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3) Sex
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Wedged between a rock and hard times, Hank finds himself in Las Vegas-the City of Sins. There he finds himself in the midst of people who would do anything to get ahead and those who'd make him seek pleasure unlike before. In the struggle to survive and write, Hank experiences more than he thought the Las Vegas could ever give.
4) Can Job
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She didn't even want this job. She'd rather spend her time getting to know that incredibly cute guy on the other side of the conference table.But now Taylor's responsible for launching a new product, and everything depends on her pulling it off.The company's future.The masterfully-plotted career of her boss's boss.The teetering marriage of one Very Important local politician.Oh, plus the economy of the entire city of Borschtester, NY.Then Taylor make...
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In the tradition of Squid Game and The Hunger Games welcome to the dystopian future of mass entertainment in 2084 for a counselling show with a difference: Patient vs Counsellor. Where the counsellor must guess the patient's serious psychosexual problem to win a star prize, or face humiliatingly Forfeit-Fun. On tonight's show we have three contestants: Katy, a former beauty queen now obese, counselled by Captain Stanislav Boglosovic, a former military...
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Written before the events of Jan. 6, 2021, this satirical slant on American politics begins when a small, balding man is mistaken for eccentric cybersecurity genius Jason Oglethorpe. Both quickly become embroiled in conflicting plots by the Russians and Chinese to conquer the US. Jason is abducted and imprisoned in Moscow to download cyberdefense secrets from his brain, but he devises an ingenious escape plan carried out with a brilliant, ravishing...
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"I know the same day made me free, which was the last day for him who made the proverb true-One must be born either a Pharaoh or a fool".Best known as a philosopher and tragedian, in Apocolocyntosis Seneca also produced one of classical literature's greatest satires. Depicting a posthumous trial in which the recently deceased Emperor Claudius makes the case for his elevation to the company of the gods, this short work brilliantly skewers the pretensions...
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Shotgun Rednecks and Moonshine Wizards face off against the Cthulhu Mythos!There is a grimoire, known by most as the Necronomicon. It is ancient and powerful. Its very name is said to be the sound of howling demons. Upon its yellowed pages are spells and rituals that give terrible knowledge and power to those mad enough to seek it. The book is bound in human skin, inked in blood, and contains the dead names of Those Who Dwell Beyond.What you got in...
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Probes were dispatched from the planet Earth in 2080. Two planets orbiting around a sun were adjudged suitable for colonization in deep space. Just as the Quakers and Pilgrims established colonies in the New World, a Galilean religious sect colonized the two planets named Kaire and Greyce. Having resisted the influence of the early church, the Galileans lived similarly to Christ's apostles 2000 years ago, as sheepherders, carpenters and fishermen....
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Morgan le Fay, sixth-century Queen of Gore and the only major character not killed off by Mark Twain in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, vows revenge upon the Yankee Hank Morgan. She casts a spell to take her to 1879 Connecticut so she may waylay Sir Boss before he can travel back in time to destroy her world. But the spell misses by 300 miles and 200 years, landing her in the Washington, D.C., of 2079, replete with flying limousines,...
11) Star Mole
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Gerald the star mole is living large. All the nice fresh stone-free dirt he can dig in, all the worms he can eat, and no predators to raise his stress level. Unless you count the funny people in white coats with their odd penchant for sticking pins in his head. But set against all the bennies, Gerald dismisses this as a First World Problem.And then, Ragnarok. The white coats load Gerald onto a very long rail gun and shoot him off into space. All but...
12) Constancy
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A short story, 7, 800 words, humor. Constance leaves home, takes on the guardianship of a friend's young daughter, and her own elderly grandmother, and a three-story apartment house. Emotional interruptions by her sometimes boyfriend in the Army have competition from the new man in her life -- the electrician she calls to service her building. When he shows up in his Civil War reenactor's Union Army uniform, Constance discovers that commitment to...
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