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Welcome to my universe! Where an impoverished teenage geek can (more often than not) win against ever tougher challenges while growing up to ultimately become an unparalleled explorer for his time and one of humanity's greatest ever unsung heroes -- plus have more thrilling adventures than he ever dreamed possible too, along the way. This is a complete index to stories by J.R. Mooneyham, both already posted and not. Also included are tips about the sometimes subtle ways certain story events relate to others, as well as handy reference links regarding some of the more complex elements involved. Sponsor this page This page last updated late 1-5-08 a - j r m o o n e y h a m . c o m - o r i g i n a l

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I posted my earliest online stories in the mid-1990s. They were largely science fiction, including items like the Pearsall saga.

The supercar stories didn't begin showing up online until 2004. Being heavily auto-biographical and somewhat risqué legal-wise, I didn't even consider writing up such accounts until some thirty years after the events which inspired them.

Below is a 'master-list' of sorts of all my major tales in one place. Both those already completed and available to readers, and the titles of those I hope to post in the future.

So many stories left to tell, so little time...!

As can be seen below, I tend to choose which story to write next largely at random. Sorry! If you'd like to possibly speed up my writing efforts in general, you could make a sizeable cash donation here (thereby freeing up time for writing which I might otherwise be spending on other forms of self-employment).

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The journals of Jerry Staute (a.k.a. 'Chance' Staute)					Reference notes on the life and times of 'Chance' Staute and Staute Prime
Crossroads	Young bespectacled geek Jerry Staute comes of age in a wild east Tennessee rural county where oftentimes anything goes.			Another man will use the same name "G.W. Staute" too-- only in his case as a pseudonym for authorship of certain works later in life: works which will eventually gain him enormous fame in centuries to follow. As well as lead to some critical confusion regarding the pseudonymous author and the supercar builder. This second G.W. Staute's acts during life will set into motion events millennia later which will prove vital to the survival of the human race. And involve the first and true G.W. Staute, largely by accident.	The supercar Staute and the pseudonymous G.W. Staute will eventually be distinguished by historians as Staute Prime and Chance Staute, respectively. The biggest difference between the two during their lifetimes will be that Staute Prime will succeed at making a fortune early on, compared to the never-ending financial struggles of the other.
	A small slice of one young rural geek's life
	Passages to a larger world
	A teenage pressure cooker
	How one struggling teenager met one wrecked Mustang
	Of new best friends and old
	Testing the limits
	Fools rush in
	Ancient mysteries
	So near, yet so far
	The Talladega incident
	To save my world
The Shadowfast supercar driver logs; (the adventures of a real-life outlaw driver and his self-built supercar in 1970s America) Heavily influenced by local racers, outlaws, friends, and family (as well as poverty), frustrated teen Jerry Staute pushes forward in some of the seemingly few avenues open to him for exploration and adventure: racing and automotive experimentation (among other things).	Despite his poverty, Staute manages to transform his 1969 Mustang into a true supercar-- and himself into an expert driver-- who's surprisingly good at improvising on-the-fly (to the frequent dismay of his opponents).
	Slip, sliding away
	Too close for comfort
	One small taste of Hell
	A call to arms
	The Daytona 1200
	Wild horses
	The spring break plot
	Blue light special
	Fast times at Sigma Chi
	Too close to the bone
	No good deed goes unpunished
	Kissing the wall
	When push came to shove
	Shadowfast versus the tornados
	Heartbreaker
	Breaking up	The Chance of a Realtime (science fiction novel) Jerry Staute is abducted by time travelers and spends months hopping across eternity and witnessing the technological wonders of the far future, before being returned home again with no memory of the events (he will regain the memories 18 years later). Staute is both kidnapped and returned in the year 1972-- being absent for only a few hours, so far as he or any of his fellow inhabitants of 1972 could tell.	Staute's abduction takes place during the span otherwise documented in Breaking up.
