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Goddamn Redneck Surfer Zombies [MultiFormat]
by Michael Jasper
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Long Beach, North Carolina, will never be the same, now that the dead have come back, once again, to wreak havoc with the locals and drive away the tourists. The only thing that may save the humans this time could very well be ... surfing. 2002 Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Honorable Mention
Words: 4324 - Reading Time: 12-17 min.
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Mud and Salt [Wannoshay Series #3] [MultiFormat]
by Michael Jasper
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Desperate for the reward money, three old friends from rural Nebraska embark on a hunt for a runaway alien, and in the course of one violent afternoon, they learn the true meaning of home and what it means to be alone. 2000 Writers of the Future Contest Finalist
Words: 4276 - Reading Time: 12-17 min.
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Working the Game [MultiFormat]
by Michael Jasper
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In the cities of the future, walls separate the wealthy from the workers. The workers can earn their way over the wall by "working the game," paying for their freedom in backbreaking labor while living in third-world conditions. But the dream the government has promised the workers may not be the utopia they were promised. 2002 Year's Best Science Fiction Honorable Mention
Words: 5788 - Reading Time: 16-23 min.
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Siding the House [MultiFormat]
by Michael Jasper
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A poor family's peaceful morning is interrupted by the unexpected arrival of two men who have come to put a layer of white siding onto the family's black shotgun shack at the end of the road. 1997
Words: 4305 - Reading Time: 12-17 min.
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Natural Order [MultiFormat]
by Michael Jasper
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Aboard a mint-green '72 Monte Carlo, four unlikely companions--an elderly woman wearing dancing slippers, a punk girl who insists on driving, a doubt-filled young man, and a fresh-off-the-racetrack greyhound--crisscross America, working to maintain the natural order of the world. Hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, and wildfires, and other disasters seem to follow them every step of the way... 2002 Year's Best Science Fiction Honorable Mention
Words: 5397 - Reading Time: 15-21 min.
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Peterson and Son Automotive [MultiFormat]
by Michael Jasper
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Joey and his adoptive father run a small car-repair shop out of the ramshackle garage next to their trailer, and business has been slow lately ... until a pretty young girl named Cindy Claire drives up in her new Mustang. 2000
Words: 3593 - Reading Time: 10-14 min.
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Visions of Suburban Bliss [MultiFormat]
by Michael Jasper
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On his way home after a hard day at the office, Richard savors his new neighborhood, one of the safest in the city, until he starts noticing strange visitors to his peaceful chunk of suburbia, visitors who seem intent on ruining his idyllic life. 2002 Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Honorable Mention
Words: 3966 - Reading Time: 11-15 min.
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Wantaviewer [Wannoshay Series #4] [MultiFormat]
by Michael Jasper
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Ally Trang is addicted to two things: taking the drug called Blur, and making movies about the recently-arrived aliens known as the Wantas. These two addictions come crashing together as she finds herself caught in the middle of the integration of the aliens into a neighboring city, and she starts becoming friends with some of the aliens. 2002 Year's Best Science Fiction Honorable Mention
Words: 8211 - Reading Time: 23-32 min.
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Wrecked [MultiFormat]
by Michael Jasper
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Our slacker narrator has skipped out of work once again and is cruising the back roads when he comes across a car wreck that forces him to make a choice, the first real choice he's made in years, and one that may prove that he is a hero, in his own way... 2000
Words: 1172 - Reading Time: 3-4 min.
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Coal Ash and Sparrows [MultiFormat]
by Michael Jasper
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In the mid 1800s, in a dusty barn in Iowa, Lina Seymour finds a small white book that takes a powerful hold over her, a grip so strong that she doesn't leave the barn for years ... not until someone comes looking for the same book... 2004
Words: 7038 - Reading Time: 20-28 min.
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Gunning for the Buddha [MultiFormat]
by Michael Jasper
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What should you do if you meet the Buddha on the road? You're supposed to kill him, of course, because you can never meet the real Buddha. Or so thinks the narrator of this time-traveling tale of nihilism, muscle cars, religion, and violence. 2003
Words: 4951 - Reading Time: 14-19 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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The Disillusionist [MultiFormat]
by Michael Jasper
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During the summer of 1834, a killer roamed the plains. One man attempts to track down this killer, known only as the disillusionist, and in the process he is given something from the killer that causes him to see his entire life--and his future--in a whole new light... 2003
Words: 4142 - Reading Time: 11-16 min.
Category: Alternate History
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Riverrun Alley [MultiFormat]
by Michael Jasper
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If you found yourself on a new world, surrounded by aliens and kicked out of the city for being an "otherworlder," how would you get through the harsh winter cold? Would you curl up and die, or would you look to your neighbors for inspiration? Tockle the otherworlder tries to survive his first winter outside the City of All-Worlds, in the slum known as Riverrun Alley. 2003
Words: 4561 - Reading Time: 13-18 min.
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Fences [MultiFormat]
by Michael Jasper
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Canton is having trouble getting back on his feet. He's overcoming a chemical dependency, he's unemployed and he's living at home again, in a tiny guest house without central heating. And his father wants him to build a fence for his horse. But the fence has to be done right, and Canton hasn't been right for a long, long time. 1998
Words: 4879 - Reading Time: 13-19 min.
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A Feast at the Manor [MultiFormat]
by Michael Jasper
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Rob Heying never really cared much about being big. Big, not fat. His wife Melinda, on the other hand, hated being fat, and that was how they ended up at the Manorhouse Hotel for two arduous week. Soon they're sweating to the oldies and melting off the pounds, until Rob makes some discoveries about how everyone is really losing all that weight... 2002 Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Honorable Mention
Words: 7645 - Reading Time: 21-30 min.
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Explosions [Wannoshay Series #1] [MultiFormat]
by Michael Jasper
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Shontera, a single mother working in a brewery, comes face to face with the first aliens being integrated into human culture, and she surprises herself by becoming friends with one of them. That friendship is tested by a series of incidents that may have been caused by Shontera's co-workers, or the aliens themselves. [Illustration: Martin Gruelle] 2001
Words: 5213 - Reading Time: 14-20 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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The Deck [MultiFormat]
by Michael Jasper
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Parking spots are at a premium in the not-so-distant future, and our hero, Jerry Lassiter, makes the mistake of parking his ultracompact in the Reserved Section of the monstrous Deck. Strickland, the parking cop for the Deck, is not pleased... 2003
Words: 3944 - Reading Time: 11-15 min.
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Crossing the Camp [Wannoshay Series #2] [MultiFormat]
by Michael Jasper
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Father Joshua is contemplating retirement as he trains a fresh-out-of-seminary priest at an interment camp for aliens in late winter. Over the course of one fateful, tragic day, Joshua sees the camp with new eyes and experiences events that will test both his faith and all that he has taught the imprisoned aliens. 2001 Year's Best Science Fiction Honorable Mention
Words: 4755 - Reading Time: 13-19 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Unplugged [MultiFormat]
by Michael Jasper
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What happens to all the cyberpunk heroes? The high-tech cowboys? How do they get on with their lives, now that technology has passed them by? The answers can be found during two weeks at Rubin's "non-tech health facility" to get off the drugs and unplug. But whether or not the treatment actually works is anyone's guess... 2000
Words: 3960 - Reading Time: 11-15 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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