About This Book
These short stories are intended to appeal to the glorious American psyche. Get it quick. Make it short. End with a twist. Above all else, entertain with quality and value. "The Violent Kind": He's bound to snap, the violent kind. Sometimes goodness spoils the bad.. "The House Next Door": He keeps the lawn and the landscaping at no charge. Wouldn't you like to have this neighbor?. "Toltaca": Within the depths of a heart of darkness, human kind builds a city of stone.. "Eidetic": His memory is photographic. It's his greatest talent. It's his detested curse.. "Hunted Is the Hunter": She's worth a life and the price of a bullet.. "Emerald Planet": Fun and games in the depths of a hostile rain forest.. "The Hole": The last survivor. And he's pissed!. "The Machine's Manifesto": Time to go to school with a pair of matched pistols.. "Scraps": This really happened. It didn't have to happen, but it really, really did.. "Ed? Is That You?": Ed stepped out onto the web, naked as pure energy. It's a better way of life.. "Mortimer's Last Race": He's retired and has nothing better to do. Run, daddy, run!. "Scat": Sometimes the brain gets cross-wired. What happens when everything smells really, really bad?. "The Disturbing Case of: Rain": He comes with rain, sleek as shadows and deadly as a swirling draw.. "A Working Man": Keeping the appointments of a lifetime. It's a living.. "Long Is the Journey, Short Is the Sojourn": They are many and they are hungry. You never needed a cat so badly!. "The Wrong Side of Backwards": Everybody knows how mirrors reflect everything backwards. Right?. "Forever Comes the Storm": The bloodiest war of the bloodiest century in human history - for some, it never ends.. "Through the Meadows Go": Take the shortcut home. You might never arrive.. "Jo Jo's Big Day": In a smile, a frown. In laughter, sorrow.. "ZuZu's Petals": The smallest things count in large amounts, given sufficient time.. "Vengeance Is Mine": He picked the wrong child and the wrong mother. Never piss her off.. "Bugs! Bugs! Bugs!": They could easily dominate the planet. Why not?. "Black River": The Black River Valley runs through the center of Pecan Groves, Texas. Lately, it floats.. "We Are For Texas!": Oh, he's a bad, bad man. Now he has a mind to go to Texas.. "Human Resources": We're all consumers. Cogs in a vast machine. Let's hope we remain a vital, integral part of it all.. "Paw Paw Conjures": With the right words at the right time, magic is possible. Paw paw knows.. "She Comes, the Devil": Theirs is a lust to outlast the ages. It's a hell of a ride!. "Ravenous Is the Void": Ever the calm, cool professional, he feels nothing. He is nothing.
