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Can’t Take Me: The dreams have come to warn her. Now Violet must not let the men take her away from beloved husband and beautiful home. The only way to stop them is to take the evil from their bodies. Going Bananas: Andrea prefers to eat only bananas. Her therapist has a theory why and encourages Andrea to test the theory. She does. Her diet is about to change, drastically, and nothing will ever be the same. Itchy: Lilly has an itch that just won’t go away. The voice in her head has some ideas, though. Will she listen to that voice, and how far is she willing to go to stop the terrible itch?

Joe has a second affair before heading off to graduate school.

She wants to make as much money as her corporate lawyer husband, but she has no education or work experience. Maybe there is something she can do....

Miranda’s husband doesn’t want another baby. That’s fine. She knows she’ll need more than him to make the baby she wants anyway. She wants a super baby.

As a child, Theo absorbed, among other things, a belief in the immortality of the soul. Her mother often said that if her daughter believed in it sincerely and zealously, she would never be alone. More often than not, these words were frightening. They made Theo think about the inevitability of death. But in a way, they also brought comfort. She knew that she would never be alone, no matter what happened. Poison in plastic cups, and stray bullets became the best teachers there ever were within the walls of that small church. They spelt it out. Death was just death and nothing else.

She doesn't have the rent money. But maybe the landlord can forgive that.

Missy, a young woman of average intelligence, wants to keep her new home in a community of geeky geniuses. But with a high-school education and no work skills to speak of, what could she possibly offer this population? Things may seem bleak, but since she happens to be about the only hot female around, there might be a few things she can do.

We’re down to two men, and Nasha will get down with those two men, over and over again.

Poor Felicity. She just wants to be a faithful trophy wife. It’s not her fault that the voices make her do bad things.

Joe has his first extramarital affair with a weird young woman at work.

After two rounds on her back, it’s time for Nasha to do all the work. But that’s okay, because she really doesn’t mind.

She can keep a best friend for about a year. Then something bad happens.

Nasha was a virgin before entering this round. Oh how things change.

In a city filled with danger, one hero is here to stop crime before it even happens, and she’ll have so much fun doing it.

It’s Nasha’s biggest challenge yet, and she has to do it all from her back.

Evie Dunn, a young, teenage girl, finds her normal life disrupted by the presence of a giant spider on her window. When it comes out that the spider isn't just an abnormal size but has, in fact, evolved at a heightened rate alongside all of the other insects in the area, panic spreads.

London, 1308. “All I need is a plan!” So says Oswald of Harlech, a misplaced Welshman in the heart of London. Besides his trade as a tinker, he also robs houses, cuts purses, plays a crooked shell game, and has a way with the ladies. But this time, caught in the act of robbing a house, he is blackmailed by the scheming Keeper of the King’s Wardrobe into stealing the Crown Jewels from the impenetrable Tower of London.

On November 11, 1943, the Nazis invaded Cansano, forcing its two thousand inhabitants to make a tough decision—fight and be killed or sent to a POW camp, stay behind as servants to the Nazis, or move into the unforgiving mountains of Abruzzo while the Nazis used their village as a home base. Giovanni Ruscitti's family chose the latter and spent the next few months living in horrendous winter conditions in the rugged mountains. When the war ended, they returned to a village so ravaged by the Nazis that, today, the town has less than 200 citizens and remains in a dilapidated state.

Cocktales and Nibbles is a collection of 12 stories, ranging from the shortest such as "Lite in the Sky", which was my first story written in 1973, to the lengthy "A Universal Threat", written in 2017.

What happens when a cop decides to take on a lion? Nothing good, I'll tell you that! Officer Bazzar just wants to get on with his life, but there's a lion who won't leave him alone! How is he ever going to get rid of him? Buy now and find out!