Bill Lambert, novelist/storyteller, writes mainly within the classic genre of Mainstream-Upstream-Extreme-Slipstream. He has never won any prestigious literary awards or even a major lottery prize, sadly. Bill has called his website 'Tales from the Future Past' since this where he is right now, mostly.

Angry and impatient, Master Kitsune stands bare-headed in the rain, waiting for Novice Tentô. The old fox will again demand an answer to a question posed more than a thousand times...

(Published by Cezanne's Carrot, Vernal Equinox Edition, 2006)

Luncheon between best friends at a four-star midtown restaurant. Will a frank confession of a marital indiscretion save mankind from extinction?

Halloween, and for the first time the Three Amigos are old enough to be out on their own. Beneath a makeshift spotlight on the old bag's porch, an intricately carved jack-o'-lantern awaits, begging to be totaled...

(Published by The Rivendell Gazette, Halloween Edition, 2004)

Secretary of State Candace Bryce boards the alien ship for an official visit, this time the bearer of exciting news...

Haiku is a traditional form of Japanese poetry containing three lines of five, seven and five syllables. Traditional Haiku is structured around the beauty and complexity of nature, and Haiku purists become irrational and upset when the form is used otherwise. Bill couldn't give a rat's patoot about a bunch of foaming Haiku purists and their misappropriated cultural quirks.