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Turd is a happy and friendly soul who right from the beginning of his life within his "host", Stan, wants to make friends with everyone in his vicinity. As he is a turd that means both Stan and his internal organs, the lungs, the kidneys, his heart and brain as well as his stomach. He is both surprised and disappointed when none of them is friendly, but shun him at all times. 

Most of all he is surprised that all of them want him to leave Stan's body. 

"Why?" he asks. "I was born here just like you were, so why can't I stay?"

Big drama when he refuses to leave, but will he succeed in his plan of staying forever? And should he be allowed to stay?

 

Short stories of all aspects of life, also e.g. the recent presidential election.
The collection of tales has got its name from the story I, the author, see as the major one of all of those that are included: "Candy Store". It holds many different ideas and angles, like e.g. exploitation. 
Several of the stories may come out as FEMINIST which is fully intended.

     Indira and Daisy by Rosemary MorrisGrammar schoolgirls fourteen-year-old Indira Nathwani and Daisy Royston have been best friends since they were four years old. Indira lives in Southeast England with her wealthy Hindu family, an older brother, pious grandfather, parents, and aunt and uncle. In their temple room her grandfather teaches her to worship and serve God with love and devotion. Daisy lives with her mother, a single parent who works hard to provide for her. Since her devout Christian grandmother’s death, Daisy rarely attends church. Sometimes she and Indira agree to disagree about their cultures and religions, but it never affects their friendship. Ho...

Here is an excerpt from a book I am editing for publication. I hope to finish before the end of the year.  The book is partially based on some of the hardships I encountered growing up in a single-family home with my mother.  We had to endure many bad roommates, but we also met some wonderful Christian people, who helped our family in ways we could never have imagined.  The book was written in the late 80s and early 90s.  I added a brief dialogue about a CD ROM car navigational system. We take it for granted that we can get these things on our phones and cars today.  In the late 80s, they were beginning to become popular.  I hope you enjoy this brief chapter. I ...

The year is 1885. Hank James has been in Canada several months panning gold from a stream near Roswell, British Columbia. When he hears a prizefight will be held in town, he attends along with everyone for miles around. With a little help from the fight referee, he wins big betting on the fight.Having realized that the life of a miner isn’t nearly as romantic or rewarding as he expected, and with advice from the policeman who helped him win money on the fight, Hank goes to Farwell to haul freight with pack horses for contractors building the transcontinental railroad.The railroad’s security, a detachment of North West Mounted Police, have maintained across the West that no liquor be allo...

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One of my absolute favorite genres is what I call "weird tales" which means that daily, ordinary settings may contain magic or mysterious elements. All of the short stories of this collection are "weird" in that sense of the word - and, in some way or another, they are about animals.  

 

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0DNTRDF7R

 

 

Synopsis for Bleeds When Broken. Our protagonist, Fiona talks early on about her troubled childhood, revealing why she is now plagued by the dangerous habit of self-harming in which she indulges.She is an intelligent, good looking girl, in her early twenties, with a career in the nursing profession.Fiona lives with her mother and sister in England. Her father died a few years back.  The habit was difficult to hide and known about by her family. Her mother being so concerned felt that a trip on a cruise maybe what the girl needed to help improve her health issues.It was on this trip that she meets Charles, a young man looking for love. He makes it a daily quest to begin a court...

A story about John, a teenager who after joining the army and catches the eye of Dexter, the leader of a secret anti-terrorist group. After years of clandestinely eliminating terrorists, John’s life takes a dramatic turn after he saves a young woman from certain death while on holiday in South Africa.

In this fantasy an unexpected offspring of a lost astronaut and an alien from a distant planet goes looking for his relatives on planet Earth. How should - and could - his relatives welcome him when they didn't even know about him? And what will be his future if he stays with his human relatives? 

978-1-312-01739-9

 

Tippy is much younger than her sister and brother. The siblings are living with their parents in a big house. However, they never played together the way Tippy does with her friends Rosie, Peter and Lois. Luckily enough Tippy is a very smart and vivacious pre-teen girl who has many ideas, not least about the way girls should be treated in society. Actually, she has a knack of seeing through a lot of rules of society that not even all the grown-ups understand.

ISBN.No. 978-1-312-39931-0

To keep lions in the home is not for everybody, especially when they behave like ghosts who roam the dreams of a woman who doesn't even have a pet cat. How come she wakes up, morning after morning, with a torn nightie and scratches from claws after being chased by lions in her own home at night? 

