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     Scot Walker has won awards in various contests including L. Ron Hubbard; Flannery O’Connor; Thomas Wolfe; New Century Writer Ray Bradbury Fellowship; Kernodle New Play; McLaren Comedy Play Writing; along with both a Stage Play and Short Story award from Writer's Digest. Scot is a lifetime member of the Dramatists Guild, and his plays have been performed throughout the USA and Europe. His favorite publication was of his poem: Ancient Gods, which has been published on 3 continents. Altogether, he has over 300 published short stories, essays, non-fiction pieces, poems and novellas along with about 100 published and or produced plays.
     One of his friends was Harry Hay, the gay rights founder. Scot has been involved in the movement since the 1960s and used to bump into Tennessee Williams from time to time when he was hitting the gay bars in Washington DC. Several of his plays have themes including The Lesbian and the Flying Pig, which opened in Washington DC about 15 years ago.
     You may reach the author through his email since he's an 82-year-old with leukemia and not always available to talk on the phone. He lives just outside the city in which he was born, Washington, DC.
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     The Tarheel Writer is honored and humbled to present some of his original writings.

     Scot's works are presented in alphabetical order


A Note to My Old Man
by Scot Walker
Found written on an Etruscan vase along the shores of the Rubicon
A Short Story (370 words)
Story Notes: A Letter to Jude from Calpurnia

Rated for General Audiences

     A vase is found along the Rubicon River in Italy, a little over a hundred miles from Tuscany. It's an old Etruscan vase with a message from the wife to the husband.


Aardvark and Zebra
by Scot Walker
They called him an aardvark ... but he really wasn't
A Short Story (661 words)
Story Notes: Bullying, Suicide, Someone like me

Rated for General Audiences

     A bullied student thinks there is no way to escape the hate ... until he finds someone like himself.


An Adoration to Verdi!
by Scot Walker
Vincent Valentine Verdi ... not Giuseppe Verdi
A Short Story (740 words)
Story Notes: Voila!, Cousin Vincent, a tiny barge on the Seine

Rated for Teen and Up Audiences

     Giuseppi Verdi's distant cousin (19th and once removed) lives in a dream world (or perhaps a mentally unbalanced world) in which his vociferous vocabulary is best displayed through alliterative poetry since that's the optimal way he feels he can share his feelings and his vibratingly vivacious vocalized brilliance.


Ancient Gods
by Scot Walker
Published on three continents in the same year! US, UK and India
A Short Story (661 words)
Story Notes: God's men ... Created, Worshipped ... Went to war for ...

Rated for General Audiences

     Once there were ancient gods ... now the earth needs to be restored


Ant Matilda
by Scot Walker
Peanuts! High Heels!
A Short Story (268 words)
Published in Doorknobs and Body Paint, #90, 2018 ^#1 (268 words)
Story Notes: A Presidential Inauguration and Millions of Ants

Rated for General Audiences

     Jimmy Carter leaves office and Ronnie Reagan is ushered in.


Bobby B
by Scot Walker
Hold Fast to Dreams!
A Non-Fiction Story (246 words)
Story Notes: A Student Can't Read

Rated for General Audiences

     A student can't read. Nobody wanted him. Assign him to Mr Walker.


Bonnie Blue
by Scot Walker
Princess Bonnie Blue
A Fiction Story (1,470 words)
Story Notes: Why is everyone crying?

Rated for General Audiences

     Bonnie Blue was everyone's princess, the center of attention. Until one day everyone started crying?


Harry, I Miss You
by Scot Walker
A Remembrance
A Short Story (1,726 words)
Story Notes: AIDS, The Chipmunks, Teaching High School

Rated for General Audiences

     A teacher remembers teaching and remembers a student ... Harry.


Hello, Goodbye
by Scot Walker
... one way or another we must all survive!
A Short Story (455 words)
Story Notes: run, run, run ...

Rated for General Audiences

     A family is split ... then mended.


Letters from Mo Bin
by Scot Walker
Letters from China
A Short Story (455 words)
Story Notes: Emails from my friend Bin

Rated for Teen and Up Audiences

     On December 8, 2001, Mo Bin, my young gay Chinese cyber friend, disappeared from my keyboard and my life forever. These are the email letters we shared from December 24, 1999 until that last moment on line together.


Morning Becomes Electric
by Scot Walker
A conversation with Jesus
A Short Story (455 words)
Story Notes: Humor, then humor and then some more humor

Rated for Teen and Up Audiences

     I thought I tripped on the neighbor's dog, but it was Jesus Christ asleep in a Sears and Roebuck mattress box.


Play a Little Traveling Music for Me, Maestro
by Scot Walker
Play a Little Traveling Music for Me, Maestro
A Short Story (434 words)
Story Notes: Marie Antoinette ... the real story

Rated for General Audiences

     Marie Antoinette and twenty boxes of their caramel chocolate chip cookies.


Puppy Love
by Scot Walker
A retrospective from an 82-year-old
A Short Story (1,225 words)
Story Notes: Coming of Age, Christian Upbringing, Repressed Thoughts

Rated for General Audiences

     Billy just graduated from an All Christian High School. With a very religious upbringing including singing in the choir and participating in Teens for Christ, Billy kept his thoughts and desires to himself. He hoped to meet someome "like" him one day, maybe at college. In preparation for going off to a born-again Christian college, Billy goes to buy a suit. But first, he needs to get his inseam measured.


Satisfaction
by Scot Walker
Lifetime member of the Dramatist's Guild
Wicked Shadow Queer Tales of the Macabre: Spectral Spectrum: An Anthology of Horror Fiction (anthology) Parth Sarathi Chakraborty and Rashka Sen (editors) Wicked Shadow Press, 2024

A Short Story (147 words)
Story Notes: A macabre Halloween Tale with WARNINGS for cannibalism

Rated M for Mature Audiences

     Segal had given me some story about how much better his meals were with fresh homemade gravy and since I make my meals from cadavers and not their blood, I leave the blood to other connoisseurs.


The Tents of Malabo
by Scot Walker
A Short Story (147 words)
Story Notes: Desert Winds, Children

Rated for General Audiences

     The desert winds blew and blew and the children huddled in their tent.


To Be, or Not
by Scot Walker
A personal memory
A Short Story (1,061 words)
Story Notes: Enlightenment! Why are your gay? Why are you straight?

Rated for General Audiences

     It took 82 years for the author to learn the answer to the question - "Why did you decide to be gay?"


Twenty-two Bottles of Re-strained Prune Juice!
by Scot Walker
Matlilda!
A Short Story (239 words)
Story Notes: A marathon and prune juice

Rated for General Audiences

     Matilda runs a marathon with some help from her dad's "special" energy drinks. Yer gonna laugh!


Two Faces of Evil
by Scot Walker
An homage to Shirley Jackson
A Short Story (4,370 words)
Story Notes: Perfect! Everything was perfect!

Rated Explicit: only suitable for adults

     Jim had the perfect wife, the perfect twin boys, the perfect home, the perfect car ... and then there was Aron.


Watchmen: Waiting for the Night
by Scot Walker
A Short Story (4,933 words)
Story Notes: Cover your ass with ... dead people

Rated for General Audiences

     Charlie overslept and their were ... consequences. But Charlie is, if nothing else, resourceful.


All stories © 2026 Scot Walker, All Rights Reserved
Copyright Notice: This work may not be duplicated in any form – physical, electronic, audio, or otherwise
without the author's written permission. All applicable copyright laws apply. The characters in these stories
are fictional with any resemblance to real persons being purely coincidental.