10 more SF short stories by Floyd Looney (formatting improved)The included stories are entitled:VamooseWhen the Tardigrades CameThey said it was a clockSkyscraper ArchipelagoThe First GateForest of the GenresCRISISDark EnvoyThe KeepersThe Gray Tigers10 Science Fiction Short StoriesVamooseWhen the Tardigrades CameThey said it was a clockSkyscraper ArchipelagoThe First GateForest of the GenresCRISISDark EnvoyThe KeepersThe Gray Tigers

A melancholy young gay man marries a widower, and becomes intrigued by the idea of his dead predecessor: the man he would love to be, and even love to love...When shy, reticent Elias gets married to a dynamic older man, he hopes to say goodbye to his melancholy former life and make the most of their modern civil partnership. But soon he finds himself haunted by the beguiling idea of his dead predecessor: the man Elias would love to be, and even love to love.Inspired by Chaucer's medieval dream romances, this modern day folktale uses gothic themes to explore the differences between civil partnerships and traditional notions of love and marriage.

Humourous stories with a twist in the end of each tale. How a witch loses her powers and defeats her witch friends with kindness, how a rich man sells his spoiled children as pets, how a father forces his children to play backyard cricket through a bushfire and saves the day, how a newspaper boy lies to get the girl but comes undone ... and more.Rare Pets and other Oddities is a collection of stories characterised by black humour with a twist in the end of the tale. A witch loses her powers and defeats her witch friends with kindness. A rich man sells his spoiled children as pets. A father forces his children to play backyard cricket through a bushfire and saves the day. A newspaper boy lies to get the girl and is defeated through his own mendacity. Two girls try to compel adults to be happy, only to achieve their purpose when they give up. Parents try to cure their son of his medieval obsession through unorthodox means. A golfer who teases bald men has the tables turned on him. A young girl invents a fake boyfriend to turn her older sister off love, only to fall in love herself. Young neighbours compete with escalating pool parties, only to learn popularity isn’t everything. A young boy absorbs curiosity about the universe through his sister’s birthday present – the astronomical refractor. Two scientists fake a new species and are shamed on national television. A father tries to scare his sons to sleep only to be shot with a tranquilizerThese stories have the moral wisdom of Aesop, the absurdity of Roald Dahl and David Walliams and the larrikinism of Andy Griffiths. Children know the world can be both cruel and generous and these stories reflect that. They are ethical but never didactic. Their primary effect is simple – entertainment. The collection is aimed at upper primary school boys and girls. Adults read them and laugh, and yet the story is never ‘winking’ above the children’s heads to their parents or teachers with separate jokes … the humour, quirky as it is, comes from irony, from the recognition of universal human types and frailties.

Stefan Petrucha's first novel, Making God is a shocking critique of religion and belief wrapped around a page-turning thriller.Stefan Petrucha's self-published novel, Making God is a shocking critique of religion and belief wrapped around a page-turning thriller.In it, The Great Work, a potent conjunction of genius, schizophrenia and egomania finds its way to the mass culture through a manuscript lost by a brilliant and unlucky recluse. It's found in the trash by an insane street woman, marketed by a megalomaniacal Master of the Universe and soon on its way to becoming the center of a new religious movement.Earning raves from critics and readers, Making God has appeared in forums ranging from Publisher's Weekly to the syllabus of a college lit class. Rare copies of the original edition remain available through all notable online book outlets.

Karen is going to farm camp.She loves growing vegetables, baking treats, and making crafts. But best of all, Karen loves taking care of Ollie. Karen feeds and brushes the little lamb every day. She wants to enter Ollie in the country fair.

It is a story about a Roman soldier, Marcus Lucius, son of the great warrior Maximus, who protects his friends (Appius, Octavian) and falls in love in Julia Fabia, while he is on the way to revenge his killed wife, Decima. It's a story with many risky actions, intrigues and it's about friendship, loyalty and of course love. It's set in the times of the emperor Hadrian.It is a story about a Roman soldier, Marcus Lucius, son of the great warrior Maximus, who protects his friends (Appius, Octavian) and falls in love in Julia Fabia, while he is on the way to revenge his killed wife, Decima. It's a story with many risky actions, intrigues and it's about friendship, loyalty and of course love. It's set in the times of the emperor Hadrian.Review by Emilia Wagner (2013) : I read it and I liked it a lot, but LOVEFOOL Saga is for me even better. What I was surprised of was the end. There was a lot of action, mysteries and intrigues. I loved it. I was like the BBC series about the emperor Claudius. I think everybody would be pleased to see it as a movie (like Gladiator with Russel Crowe) or a series. It’s very good written, fluently and lyrically. I loved the battle scene. It was impressive! It sounded like music! Like a symphony! Awesome! There is a lot of historical background, but it’s not depressing.

