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Satire: humor that shows the weaknesses or bad qualities of a person, government, society, etc. (Merriam/Webster)If ever there was a time that government deserved to be satirized, it is 2016. If you think reality has gone crazy, wait until you see how Candidate Jim agitates the crowd, and the world.
To the peril of all who accompany him, a salvager sails the globe searching for a creature supposed to have gone extinct before the time of the dinosaurs. Megalodon was the length of a sperm whale with jaws that could swallow an orca. Its teeth that still wash onto distant shores measure six inches from tip to root. How much fame and fortune awaits the one who proves such a monster from the Pleistocene still exists?Also, included in this anthology: The Stainless Steel CoffinPain Below the Equator (Travelogue)The Time ShrinkA Death in CarolinaThe Happiest Man in HellThe Pig and the ParamourNightshad
How did a witness to the beheading of Charles I come to find himself an Indian Chief in Colonial Virginia? Read how three generations of troublemakers ran afoul of the Governor and their wives in a whimsical tale is based on historical events. Much of what seems to be nonsense actually happened to real people as related in the historical record. As for the parts that are pure invention-well, if you knew the Skipper family the way that I do, you wouldn't doubt them for a minute.
Dealers in illicit artifacts, murderous pothunters, an amorous homicide detective, an enigmatic shaman, and two irregular aides-de-camp conspire to thwart the larcenous efforts of a young widow from California to recover her husband's body and get rich in the process.Vicki never dreamed that she would turn to a life of crime. Neither did she dream that she would be running through the jungles of southern Mexico dodging a disparate group who variously want to rob her, kill her, and arrest her. She is, however, a resourceful and determined woman who weaves a web of lies and red herrings from Mexico's southern border to its northern one. Along the way, a new man slips into her life. Can she trust him? Can he trust her?
A successful author loses his grip on reality, his marriage, and his life as weird and even impossible things begin to happen to him. He struggles to discover where it is coming from and to keep from slipping over the brink of sanity. As the layers peel from the kernel of truth, he grasps at whatever or whoever can pull him back from the abyss. Is the source of his torment human, paranormal, or is it himself?
The United States invaded Mexico in 1846.What if they never left?See what the world might look like today if the Old South had acquired the territory of Mexico before the Civil War. This alternative history covers the period from 1846 to 1946 and indulges in political satire still relevant today.
In the late seventies, a young Californian takes a job in South Carolina. On his first day, he is introduced to a stunningly beautiful, but married, woman, the black janitor, a hard-drinking electrical engineer, and a couple dozen assorted misfits. In the first week, the janitor is found hanging from a light pole, and the married woman begins paying attention to him. On his way to work on Monday morning, the vacant field that he thought was a farmers' market contains the charred remains of three crosses.After his divorce, Mason is desperately in need of a job and equally in need of a woman, but what is Jill's motive for coming onto him so blatantly? And where do the bruises come from that she tries to hide beneath makeup that her faultless face doesn't need? It doesn't take long for Mason to realize that leaving California was a major mistake. He is now in a world where he can buy a gun at a gas station, but can't buy a broom on Sunday, and every other Saturday night, the field where the crosses are burned is full of police cars.
If you wanted to undo a presidential election, what could be simpler than going back in time and promoting a better candidate? That part was child's play for half-alien, Terrie Deshler, but how to convince the electorate that four-foot-tall, gray, and smelly Deshler is the right man for the job? Leave that to computer avatar turned bosomy blond android, Cassiopeia. It all seems straightforward until a race of grotesque hostile aliens from another galaxy begins teleporting to earth with deadly intent. The simple solution is to go back in time and put a team of engineers on the task of developing technology to defeat them when they eventually arrive.Alien invaders are one thing, but doing battle with Congress is a little more complicated. Nevertheless, time heals all wounds, and anything about today that is causing a problem can be rectified by tinkering with the past. Don't like somebody? Take out his grandfather-simple. Only Carrie Player is determined to rein in Deshler's genocidal tendencies. Join the Alien Affairs team as they surf the multiverse for the betterment of home and country. Saving the American way has never been more hilarious.
