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Bobby and the Bedouins
Hopelessly mellow security guard and bass player Pablo Yokimura finds himself in a band with a wreck of a former superstar in this story of a true rock and roll apocalypse
Secret Sidewalk
Beauregaard Sweet became invisible, but his troubles began when he suddenly reappeared. Now everybody wants something from him. Manny the mechanic wants his wife. Sharad LeMaster wants his secret. Emma Biggs wants another shot at the TV news, the leaders of the Four Tribes want to send him back to wherever it was he’d gone, and all he wants to do is eat some donuts and watch reality TV. (podcast)
Orange Car with Stripes
This “atheist science fiction comedy cult classic” follows the trail of a Professor of Defunct Sciences as he attempts to discover the deepest darkest secret of the mysterious driver of the orange car with stripes
Squatter With a Lexus
Pearson Holmes disappeared a long time ago, leaving behind a potentially valuable safety deposit box. Freddy the Freegan is the first to stumble across the mystery, but soon a whole cast of characters are out to find the key and claim the treasure before time runs out and the contents are forfeit to the state. Who will solve the riddle of the Squatter with a Lexus?
World Weary Avengers
Tom and Chris set out to make the world better. All it would take was the right people in the right places at the right time, saying the right things in the right way. Easy. From there it was only a matter of who, where, when, what and how.
Freak City
It’s hard to control your destiny while you’re waiting for the bus. The trouble for Argus Kirkham began when a stranger pushed his way through a crowd at a bus stop and pressed a package into his hands. Inside the package were various random items – photos and toys and newspaper clippings. None of it seemed to make any sense, but as Argus and his friends unraveled the clues, very strange things began to occur in this novel of mystery and ghosts.
Snapdragon Alley
Ten year old friends Alex and Sapphire discover something strange on the city bus map – a street that existed for only one year. As they set out to solve the mystery, they encounter the possibility of another world, another dimension perhaps, lurking in a vacant lot, but they are not the only ones on the trail. Who will discover the truth, and who will pay the price required by the witchcraft of positive thinking?
Macedonia
A gang of street kids, an anonymous radio announcer, a detective from the future, a presidential assassination attempt and a frequently mistaken narrator all play a part in this jumble of introductions to an open-source novel inspired by the works of Macedonio Fernandez.
Missy Tonight
These days it seems like everyone is cashing in on the New Atheism craze, except for lifelong unbeliever Alan Musted. What’s a portable toilet dispatcher to do? Crash the party, that’s what! Join Alan and his friends and enemies in this ground-breaking work of “atheist pulp fiction”, the spellbinding sequel to Orange Car with Stripes
Hidden Highway
Sharad LeMaster ran away from his own cult, and tried to hide from his followers by taking a desk job in a motel in the middle of nowhere, but when a certain lazy ghost from his past reappears, Sharad is lured into a haunted house and becomes the proud possession of the witch Eugenia, and gets caught between rival black-market magic-potion dealers in their fight over a girl who just happens to possess the most perfect skull ever for turning into a shrunken head.
Somebody Somewhere
Some psycho kidnaps his would-be girlfiend, gets chased by the cops halfway across the state, runs out of gas right outside your house, where you and your spouse are enjoying a quiet evening at home, and now you’re held hostage at gunpoint and surrounded by police. It could happen. (podcast)
Dawn Debris
A potty-mouth, bad-tempered, barely competent private eye takes on FedCorTron, “the makers of everything”, and their sinister plot to implant desirable consumer tendencies by means of genetically altered orange juice.
Time Zone
This is not your father’s time travel. There’s no machine, there is no dial. There’s no telling where or when you’ll go. The only thing that can change is you. It will make you what it needs to make you, to fit you in, to make it work. And when you come back, that is if you come back, it won’t be the same you at all. You’re messing with the nature of things, and the nature of things does not like to be messed with, as Garrett Ronson and his friends find out, the hard way. (podcast)
Golden
A man saved by accident from global human extinction is able to travel back in time within the previous century – the only problem is, he’s a black man in 20th century America. A screenplay based on characters from the novel Time Zone
Fissure Monroe
In ‘The Case of the Missing Fibula’, Dawn Debris is hired to find a possibly-radiation-poisoned leg bone of a high society fashionette who only wants to fit in with the new craze of skeletal transplants that’s sweeping the nation. A store detective, a street musician, a tedious pundit and a suspicious beautician are all involved as market forces compete in a world where beauty is no longer skin deep.
The Futile Epikles
A collection of character sketches inspired by ‘Earwitness’ by Elias Canetti
In the Bathroom on the Bus
While on a long bus ride to a job interview, a young man and his fellow passengers get a little freaked out after discovering a corpse in the back of the bus, and a jammed bathroom door which may be concealing the murderer.
Frederick Hardware’s Store
The tale that started the famous legend of the wandering cashier.
Survivor
Survival is not a matter of luck; it is a skill. This skill isn’t something anyone is born with. It must be learned, developed, tested, and perfected, through many trials and in many ways. A true Survivor can endure anything; a poetry reading, the pie at a local diner, the muzak in an office elevator, even a midnight madness sale. Survivor will take you there, and show you how.
Phantom of the Mall
Francis Cosine woke up from a nightmare way too early on a Saturday in August, and discovered he’d forgotten to make the list. Without the list, he had no idea what to do. What else could go wrong? Plenty, in this shopping saga of a personal apocalypse told in subway-surface style.
Rampant Pheromonix
When an overpopulated city is exposed to an epidemic of clairvoyance, all hell breaks loose. It’s up to the ‘wuns above’ and Science to fend off the forces of both good and evil in a race against certain annihilation.
The Endless Adventures of Infoman
A man’s obsession with current events creates havoc with his family life and friendships
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