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The Dark Level [MultiFormat]
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When Jim loses his parking spot to corporate expansion, he finds a garage at the edge of town with prices that are too good to be true ... and an appetite too ravenous to satisfy. 1995 Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Honorable Mention
Words: 3933 - Reading Time: 11-15 min.
Category: Horror
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The Gingerbread Man [MultiFormat]
by John F. D. Taff
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Thirty years after his psychotic, alcoholic mother was institutionalized, Leo Kearny's memory still haunts him of the day she baked him gingerbread cookies. He remembers the blood dripping from her arms when she scrubbed them with Brillo pads to remove the smell of the gingerbread. Now the smell is back.... 2002
Words: 4211 - Reading Time: 12-16 min.
Category: Horror
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Omnimpotent [MultiFormat]
by John F. D. Taff
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Fertility specialist Dr. Adam Brenton enjoys a one hundred percent success rate. Though his methods are both highly unconventional and completely illegal, Brenton has no shortage of happy clients. However, none of the not-so-good doctor's treatments can impregnate Michelle Archer. He has to find out what he's doing wrong; there's a reputation at stake, not to mention a few souls. Dr. Brenton is--literally--the gynecologist from Hell. [Strong Sexual Content] 1994
Words: 4367 - Reading Time: 12-17 min.
Category: Erotica
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Shiny Red Nails [MultiFormat]
by John F. D. Taff
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While on vacation in Florida from her secretary job in Chicago, Janice stops at a flea market booth run by a Slavic woman selling a miracle nail polish. An incurable nail-biter, Janice purchases a year's supply with the strong warning to keep the strange green liquid away from her mouth--the secret ingredients are known to cause unpleasant side-effects. 1995
Words: 3890 - Reading Time: 11-15 min.
Category: Horror
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The Road Less Traveled [MultiFormat]
by John F. D. Taff
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In the future, businesses use alternate dimensions to alleviate society's overwhelming traffic problems and woo workers back into the corporate world. Dim hoppers transport modern workers to and from work using personal highways built through "empty" dimensions. But are they really empty? 2002
Words: 3743 - Reading Time: 10-14 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Sharp Edges [MultiFormat]
by John F. D. Taff
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What goes on in the mind of a serial killer? Is it detailed planning of his crimes, the confident selection of victims, careful disposal of the evidence? Or is it something more amorphous, alternating between memories and secrets kept even from himself? 2002
Words: 2238 - Reading Time: 6-8 min.
Category: Suspense/Thriller
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The Bitches of Madison County [MultiFormat]
by John F. D. Taff
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What's an out-of-work nature photographer who's spent 30 years in the field studying the secret lives of animals to do when he's sent back home in disgrace? Study the young, single life in his new environment, at least that's what Don Harmon does. Trouble is, he's interested in capturing the "moment," that brief flash of time when the subject has no idea its being photographed. Trouble is, he'll go to any length to accomplish this.... 2003
Words: 7070 - Reading Time: 20-28 min.
Category: Erotica
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Night Bird [MultiFormat]
by John F. D. Taff
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"I know an old lady who swallowed a spider," goes the old children's song. To correct that problem, she swallows a variety of other creatures, each to eat the one that went before. But when does that end? In the song, the lady's end in every verse is the same. "I guess she'll die." Steve learns that sometimes the solution is worse than the problem. And sometimes there's no solution to the solution. 2004
Words: 7347 - Reading Time: 20-29 min.
Category: Horror
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The Rat Catcher's King [MultiFormat]
by John F. D. Taff
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The Rat-Catcher's King is a twisted retelling of the legend of the Pied Piper of Hamelin, in a modern setting. A new housing development under construction in a low-income area promises a renaissance for the city, but there's just one problem. Rats. Increasingly concerned over the publicity the rats might bring, the mayor orders the search for an exterminator to solve the problem. The search brings a new kind of exterminator to the area--a being with more than 600 years of experience in culling ... more info>> 2005 EPPIE Award Finalist
Words: 103951 - Reading Time: 297-415 min.
Category: Suspense/Thriller
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King of Things [MultiFormat]
by John F. D. Taff
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The Beginning of an Epic YA Fantasy! Orphaned by the death of their parents, Maddie and Wil are sent to live with their aunt, a respected college professor with no experience raising children. Largely left to themselves, they find a portal in her house-a door through an ordinary washing machine that leads to Loss, a strange world where all of the things lost in our world go to-keys, umbrellas, socks, loose change.even people. Wil and Maddie find themselves thrust into an enchanting world, where ... more info>> 2006
Words: 94653 - Reading Time: 270-378 min.
Category: Young Adult
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Bombanishus [MultiFormat]
by John F. D. Taff
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An older woman learns something she never knew about the cleaning woman who's worked for her for more than 30 years ... her name. 2006
Words: 3998 - Reading Time: 11-15 min.
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The Hanged Man [MultiFormat]
by John F. D. Taff
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A retired policeman in poor health relates a story about getting a corpse from the bedroom of a cheap hotel from earlier in his career. 2006
Words: 5115 - Reading Time: 14-20 min.
