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Short Stories - Bob Makransky - This collection of four short stories is taken from Bob Makransky's longer book entitled Magical Sampler. The first of the short stories, Acapulco Gold, relates two unfortunate dope smokers who are pursued by a vigilante sexagenarian intent on pursuing a citizen's arrest for dangerous driving. '... |
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Short Stories - Wyn Preston - Excerpt: "Richard! Hello" she almost asks. She wears a face of complex confusion, as though I shouldn't be in this continent, let alone this street. Her head tilts as her stare falls just short of hitting my eyes as though trying to read something printed upside-down. It... |
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Short Stories - Zvi Zaks - A collection of two short stories by Zvi Zaks. The first, The Taxbell, is set in a future where we are taxed according to how much pleasure we enjoy: "George fidgeted before checking the daily reading on the dreaded meters; to his dismay, the twenty-four hour total stood at 66 units... |
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Short Story Collection - Mark Goodwin - A collection of three short stories by Mark Goodwin. 'Ziggy Two Step - Courier Extraordinaire' is oblivious to most of what is happening around him even though he is often the cause of it - who would ever have imagined that being a bicycle courier could be so exciting, dangerous and demanding? '... |
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Sleaford Noir 1 - Morris Kenyon - McTeague's once trusted friend and associate, Wheelan, has broken off part of the older mobster's crime empire around the east Midlands. Far worse, Wheelan has also taken McTeague's much younger second wife, Claire, away with him. |
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Sleep Runners - Derek Keeping - 'Inception' meets 'His Dark Materials' in the first of a series of adventures aimed at young adults. Young Rachel Mayson, on the evening before her first day at her new school, discovers she can wake up in dreams that are identical to the real world and know... |
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Snow White Must Die - Elvira Frankenheim - This is a collection of four amusing short stories by Elvira Frankenheim translated from German to English by Sibyll Kalff and Steffi. The first story, Snow White Must Die concerns a contract killer engaged in a challenging job as he knows the victim only too well. Next up ... |
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Songs of Blood into Myself - Dennis Thomas - In a daring stylistic metamorphose, Dennis Thomas, in Songs of Blood into Myself, captures the essence of the mystical fluidity of Percy Bysshe Shelley at once with a new poetical structure, reminiscent of another great, John Milton, in his wonderful “L’Allegro.” Dennis Thomas never disappoints... |
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Source - Matthew Williams - In the distant future, humanity has expanded to fill every corner of the Solar System. Over 100 billion people live on its many planets, orbital rings and asteroids. In this age of many, it is fast becoming clear that the resources are going to run out! But before that happens, desperate... |
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Southwestern Tales - Coral Russell - Southwestern Tales is a compilation of three short stories: ‘Devil of a Ghost Tour’ tells of a loving couple that decide it would be fun to go on a local ghost tour in downtown El Paso, not knowing the devil and his minions are waiting for them. … In ‘Shirtwaist Ghosts’ Hector and... |
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