The Up-To-Date Library Of My Short Stories

Over the past few weeks, in anticipation of submitting these stories to film and TV production companies, I have gone through almost my whole catalogue. What you see here are links to almost all of those stories.  I will add the remaining three stories as I finish going over them. Comments on any of the stories you read are fully appreciated. I have included little capsules to give you an idea what each story is about. Hope you enjoy any or all of them. 

THE LOCKER KEY 

Jake Morrison is a well-known syndicated newspaper TV review columnist and a radio personality for an “all-guy” station and likes his life just fine. But Jake has no idea what he’s stepped in when he meets up with an old school friend who gives him a locker key to hold and it very quickly turns his whole life upside down. Because the contents of the locker is something that can make whoever owns it extremely powerful. And Jake is just a regular guy who is standing in the way of all that. 

https://jimmurraysstories.blogspot.com/2023/07/the-locker-key.html

MAXWELL’S SILVER HAMMER 

Parker Nash and Victoria Desmond have been drawn together as the result of a mass shooting that claimed the lives of both their parents. Parker is a gifted computer genius, Victoria, or Tori as she prefers to be called, is a young writer. Together they devise a plan to seek retribution for their parents’ deaths and finally bring about some much-needed gun control legislation in the US. This is the story of how they go about achieving this.

https://jimmurraysstories.blogspot.com/2023/07/maxwells-silver-hammer.html

THE VISITOR 

The human name he chose was Ezra Birmingham. But he was not a human. He was an alien from a planet more than three light years from Earth. His mission here was to assess and lay the groundwork for an invasion. But his mission parameters changed once he actually arrived he saw the potential for the inhabitants of Earth to evolve and become not slaves but partners with the inhabitants of his world. But in order to make that happen, there were a few things to take care of. And with a little help from an earthling friend, he should be able to pull it off.

https://jimmurraysstories.blogspot.com/2023/07/the-visitor.html

THE GIFT 

Juliet (Jules) Deacon has a gift. She has the intuitive ability to unlock things. Whether it it’s a school locker, a password-protected bank account or almost anything in between. Jules discovered this talent very early on, and kept it to herself until, in her early twenties, she fell in love and eventually teamed up with Travis Dupree, a young thief working with an art dealer in New Orleans, breaking into the homes of very wealthy private art collectors. Jules and Travis started out simply working to get rich and have a good life with each other, using Jules’ gift to get rich. But as they travel that road together, they ultimately realize that Jules’ gift is worth much more than they ever imagined.

https://jimmurraysstories.blogspot.com/2023/07/the-gift_19.html 

AKA CHARLIE MCQUEEN 

Charlie McQueen, a mathematical genius and sports gambler, is on the run from a mobster he used to work for in New York. He settles down in a small town in Maine and starts an online sports book there. Everything is going fine until one day, someone shows up looking for him, leaving Charlie with just two options:  either pack up and run or, with the help of a good friend, get the issue resolved once and for all and get his life back.

https://jimmurraysstories.blogspot.com/2023/07/aka-charlie-mcqueen.html

KILLSHOT 

This is the story of Jackson Lyall, a former Marine Corps sniper who moves to Richmond, Virginia with a new identity and more than half a million in cash, which used to be jewelry, opium and hashish appropriated from the Taliban in Afghanistan. His aim is to become a photographer, which was a passion he picked up in his travels. Jackson meets up with a lady named Marlena Ross, whom he hires to help him market his business. But Jackson finds out the hard way that escaping his past is a lot trickier than he thought. He is recruited into a small clandestine group whose aim is to assassinate the leaders of some of the country's more radical right-wing groups. This a story of love, patriotism and a few secrets. All of Jackson's warrior skills, and some other talents he never knew he had, are put to the test.

