Wayne Faust - Secret Career!

What does Wayne do during those long days on the road? He writes fiction, mostly of the science-fiction, alternate history, and light horror variety.
He's also written some Christian fiction as well.
He's had over 30 pieces published and even won a contest with one of his stories, with more being published all the time, so stay tuned to this site.

If you're a fan of tightly-written fiction and you've got some reading time, click on the links below!

Wayne's new book, "12 Parables" is now available!
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"Sailing Home"

Appears in the Spring 2013 issue of "Tales Of the Talisman." (Click on the cover image to go to the Tales website)
This is Wayne's 5th story in Tales, and the first time his name appears first on the cover!

One of Wayne's personal favorites,
this heartwarming tale was originally read aloud for Colorado Home Grown Tales, May, 2010.

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This is Wayne's first story for FlagShip, an excellent magazine.
You can't read this one online for free, but you can download a PDF version of the entire magazine for only $2.99, an MP3 audio version of all the stories for only $2.99, or BOTH for only $3.99.
This is a really good deal, and it's an attractive magazine with great illustrations.
Click on the magazine cover or the links to go to Flagship's website.

This is Wayne's 35th published story! That's a lot of writing...

Snö

Wayne's 5th story with Piker Press. This one appears in the April 9th, 2012 issue. Piker seems to like Wayne's quirkier stories, and this one definitely fits.
The narrator is a character created by Wayne's brother Don, and he reminds us why it's not a good thing to hate snow...
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Eric's Hysterics

The Weekly Journal of Literary Humor

"Components"

This is Wayne's first story for Eric's Hysterics, a humor magazine.
And yes, this is a very funny story inspired by his years back in Chicago, hanging out after shows with his friend Dave Schneider.

"It Was Limbruner"

This is Wayne's first story for Niteblade, a great online Horror and Fantasy magazine. It's also his first which takes place back at dear old Taft High School in Chicago, where Wayne went to school a long, long time ago... This story appears in the March, 2012 issue.
If you click on the story title above, you can read the first half of the story. To read the rest, you have to buy a pdf of the magazine for only $1.99. And for that, you get all the great stories in the current issue and you help to support fiction writers!

"Eight Bar Blues And You Ain't Goin' Home"

Wayne's 5th story for Tales Of the Talisman.
This is a really nice magazine, and if you like good writing and good speculative fiction, you should order yourself a copy.
Wayne's story relies a lot on his early days on the Chicago music scene, and takes place in a future Chicago, with a blues singer that seems really out of place.
Wayne considers this one of his best tales.
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"Horror In the Village"

This is the 3rd story of Wayne's that was performed by One Night Stand Theater in Denver on April 17th, 2011.
This is a VERY short piece. See how soon into the story you can figure out who the subject is...

This story also appears in Piker Press. Click here to read the story on their website

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"Home School"

Wayne's 3rd story with Piker Press. This one appears in the March 14, 2011 issue. Piker seems to like Wayne's quirkier stories, and this one definitely fits.
But there's a strong underlying message to this one.
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"Adversary"

Wayne's first story for The Absent Willow Review, a very cool online magazine.
This story appears in the December 15th, 2010 issue and is a creepy little tale that takes place in Chicago.
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"Wind Like Dry Bones"

Wayne's first story in "Encounters" Magazine, a nice, slick, sci-fi publication.
This story appeared in the November / December 2010 issue.
"Wind Like Dry Bones" is a spooky, atmospheric piece that takes place just before Christmas in a remote, southwestern village.
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"True Original"

Originally read aloud for Colorado Home Grown Tales, February, 2011.
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"Peace Of Heart"

Published in the November, 2010 issue of "Joyful" Magazine.
This is a touching non-fiction story about Wayne and his daughter going to the cemetery to visit the grave of his Mom
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"A Place For Second Chances"

Wayne's 3nd story in "Tales Of the Talisman." It appeared in the August 2010 issue.

This is his first published story using Carthage College as a backdrop.

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"Saxman"

Originally published at Quantum Muse (quantummuse.com)

Translated into Norwegian and published in the August 2010 Issue of "Pegasus" Magazine in Scandinavia.
(Click on pics 2, 3, and 4 above to see Wayne's name, story, and bio in a Norwegian magazine!)

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"Armageddon: The Short Version"

Published in the September, 2010 issue of "Eclectic Flash" Magazine.
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"The Valley"

Published in the September, 2010 issue of "Joyful" Magazine.
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"Symphony Of the Water Buffalo"

Wayne's 2nd story with Piker Press - this one features a story about Chester P. Farnsworth, one of Wayne's creations way back in high school.
In this story, Wayne experiments with a quirky, humorous writing style not found in his other stories.
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"Safe Harbor"

Published in the August, 2010 issue of "Joyful" Magazine.
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"The Wall"

Published in the April 2010 issue of "Joyful" Magazine.
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"Suckpuppies"

This story is one of the few that Wayne has written that firmly falls under the category of "HORROR."
Not for the faint of heart or stomach, it's a gripping tale that should keep you hitting the 'page down' button on your computer.
It appears in the March 26th, 2010 issue of Afterburn Science-Fiction Magazine.
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"Corn, Corn, Corn"

This little story was inspired by all the times Wayne visited his wife's family dairy farm in Dane County, Wisconsin. There's lots of Scandinavian humor, which should probably ring true, since Wayne has been doing this kind of humor in his shows for over thirty years!
With this published story, Wayne was the featured cover author for the March, 2010 issue of Piker Press.
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"Promised Land"

The first fiction story Wayne wrote when he got back into writing.
It was published in the November, '09 issue of the Australian Horror magazine, "Midnight Echo,"
even though it's all about driving across Nebraska in the middle of the night.
Go figure.
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"Jake and Russell Take A Peek"

Wayne's 2nd story in "Tales Of the Talisman." It originally appeared in the August '09 issue.

This is his first published story using Colorado as a backdrop.
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"Waiting For the Next Move"

(Flash Fiction) August / September issue of AlienSkin Magazine (alienskinmag.com)

Also featured on Charles Anderson's Mad Cow Podcast, with a reading by Wayne Faust (Charles Anderson Books)

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Click here to listen to Wayne's reading! (Duration 6:06)

"The Cross"

Honorable Mention - Writer's Digest Magazine Story Contest, Inspirational Category - 2008.
Published in the September 2009 issue of "Joyful" Magazine.
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"Emil and the Aliens"

Originally published at Another Realm (anotherealm.com)

Performed August, 2009 for Sci-Fi Theatre, Lakewood, Colorado

Also read aloud for Colorado Home Grown Tales, February, 2009.

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"Home For the Holidays"

Originally read aloud for Colorado Home Grown Tales, December 2008.
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"Nothing Lasts Forever"

Published in the October, 2008 Issue of Hungur Magazine.

Also read on the radio by actor Guy Williams at KGNU - Boulder, Colorado for their "Stories For All Seasons" program.

Click here to listen to the KGNU radio recording (duration 11:25)

Also read for Colorado Home Grown Tales, December, 2007, December 2009, upcoming December 2010.

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