	Liars and traitors and bears		Prologue: Critical mass
	Black and blue magic		Chapter one: Something different
	Ring of fire		Chapter two: Learning the ropes
	Over the edge		Chapter three: Drafted
	Daytona 2.0: Between a Ferrari and a hard place		Chapter four: Navigator
	What goes around...		Chapter five: Contact
	Nowhere to go but up		Chapter six: The farthest reaches
			Chapter seven: Baptism by fire
The Moonshadow flying wing pilot logs	Staute decides to go airborne to seek his fortune, in an experimental craft he designs himself.		Chapter eight: Putting a genie back in his bottle
	Great balls of fire		Chapter nine: Inner space wars
	First flight		Chapter ten: Sol mate
	A whole lot of shaking going on		Chapter eleven: Fractures
	Air command		Chapter twelve: Not to be
	A ghost of a chance		Chapter thirteen: A fantasy of chaos
	Surgical strike		Chapter fourteen: Descent into chaos
	Playing with fire		Chapter fifteen: Hell and the human spirit
	The Orson Welles gambit		Chapter sixteen: The terror
	Moonshadow versus the Hornet		Chapter seventeen: The taking of Amphitritium
	Lights, guns, action		Chapter eighteen: The siege of the seventh palace
	The maiden of the mountains		Chapter nineteen: The battle of Belphi station
	In over my head		Chapter twenty: Me, myself, and a nano eye
			Chapter twenty-one: Bad bad boy
Special solutions for special problems: Chance Staute's entrepreneurial case logs	Shaken but unbowed by the trauma of his most recent experiences, Staute returns to the skies with a vengeance in an all new aircraft.		Chapter twenty-two: Bright lights, hard vacuum
	The Dart pilot logs		Chapter twenty-three: Return to origin
	Lost and found
	Dream team
The 'Chance' Staute fate-storm logs	Finally, after 18 long years, Staute regains the memories of his time-traveling jaunt-- and sets about collecting the spoils of his strategic victory over his kidnappers.				Staute Prime and the first immortal artificial intelligence
	Treasure hunt
	Power training
	Shadowfast the living
	Missing links
	Billions to one
	The mystery sheriff gambit
	Time enough for love...				2071 milestone: the best of Staute Prime's A.I.s is now the equivalent of a human pre-schooler-- who suddenly faces an adult serial killer.
		The Pearsall saga Thanks to Jerry Staute nearly single-handedly driving the Kerguelen out of Sol system and towards the galactic core, humanity survives several more centuries-- eventually allowing the intrepid space explorers of Al and Liz Pearsall to launch towards the core themselves, as but one team among many seeking to lay claim to the raw resource riches of the galaxy, and thereby acquire their own fortunes. But Staute's earlier vanquishing of the Kerguelen from Sol-- combined with the Pearsalls ultimately becoming the frontrunners in humanity's race to the core-- means the more successful the Pearsalls are, the closer they come to encountering the same threat Staute faced centuries before. Only this time the Kerguelen will be considerably further advanced, technology-wise.	Of course, the Pearsalls will only have to worry about the Kerguelen if they make it past some other challenges first...
			The Battle for Pearsalls' Grit (part one)
One man's adventures in the great beyond All great runs must come to an end; and Jerry Staute had gotten just about the best run he could have asked for in life-- despite being desperately unhappy and stressed out during most of the span. For in dying he had also finally convinced the Kerguelen to give up Sol system to humanity, and head towards the galactic core. And best of all, Staute had managed this without humanity ever learning of the enormous danger it'd been in-- thereby also preserving the future timeline Staute had seen during his months onboard the time-traveling vessel Pagnew.	But unfortunately for Staute, the eternal rest he so desperately craved was not to be. At least not from simply dying. For it turns out there is an afterlife after all-- at least for some of us.		The Battle for Pearsalls' Grit (part two)
	My first day in the afterlife		The rehabilitation of Al Pearsall
	The third life of Shadowfast		For the love of Liz Pearsall
	The fearless heart		Crawlspace: gauntlet to the galactic core
	The Dreamtime
	Return to tomorrow
	The heart of the beast				3000-3450: Some small progress in time warping/travel technology is made