Welcome to davesseasidestories.com!
I began writing these stories decades ago, when I was living in Southern California. I spent many days winding up and down the Pacific Coast Highway on my motorcycle, exploring the beaches, tide pools, cliffs, and forests, and from those adventures I developed a love of the rural coastal vibe, from San Simeon to northern Oregon. One day, lost in a daydream, I sat down at my ‘cutting edge’ computerized typewriter and wrote a story about a guy who lives somewhere along that magical coast, and the interesting and quirky folks who live around him, and those stories became a chronicle of the daily life of these people and their environment.
I let the first handful of stories percolate for several decades while I married, helped raise two wonderful children, and toiled at my career and, when I retired, I wrote more and more. I finally decided I was having so much fun with the characters, and my family was enjoying these ongoing Chronicles of Ridiculousness so much, that I would share them with whoever wants a combination of fun word play, humor, thoughtfulness, a bit of history and philosophy, and some heartfelt descriptions of what I think of as the most magical place on earth.
There are a number of layers in most of these stories, and figuring out the layers is part of the fun. Most readers will consult a search engine multiple times during some of the stories, and this is completely acceptable and certainly encouraged, as the varying layers make the story richer as they unfold.
There is a comment section on this site, accessed via email. Feel free to express civilized, thoughtful opinions in it. Some stories feature lighthearted challenges for readers to exercise their intellectual and creative muscles in the comment section.
What you will read in these stories is entirely fictional, and any similarities to anyone living or dead is, mostly, generally, well, sometimes, unintentional.