Get your weird and fun fix with these super-short stories of the strange. From ghosts to galactic guests and everything in the gaps. Riddled with riddles, tons of twists and turns, plenty of pulp, and some truly tender moments. Read them all or pick and choose which ones to read by genre.Flashing Lights: Short and Weird is a collection of sixteen flash fiction and short stories in several subgenres of speculative fiction. The collection includes aliens and ghosts, portals ...

In "Never Break The Difference"Parker unveils a comprehensive guide to negotiating for survival.Discover innovative Strategies and tactical approaches to thrive in negotiations where the stakes are sky-high.

Rule #3 – Leave when it’s time.For a guy that lives his life by a set of written rules, former deputy Sam Strait has made a habit of casually violating one of them. He’s violated it to find the killer of a stranger. He’s broken it to solve a friend’s murder. He’s constantly disregarding it for beautiful women.But whatever the cause, Sam is determined to adhere to all the rules this summer.So, when an attractive woman shows up claiming she killed her...

There are many books on aspects of plant invasions, but none that focus on the key role of species interactions in mediating invasions. This book reviews exciting new findings and explores how new methods and tools are shedding new light on crucial processes in plant invasions. In 23 chapters, with contributions from 51 authors, the book addresses: · the main theories and hypotheses in plant invasion ecology that invoke species interactions; · plant invasions that are facilitated by, or be...

Rule #1 - Only be where flip-flops can be worn.Former deputy Sam Strait lives his life by a particular set of rules. They provide him freedom to do the things he wants where he wants with whom he wants. For a single man in his mid-thirties, things couldn’t get any better. Then why isn’t he happier?When Sam returns home for the summer, he discovers a stranger dead in his boat. With cops and reporters crawling over his property, gone are the usual plans of so...

Rule #2 – No attachments.Sam Strait didn’t want to leave home early for the snowbird season, but the rules he lived his life by demanded it. When a relationship turned sour, the rules dictated he pack his bags and get out of town.He could have gone anywhere in the world, but Sam picked Phoenix, Arizona. With its beautiful women, fall baseball league, and warm winters, what more could a single guy ask for?When the death of a new friend bring...

Meet Sam Strait, the Flip-Flop Detective. He’s a former deputy who spends his life chasing the sun. Unfortunately for Sam, he keeps finding trouble wherever he goes.You’ll get the first, second, and third books in this digital collection.Strait Over Tackle: Sam returns home for the summer and finds a dead woman. He’s quickly embroiled in a mystery.Strait to Hell: Sam heads to Arizona for the winter. The murder of an acquaintance le...

Sam Strait lives his life by a set of rules. Unfortunately, they just went out the window.Former Deputy Sam Strait follows some simple guidelines to give him the life he wants. The first rule? Only be where flip-flops can be worn. This principle, along with several others, has helped Sam follow the sun and avoid the brutal winters of the Pacific Northwest.When a former lover calls with a plea for help, Sam’s life turns upside down. She might be the love of ...

A collection of twenty short stories inspired by and featuring medieval engravings. Although the pictures are all medieval, some stories occur in the present or future. Aside from other things, I had Mörk Borg, CY_BORG, and Death in Space on my mind.Let yourself be abducted into a world of terraformed androids, organ-based dialogs, unclean revivals, psilocybin-induced travels into the demonlands, and much more.

'[An] absolute corker from Ireland's best mystery writer ... utterly gripping' ExpressThe players call it The Game. There are just two rules:No killing close to home.No Killing outside the gameBut what happens when those rules get broken?When the drowned body of a troubled teenager is recovered from a river in Maine's Kennebec Valley, and a young woman disappears from a small rural town, they draw the attentio...

'One of the best thriller writers we have' HARLAN COBEN'Dark and dangerous ... but where there is also kindness, loyalty, love' IRISH EXAMINERIn Maine, Colleen Clark stands accused of the worst crime a mother can commit: the abduction and possible murder of her child. Everyone - ambitious politicians in an election season, hardened police, ordinary folk - has an opinion on the case, and most believe she is guilty. But most is not al...

BE AFRAID. MOTHER IS COMING.Wyatt Riggins, the boyfriend of rising Maine artist Zetta Nadeau, has gone missing, leaving behind a cell phone containing a single-word message: RUN.Private investigator Charlie Parker is hired to find out why Riggins has fled, and from whom.Parker discovers that Riggins, an ex-soldier, has been involved in the abduction of four children from Mexico: three girls and a boy, all belonging to the cartel boss Blas Urrea - ex...