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A New Lease On Life [MultiFormat]
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 Munching a cheap hamburger after yet another visit to the unemployment office, Bill Sadler is approached by a suspicious-looking salesman who offers him a unique timeshare opportunity ... for his soul. (Published: 1994)
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Apt Pupae [MultiFormat]
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If Darwin is to be believed, Man is not the only species that is evolving. Other, lesser species might, even now, be growing, changing. And they might one day come after our first line of defense. (Published: 2002)
Words: 3950 - Reading Time: 11-15 min.
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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. (Published: 2006)
Words: 3998 - Reading Time: 11-15 min.
Category: Mainstream
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Calendar Girl [MultiFormat]
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There are people who can't live without their date books. Josh is one of them. But his new wife wonders if he sets the dateBook or if the dateBook sets him ... literally. And even once she thinks she's gained control over him, has she really? (Published: 2002)
Words: 4702 - Reading Time: 13-18 min.
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Cold Calls [MultiFormat]
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A down-on-his-luck casket salesman gets a referral to an account that might just save his career. But when the orders start coming in, there are some rather strange modifications that the client wants. It doesn't take long before the salesman realizes that perhaps he's not just selling caskets ... perhaps he's selling houses to the undead. (Published: 2002)
Words: 4016 - Reading Time: 11-16 min.
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Fluid Motion [MultiFormat]
by John F. D. Taff
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In these days amidst the rubble of the sexual revolution, the word "protection" has come to have the simple meaning of keeping something unwanted out of the body. Elise finds out that, perhaps, "protection" is as important for keeping things in as it is for keeping things out. Sometimes when that protection is lost, more than just fluids leak out. (Published: 1994)
Words: 4600 - Reading Time: 13-18 min.
Category: Erotica
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Heir to the Sand [Book 2 of The Oas Cycle] [MultiFormat]
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The sequel to The Cloud Gatherer begins several years after that book. Haran, now Sultan of Oas and Entana, has married Qeemah and they are expecting a son. But pressing problems vex his reign. The water problem in Entana, the reason for that city's attack on Oas that resulted in Haran's ascendancy to Sultan, has grown worse. And there seems to be nothing to correct it. There simply aren't enough Gatherers to go around. Then, tragedy strikes. Qeemah and Haran's infant son is kidnapped soon after... more info>> (Published: 2002)
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Category: Fantasy
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Helping Hands [MultiFormat]
by John F. D. Taff
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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. (Published: 2002)
Words: 4557 - Reading Time: 13-18 min.
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Her Unremembering Way [A Novel of The Bell Witch] [MultiFormat]
by John F. D. Taff
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Based on a true event, "Her Unremembering Way" tells the story of the Bells, a rural Tennessee farm family in the early 1800s. The Bell family became the center of the first and perhaps most famous poltergeist event to be documented in America, witnessed even by President Andrew Jackson. But this wasn't just an ordinary poltergeist. The Bell Witch, as the spirit became known, not only broke dishes and threw things around, it spoke eloquently, attended church, was an inveterate gossip, teased, sc... more info>> (Published: 2005)
Words: 125760 - Reading Time: 359-503 min.
Category: Horror
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Just a Phone Call Away [MultiFormat]
by John F. D. Taff
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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] (Published: 1995) Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Honorable Mention
Words: 4905 - Reading Time: 14-19 min.
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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>> (Published: 2006)
Words: 94653 - Reading Time: 270-378 min.
Category: Young Adult
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Last Call [MultiFormat]
by John F. D. Taff
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An alcoholic who has reached the end of his rope is given a last chance. His frustrated sponsor refers him to a strange liquor store where he gets the last bottle he'll ever need. But, as the shopkeeper warns, sometimes it's best to take the long way. Shortcuts have an infuriating way of taking you quickly away from where you are, but often to another place you don't want to be. And often the cure has the potential to be worse than the disease. (Published: 2002)
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Category: Dark Fantasy
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Livewire [MultiFormat]
by John F. D. Taff
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A farmer replaces his aging fence with an electric one ... and finds that some people harbor grudges just as long as guilt. (Published: 2007)
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Category: Horror
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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. (Published: 2002)
Words: 2774 - Reading Time: 7-11 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy
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Manfill [MultiFormat]
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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? (Published: 2003)
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Category: Horror
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Night Bird [MultiFormat]
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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. (Published: 2004)
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Object Permanence [MultiFormat]
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Object permanence is the characteristic of a very young baby to believe that things only exist when they are seen. When they are out of sight ... or forgotten ... they no longer exist. But what if there were people who had this as a power ... that used it to keep people and places always just as they remember? (Published: 2002)
Words: 15039 - Reading Time: 42-60 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy
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Omnimpotent [MultiFormat]
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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] (Published: 1994)
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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] (Published: 1996) Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Honorable Mention
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Sharp Edges [MultiFormat]
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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? (Published: 2002)
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She Unmasks Her Beauty to the Moon [MultiFormat]
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A group of fur traders in the early 18th century dare an early winter trip into the heart of the New World. But even as they begin their trip, they encounter disturbing indications that at least some of the "myths" of their Indian companions might be true ... and deadly. (Published: 2002)
Words: 3596 - Reading Time: 10-14 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy
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Shiny Red Nails [MultiFormat]
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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. (Published: 1995)
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Show Me [MultiFormat]
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A college campus becomes the scene for a strange learning experience in sexuality. All too often, we look to others to define our image of ourself. Mostly what we get back, though, is what we want to see. But what if there were people who reflected us as we actually are. Could most people bear to see their own sexuality reflected back truthfully at them? (Published: 2002)
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The Bitches of Madison County [MultiFormat]
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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.... (Published: 2003)
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The Cloud Gatherer [Book 1 of The Oas Cycle] [MultiFormat]
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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>> (Published: 2002)
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