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A collection of nine flash fiction stories, each 1000 words long or less, costing... well, you get the idea.Nine Flash Nine. See, it makes sense.The stories are:* For Sale, Baby Heads, Never Worn* Murder, She Rocked* Boy* Dear Penthouse Forum: I F----d Godzilla* Black Veil and Gloves* Got the Horn* Ghost (Moustache) Story* High School Methical* Giant Spiders Cannot ExistSome stories are serious, some are...

Ciarin made the leap from small town life in Canada to exciting London to make his dreams of studying abroad come true.After only a month, his dream turned into a living nightmare when he found himself barely able to make ends meet. That is, until Andie walked into the bar he was working at and made him an offer he couldn't refuse.Whisked into the company of women who appreciated what he had to offer, Ciarin was finally finding his way. However, when a woman from his past e...

Who's settling accounts for the dead?Two years after his last adventure, obituarist Kendall Barber is still trying to make amends for his past by cleaning up the online presence of Port Virtue's dead. Business isn't great, so he jumps at the chance to work for the estate of a racist demagogue, while at the same time accepting an under-the-table job to find out who hacked the social media accounts of a police captain.Who's playing games with the living?But nothing is...

What caused the recent explosion on the 86 tram?Who were the people who witnessed the event?And how does the omniscient viewpoint of a narrator affect the lives of those characters it describes?A short story about intersecting lives and the expectations of narrative.

When Mister Smith looks out the window of a plane and sees a man standing on a cloud, nothing else in life seems to matter as much anymore.A flash fiction story about wonder and priorities.

In the future, the Earth is still recovering from alien invasion, conquest and liberation; civilisation is shattered, the sky is broken and the world will never be the same.But Nadger doesn't understand any of that. All he knows is that it's time to hide before the other kids find him!A flash-fiction story about living in the aftermath of invasion, the first in the irregular 'Broken Sky' series.

To all Young Men. Take control. Defy the hype.Start your path to lasting wisdom.Hustle With Honor Win With Wisdom is your compass in a world of noise, speed, and constant comparison. It's not a rulebook, it's your framework to be sharper, wiser, and make impact. Now is the time.Govern your inner voiceHave purpose, not applauseForge an identity you respectHarness a capable bodyPursue real masteryLeverage solitudeChoose elevati...

Social media undertaker Kendall Barber has discovered something about his new subject - an email set up to be sent after his death.What is in the email - and why is his client, the dead man's brother, so eager to find out?This short story is a mini-sequel to the crime novella 'The Obituarist', but it can also be read as a stand-alone story.

Dive deeper than ever before and discover the origins of The Man from Atlantis.When TV unveiled the series Man from Atlantis no one knew the how, where and why of Mark Harris. Over time the show’s star Patrick Duffy formulated his own version of the history of Mark and his people. Here at last is the book that gives every reader and fan of the show the life and mythology of Atlantis, who they were and where they came from. Patrick Duffy’s close connection to his fictional character...

The cleaning lady eats time. The manager mourns his multi-gendered parent. A pirate radio DJ listens for God. An accountant prepares to kill again. And that's only in four rooms of the Hotel Flamingo, where the room service is terrible and reality flakes and crumbles around the edges.Come to a part of town where the dealers meet, where the forgotten people hide, where reality cracks and peels like cheap wallpaper. Where normal is a dirty word.And while you're here, come sta...

Gavin risked everything for love...After the sheriff's son crossed a line that could never be forgiven, Gavin was faced with the impossible choice of having to endure a lifetime of torment, while staying by his love's side, or commit an unforgivable act that would ensure her safety-but condemn him to life as a fugitive.With blood on his hands and the law on his heels, he fled into the wild, leaving behind the only woman he ever loved. Now, he is a hunted man, running not ju...

Kendall Barber is having a very bad day.His obituarist business is failing, his relationship is on the rocks and he's pretty sure one of his friends has been murdered. All of that is bad enough – and then his office explodes. Kendall's past has come back to haunt him, and it's coming with guns, bombs and a truckload of regrets.It gets worse from there.Before the week is out, Kendall will be beaten, burn, torn up and hospitalised. He'll have to alienate his closest a...