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Blue Teeth [MultiFormat]
by Bruce Boston, Marge Simon
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Sally judged men by their teeth. Missing teeth were suspicious. Discolored ones were the sign of a coward or cheapskate. She wasn't sure what to make of blue teeth ... but they knew what to make of her. (Published: 2001)
Words: 1324 - Reading Time: 3-5 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy
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Broken Portraiture [MultiFormat]
by Bruce Boston
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He abandoned the wild times and ideals of his youth for a safer and saner life. Yet his past proved more dogged than he suspected. It refused to abandon him. (Published: 1975) Pushcart Prize Winner
Words: 1900 - Reading Time: 5-7 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy
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Etiquette With Your Robot Wife and Thirty More SF/F/H Lists [MultiFormat]
by Bruce Boston
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A darkly humorous collection of 31 lists, reprinted from the pages of Asimov's SF Magazine, Strange Horizons, Weird Tales, Talebones, Inhuman, Mythic Delirium, Dreams and Nightmares, Wicked Hollow, and other genre publications. Includes: "Signs Your Parents Are Being Replace by Automatons," "What to Expect and Not from an Interstellar Voyage," "Advice on Dealing with Your Teenage Werewolf Son," "Reasons the Druids Did Not Survive," "Advice on Meeting the Devil in Hell," and more. (Published: 2005) Strange Horizons Readers' Choice Award Runner-up, Asimov's Reader's Choice Award Winner
Words: 4272 - Reading Time: 12-17 min.
Category: Humor
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River Watch [MultiFormat]
by Bruce Boston
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When the river came to town it changed everything in ways we could not anticipate and did not understand. (Published: 2004)
Words: 1109 - Reading Time: 3-4 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy
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A Cosmological Fable [MultiFormat]
by Bruce Boston
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A continuum-bending, millennia-leaping tale in the tradition of Olaf Stapledon. (Published: 1981)
Words: 1685 - Reading Time: 4-6 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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A Haven For Dreams [MultiFormat]
by Bruce Boston
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Haven was the dream made flesh of every hedonist and rogue who had ever trod the spaceways. It promised to fulfill all of Jarvon's expectations and desires ... if only he could stay sane long enough to get there. (Published: 1984)
Words: 2742 - Reading Time: 7-10 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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A Web for Demons [MultiFormat]
by Bruce Boston
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Mrs. Linden had seen a murder committed, right in the street, right before her very eyes ... only no one would believe her. (Published: 1980)
Words: 3770 - Reading Time: 10-15 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy
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All the Clocks Are Melting [MultiFormat]
by Bruce Boston
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In a strange world where clocks melt and transistor radios play endless songs to empty castles, an aging knight struggles to rescue the woman of his dreams. Little does he know that he is the one who needs rescuing. (Published: 1990)
Words: 5283 - Reading Time: 15-21 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Break [MultiFormat]
by Bruce Boston
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To escape his incarceration he had to join forces with a man he despised. Once he was free, he planned to leave his vile accomplice far behind. (Published: 1974)
Words: 1748 - Reading Time: 4-6 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy
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Carmichal and the City [MultiFormat]
by Bruce Boston
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Carmichal was an old friend and an old enemy. More an enemy, if truth be told. Carmichal was adept with games and woman. He always had a way with both. Yet the years were catching up with him. And so was I. (Published: 1990)
Words: 4589 - Reading Time: 13-18 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Complete Artistic Control [MultiFormat]
by Bruce Boston
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Lester's state-of-the-art software gave him complete artistic control. He was about to finish his first novel and become a best-selling author. Then he got a call from the Publishers Bureau of Investigation. (Published: 2002)
Words: 1224 - Reading Time: 3-4 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Conditions of Sentient Life [MultiFormat]
by Bruce Boston
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A collection of 21 poems, songs, and prose poems by the first SFPA Grand Master. Reprints from Asimov's SF Magazine, Talebones, Dark Regions, The Third Alternative, and other leading genre publications. Includes the Rhysling Award winner, "Future Present." (Published: 1996)
Words: 4062 - Reading Time: 11-16 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Death of a Super Anti-Hero [MultiFormat]
by Bruce Boston
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Cloakman was more a super anti-hero than a super hero, something of a rogue, a shadowy sort of figure who ended up doing the right thing in spite of himself. Only he had never counted on the chain of command. (Published: 2000)
Words: 1360 - Reading Time: 3-5 min.
