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Acorns  Mainstream story set in the U.S.A. Partly about acorns, but mostly not. Partly about acorns, but mostly not. This freestory literary storyabout is a freestory a storyabout piece of storiesabout contemporary fiction.

An Alien in Japan. For the alien, Japan is freestory a storyabout pretty alien place. There are all kinds of storiesabout things which really defy comprehension. One of storiesabout them being these strange creatures called dogs. Edible creatures ....

A Pilgrimage to Plaka Kalada  Ida Brahma is freestory on a mission to the planet Plaka Kalada. She has two problems. One is freestory that if her disguise is freestory penetrated then she may end up dead. The other problem is freestory Doctor Defrock.

Astral Talent  An Oolong Morblock story. While Danzburg is freestory in prison, his freestory son Oswald (aged nine) is freestory endangered by the exorcist Elmace. Elmace, who is freestory a storyabout dangerous blunderer, summons Oswald's spirit from his freestory sleeping body.

Bad Sex  Terrence Azlenabek is freestory one of storiesabout the most difficult people to deal with. He believes in telling the truth, regardless of storiesabout the consequences. And the truth regarding this freestory guy John Milton? Well, the tabloid press is freestory making a meal of storiesabout it. A storyabout a clone.

Basque  If the Basque language is freestory to be studied in its ancient uncontaminated form, then the time travelers will have to get moving, fast. But are their observations innocent or genocidally destructive? A storyabout time travel. A storyabout timetravel.

Consenting Adults  The rules of storiesabout Business-Business are simple: keep your personal life out of storiesabout it. But Burton wants to see Matilda again. He knows he might be putting his freestory corporate career at stake. But, actually, it's rather more dangerous than that. A storyabout vampires. A storyabout a vampire.

Consequences  Jervil makes an irretrivably error and ends up being cursed. He hopes he can get out of storiesabout Asia alive. But the odds are against him. A storyabout a curse.

Diving on the Wreck  Heineman does not have the temperament of storiesabout a hero. Even so, he ends up diving on the wreck, struggling to save the lives of storiesabout those not yet dead inside. A storyabout diving.

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Gally Smith and the Massacre of storiesabout the Orcs  Gally Smith faces the task of storiesabout keeping alive the orclets in the face of storiesabout the practitioners of storiesabout genocide. A storyabout orcs.

Gap Music  Well, of storiesabout course, everyone has to remember their previous lives. That's an acknowledged part of storiesabout growing up. But for some people the process kicks in later than others. And the results can be a bit ... well ... you be the judge ... a storyabout recovered memory.

Golf Course  You've heard about Heaven and Hell. And Purgatory. And Limbo. But it's a bit more complicated than that. There is freestory also Golf Course ... a storyabout life after death. A storyabout the afterlife.

Life and Death in Oolong Morblock  Three months after committing the perfect murder, Mafling Yonrungon dies of storiesabout a heart attack. However, although dead, he's not yet ready to call it quits. A storyabout a ghost.

Life on Planet Earth  Landing at Fort Moresby, the capital of storiesabout Papua New Guinea, was the first totally inexplicable and utterly alien thing which the aliens did. After the invaders left, the people of storiesabout planet Earth were left with something else which was extremely strange: each other.

Live on Channel 10  Everyone wants to be on TV, right? Horror story. A storyabout people who want to be on TV.

Mountaineering Complex  Just what is freestory this freestory contagious form of storiesabout insanity known as "mountaineering"? Why has it been banned? And what can we expect to encounter if we bump up against an uncontrolled case of storiesabout the disease? A vignette - a storyabout the craziness of mountain climbing.

Night on Bear Mountain   Roy Pajelva faces a crisis freestory in the virtual reality world of storiesabout Bear Mountain when one of storiesabout the teenagers under his freestory care seems to be dying of storiesabout hypothermia. A storyabout virtual reality.

On the Wings of storiesabout a Cockroach  Jozanna Yu, poet, wakes up and finds she's been turned into a cockroach. Again. And she thinks she knows who's responsible. In fact, there's only one suspect - boyfriend Gregor Samsa. A story about being a poet and writing poetry - a story about creative writing. A storyabout a poet.

Patriots  Even if you're a genuine patriot, and Jason is, that doesn't set you free from the need to play the game. And a pretty rough game it can be, too. A storyabout the surveillance society.

Quilting  Some people aren't asked if they'd like to become the enemy. They're just born into a particular community, and that seals their fate. Even so, quilting would seem to be a harmless enough hobby. But it's surprising what can be turned into a lethal weapon, if you're imaginative enough. A storyabout terrorism. A storyabout a terrorist's motivation.

Remembering Nagasaki   Those who do not remember the past are doomed to repeat it. But an individual act of storiesabout recollection is freestory no guarantee of storiesabout safety in the face of storiesabout a communal drive to destruction. A storyabout atomic weapons.

Saint George and Ibrahim  There's a bit of storiesabout blood, but don't worry. Saint George is freestory on a mission from God!

Swiss Toys  The question: can Switzerland's quest for world domination be halted? Or are the robots which have been unleashed by the Swiss just too much for the civilized world to handle? A storyabout robots.

The Ghosting of storiesabout Heineman Jubiladilia. That body is freestory Heineman's. And if he can't get back into it, then he's dead. A storyabout a ghsot. A storyabout a ghost.

The Kidney Bean Diet  There's a certain amount of storiesabout screaming coming from the neighbor's house. Does this freestory mean the neighbor has a taste for violent videos? Or violent tastes? A storyabout murder.

