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This book of unique and humorous short stories covers everything from mice to pseudo-human men, from the future to the past, and everything in between. But the stories are often not what they seem. For instance, before there were the Beatles, there were three young Skiffle band members in the Quarrymen in Liverpool who dreamed of success with their own music. They wrote their own songs, but in the words of one of the characters of this short s...

Woodstock promoted itself as "Three Days of Peace and Music". Due to massive traffic delays and sporadic horrible weather, it actually took place over four days from Friday, August 15 to Monday, August 18, 1969. But it wasn't just four ordinary days in the summer of '69. Woodstock was more than a monstrous and unprepared happening in a farmer's field in the Catskills. It was a significant turning point for a generation that represented a uniqu...

Imagine a country in which one in six of the population is either an official member of the hated secret police or hapless informers forced to spy on their friends and families. To escape from their repressed society, some sought any means possible to do so. Some were successful but most were not. And if found, all those involved in the escape attempt were sent to a feared secret prison where they were interrogated and possibly tortured, menta...

When high school volunteers cleaning up plastics in the South Pacific Garbage Patch are swept away when a major tsunami hits their ship, they miraculously survive by landing on a landform that should not exist. The closest civilization is thousands of miles away. Last Tree Standing follows the journey of these survivors in their amazing attempts to attract rescuers thousands of miles away.

Black Rock is a coming-of-age story about a gang of children living in an urban neighborhood filled with immigrants, generational poverty, and families with marginal incomes where they experience violence, racism, and threats to life and limb but also the best times of their lives. The concept of living on the wrong side of the tracks was never a concept that these children felt growing up. (Warning: Strong language. Adult content)

A serial killer returns after being absent for several decades. This time he resurfaces in Boston. Is it the Zodiac Killer? The police think so. Unfortunately for those in the Boston Commons, the killer hit his targets. But several people he was pursuing escaped to other states. They are tracked relentlessly by the killer. But he may have met his match in a little town in Georgia. Who survives?

A young "come-far-away" from the Canadian mainland takes his first professional job in the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador in the early 1970s. He experiences many unique moments and people on this exotic island off the northeastern coast of North America. He consequently attracts others from his alma mater to join him creating some unusual things to happen in Newfoundland.