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STORIES OF LATIN AMERICA
- COMING
OF AGE
- A young girl on a remote Mexican ranch falls in love
for the first time.
- EACH TURN #9 -- Buenas Nuevas
- The radio drama script that is more autobiography than fiction. It tells how writer/director Bill Olson met actor Michael Caine and lost a dear friend.
- SUMMER IN SAN MORENO
- Newlyweds on their honeymoon in Latin America experience life-changing terror.
- THE VIEW FROM THE SKY
- A discussion between an old man and a young man in Mexico City.
- THE
VILLAGE
- (Published as "South of the Border" in AIM, Winter
1992-93.)
This story, which takes place in the tropics of Oaxaca, Mexico,
is only a slightly fictionalized version of events I experienced in 1982.
STORIES OF THE SEA
- THE
SEA CAPTAIN
- A lonely sea captain rescues a mysterious woman.
- THE
WOMAN ON THE PIER
- (Published in Prometheus, 1986.)
A prose poem about a man who loves the sea and a woman whose
face he's never seen.
- WHALE
AT SUNRISE
- A short poem.
SCIENCE-FICTION
- COMMERCE
- (Published online in Dementia.)
A man's survival depends on market economics.
- ENCORE
- A radio drama in which an artist tries to free her daughter from a dictatorial government in the future.
- THE HOLY GIFT
- A mini-epic poem about disrespecting the right of privacy.
- HOME AGAIN
- A story of war, family and sacrifice.
- SILENT RENDEZVOUS
- A poetic encounter with a heavenly body.
MODERN AMERICA
- THE AUTUMN TREE
- A tree that desires more.
- THE BOY AND THE DOG
- Peace and quiet at a country cottage is shattered.
- MORE FILM AND RADIO SCRIPTS
- An index of links to produced and un-produced scripts by Bill Olson.
- SHADOWS
- Fears in a psychiatrist's office.
- SILENT POND
- Poetic passions for a forgotten pond. This is the text of my two time award winning video.
HUMOR
- HUMOUR BY BILL OLSON
- Humor by me, some of which is fiction, some of which is autobiographical.
- OUT OF THE LAB
- A scientist's creation faces cruel realities.
- PASSION
- One man's pursuit of happiness.
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