And what about those other people who encounter other weird and dangerous animals in the same flat? What is going on?

Peteyboy has a habit of always being naughty, yes, he sets out to tease and harass whoever there is to bully. His parents are clueless when it comes to put a stop to his annoying behavior. However, one day his mother trusts him to look after his younger sister, Sonya, and then he has a scare as she seems to disappear ....

Eve has been living with her Mom ever since she was a baby as her father has left the family. However, Eve and her Mom have been very happy and content, but then everything is disrupted because of a new man in the family. When there also is another addition in the shape of a baby boy eve is consumed with jealousy. That's why she sets out to solve the problem of this kid brother once and for all by selling him .... 

Could the sweet and very popular tooth-fairy Julius be guilty of stealing a tooth from the giant Sky Rock? That is what the girlfriend of Sky Rock, the ogre Badilla, believes and she sets out to wage war on the fairies, not only Julius: Big trouble in fairyland, and what can all those fairies do to stop Badilla's plans? 

Baby is so very young that she doesn't even have a name. She is a sweet and very cute baby, but as she gets a little older she starts to be bored by just having to stay in her crib until some grown-ups pick her up. What is a baby to do when her only way of communication is wailing?

Danny is a nice, but somewhat shy boy who often dreams scary dreams of monsters staring at him. One of these monsters is a Jack-In-The-Box nodding in a menacing manner. 

What's worse is that Danny begins to feel that EVERYBODY - even the moon, the neighbors and so on - are watching him. Now, how does he get rid of that kind of delusions - and what about those who really set out to get him?

Tommy Drumstick is an elf, but he is also an unruly teenager of 500 years. Being both invisible as well as very adept at flying, and a lot of other things he is a handful. As it is he just loves to tease humans whom he finds too prudent or polite to endure for an elf, especially kids. However, at one point he strikes up a friendship with a lovely, vivacious but also a bit unruly girl. They have a lot of fun being naughty until she grows up and, sort of, disappears for many years ....
When they meet again everything is changed because for some time he has been teasing a couple of girls whom he doesn't know are her annoyingly sedate grandchildren.

Nobody believes that there are monsters in the room of the teenager Sybil. However, when she wakes up, very scared and beyond herself with fear, night after night, it is because she really sees scary monsters. Very often she has to sleep in the bedroom of her parents because she is too scared to stay in her own room.

However, when her very level-headed cousin has to stay with the family for some time and she too sees scary monsters it's no denying the fact that, whatever it is, something weird is going on. After some investigation the family finds out that several people were murdered in that particular room and that some of the "monsters" are the ghosts of their restless souls. 

PoisonSometimes it pays off to have a chat with one's dinner, especially if you're a cat about to set teeth into a poisonous mouse. Actually, that happens quite often and this time it was Greg the mouse who was about to be eaten by Beauty, the cat. When her teeth were hovering above him, just about to dig into this tasty morsel, he said: "Eh', excuse me, but that's not good for you, Madame Cat."Never before had Beauty's dinner talked to her except by excessive cursings or prayers for mercy so she was very, very surprised when this happened. Also by the polite tone in this small, but and tasty treat. She stared at him in amazement when he spoke once again: "Yes, I'm not a healthy meal for you...

A 15-year-old girl in Iran is viciously attacked by her father for holding a boy's hand. In running to escape certain death, she undertakes a dangerous journey to a new land with unfamiliar customs, where she must hide the truth from everyone she meets. Twenty years later, amid racial tensions in a Los Angeles hospital, a female Muslim doctor is murdered, sparking a controversial police investigation. The lead investigator, Detective Michael Tucci, finds himself compromising both his job and his life as he embroils himself in an affair with the beautiful Dr. Tara White, the victim's associate, who could be the killer's next target. Which suspect would have had a reason to kill her colleague,...

Outcast Isaac and popular Stephanie have barely spoken in all their years in school. Now, in the ninth grade, their lives become intertwined with a strange boy from eastern Europe named Drágan Albescu. Everything about Drágan is exotic, from his vintage style of dress to his flowing long hair and delicate features. But he’s also shrouded in great mystery. He reveals that he’s a fashion model, so Stephanie searches his image on the internet and discovers modeling photos dating back to the 1920’s. Then there’s the valise Drágan carries that’s so heavy Isaac can’t lift it. Drágan also possesses more knowledge and wisdom than all the teachers at school, coupled wit...