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The Sorcerer's Apprentice [MultiFormat]
by John F. D. Taff
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"The search for the world's master assassin begins with a single question.... Would you kill a person if you knew you could get away with it? A simple question. An innocent question. David Benning, a successful accountant, is a man whose answers to life's questions lately have lately all been wrong. He has a dying father racking up charges at an expensive nursing home and a bank account with embezzled money sitting in it. When he's blackmailed by a shadowy organization known only as "The Group,"... more info>> 2001
Words: 95066 - Reading Time: 271-380 min.
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Orifice [MultiFormat]
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A dark jealousy festers in the imagination of a deadbeat gen-x dropout as his girlfriend gets a tattoo from an old lover. When she recovers from the procedure, the 'flower' on her heart turns out to be something quite different from what it appears to be.... [Strong Sexual Content] 1996 Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Honorable Mention
Words: 4739 - Reading Time: 13-18 min.
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The Kit [MultiFormat]
by John F. D. Taff
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An inveterate garage sale shopper, Jackie finds an old Civil War embalming kit. Inexplicably, she buys it, along with an Elvis 8-track of "Blue Hawaii." But something in the kit, so long dormant, is awakened. And it's hungry. 2002
Words: 4630 - Reading Time: 13-18 min.
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Love Tap [MultiFormat]
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More than three-fourths of the Earth is water. More than eight-tenths of a human being is water. Is it any wonder, then, that water holds so much fascination for humanity? Stacy learns, much to her horror, that this fascination can run both ways. 2002
Words: 2774 - Reading Time: 7-11 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy
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The Projector [MultiFormat]
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Movie projectors show us things that come to life on the screen. Or so it seems. But what would happen if a projector took on a life of its own ... a life inadvertently given to it by a man? And what if that projector, then, played out only two emotions--love and jealousy? 2002
Words: 4761 - Reading Time: 13-19 min.
Category: Horror
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The Cloud Gatherer [Book 1 of The Oas Cycle] [MultiFormat]
by John F. D. Taff
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Oas. A city in the middle of a great desert, yet blessed with an abundance of water. This water is coaxed out of the skies by the Gatherers, an ancient guild of pilots who use barely understood technology to seed the clouds. The rain they bring is collected in Oas' grand system of fountains and distributed throughout the city. When Oas' Caliph dies suddenly, a new Caliph is augured--a young and not very responsible Gatherer named Haran. Only a teenager, Haran finds himself thrust into a new worl... more info>> 2002
Words: 96077 - Reading Time: 274-384 min.
Category: Fantasy
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The Lacquered Box [MultiFormat]
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Magicians often take their secrets to their graves. Even in life, magicians seldom share their secrets, even with those they love. What, then, about in death? The widow of Stephen Becker, a semi-professional magician, throws his props and costumes away after he dies ... and one strange lacquered box. And she finds that some secrets are not worth the cost of knowing... 2003
Words: 3600 - Reading Time: 10-14 min.
Category: Horror
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Manfill [MultiFormat]
by John F. D. Taff
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You throw it out, and throw it out, and throw it out, and still there's more. Trash. If people didn't pick it up for us and dispose of it, we'd be up to our eyeballs in it. It's nothing more, really, than everything we don't want; everything that's left when we use up what we want. What happens, then, when it all starts coming back? 2003
Words: 3798 - Reading Time: 10-15 min.
Category: Horror
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The Fifth Season [MultiFormat]
by John F. D. Taff
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The end of the world comes in on little cat's feet as clouds go from benign to sentient ... and hungry. 2003
Words: 2735 - Reading Time: 7-10 min.
Category: Horror
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Helping Hands [MultiFormat]
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In the latter days of the 19th century, a man who could not love seeks the assistance of an alienist to help him with his problem. It's not the lack of feeling the man needs help with, it's the hands that have started to sprout from his body that disturb him the most ... and the awful things they're making him do. 2002
Words: 4557 - Reading Time: 13-18 min.
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The Two of Guns [MultiFormat]
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Desperate to replace the gun he left behind in his flurried escape, Gus gallops across a nameless desert of the Old West just 30 minutes ahead of the Sheriff's posse. When he spies a wagon driven by "The Incredible Dr. Alatryx", Gus takes advantage of his good fortune to acquire a shot of whiskey and a very special '75 Remington six-shooter. 1991 Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Honorable Mention
Words: 5581 - Reading Time: 15-22 min.
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Just a Phone Call Away [MultiFormat]
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Cynthia sets up a phone sex business from her apartment when she's fired for sleeping with her boss. When a disturbing call comes in from a man who likes knives, Cynthia begins to lace her calls with a bloody edge. [Strong Sexual Content] 1995 Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Honorable Mention
Words: 4905 - Reading Time: 14-19 min.
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Track Eight [MultiFormat]
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Dave buys a bootleg CD of the heavy metal group Skull, and notices it contains eight songs where the original vinyl record had only seven. On the mysterious eighth track, Dave hears background chanting calling the name of a co-worker ... who doesn't show up at the office the next day. 1994
Words: 3944 - Reading Time: 11-15 min.
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