What would you do if you met a businessman in a London coffee shop who made you a ridiculous offer of €500,000...merely for you to participate in a series of interviews? Would you assume the offer to be that of a deranged person, a fraudster or a joker? And irrespective of that, for €100,000 in advance and non-returnable, would you attend an initial meeting? Well.....would you?THE 2084 PRECEPT (A Novel)"Only two things are infinite, the universe and the stupidity of the human race, and I'm not quite sure about the former."Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)"Forgive them, for they know not what they do."Jesus Christ (The Christian Bible, Luke 23-34)What would you do if you met a businessman in a London coffee shop, who made you a ridiculous offer of €500,000...merely for you to participate in a series of interviews? Would you assume the offer to be that of a deranged person, a fraudster or a joker? And irrespective of that, for €100,000 in advance and non-returnable, would you attend an initial meeting? Well.....would you? And if you did attend the initial meeting, and your interviewer claimed not only to be a successful businessman but also a discharged inmate of an institution for the mentally ill? And if he was suffering from the delusion that he was an extraterrestrial student, and that he wanted to interview you for his thesis on the dominant lifeform on this planet? And if the €100,000 advance turned out to be real? Would you report him to the authorities as a deranged person in dire need of care?Or if you postponed reporting him, and the ensuing payments were also real and continued to flow, what then? And would you stop if subsequently questioned by an obscure department of the national security forces?Interesting questions for cynical business consultant Peter O'Donoghue. Would you have done as he did?

When forty thousand human colonists are abandoned on a planet called Gehenna for political reasons, and re-supply ships fail to arrive, collapse seems imminent. Yet over the next two centuries, the descendants of the original colonists survive despite all odds by entering a partnership with the planet's native intelligence, the lizardlike burrowing calibans.

Seran is a scout fighting alongside other robots in the war against humans. When she detects wreckage of a fallen battleship, an errant process compels her to fight through the human forces and rescue a survivor. She is drawn to the dying robot and the attraction leads her away from the protocols of machine society.Seran is a scout fighting on a distant planet in the ongoing war between robots and humans. When a battleship falls, an errant process compels her to fight through the human forces and rescue a survivor. Although she sustains heavy damage, she is drawn to the dying robot. Her attraction leads her away from the protocols of machine society, and to the horizon of evolution.

Possessed for fourteen years, Willa Queen has never tried too hard to get rid of her demon, Ithinara. But when the new boy in town, Cain Steele, starts giving her attention she becomes torn between the life she's used to and the life she could have. Getting close to Cain might be what finally lets her demon take over for good, or it could be exactly what sets Willa free.Willa Queen had gotten used to her life in Hollow’s Point, where she’d go to school, volunteer at the animal shelter, and play volleyball for the Wayward Tigers. She thinks her life is pretty normal, considering she’s been possessed by a demon for fourteen years. Ithinara has never made as big a deal out of anyone as she has the Steele family. She wants Willa to stay away from them, claiming they’re dangerous. Willa believes Ithinara, because this wouldn’t be the first time the demon has protected her. But Willa becomes torn between the life she’s used to and the life she could have. Getting close to Cain and the Steele’s might be what finally lets Ithinara take over for good, or it could be exactly what sets Willa free.

An intimate narrative of the exchange between Samuel and Hope, told from Hope's perspective, this short story prequel to the Running in the Dark series sheds light on a frightening event witnessed by Bessina, who later narrates book one of the series.Goodnight Sam reveals the tragic history of Sam and Hope, who have existed as vampires since the eighteenth century. Sam has grown weary of the new world along with the escalating conflicts of his kind and wishes to attain peace in what is know as 'the true death', while Hope desperately desires to pursue a more fulfilling life together. The repercussions of the shocking mutual decision they make, and Bessina’s role as a witness to it, become the catalyst for the dangers facing Bess and Trace in the Running in the Dark Series.

Project 6 is an interactive short story. Take on the role of agent 6, a Magnet Securities operative ordered to take out terrorists who have stormed LAX. Mission discretion is yours alone. How the mission proceeds, and how it ends, is up to you.Requires Amazon Kindle or Mobi for reader input to work.It is 2012. A new year, and a new era of counter-terrorism. Magnet Securities, the largest private security firm in America, leads the fight against rising domestic terror groups in the country. But do their methods make them better than the very people they hunt?Project 6 is an interactive short story. Take on the role of agent 6, a Magnet Securities operative ordered to take out terrorists who have stormed LAX. Mission discretion is yours alone. How the mission proceeds, and how it ends, is up to you.Requires Amazon Kindle or Mobi for reader input to work.

