The Collected Fiction of Mark Allen Kinney

This page represents the results of the colossal literary career of that great literary legend in his own mind, Mark Kinney.

Entertaining pretentions notions of becoming the next Tom Clancy, he wrote several outlandish techno-thriller style stories based on a wargame he and some friends played at the age of 18 and submitted them to his high school literary magazine, who rejected them. These stories are fortunately lost to us.

Mr. Kinney then got it into his head that he would become the next H.P. Lovecraft. He embarked on several cheezy horror stories, also fortunately lost to us, despite one being submitted to Autoduel Quarterly (and rejected). One late effort of this phase in Mr. Kinney's career survives, and is represented in this work.

Mr. Kinney abandoned writing for several years after this, until finally inspired by the failure of a potential relationship. He was also goaded along in this effort by a woman he had corresponded with over the internet for quite a while, a talented and accomplished writer herself (and who remains unnamed here to protect her esteemed reputation from association with the literary "efforts" of the aforementioned). In a frightening turn of events, this phase nearly led to the possibility of publication. Fortunately for English Literature, a temporary loss of internet access caused this opportunity to be squandered.

Mr. Kinney now occasionally inflicts a story or parts thereof onto whoever will read them, mostly on internet mailing lists and newsgroups, and preserving them for whoever happens to stumble accross his web site.

In any event, any hate mail, death threats, admonitions for allowing such abominations to literature to exist, or even compliments should you be sick and twisted enough to like one of these stories, to alberich@iglou.com.

This page is now annotated, in another fit of pretention by the author. Read with care, as some may contain spoilers of the stories. You have been warned.

The Stories

Don't Cry No Tears: Named after a Neil Young song covered by Matthew Sweet. Oddly enough, the song mimics the situation reflected in the story, and the situation that inspired it (although no one in real life is as evil as their story counterparts). [Completed]
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Ties That Bind: A World of Darkness fanfic involving stuff from Mage and Wraith. [Completed -- but removed from my site due to legal requirements. Anyone wants to host this story, let me know.]
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