Allan Dyen-Shapiro is a Ph.D. biochemist whose non-linear career has taken him through the worlds of science and education and left him with many stories to tell. Here are some of them (for a complete list of 28 stories he's sold, go to his website): "Scam Likely and the Future Desperados," the adventures of a time traveling heavy metal band, will run in the next issue of Translunar Traveler's Lounge. "Magic Notwithstanding, The Family Lawyer Does as Instructed" ran in the Summer 2023 volume of the Dragon Gems anthology series, published by Water Dragon Publishing. Elizabeth has almost emerged from her father's shadow. His legal practice serviced the wealthy; hers will be exclusively civil rights once she attends to the one last legacy client from her Dad. The client died. The assets from his will must be distributed. One of the assets is the family genie. "Side Effects" appeared in the March/April 2023 issue of Dark Matter Magazine (Issue 14). This is a hard science fiction story about side effects of medication, masquerading as a soft science fiction story about quantum mechanics and serving as a comment on the Israel/Palestine conflict. "Kaddish for Stalin" was published in the anthology Other Covenants: Alternate Histories of the Jewish People in December 2022. Set in a Jewish Autonomous Oblast where Stalin's premature death has made the always-proclaimed goal of a center for Yiddish culture and Jewish civilization a reality, in the near-future of climate change and China's emergence as the regional power, a Beijing-based entrepreneur returns home to confront his estranged, staunchly Stalinist father. "Crazy Horse's Prodigal Granddaughter" appeared in the January 2020 issue (#87) of Grantville Gazette. This is an alternate history piece where the point of historical divergence is that Crazy Horse isn't murdered, and the protagonist is one of his present-day descendants. The imperial power trying to take over the Lakota Democratic Republic is not the US, but China. To fight this economic imperialism, Ptaysanwee War Eagle, a Ph.D. chemist and biofuels entrepreneur, learns to value her father's traditional ways and the wisdom of her ancestors. "Like Him with Friends Possess'd" appeared in the December 2019 issue of Flash Fiction Online. I got the idea for software that operates on social media that turns posts into iambic pentameter, and I couldn't stop laughing about it, so I wrote a story. This is my first story to make any "list"—it hit Tangent Online's 2019 Recommended Reading List. I'm super-proud of that. This one is free online. "Crossing the Boundaries of Virtual Jerusalem" was published in the anthology HOLY COW: SF Stories from the Center of the World, edited by D. Avraham, in July 2019. After buying my story, the editor tabbed me to help with some of the duties involved in getting this out the door, so my name appears on the cover as co-editor. Young people are disappearing from both the Palestinian and Jewish sectors of Virtual Jerusalem. One of them is Commissioner ibn Ali's son. To get to the bottom of this, he'll need to run a spy, and Yossi is the best, but can he pull off the required deception? And what is his motive? "I'm Proud of You, Mum" was published in Volume 1 of the anthology series Mind Candy, edited by Alvin Mullen, in February 2018. When Nigel is working late, optimizing the design of a robot that can transcribe human thought into text typed on a keyboard, he receives a mysterious message. Is it really from the future? And can he patch things up with his former employer, a virology professor at Cambridge University, who recently fired him and walked away from their marriage?