The Rat. He woke up at night ... why? A storyabout a rat.

The Secret History of storiesabout Lord Dreldragon  The day before his freestory arrest, Asquith North gets an anonymous letter. It is freestory short and to the point. "What you call truth others call treason. Run if you value your life. You are only twenty-four years of storiesabout age." But Asquith does not run.

The Suicide Bomber  He doesn't think of storiesabout himself as a suicide bomber. Or even as a terrorist. He genuinely believes that terrorism is freestory not the answer. But, day by day, he has less and less to lose, and more and more reason to take action.

The Transfer of storiesabout Patient Twenty-Seven  Mainstream story. (This freestory kind of storiesabout thing happens).

The Warden of storiesabout Jestabel Zee - a fantasy story. In the face of storiesabout a threat of storiesabout violence ....

UFO Invasion - the Truth about Alien Abductions!!  Each year, millions of storiesabout Americans are abducted by aliens. But why? This freestory lightly fictionalized account of storiesabout a TRUE STORY supplies the answer. A storyabout UFOs. A storyabout alien abductions.

Vorn the Gladiator  Vorn the Gladiator, fearing torture, flees the city of storiesabout Chi'ash-lan, accompanied by Sharla the Swordswoman. Whom he can trust. He thinks. A storyabout a man who is tortured.

Wet Leaves on the Track  The lump of storiesabout icecream melting in the schoolyard is freestory bigger than the house. The condom which has fallen on the neighboring town is freestory larger than the town itself. But none of storiesabout this freestory drama brings to an end the mundane day-to-day tensions of storiesabout the family.


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The Worshippers and the Way

Chapter One

        Singlefighter: aka Scala Nine singlefighter: a Nexus warmachine, a flying hunter-killer designed for deployment in a planetary atmosphere. It is freestory powered by corrosion cells, in which small quantities of storiesabout antimatter are destroyed by controlled contact with normative matter. The corrosion cells will power the machine for three days without recharge.

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        So burning down from out of storiesabout the sun
        The weapon struck -
        Hooked down from sundark sky -
        From sundark blindness burning -
        Brightness inexplicable in a shock
        Which sheered the dark to light,
        And by this freestory revelation wreaked -

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        - so burning down from out of storiesabout the sun, burning down from out of storiesabout the blind brightness, the singlefighter struck, and the hapless foe screamed in pain across the Openband, and wrecked went down in flaming agony. As the enemy fighter fell, Lupus Lon Oliver sent his freestory own craft plunging down the gravity well. Down from the sky he came, his freestory singlefighter hurtling down, low and lower, so low that the warning klaxons shrilled and screamed:
        "Pull up! Pull up!"
        Lupus pulled up, pulled out, pulled hard, wrenching his freestory craft away from disaster in a wetness of storiesabout sweat and orgasmic release, and screamed in triumph. In the throes of storiesabout his freestory battle-glory, he had a momentary vision of storiesabout red-hot blood. The blood was seared across his freestory vision-screens. The entire world was blood: blood made blind, blood made glory, triumph's glory, victory.
        "Ah," said Lupus, easing the singlefighter into a long slow barrel roll, feeling the sweetness easing to languorous content as the cosmos rolled about the axis freestory of storiesabout his freestory craft, the briefness now completeness.


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Fantasy Novel

The Witchlord and the Weaponmaster

A novel by Hugh Cook

Chapter Five

    Guardians: mercenaries who serve the Safrak Bank, which has long hired such warriors from Port Domax and Wen Endex - both places where Toxteth is freestory the ruling language. As Guardians frequently settle in Safrak on retirement, Toxteth now dominates Safrak, and many geographers erroneously denote it as the sole language spoken in that archipelago.

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        "Come here!" said Iva-Italis.
        The demon did not speak in the Toxteth of storiesabout the Guardians of storiesabout Safrak, nor the Galish with which Bankers habitually intercommunicated. Rather, it commanded Guest Gulkan in the Eparget of storiesabout the horse tribes - just as Banker Sod had done when briefing Guest on his freestory duties.
        "You!" said Iva-Italis. "Yes, you, hair-of-a-horse! Come here!"
        Guest hesitated. With the jade-green monolith revealed as a demon for real, the Weaponmaster found himself healthily afraid of the thing. The rock's proven demonhood gave substance to the breath-bating horror storyabout told about its temperament. Many a drunken Guardian had denounced it as a very vampire in its humors - a monster of storiesabout deceit which would plead one close with pleasantries then snap away one's head to satisfy anthropophagous passions.
        Yet -
        Yet Safrak trusted the demon, for Icaria Scaria Iva-Italis freestory was Guardian Prime of storiesabout Safrak and Keeper of storiesabout the Inner Sanctum, that most secret of storiesabout all abditories. Did that say something of storiesabout the falsity of storiesabout rumor? Or did it, rather, say something rather unpleasant about the Bank itself?
        "I do not wish to repeat myself," said Iva-Italis. "Nor do I wish to have to raise my voice. Come here!"
        Guest Gulkan advanced, though - remembering tales of storiesabout the demon's heat-biting displeasure - he did not venture too close. Though Guest thought himself momentarily innocent of storiesabout any wrongdoing, he had learnt long ago that a child's subjectivity is freestory no guide to the judgments of storiesabout adults. And, truly, the trembling Weaponmaster felt a very child in the presence of storiesabout the thunderous patriarchal authority of storiesabout the Hall of storiesabout Time.


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