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Another Slant is a collection of short stories presenting a different take on some ideas that are familiar and unfamiliar, similar and different. Supernatural elements abound, but there are realistic elements as well. It's a different look at the world around us and a hint at something beyond us all.

Months after the conclusion of Book II, Carter Nash, the Last Mage, finds himself facing more challenges as he continues to protect and defend the town of McLain, Mississippi. With assistance from the eternal goddess Athena, now using the name Alana Jordan, he finds new allies and sees allegiances change as he faces the threat of a new power to rival his own. In the midst of this, he must also deal with a rampaging murderer loose in the town. Thought depressed and confused, he finds the strength, with the aid of his allies, to learn the truth and face the challenge.

Colonel Jake Harris is being forced to retire at the age of forty-eight after a distinguised thirty year career spent entirely overseas, having enlisted after the deadliest school shooting in hstory as one of only three survivors. He returns to the United States to find that it is nothing like what he left. The government is in control of everything from transportation to employment. Every business is now controlled by the government. He finds that his pension and retirement savings were absorbed by the government's General Fund and he is forced into a menial job to afford himself decent living conditions. He tries to settle in, but it's just not working. Then he meets a group of people that have determined the school shooting to have been the catalyst for the totalitarian soicalist government to take control. One of the group, a renegade scientist, has developed a unique method of time travel and sends his forty-eight year old consciousness back to his seventeen year-old body in an attempt to stop the shooting and return history to its normal course.

In the months since Carter Nash, the Last Mage, stopped the demons from unleashing Hell on Earth, things have changed in the town of McLain, Mississippi. The number of supernatural events has grown and Carter has dealt with them all. He has settled into a relationship with the town's mayor and life is as good as he thinks it can be for an immortal Mage living with a mortal. Then things changed. A late-night call offering him a large sum of money for a meeting turns into a revelation that vampires actually exist and a quest to aide the vampire nation in its very survival. The situation makes sense to him and he agrees to the offer. Once he's left town to being that quest, strange things start happening in McLain. Without the presence of the Mage, the few that know the truth about him band together to face this new threat. As they learn more, they discover that something entirely unexpected has come to McLain and only the return of the Mage can keep it from destroying the town and then infecting the world.