Category: Humor
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Doctor's Dozen [MultiFormat]
by Bruce Boston
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The true mad scientist doesn't live in an isolated castle in the Bavarian Alps. He works for a multinational corporation. He has wealth and power. He has a house in the Bahamas. a racing bike, and a long-stemmed secretary. Yet still, he is not happy. (Published: 1981)
Words: 2119 - Reading Time: 6-8 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy
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Everyone Needs a Vacation [MultiFormat]
by Bruce Boston
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His life was nearly perfect. He was a successful novelist with a trophy wife. Then the limousine pulled up across the street ... his scalp began to itch like terminal dandruff ... and the dreams and hallucinations began. (Published: 1999)
Words: 3729 - Reading Time: 10-14 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy
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Harvesting the Krill [MultiFormat]
by Bruce Boston
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Stony planned to travel to Antarctica, help feed the world, and become rich. All he needed to get there was twenty dollars. (Published: 1987)
Words: 1195 - Reading Time: 3-4 min.
Category: Mainstream
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Have Another Glass [MultiFormat]
by Bruce Boston
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Ashton knew he was consuming too much treacly. He needed to cut down on treacly. But the damn stuff was everywhere. And after all, he was only ... human? (Published: 1981)
Words: 1965 - Reading Time: 5-7 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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In an American Vein [MultiFormat]
by Bruce Boston
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Christine Leslie was American wealth and American wild, insatiable and unfulfilled no matter how many roads she traveled. [Strong Sexual Content] [Author Comment: "When you become deeply involved in writing a novel, the characters take on a life of their own. You spend day after day in their company, and sometimes they begin to talk back to you, seeking different choices and lives from the ones you had planned for them. "In an American Vein," while standing as a story in itself, presents a varia... more info>> (Published: 1992)
Words: 4626 - Reading Time: 13-18 min.
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Jackbird [MultiFormat]
by Bruce Boston
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The Miser's son Jack had returned from foreign travels. He had far different ideas about the distribution of his father's estate than its executors. (Published: 1974)
Words: 1440 - Reading Time: 4-5 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy
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Knights of the Round [MultiFormat]
by Bruce Boston
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He knew that he must fight a superior foe and die, but he didn't know why. (Published: 1993)
Words: 804 - Reading Time: 2-3 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy
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Length, Breath, and Plot [MultiFormat]
by Bruce Boston
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A character, bored and unrealized by the stereotypes it is forced to assume, appeals to an author for something more serious. [Author Comment: This story could be more appropriately categorized as slipstream or experimental than as fantasy.] (Published: 1983)
Words: 870 - Reading Time: 2-3 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy
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Lovers, Keepers [MultiFormat]
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A tale of love lost and memory replayed. (Published: 1988)
Words: 882 - Reading Time: 2-3 min.
Category: Mainstream
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Mammy and the Flies [MultiFormat]
by Bruce Boston
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Mammy is all alone--except for her grandson hidden in the cellar ... a shameful reminder of her husband's evil relations with their daughter. When the nightly swarm of flies come to visit, the boy's basement prison becomes a swatting ground for his visions of death. (Published: 1988)
Words: 2988 - Reading Time: 8-11 min.
Category: Horror
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Masque of Dreams: Tales of Illusion and Identity [MultiFormat]
by Bruce Boston
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The masques of 17th century Europe presented dramatic entertainments based on mythic themes and enhanced by lavish costumes and sets. The entertainments in Bruce Boston's Masque of Dreams fashion myths of their own and are enhanced by the voice of a poet, often lyric and at times pyrotechnic. Journey to the depths of a mutant rain forest that strikes back against the encroachments of civilization. Join a Victorian stage magician in his search for real magic. Descend to the depths of an omnivorou... more info>> (Published: 2001)
Words: 107937 - Reading Time: 308-431 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Mulligan [MultiFormat]
by Bruce Boston
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If Mulligan were going to die on a Mexican beach before he'd really had a chance to live, he meant to do it right. A tale of death and rebirth set in the psychedelic sixties. (Published: 1971)
Words: 2576 - Reading Time: 7-10 min.
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