https://jimmurraysstories.blogspot.com/2023/08/killshot.html

INTO THE HEAT

Bobby Granger, one of the US Special Forces’ sharpshooters, thought he was finished with that life.  Several years after his military career ended and working as a fashion photographer in New York, Bobby’s past catches up with him. An old associate needs him to photograph an illicit arms deal taking place in the Bahamas. Bobby doesn’t realize it at the time but saying yes to the job will substantially change his life in a couple of different ways.

https://jimmurraysstories.blogspot.com/2023/07/into-heat.html

THE VIRGIN DETECTIVE

Emil Haven IV genuinely hates being a Haven. He has spent most of his adult life doing un-Haven like things, yet still hoping to win, his industrialist father’s approval. A moderately successful writer of crime fiction, Emil decides that maybe his father would approve if he tackled a non-fiction story. In his quest to find a story, he stumbles across an organized crime caper that’s just what he was looking for. But it inevitably opens up a can of worms that Haven just might not be able to handle.

https://jimmurraysstories.blogspot.com/2023/07/the-virgin-detective.html

DEACON LOVES PENNY

Deacon Fredericks is 20 years old and a US Marine veteran, who has just moved to Virginia Beach and is waiting for his 21st birthday when he will inherit close to seven million dollars that was left to him in his grandmother’s will. One day he meets a girl named Penny Jones, who is a recent Virginia Tech graduate with a big AI idea. All she needs is about five million dollars to actualize it. After she explains it to Deacon, he makes the decision to partner up with her and get her idea developed. This is a story about two smart young people who work their way to the top of the AI business in a very short span of time, all of which was made possible by Deacon’s millions.

https://jimmurraysstories.blogspot.com/2023/07/deacon-loves-penny.html

THE BROTHERS BOTTICELLI

The three Botticelli brothers Harry, Angelo and Lou, are anything but private eyes. But when their dad’s final wish was to find and punish whoever killed him, they really have no choice. The cops think it was nothing but a tragic accident, but the brothers know better. So they team up to figure it. As the pieces of the puzzle come together, they start to see that there is something dark at work here, quite literally a blast from the past.

https://jimmurraysstories.blogspot.com/2023/07/the-brothers-botticelli.html

THE MIKALOV CASE

Dale Hogan, a US State Department operative, has blown a major assignment. He had been assigned to safely move a Russian defector, a  scientist named Anatoly Mikalov, to Washington for debriefing, in return for political asylum. But something goes very wrong and Dale, with help from his dad, Jim, a former State Department agent himself, has a strange mystery to solve in order to salvage his freedom and preserve the balance of power in the world.

https://jimmurraysstories.blogspot.com/2023/08/the-mikalov-case.html

THE AMANDA PROJECT

Jeremy Sand has an AI project, called Amanda, that he designed and used to get his Master’s degree at MIT. Jeremy’s dad, Jordan, is an industrial spy with enough capital to fund the final development of his son’s AI program Jeremy had his pick of blue-chip digital companies to work for but instead chose to work with his dad, secretly determined to get him out of the criminal world.

https://jimmurraysstories.blogspot.com/2023/08/the-amanda-project.html

THE HUMAN LEAGUE 

Recent MIT grads, Terry Moorehouse Shawna Lennox are working to take Terry’s family marketing business into the AI world. They have a lot in common with each other, including a deep concern about the negative effect that unrestricted and unregulated AI is going to have on the world. And together they are determined to do something about it. The Human League is the company they form, dedicated to finding ways to keep AI from wreaking havoc on the world. And with a little help from some very important people, they just may pull it off.

https://jimmurraysstories.blogspot.com/2023/07/the-human-league.html

FRANKIE CARLINO'S LEGACY 

Frankie Carlino, a retired hitman for a Chicago crime family, is well hidden in the witness protection program, in New Haven Connecticut. One day he gets an idea for a legacy project and hires a young writer named Ryan Bixby to help him. But there are a few things he needs to take care of at the same time. Including a holding onto the money he stole from his former employer, a finder who is on his trail and a crooked US Marshall who knows exactly where to find him.

https://jimmurraysstories.blogspot.com/2023/08/frankie-carlinos-legacy.html