Bøker av Layne Walker

This short story collection, Gold Balls of Fur and Other Snapshots of Life, contains eighteen stories ranging from 250-word flash fiction to 3,500-word short stories. The stories cover a variety of topics and genres, including humor, science fiction, and romance. Gold Balls of Fur involves three kids trying to manipulate their parents into adopting a Golden Retriever puppy. The parents play along with the kids, knowing full well they are being manipulated. In Tainted Reflection, a man wakes up on his wedding day to find his bride-to-be not the woman he had been dating the past several years, but instead, his best friend, now his gay boyfriend. Confused and thinking everyone is playing a mean joke on him, he comes to realize he had been transported into an alternate dimension and, now, cannot get back to his former life. Despite the problems he meets, a surprising outcome awaits him at the end of the story. These and the other stories show brief snapshots in the lives of the characters as they deal with their issues and conflicts.

Finding a baby Triceratops in the house, sixteen-year-old Jeff Watson confronts his two brothers, Riley and Wayne, who claim to have gone back in time and accidently brought the dinosaur home. Jeff's friend, Mitch Arnoldson, buys their story, but Jeff can't believe Riley built a real, working time machine with his computer. Playing along, Jeff agrees to pack a bag and make the trip through time to take the dinosaur home. Carlita and Macy, the girlfriends of Jeff and Mitch, go along, just for the fun of it. Much to Jeff's surprise, Riley's time machine really works, and in a flash, Jeff finds himself in a world as alien to him as the moon. Separated from Mitch and the girls, Jeff must keep himself and his brothers alive until they meet up again to go home. Unfortunately, man-eating dinosaurs aren't the only danger Jeff has to avoid.A devious man from the government, determined to keep Riley's computer a secret, follows the kids with a plan to steal Riley's computer and leave the kids stranded in the Jurassic Era. Will Jeff and his brothers avoid being eaten by hungry T-Rexes, only to find themselves stuck millions of years in the past? Or will Jeff find a way to get all of them home safely?

Exploring the desert to avoid family guests, Gavin Clark steps into an invisible web and finds himself caught in a world where time and space are compressed. Dinosaurs and other dangerous creatures of past eras roam parts of the land. Groups of Earth's people from the past, present, and future come together in a melting pot of humanity, thrown into a new world without the advantages of modern technology and the comforts of their former communities. People age at a very slow rate. No children are born. And more importantly, no one has found a way out. Will Gavin find the key to escaping this world to be home with his wife and children again? Journey with him through a maze of peculiar people, shocking circumstances, and unpredictable events as he sets on out a quest to find the answers to getting home.

Donny Jamison, fired from his job for being late once too often, takes a hike into the Mohave Mountains outside of Lake Havasu City, Arizona, to seek gold so that he'll never have to work again. Rather than finding a gold vein in the rocks and hills of the mountains, he stumbles upon a portal into an alternate world in which the White Man had never settled in America. Realizing that this new world would contain all the gold found in the past in his own world, he interests his brother Eric and a full-blooded Mojave Indian named Pat in putting together a team of men to go into the other world, find the gold, and bring it back into their own world. They invite a female doctor and adventuresome female nurse to join them. Two native Indians from the other world give them guidance and help as they cross the open wilderness toward the area in their own world called Sutter's Mill.Despite Donny's big dreams of being so rich that all his problems will be resolved, time, unforeseen circumstances, accidents, and an enraged Indian on the other side works against him and his group in achieving their goal. Just when it seems things might be working out, internal conflicts, deaths, and overwhelming obstacles get in their way. What Donny had perceived as the answer to all his problems turns out to be a nightmare, rather than a blessing. He can't be sure that he and his friends will make it back alive through the portal and into the safety of their own world.

They said it wouldn't happen in his lifetime, but it did. ---------------------------------- On December 21, 2012, the Yellowstone super-volcano erupts.Everything within 50 miles is instantly vaporized. 150 miles to the East in Buffalo, Wyoming, Sam Jones is watching the evening news when he's suddenly thrown across the room by a violent earthquake that quickly reduces the surrounding countryside to something resembling a war zone. Sam flees, intent on getting his wife and two teenage kids to safety, but things go horribly wrong when his wife is shot in Casper, Wyoming. A feisty Wyoming woman, a country in turmoil, and bad luck all conspire against Sam as he's Escaping Yellowstone.

Brad Jones is living a happy, uncomplicated life, until the night he has his first episode. It happens while he and his girlfriend, Chrissy, are watching a movie. He asks her to stop rubbing her fingers across the back of his hand, but she isn't. This is his first Funny Feeling. Over the following days, he has more episodes. Each one more intense than the last. Then he starts hearing voices, faint at first, but with each episode they get clearer . . . and more disturbing. The episodes vary from fingers running through his hair, a cool washcloth moving across his body, to needle pricks in his arm. They get worse as time goes on. Thinking he may be losing his mind, Brad consults a doctor, who can't give him any answers. After leaving the doctor's office, Brad decides he needs to be alone for a while. He goes for a drive and ends up in a head-on collision. When he regains consciousness, he finds himself in a hospital room with a woman he doesn't know, claiming to be his wife. Suddenly, he's married with three kids and neurotic parents. Can he get back to Chrissy and his old life?