Short Stories
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Listen to The Pi-a-saw Bird on Audible:
The Pi-A-Saw Bird
In 1673 the first European explorers to travel down the Mississippi River spot on the high, sheer bluffs the painting of a huge, winged monster. Where does it come from? Why did somebody take the trouble and risk to paint it on bluff face? The Indians told them the terrifying story of a man-eating dragon-like creature, and the brave chief who killed it.
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Listen to The Copper Quarter on Audible:
The Copper Quarter
The friendly man shocks the bar by paying for everybody’s drinks with a silver quarter. His ruthless killing in the street outside surprises nobody. When private detective Crain Dalton seeks out the beautiful widow, he uncovers a plot to buy local elections with the only kind of money worth anything anymore — silver and gold, once again illegal to own.
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Listen to The Wrong Bettor on Audible:
The Wrong Bettor
Dr. Pennell just wants his son back home. But Crain Dalton discovers the mob wants the boy to entertain the bigshots by playing a virtual reality game for the ultimate stakes — his own life. Even doctors with a trunk of hidden cash suffer when their teenage son hangs out at the local casino and takes a hooker for a girlfriend. Can Crain find Don Pennell in time to save him?
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Listen to Breakthrough on Audible:
Breakthrough
Madman or savior? Or both? The police take Terrell Boyd to Malcolm Bliss Mental Hospital. Diagnosis: Schizophrenia, paranoid type. Can the paranormal powers he claims really work? What if Jesus Christ returns to Earth the second time, only to have the world drive him insane?
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Listen to BloodFire on Audible:
Bloodfire
Elena’s brother Ion visits his home today. But the Boyar already cut Ion’s throat and buried him in unconsecrated ground. Their mother knows Ion returns tonight for his sister. Can she convince the priest to grant him absolution? Or the Boyar to protect Elena from the brother who sinned with her even while still alive? Does Elena want protection from her brother?
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Mirror Maze
Subliminal persuasion while the world drowns. As an ad copywriter, Frank earns his living manipulating people’s opinions. Hired to use his talent help a politician he hates win a presidential election, can his own mind be rebelling? His true love calls him to reclaim his own consciousness.
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Listen to Stick and the Lion on Audible:
Stick and the Lion — and The Moon Queen
To graduate from wizard training, Stick must direct a starving lion to go from one end of a long cage to the other. Then survive the brother wizard who hates him — and the Moon Queen who loves him. Tired of magic wand, eye of newt ‘recipe’ magic? If the ingredients really contain the power, you perform a chemistry experiment. Perhaps real magicians impose their will without hocus pocus.
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Listen to Heaven’s Burning on Audible:
Heaven’s Burning
God gave Ted Erickson the power to freeze the sinful, so why does his own body keep growing numb? A prostitute. A dirty bum. They can’t survive Ted’s growing ability to exhale cold air from the Ninth Circle of Hell. So how can the suicidal teenager next door keep singing?
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Light of Tina
Twenty-one years after, Paul Templeton still did not know whether in his old dream he rapes and murders his sister. The rapist killer escapes. Nightmares torture Paul. If he didn’t kill Tina, how can he witness it, dreaming he sees it happen in a mirror? Now a beautiful young woman moves into the neighbor, reminding Paul of Tina? Is the killer after her too?
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The Sin You Take
Dan and Cressie in Bangkok: an open-minded couple, until they share the massage parlor prostitute. Cressie wears an amulet of Aeshma, the Demon of Wrath from an ancient Middle Eastern religion. How can Aeshma fit into a land where the official religion — Buddhism — does not recognize sin as damning a soul to eternal torment?
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Listen to Mabini Shadows on Audible:
Mabini Shadows
When Dan finally returns to Manila, he remembers his love for the bar girl Lin Lin. So does Raul the police informer. And the Mabini shadows. Now Lin Lin’s face consists of a mass of scar tissue, so her shame keeps him away from her old lover. He can’t still love her. Or can he? And then Raul wants to tip off the police. While the Mabini shadows lie in way to take their revenge.
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