash image)

5. ClipBar (1.0), scv systems, 3/97 (1.1: 2/98) (all icons & splash image)

6. Delphi CodeBar (1.0), scv systems, 4/97 (all icons & splash image)

7. WinRuler (1.0), scv systems, 12/97 (design, all icons & splash image)

8. NGBuilder (1.0), philatelic.com, 7/98 (design, all icons & splash image)

9. AlbumPager (1.0), scv systems, 12/98 (design, all icons & splash image)

10. Space Tycoon, Komodoware [AOL], 2/95 (design, icons & some interface graphics)

11. Gerbil Wars, freeware, 5/95; online edition 11/97 (design, all graphics)

12. Splatt!, Komodoware/WizTech, 8/95 (some incidental graphics)

13. ARTHUR: The King, the Sword, the Legend: Corel Corp (game design, graphic & video fixes)

14. Stamp Tycoon, scv systems 7/96 (design, all graphics)

15. The Adventure of Shrimp E. Shrimp, scv systems 5/97 (design, backgrounds, some character animations)

16. Beat the House 2, Interplay/Cetasoft 11/97 (decks of cards, incidental graphics)

17. Caesar's Palace Video Poker, Interplay/Cetasoft 2/98 (decks of cards, incidental graphics)

18. Caesar's Palace Imperial Slots, Interplay/Cetasoft 9/98 (graphics fixes, incidental graphics)

GRAPHICS FOR WEB SITES
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1. SCV Systems, 1997-date
2. SCV Stamps, 1997-date
3. AlphaDrive, 1997-date
4. Lunar Traders, 4/99

NONFICTIONS
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- 1. "The Dreaded Outline" in The Creative Urge (2/87)
- 2. "Pacing Yourself" in The Creative Urge (6/87)
- 3. "The Value of Sporadic Thought" in The Creative Urge (8/87)
- 4. "The Moebius Strip Genre Game" in The Creative Urge (12/87)
- 5. "The Writer/Editor Creature" in The Creative Urge (7/88)
- 1. "A Peel Crazy Window" in Nightmare Express (5/87)
- 2. "A Window on Windows" in Nightmare Express (9/87?)
- 3. "A Window on Many Legs" in Nightmare Express (11/87)
- 4. "A Window on Hands" in Nightmare Express (11/88)
- 1. "Almost Instant Towns" in DragonScroll, July 1999
- 2. "Goethe" in GURPS Who's Who 2 (Steve Jackson Games), 1999
- 1. "The Fermat Debate: Some History" in Mindsparks v1n3 (12/93)
- 1. "Well Traveled" in Perfins Bulletin (10/91?)
- 2. What are Stamps Worth? at Themestream
- 3. Stamp buyer's guide, part one at Themestream
- 4. Buying Stamps at Online Auctions at Themestream
- 5. Selling Stamps at Online Auctions (posted 11/8/00) at Themestream
- 1. "Out of the Closet" in Lil Demon Review #1 (11/87)
- 2. "Starships & Moutain Hollows: A Profile of Bobby Warner" in The Creative Urge (4/88)

SOFTWARE MANUALS / DOCUMENTATION
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1. OSHA Training Manager (Windows v1.1), CSI, 2/94
2. OSHA Training Manager (DOS v1.0), CSI, 3/94
3. EHS Training Director (v2.0), EHS Software, 10/94
4. EHS Training Reference Guide, EHS Software, 11/94
5. EHS Training Regs, EHS Software, 12/94
7. DayBrowser (1.0), scv systems, 10/96 (1.1: 2/97)
8. ZipAdvisor (1.0), scv systems, 2/97 (1.2: 5/98)
9. ClipBar (1.0), scv systems, 3/97 (1.1: 2/98)
10. Delphi CodeBar (1.0), scv systems, 4/97
11. WinRuler (1.0), scv systems, 12/97
12. Newsgroup Builder (1.0), philatelic.com, 7/98
13. AlbumPager (1.0), scv systems, 12/98
14. Space Tycoon, Komodoware [AOL], 2/95
15. Stamp Tycoon, scv systems 7/96
16. Caesar's Palace Imperial Slots, Interplay/Cetasoft 9/98

EDITOR/PUBLISHER
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1- SYCOPHANT #1, publ 9/86, 300 sold
2- SYCOPHANT #2, publ 1/87, 84 sold
3- ALPHA ADVENTURES #15, publ 2/87, 150 sold
4- SYCOPHANT #3, publ 6/87, 400 sold
5- ALPHA ADVENTURES #16, publ 7/87, 200 sold
6- SYCOPHANT #4, publ 10/87, 300 sold
7- ALPHA ADVENTURES #17, publ 5/88, 250 sold
8- ALPHA ADVENTURES #18, publ 7/88, 250 sold

TOTAL copies sold = approx 2000
TOTAL mss read (and so forth) = approx 3300
QUIT the publications, 12/89 to get my own work done.

9- ALPHADRIVE 001, publ 12/97
10- ALPHADRIVE 002, publ 5/98
11- ALPHADRIVE 003, publ 4/99

QUIT the publications, 6/99 to get my own work done. I think I learned my lesson this time.

SOFTWARE PROGRAMMING / DESIGN
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See my software credits page for details.

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