When a leftwing activist from the Nixon era morphs into a conservative writer of political incorrectness, can she ever escape the evil eye of Big Brother? Political winds may shift but some things never change. If you pull on the dragon's tail, you'd best be ready to take some heat.Is it true that the more things change, the more they stay the same? For Kate it seems that way, but perhaps there is a new and more ominous threat, jihad. Her computer is hacked, there are mysterious voices on her phone, her condo is bugged, why would someone spy on a sweet old lady from Ohio who writes snarky novels about the government? Kate fought to get the bureaucratic monkey off her back at both ends of her life. She just can't get on the good side of the establishment. In fact, she has a gift for drawing harassment upon herself. Her feud with the Feds spanned four decades from the sixties to the days of TSA, NSA and Homeland Security. Her persecution soars to precipitous heights. What is a grandmother to do when somebody is after her head? Well, WTF.
The late genius, Stephen Hawking, said in his masterpiece A Brief History of Time: "So what one needs, in order to warp spacetime in a way that will allow travel into the past, is matter with negative energy density." If you're a member of the Alien Affairs team, warping spacetime is part of the job description.The Alien Affairs team once again heads across the multiverse in a desperate effort to placate disgruntled copies of themselves in a parallel universe where the relocated Nordic aliens are not living happily ever after. Half alien, Terrie Deshler, is summoned before Congress-again-where the Senate Special Committee on Aging threatens her if she doesn't divulge the secret of eternal youth. Terrie hatches a plan to put the government on the right path by resurrecting an American hero. Meanwhile, she uncovers the mystery of the collapse of the Mayan civilization at the same time as she struggles to terraform Mars so she'll have a place to stash the surplus Nordics a millennium in the future. The discovery of a dark family secret threatens her burgeoning romance with the grandson of Elon Musk, and the family's computer avatar, Cassiopeia, is kidnapped by a geriatric member of Congress and his wife. Carrie, Terrie, and her alien parent, Deshler, race to find her, but every time they cross the portal to the multiverse, someone launches a nuclear-armed missile at them.
The aliens left the entire human race infertile so that we would vanish by attrition. Carrie Player is tasked with the responsibility of finding a cure in the vast cache of alien data stored on the reading device that the alien, Deshler, gave her as a parting gift. While the species is dwindling terrorists are trying to hasten the end by unleashing a deadly epidemic on America. To battle the new threat the CIA puts a different woman on the case, a very different woman.
There is an infinite number of parallel universes in the multiverse. With access to them, one can choose what age to be, or to arrive at the end of a journey across the stars before departing. This could be a very powerful tool in the hands of someone determined to alter the future. It could also be extremely dangerous.Half-alien, Terrie Deshler, and her alien bashing mother, Carrie Player, surf the multiverse when they hear that Deshler, who tried to annihilate the human race, is in trouble for failing in his mission. The only way that they can reach Tau Ceti IV in time to intercede is to go back in time the thirty-two years it takes to make the transit, which also resets their ages. Then there is the minor issue of a marauding race of aliens who are looking for a new planet because theirs will be incinerated by a supernova. One more time, the Alien Affairs teams must save the human race, but this time they have the mind-twisting force of the multiverse to wield as a weapon more powerful than gravity waves.
Even later presidents were denied the truth about the Roswell incident, but under the directorship of Allen Dulles, the CIA determined the terrible purpose of the aliens' invasion by deciphering a reading device recovered from the crash site. Seventy years later they are coming back to finish the job and one woman is forced into the role of humanity's spokesperson because her uncle, who cracked the alien language, taught it to her as a child and now she is thrust into Alien Affairs.
Around the turn of the 15th century, a Dutch Master called Hieronymus Bosch painted a very strange painting. According to modern thinking, it is perhaps psychedelic. It is a triptych depicting the Garden of Eden, earthly delights, and Hell. Virtually nothing is known about the man known as Hieronymus Bosch. St. Anthony's Fire paints some possibilities to explain the man and what drove him to paint so bizarrely.
A beautiful young woman and a man she just met are stranded on the beach below fourteen hundred tons of nuclear waste when the earth begins to move. How much time to do they have before the tsunami strikes. Will the cooling ponds that keep the fuel rods safe withstand the shaking?Two strangers find themselves isolated from their former lives by a plume of lethal radiation that splits California in two. All the flights are grounded, ships can't cross it, the highways are impassible, and Jamie has nothing-no money, no identification, no credit, not even shoes. Can she depend on the kindness of a stranger? Does he need the responsibility? How will they put their lives back together, and who will put the state back together? Half Life is an apocalyptic love story and a chilling possibility.
What if a free-spirited kingmaker took a hardcore Republican, dressed him up like a Democrat and got him elected governor of America's most liberal state, then tried to have a little fun at the same time.
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