I was just your normal teenager. Okay not normal after all I am a dragon. I was just trying to make it through high school when my parents decided to spring some horrible news on me, proving that parents just don't understand. They say I'm the chosen one but I can't even catch a cab! Let alone save my dragon kingdom! Are they crazy? Do they really think I can pull this off? I guess we'll see.I'm not what they had in mind when they were writing about heroines. I'm lazy, I'm not very useful, and oh yeah I'm fourteen. Yet, somehow little old me is supposed to save the dragon kingdom and be this great leader. Imagine how my face looked. You guessed it shocked. I'm completely convinced that my parents have gone off the deep end but then of course I could do this and be great. I could rock the dragon kingdom. Or I could just eat lunch. I'm still figuring out. Not sure what to do but I do know that I'm not ready to face whatever it is they expect me to face. I'd rather go to school and believe me that's saying a lot.

Tormented and alone a ghost lies trapped on a lonely back road, cowering from a terrible evil on the other side. When a passerby stops in the ghost's clearing he gets one last chance at the afterlife and finds that even in the depths of horror there is still some laughter to be found.There are two poems here, the first of which is The Reign of Drops: I am a memory of my birth, and the sea of my being yearns for union with others people's seas.The second poem is The Dynamics of Growth: Will we water one another's buds so that they may blossom, or will we withhold and wilt in the light of being?No adult-only content.

Do we really need to buy twenty-four pencils? a student asked. -No, not just twenty-four pencils, but rather twenty-four sharpened pencils, the lecturer replied.Point of a pencil, is a short story about a creative writing class, in which the lecturer tells the students that she requires each of them to arrive at the class with twenty-four sharpened pencils. The students question this number, but soon the point she made is brought home to the class, when those students that did not follow her instruction begin to run out of ink, break the point of the only pencil they've brought with them, or lose the lead out of their clutch pencils.Its just a short story about how a lecturer can inspire a class to write more interestingly and use their imaginations.

Wonka is back! and so is his new pal Baba, now on the inside of the good back door. Owner continues her struggles with Wonka always ready to spur on. Not one to tolerate failure, he recommends squaring up to each new and ghastly situation with fortitude! yes a cat for all seasons, so read on and relax with Wonka.Wonka again and Baba too will bring you further along with the adventures of their Owner, soldiering on with a poor year of it. Only Wonka knows what's best and encouraged by him to face up to it all, surely she can cope? The philosophers as usual hover in the background with their sage advice, even Nietzsche finds a voice. But it is Wonka who heads up the support network, with Baba as a rather simple reserve.This is the fourth in the series and Wonka as ever, reigns supreme, scoffing at those who give in and give up. Just get on with it!

In the last days when Jesus Christ is in Jerusalem, two twelve-year-old girls seek desperately to find him so that one of them can be healed. Without their parents' consent, Hannah and Leah set out on their own to find the man who can heal Leah, who is crippled. Their journey is a dangerous one for two girls on their own as they follow Jesus from city to city, hoping for a miracle.In the last days when Jesus Christ is in Jerusalem, two twelve-year-old girls seek desperately to find him so that one of them can be healed. Without their parents' consent, Hannah and Leah set out on their own to find the man who can heal Leah, who is crippled. Their journey is a dangerous one for two girls on their own, and they follow Jesus from city to city, hoping for his healing touch. At last, they arrive in Jerusalem, where Jesus will be crucified. But are they too late? In their search for a miracle, the two best friends learn about love, faith, and forgiveness.

It's a Joke Book.What people are saying about "Swedish Yokes":"I think it's marvelous!" - Barry Raspbody"If you go into it with incredibly low expectations, then you'll probably get what you expect." - Stephen King, author of many things that don't include this quote"There's probably at least one joke in here that will please somebody." - Snanddwitch BabbellwouwstHe planned the perfect weekend, but will it happen?

In the year 2054, Army Sergeant Logan Martel hunts for an insurgent plotting a horrific attack on the West. It is in this world of high-tech equipment and prolific robotics that Logan finds himself set adrift, searching for what's left of his own humanity. Will he find what he's looking for? Or will he become merely a replica of his former self?is thought provoking ebook delves into the subtley of elder abuse. It follows the life of Michelle, a senior who's favourite son has moved in with her after the death of her husband. Initially welcome, he becomes more controlling as time goes on.