Links to stories

The stories here are all included in The Jump - Stories for Uncertain Times, but can be accessed for free via these links.

“Rudolph at Rest – A Christmas Story” was originally published in the December 2016 issue of The Echo magazine (Princeton, NJ). It was subsequently posted on their website:

https://communitynews.org/2016/11/28/rudolph-at-rest-a-christmas-story /

“Meine Yiddische Barbie” was published online by Red Fez magazine, Issue 108:

https://www.redfez.net/fiction/jewish-meine-yiddische-barbie-876/99

“Schrödinger’s Girl” was published December 5, 2016, by Every Day Fiction (a flash fiction website):

https://everydayfiction.com/schrodingers-girl-by-peter-a-hempel/

(The version in the print version of The Jump restores two cuts that were made for the online version.)

“Motorcycle Ken Weeps” was published by Vestal Review as part of its “18x18 Contest” for stories with 18 letters in their titles and 18 words in the story (it came in 2nd in the reader voting):

http://www.vestalreview.org/motorcycle-ken-weeps/

Check them out, and if you like them, you can buy The Jump - Stories for Uncertain Times, with all these stories and lots more, on Amazon (hint, hint)

A new story, "The Doctor Is Not In," has just been published:

https://freeflashfiction.com/fiction/the-doctor-is-not-in/

(Also note plug for The Contract - A Novel ("Jean-Paul Sartre, Meet Erica Jong') , which is just out on Amazon (paperback and ebook).

Also note official Online Book Club review of The Contract - A Novel is posted on a separate page on this site (along with link):

"The Contract by P.A. Hempel is a book unlike any other I’ve ever read."