The Constant Pen
the website of writer/editor Ellen Larson
Short stories and essays
Partners
Death plays a hand!
Natalie Joday, the detecting newspaper reporter featured in Hatch and Brood of Time and Unfold the Evil, is engaged in a tense off-duty battle at the bridge table when a rival player keels over. Whodunnit, and why?
Murder most foul at a sedate New Jersey bridge tournament? Trump that!
An original short story available for 49 cents as a download from Amazon Shorts, the new and exciting digital publications arm of Amazon.com.
The story of a simple life in Egypt, where a day,
a year, and a lifetime pass without distinction, but not without notice.
Published by Gowanus Ezine, Autumn 1999
Fifth place in Predators and Editors Best On-line Short Story of 1999.
Nabu and the Chancy Way
Excerpted from Enkidu
A tale of The First Days, in which the paths of two outcasts, both on a hopeless quest, cross. Published in Dark Moon Rising, January 2003.
Update – Nov. 2005 – My artist friend Joes de
Groot and I are working together to bring out
an illustrated book version of Nabu. To the right
is an example of Joes' work--just exactly what I
see when I picture Amara!
Eurospoof
An imaginary tennis broadcast presented in honor
of the best satellite TV station in the world--and its
commentators.... Published in 1st Serve Tennis Ezine,
February 2000.
For Strider 
A horse story.
Ellen Larson's first published short story
appeared in Yankee Magazine in 1974.
Based on an experience that occurred on her beloved farm as a child, this short story
is a poignant tale of fathers and daughters.