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You don't expect a goddess to visit you and start talking about your writing, or the lack of it.
Yet here she was, dressed in a garment so thin that it was nearly transparent if the sun hit it just right.
And, here with some message for me.
Of course, she didn't get to it right off. Like her dress, she used her conversation to get my full attention before she could tell me what that message was.
It didn't take long for me to see she was dead serious...
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Are our dogs smarter than we are about our own love life?
John woke one morning to his dog talking in his head, telling he needed to exercise, eat, and dress better, since he was about to meet the love of his life.
Jo's own dog, told her how to dress that day and what, to do in order, to meet someone special. All just in thoughts in their head. Of course, they couldn't tell anyone that their dog's had suddenly, become telepathic.
But when, John...
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I could fix anything. Since I was old enough to hold a wrench. Yeah, weird for a girl.
There were people out there that didn't want me to succeed. Some because I was a genius, some because I was a girl.
They couldn't understand advanced steam technology, turbines replacing piston-drive - and didn't think any "bimbo" could, either.
Most of those who caused me trouble had a worse problem - they were trapped in their own mind.
And didn't...
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It rare to find a naked woman in your cabin when you come in from outside chores.But it was only a visitor who had come to see me before. She was a goddess, and dressed in gossamer.Not that I minded how she was dressed, much. But the last time she had brought a serious message for me. One that had changed my life.So what did she want this time?Excerpt:At first, I thought there was a naked woman in my cabin, reading my books.And then I realized, it...
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I died every night. And, learned to live forever. Dreams were important, because those told you your past lives. And, like the old guy said somewhere, if you didn't learn from your past, you were just condemned to repeat it. I wanted to live each day to my fullest. Because I knew, it was over when I closed my eyes to sleep.
Each day, I had to learn everything all over again. Because I wanted to make each day last, to do something with my life, to...
6) The Lazurai
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An unintended result of a terrorist bombing a children's hospital, the Lazurai could kill a person without touching them.
The government made it worse by their experiments. All the children wanted was to feel love like any child. When they grew older, their powers increased. And they found they couldn't be stopped.
Chuck hears a rumor of one coming his way, to his remote way station on the highway. But he can't leave his wife, who's dying. So he...
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An Epic Road Trip and Fantastical Semi-Memoir
Living life is nothing that any moron or better couldn't accomplish, even without setting one's mind to it. The trick is to do something with that life. Or live several at once, so that one could at least be a success in one of them.
Herbert, having endured his mid-life crisis with all the aplomb possibly available to him, now was set on making a new life for himself. This is his book.
Such a book has...
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"I don't see why I have to wear this - it's completely impractical! How would you ever, ever fix anything if you have to worry about getting a run in your stockings?"
Steve just shrugged, again. "Orissa, it's just a swimsuit with garters on it. And, it's all for show. We need hot-blooded backers for finance. So a little leg, a little suggestion, then their blood heats up and loosens their checkbooks."
"But that's just your theory. I'd rather be...
9) The Autists
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Carol and Reggie were different. They thought different . Reggie could talk "the ears off a corn stalk." He was an expert on history, like a walking Wikipedia on ancient times (if people could stand to listen to him.) Carol hardly talked, but her hugs could tell you the world. She could solve quintic polynomial equations. And a 4x4 Rubic's cube with one hand.
They were autists. "Special needs" people. Savants, kind of.
They were perfect for each...
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I was sent here to keep me safe. From horrors I wasn't supposed to know about.
But they didn't understand the first thing about arriving in a female body with raging hormones and a genius beyond understanding of myself and anyone around us.
Of course, they wiped my memory. That didn't mean I couldn't figure out that I didn't belong.
Then I met someone that I could almost trust. Not to give me away.
Because if anyone really found out who I was...
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Our planet's population was addicted - to their own brain chemistry.
Because their own electronic gizmo's made them that way.
Built and sold by people who had only their own selfish greed as motivation.
The problem was that their own narcissism kept them from thinking anyone else would ever find out. Because they had already paid off the politicians of most of the largest nations.
They thought themselves above any laws - even when they...
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Tragedy struck. And I never had a reason to smile after that funeral.Or talk to anyone other than I had to. I'd rather sit in my room and re-read my Nancy Drew and Box Car Children books.Until my Dad brought home a puppy from a farmer down the road - last of the litter. Dad got this dog to cheer me up, and give me someone to be with me while he was at work. Because I hadn't smiled or hardly talked since the funeralMe and my pup were a lot alike. All...
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It actually helped that the hundreds of shoppers had vanished. That meant they couldn't be shot by accident while that gang of goons chased us with their handguns.
Of course, it was now more obvious exactly where we were.
I probably had it worst - dressed in pink like a stage performer. A long dress down to my ankles, with extra wide ruffles wasn't the best thing to either run or hide in.
Yes, I left the high heels some aisles behind me. Fashion...
14) A Nervous Butt
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Gerald was walking through the pasture, checking cows and in the next moment was on the ground, face down. Landing as if he'd been caught by a land mine and thrown there.Except there had been no explosion, no fire or gaping hole at the spot he had been standing moments before - in a quiet, green, tall-grass field. The wind was only blowing pollen and last fall's leaves around. No smoke or dirt or falling shrapnel. There was nothing that could have...
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The problems started right off. Main one was that it was Murder, not Suicide.Even though the room was locked from the inside and had no windows the assailant could escape through.The yeoman on duty hadn't seen or heard anyone.And the murder occurred in broad daylight. Even though it wasn't discovered until the next day when the cleaners came in.That's when I got the mission call.Not that they expected someone with long white-blonde hair to solve their...
16) A Dog Named Kat
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Tragedy struck. And I never had a reason to smile after that funeral.
Or talk to anyone other than I had to. I'd rather sit in my room and re-read my Nancy Drew and Box Car Children books.
Until my Dad brought home a puppy from a farmer down the road - last of the litter. Dad got this dog to cheer me up, and give me someone to be with me while he was at work. Because I hadn't smiled or hardly talked since the funeral
Me and my pup were a lot alike....
17) Her Eyes
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What You Don't Know CAN Hurt You.
What You Don't Remember Can Get You Killed.
He looked into her eyes - and forgot everything about himself.
He'd done something that night, but couldn't remember.
And she had left him like that. Until she returned as a Homeland Security agent to save him from two cops who wanted him for questioning.
Now on the run, in disguise, his memory wasn't returning very fast. Josh depended on this mysterious Rosa to get...
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I'd left two families behind me on that road.One who raised me, but I'd left behind to see the world. They didn't know where I was now.Another which I'd felt could be my home, but told me I had to leave.So now I was walking down this abandoned desert highway, looking at an uncertain future.I could only blame myself. And blame my past.Because I had a secret. One that could heal or kill.It depended what I thought and felt.But until I could get a grip...
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The First Collection of Short Stories by J. R. Kruze.
Known for a unique take on common situations, and a dry wit, Kruze is also able to look at usual circumstances and see unusual aspects to write about. These stories will let you start wondering about the world around you.
Contemporary, fantasy, paranormal, romance and science fiction are a few of this mixed genre collection.
This anthology contains:
- Death by Advertising
- The Lazurai
- The...
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The body disappeared, the witnesses forgot their stories. And I had 24 hours to solve the mystery before all the evidence vanished.
I had no memory of how this all started. Only that I was brought in to solve a mystery in a single day before I had to move to my next assignment. Because I'm a time-jumper. And I go where I'm sent.
Because I'm damned good at figuring things out. You don't have to have a string of degrees behind your name to figure...