David Kubicek deals with the most profound of the emotions, betrayal in a small community, and does so wonderfully:

"The hurt was lodged inside her. It was a dry sick hurt. Would it ever find release, she wondered? Or would it fester in her heart until she became cynical and bitter like many of the people she'd thought she had known?"

October Dreams: A Harvest of Horror (Kubicek & Associates, 1989)- Editor (with Jeff Mason), and Writer of one of the stories

The Pelican in the Desert: And Other Stories of the Family Farm (Kubicek & Associates, 1988) - Editor, and Writer of one of the stories

Writer for The Midlands Business Journal for nine years

Local businessman Jared Parker rushes Wendy to the hospital where Doc Farley realizes that she is not human. He releases her to Jared and his wife Lyn to keep her accessible for his own clandestine study. As Wendy recovers, memories of her previous life manifest themselves as “waking dreams.” She befriends 17-year-old aspiring folk singer Priscilla Davenport and falls in love with police officer Aaron McCormick, but her special abilities set her apart from her friends and frustrate her efforts to fit in.

A careless comment, made by Priscilla, leads Wendy to confront Jared. Backed into a corner, he tells her the truth about herself. Disappointed, dejected, and angry, she moves out of the Parker home and severs ties to her friends. This makes her more vulnerable to unscrupulous UFO investigator Earl Vaughn. Vaughn has been in town for several weeks posing as a history writer while he stalks Wendy, soaking up every scrap of information about her that he can uncover. Satisfied that Wendy is an alien, Vaughn and his men kidnap her and take her to his isolated home on a New Mexico mountain where Vaughn’s scientific team tries to discover how to create an android.

Because Wendy would face as much danger from the authorities as from Vaughn, Aaron and Jared head for New Mexico to free her. The next day, ignoring orders to stay home, Priscilla follows. In an underground laboratory, Wendy and her friends clash with the wily and powerful Vaughn, who has vowed to unlock her secret even if it means destroying Wendy and anyone else who stands in his way.

Fiction-writing workshop at the University of Nebraska ("Clinical Evaluation," a story I wrote for the workshop, became my first published fiction)

"Ball of Fire," from The Pelican in the Desert was nominated for a Pushcart Prize

First paragraph of In Human Form included on the longlist of agent Nathan Bransford's first paragraph contest, Oct. 16, 2009.

Founded a publishing company (Kubicek & Associates) that published five trade paperback books, two of which became small press best sellers (including October Dreams: A Harvest of Horror, an anthology of horror fiction that I edited with Jeff Mason)

Former Treasurer and President of the Nebraska Writers Guild

Former Secretary of the Academic Freedom Coalition of Nebraska