 He wrote 'commercial fiction' under the pseudonym Frank L Pollock and literary fiction under his own name.Some of Pollock's early commercial fiction can be found in "The Youth's Companion".He also regularly published short stories and poetry in "Munsey's Magazine", "The Smart Set", "The Atlantic", "The Bookman (New York)" and "The Blue Jay" (renamed in 1905 as "Canadian Woman" Magazine).