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"JOHN, I JUST MET A ghost who's dying." I raised one eyebrow, waiting for the punchline from my favorite time-bender." No, it's not what you think. I haven't gone off the deep end. The government made him into something they call a ghost.” Figure if the government's involved, then it's going to be screwed up...But a ghost, dying?” Running out of juice, actually. Kept alive on some sort of weird life support that he won't fix to save himself.”...
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Things were going well, until we got arrested. By our own security.
No lawyer, no rights read, even our own boss turned on us.
Because now we were being studied like the very people we were studying before. Or trying to.
You see, we couldn't find any trace of those people, except for faint traces of biological material that were old enough to be historical.
Everyone was starting to think they were some sort of urban legend.
Until we went on a...
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"Well, this is curious - I've only got papers that say to take one of you."My two latest deaths stood in front of me."The other is supposed to keep on living. But here you both are."Neither spoke to volunteer which was which."So, you both intend to keep on living, in spite of my orders to take one of you."Silence signaled assent."You know that no one has ever cheated Death. Just because you have some spirit-guides looking out for you doesn't mean...
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Walking down the highway barefoot, feverish, and in only a nightgown.
At least the storm had quit. Now if I could get my chattering teeth to stop, it would help, maybe.
Up ahead, I see some stopped cars. Some have their lights on. Maybe I can get help. Too bad I can't travel any faster the way I am.
That's odd. Nobody in them. Lights on, but no one at home.
Except for a crying baby. And no one answers my calls either.
No, I can't leave her alone....
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When the hamburgers all disappeared, along with the buns I was warming, I thought I was seeing things.
But when my spatula went through the cast-iron grill top - I had to let it go out of reflex. No way was I going after it. I'd been burned too many times.
It wasn't like I had a choice after that. Because the grill itself dropped out through the bottom of the rolling coach we were cooking out of that summer.
I looked up at Hami, my order-taker,...
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In the days when people were, owned by the land, two young girls found their power by becoming ghosts, then spirit guides. This is their original story...
Their parents were serfs, and belonged to two different dukedoms. Falling in love endangered them both. Becoming pregnant with twins, made this even worse. Their Dad had to raise them by himself, as Mother died shortly after birthing them. But, her spirit remained on Earth to watch over them. Sal...
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Something's not right here, I stated the obvious. "Looks like a trap," Sal returned.
Bernie heard it first and ran toward John.
That courageous dog knocked John down just as the incoming explosion hit.
Sal got her shield up and I returned fire, giving them what they gave.
Then it got quiet, too quiet.
I turned around. Sal had tears coming down her face, and she didn't dare to let go of her shield. Bernie and John were both down, twisted...
8) Harpy
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She'd been waiting to kill me for a very long time. And run out of patience at last. So she pulled me to her across time and space.
Just so she could end my life. Painfully. Violently.
But first, she had to explain her reasoning. Because she had been thinking this through for a long time and someone should hear and applaud her reasoning.
Crazy, yes. But as I was going to be dead soon, what did it matter if she wanted to tell me her story?
Maybe...
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The adventures of the Ghost Hunters continue
... with more exotic locations and hair-raising paranormal adventures than ever before:
- A time-bender is pursued by government-types in black SUV's who want to trap and "study" her abilities. But, she turns the table on their advanced electronics to escape and make their gizmo's worthless.
- When a spirit guide is required to be attorney for the defense, she is conflicted. Since she agrees with many...
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The result of all these civil wars was complete destruction.
Maybe we should have taken a hint from all those wars we fought "over there" and the footage came back showing entire cities now only towering, shattered icons that stood in piles of rubble.
Uninhabited. uninhabitable.
Yet this one woman stayed there. This was her new home, she repeated stubbornly. She wasn't leaving. Even though it meant eventual death.
If the warring armies didn't...
11) Time Bent
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Time haunted her. It didn't do what it was "supposed to" when she was around.
It ran forward, backwards, sideways. Sometimes time helped her solve her problems, sometimes it made them worse. For a lovely young woman, you'd think there would be young men lined up to talk to her at any gathering. But, she stayed away from them - to protect them from her curse.
What would be the good of a commitment like that if the other person was going to age too...
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The more circuits in any machine, the more it's likely to get "haunted."
When you connect it to the Internet then you can get more than you asked for.
Installing a home system seemed obvious at the time. Having the "Internet of Things" to give you your every whim seemed a dream come true.
When our broadband costs rocketed, we looked to see what usage was happening - too many videos, too many games, was someone parked at the curb outside our house...
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A different take on time travel. Very different.
What if the "grandfather murder conundrum" didn't exist? Where you could freely travel in time without affecting your or anyone else's present?
The trick is that this also tends to "haunt" you, even drive you insane...
Try talking to a time-bender and see if you don't get confused half-way through the conversation. Because your idea of the past isn't what a time-bender experiences. Your time is linear....
14) Lilly Lee
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It wasn't often a song stopped me dead in my tracks. All I could do was listen.
And I was filled with feelings of peace and hope. So much I didn't want to move, just listen.
Now there wasn't a tune, a melody, or words to that song. But I was transfixed. If I could have tapped my foot to keep time, I would. It was a catchy song, and filled my heart to overflowing with love and understanding.
A siren's song.
But not of lust and longing for carnal...
15) Finding Grace
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He knew something he was listening/watching was poisoning and killing him.
Slowly. Painfully. Sinking into a gradual depression and dying of apathy.
He'd seen this happen to others. Suicide, drug overdose. All a permanent solution to a very temporary problem.
Then she showed up. Not your typical haunting ghost or vindictive spirit. Different. In a good way.
She'd come just to solve his mystery - the one he didn't know he had. It was a haunting...
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If laughter is the best medicine, then reading humorous short stories should be the best practice to maintain your health.
These three authors with their six stories have written stories that both poke fun at the sacrosanct and also skewer them for dissection as both pompous and ripe.
From the ranks of Voltaire, Twain, and Vonnegut, these new voices have something to say about how our current culture and what they consider serious. You may find...
17) Doppel
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Two twin boys were born one stormy night, while flying through the Bermuda Triangle.
One didn't belong to this universe, the other did.
An easier entrance was made in Washington, D. C. Just a test appearance because this man wanted to find his own doppelganger. Somewhere in Congress.
Around his finger was a thin dark ring with two stones on it - one red, and one blue. The ring was carved into the shape of a serpent eating its own tail. An ancient...
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In the days when people were owned by the land, two young girls found their power by becoming ghosts, then spirit guides.
This is their origin-story...
Their Dad had to raise them by himself, as Mother died shortly after birthing them. But as a spirit, she remained on Earth to watch over them. Sal and Jude could see her, and knew their Dad could feel her presence. Father and Mother taught them all they knew.
Efforts to enter the forest, to exploit...
19) Walkaway Mary
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I felt like a ghost.I'd only met him once, but was drawn to him like a moth to flame.And didn't know why.It was this author I wanted to see, but I didn't know if he wanted to see me.He left me an autographed book of his, with his number.But then I lost that book before I could call.So I found he came to this diner often, a regular. It was where we first met. And It didn't take much to get his schedule from the waitress.So now, right time and right...
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"Well, this is curious - I've only got papers to take one of you."My two latest deaths stood in front of me."The other is supposed to keep on living. But here you both are."Neither spoke to volunteer which was which."So, you both intend to keep on living, in spite of my orders to take one of you."Silence signaled assent."You know that no one has ever cheated Death. Just because you have some spirit-guides looking out for you doesn't mean I won't end...
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