Short Stories « David Satterlee

Fable: Being True to the Best of What You Are

Fable of brother and sister eagles raised with a farmer’s chickens. One likes his lot in life but the other seeks to fulfill her potential.
An integrally informed story of personal transformation. Adapted from memory from a Cherokee story teller. Read by the [...]

Fergus Scores Again

A Fergus Johnson story of gender relations
By David Satterlee
[Note: Contains sensual imagery and non-explicit accounts of sexual [...]

A Litterer Goes to Court

A little boy threw something out the window of his school bus. The driver saw him and gave him a note to take home to be signed. This little guy is bright, full of life, and his eyes shine with hope, joy, and irrepressible potential. Why had he done this and what is to be [...]

True Love’s Passion

True Love’s Passion
By David Satterlee
[Note: Contains mild profanity, references to sexuality within marriage, and sensual [...]

Sample Time

Sample Time
By David Satterlee
The miserable old man lay in his hospital bed, staring at the clock on the wall. The nurse had just left after waking him from a vivid dream to take a sample of his blood. They were probably checking to see if he still had elevated amylase and lipase in his blood; [...]

The Two Heroes of Thompsonville

The Two Heroes of Thompsonville
by David Satterlee
Thompsonville was nowhere. It was a town of modest size and not completely isolated, but mostly self-sufficient with its own traditions and community standards. The railroads had passed it by during the great expansion. The express highways had passed it by as well. It was too hilly for a [...]

Story: A Man of Letters

A Man of Letters
by David Satterlee[Inspired by a story told to my sister, Joyce Mock, by my father, Bill Satterlee. (Just to keep family history clear, I "invented" the ending part.)]
“Papaw, will you tell me a story?”
“Sure, sweetie. How about the one where I wrestled alligators, or how about the story of the troll and [...]

Short Story: Starting a New Career

Starting a New Career
by David Satterlee
Fergus and his wife Dorothy are middle-aged. Actually, they are just past middle-aged in that wonderland of freedom and possibility that exists while there is still ambition and the potential for growth but, at the same time, incipient mortality is a boil on the ass that prevents one from sitting [...]

Poem: Grandma’s Precious Things

Grandma’s Precious Things
by David Satterlee
I always love when Grandma comesto visit with us here.It’s like a special holidayto have my Grandma near.
I like it when she reads to mewhile sitting on her lap.I like it when she sings a songto me before my nap.
And so one day I told my Momit didn’t seem too fairthat [...]

Short story: Linda Takes a Shot at Marriage

Linda Takes a Shot at Marriage
by David Satterlee

[Note: Contains regional dialect, immature mature dialog, descriptive violence, and mild profanity.Dang, when you put it that way, I just want to blush a little bit.]

[For reading theatre with two male voices]

That sure was a fine funeral service.
Yep, a very fine service.
Probably the finest service I’ve been to [...]

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