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This is the ninth book in the Future of Humanity (FOH) series. After a long journey, it's time to set the ship down on the new human home world, which General Amanda Lowrey has named, appropriately, Terra 2.
There is Landing Site Eden, where she will attempt to set down a ship that was never meant to land. There are the satellite sites, each 50 miles from Eden, to the north, east, south and west.
There are the advance teams, whose only job is to...
2) Getting Paid
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It's the end of a hot, tired, sweaty day. Along with the other dock hands, you're waiting for your pay. Then a guy has to pop off.
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You're just sittin' around with the boys, playin' dealer's choice poker, and keepin' an eye on the girl locked away in the next room.
Only somethin' goes wrong. Is there any way the big boss will unnerstan'? Whaddya think? Really, is there any way outta a deal like that?
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This is a collection of ten intense short stories.In "Pete & Repeat," c'mon, everyone knows the old non-joke about Pete and his buddy, right? Still, seems like there's always one more young'un wantin' to put an old timer to shame. Only it doesn't always happen just that way."The Breath Formed" is a far more sober story from the point of view of the hunted. There is a "big sound," the explosion that accompanies a gunshot from a high-powered rifle,...
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Some things are much larger and more important than the individual.
A rural New Mexico boy joins the Marine Corps.
These thirty vignettes, each a slice of life, a snapshot, are stories, recollections, histories and confessions. They are truth and fiction, reality and fantasy. I'll let you choose which is which.
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In this collection of five intense short stories, a writer and his friend travel to Pamplona for the running of the bulls, the friend's attempt to truly live just one more time; Training can take many forms, from a good old-fashioned thumping to much worse treatment (that will leave you smiling); A young couple arrive in a bus terminal. Both are nervous at their impending separation. We assume it's a sad time for both, but is it? Are they running...
10) Jack Tilden
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One ad in the magazine for adventurers was different than the others. There was no flash or bluster, no promises of adventure or big money. Only four line of text followed by a toll-free phone number: Do you have special abilities? Want to put them to use? Give us a call.
Blackwell Ops. Something about the ad was too intriguing to pass up. At least for the former Marine who was about to become Jack Tilden. Blackwell Ops is a special, very secretive...
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This is a novel, but only in the most basic sense. Actually it's a novel wrapped around eleven separate short stories. Or maybe it's a short story collection enclosed in a novel.
The novel itself consists of a prologue and several intermissions, one after all the short stories except the last one.
The stories run the gamut of genres: horror, action-adventure, psychological suspense, humor, western and others.
The novel is about two writers on a...
12) Old Suits
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Come along as Consuela goes about her morning chores while her husband seems to be sleeping longer than usual; an elderly woman is last seen on a soggy, dreary day by two of her neighbors who are playing checkers on a porch-maybe one knows her better than he lets on; a childhood friendship takes a sharp turn down a dark but necessary path and continues through two stories; and who knew trout fishing on a wild river in the deep woods of America could...
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These five stories run the gamut of the near erotic to the pure romance, from the wild west to murder for hire. The common thread? They're all about the women.
In "Paper Hearts," a waiter, now an older gentleman, finds a pair of paper hearts. But when exactly did he find them? In "About Mrs. Featherberry," we learn what spoiled sardines have to do with homemade pie. In "The Laborer," a lightly erotic romance, like her husband says, there's no harm...
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You wake up after a long nap. You reach over to see whether your partner's awake, and discover she's dead. Of a cut throat. In your bed.
You didn't do it. But who did? How did they do it without waking you? And when? And why? Stern Richards, PI, has to find out. Or go to prison.
16) Line of Duty
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The mob boss wants to test a rookie driver and maybe teach him a lesson too. How to Get the Boss Out of Harm's Way 101. Surely nothing will go wrong. Surely.
17) Mobster Tales 2
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In this rollicking, gat-filled collection of eleven short stories, you get to see both sides. The mobsters and the cops. The perps and the victims. The guilty, the innocent and the merely complicit. These guys create and dispose of bodies, brag and complain and finagle a way out where no way out existed before. Come along for a wild ride!
In most of these stories, we hear from the mobsters themselves. And these are not mere "gangstas," wearing filthy,...
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From the opening: Of the three wingback chairs in my library, only one is upholstered in human skin. There's a reason for that.
Charles Claymore Task has been labeled a psychopath by hypocrites who see themselves as "normal." And a group of wealthy investors want to know what makes him tick.
They ask him to detail for a film crew what makes people like him tick. At least that's the initial plan.
On film, Charlie describes the abandonment, disillusionment,...
19) Deadline
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In these five short stories you attend a new kind of ink blot test, meet a man in an airport who will render you normal, lie mute and unmoving as a spider transports you to the next world, live and run with the wolves, and strive, strive to meet a goal as a writer and fail, badly.
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For a boy born and bred in Florida, hanging out in the drizzly, frozen northwest is far from ideal, or even possible. Even if he is in witness protection. What will Harold Nickel risk to feel the sun on his face again, smell the salt air. And how far will he go? And go? And go?