ALFRED D. BYRD'S HOME PAGE
photo credit: Sharan Gwynn/Jerry Parks
By day I am a research analyst in the Department of Plant Pathology at the University
of Kentucky. For more on this aspect of my life, please see Dr. Schardl's home page. By night
I am an expiring, er, aspiring writer. For more on this aspect of my life, welcome to a site
displaying some of my verse and light fiction in the fields of History, Science Fiction, and
Theology. There's also a constitutional amendment and an overview of European history.
If you wish to comment on anything on my pages, or just wish to say hi to me, please
send me e mail at adbyrd@worldnet.att.net.
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT Here is the text of my proposed
constitutional amendment of the procedure for electing presidents. I am
sending it to your senators and representatives for their consideration.
THE CORNFIELD A sonnet on the worst moments of the Battle of Antietam in the
American Civil War.
GENEALOGY PAGE This site contains my ancestors back to my
great-grandparents in the lines of Byrd, Havens, Wells, and Johnston, as well as many of their
descendants, and may be of some use to those researching these family names from
Morgan County, Kentucky. For a much more useful site than mine can hope to be,
please see the Morgan Co., KY, home page.
THE ROAD TO SUMTER The "lost" beginning to my effort to retell the American Civil War in
verse, provisionally to be finished around 2027 A. D.
A TALE OF TWO VALLEYS An archeologicially correct Sumerian origin myth
THE WORLD'S LONGEST RUNNING SOAP OPERA Here is two thousand years'
worth of Western History tied together with a single thread. Of course, the thread
that I have chosen has to be wrong. I mean, peoples on the dawn of the
Twenty-First Century can no longer be motivated by ancient history, can they?
THE CALMING OF CTHULHU A pastiche on the works of H. P. Lovecraft. Warning:
This story contains one or more examples of the type of humor known as "pun" and may
be offensive to those who dislike this form of humor.
THE GOLD'S DRAGON A mini-epic in alliterative verse.
PERHAPS ONE QUEST TOO MANY A short-short story of light fantasy. Warning:
This story contains one or more examples of the type of humor known as "pun" and may
be offensive to those who dislike this form of humor.
THE SHADOWS ON THE SCREEN A story in the style of H. P. Lovecraft with me as the mad
scientist's hapless assistant. The first scene is set on the campus of Michigan State University.
THICKER THAN WATER A tragic tale of first contact between humans and aliens, with a
touch of Civil War humor thrown in. Warning: This story contains one or more examples
of the type of humor known as "pun" and may be offensive to those who dislike this form
of humor.
THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE TROGLODYTE A story of the Cthulhu mythos involving the
Shakers and set in the Bluegrass of Kentucky.
WESLE'S TALE Another mini-epic in alliterative verse, this one about visitors from very far
away to an Anglo-Saxon wedding feast. Something on the order of Beowulf meets Roswell,
actually.
For more of this kind of thing, only better, please see my friend Helen E. Davis's Web
site.
JOSEPH IN EGYPT The story of Joseph's being sold into slavery, told in blank verse. This
will have to tide you over till I complete the remake of Genesis in alliterative verse, provisionally
around 2007 A. D.
THREE GRAVES IN EPHRAIM A funeral oration in alliterative verse over three heroes of
early Israel.