Those unfamiliar with the metal fabrication industry may find this bizarre little period piece too fanciful to be believed but those who are familiar will know that it's business as usual. The craziness you are about to read actually happened to a business acquaintance of the author—even to the fish oil.Now including a newspaper clipping with a follow-up to the continuing story.

This anthology offers a little something for everyone. You will confront dangerous beasts, demons, dragons, and cold blooded killers. Travel from the Orient to the Grand Canyon and into the universe. Get scared, get amused, and get enchanted. These stories have been crafted by a group of talented and experienced writers from the foothill community of La Verne, California.

Doctor Josef Mengele selected thousands for the gas chambers on the platform of the train station at the Auschwitz death camp. The survivors called him the Angel of Death. He was brilliant, urbane and charming, and he performed vivisection on the prisoners he spared from the Zyklon B. Then he spent forty years being hunted.Although once in the hands of the U. S. Army, Mengele was never charged with war crimes. He moved about with the help of dozens of people, sometime unwittingly t...

Why did the government keep the Roswell incident such a big secret? Seventy years later only one woman remembers the answer, and it falls on her shoulders to save humanity from the second wave of genocidal aliens. CIA linguist, Carrie Player, wants nothing more than to have a grandbaby. Unfortunately, she will have to put that hope aside while she banters with Deshler, the alien determined to eliminate the human race.Carrie is tough, vulnerable, sarcastic and the only person on Ear...

Half-alien, Terrie Deshler, and her alien bashing mother, Carrie Player, surf the multiverse when they hear that Deshler, who tried to annihilate the human race, is in trouble for failing in his mission. The only way that they can reach Tau Ceti IV in time to intercede is to go back in time the thirty-two years it takes to make the transit, which also resets their ages. Then there is the minor issue of a marauding race of aliens who are looking for a new planet because theirs will be incin...

Contributing authors: Don Ball, Jon Chaus, Sharri Cohen, T.L. Eastwood, Carol Elek, Lisa Griffiths, Sue Maywood, Tamara Miller, Holly Scott, and Scott Skipper offer some autobiographical memories, a little historical fiction, several good creepy tales, some heartwarming stories, a couple of talking animal escapades, action and adventure, and even a children's book about baby hummingbirds. No matter what you're hankering to read, you'll find it here.

A sign—an omen—compels an ancient people to abandon their impregnable city and follow in the footsteps of their ancestors who had splintered from them eons ago. The caravan is attacked by hostiles as they make their way north. The numbers are ravaged by disease, the elements, and internal strife. Attrition threatens the survival of the wanderers. The fiendish priests appeal in vain to the bloodthirsty gods for deliverance. Foolish kings lead them into peril. Wise kings struggle to mend the...

A rogue planet dislodged from its star passes through the solar system. A manned probe lands on it and discovers ruined cities but no trace of the occupants—nothing, not a picture, not a scrap of paper, not even an appliance. No clue is left as to the nature of the occupants. Astrophysicist, Margot Medina, discovers and photographs an obelisk that is covered with writing. Will the experts on earth be able to decipher it? Will it solve the puzzle the crew found on Odysseus? Will artificial ...

In the mood for a little political incorrectness? How could a conservative ever get elected governor of America's most liberal state? Is it possible to run the world's eighth largest economy from a barstool? Governor Jim West makes it look easy as he fixes the crooked cesspool that is California politics. Police chiefs weep, presidents threaten, union bosses quiver as Jim rides roughshod over all of them. It really looks like California might be back on the right track until a twenty-somet...

This fictionalized account of my ancestor's remarkable life will probably get me struck from the Thanksgiving guest list, but those who aren't related will be amazed and amused. Then again, are you sure we're not related? Washington was born when John Quincy Adams was president and he died the week before the Titanic sank. During that long life he did some outrageous things. This account follows his early days in the Carolina low country, running from county to county avoiding the whipping...

If you just had a second chance with what you know now, would everything work out for the better? In the future, for a price, you can have a second chance, and a third or fourth. A troubled marriage can be fixed by the snap of an alien's fingers. Phil and Jennifer go back in time to before they made their first mistake. What could go wrong?

Most people don't recall—if they ever knew—that the United States Army invaded México in 1846. A year later they entered México City and received an unconditional surrender. Then they walked away with Texas, New México and California. What would have happened if they hadn't walked away?History is full of crossroads. Alexander conquered Egypt, Persia and Afghanistan then he went to India and died of fever at twenty-three. How would he have redrawn the world map if he had lived to a ...