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1) The Autists
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Carol and Reggie were different. They thought different . Reggie could talk "the ears off a corn stalk." He was an expert on history, like a walking Wikipedia on ancient times (if people could stand to listen to him.) Carol hardly talked, but her hugs could tell you the world. She could solve quintic polynomial equations. And a 4x4 Rubic's cube with one hand.
They were autists. "Special needs" people. Savants, kind of.
They were perfect for each...
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Why I was brought in to solve a mystery of people getting and staying healthy was a bit curious on its own.
They were all terminally ill. And in quarantine. Yet one nurse and her student "angels of death" had been able to reverse this deadly disease that modern "medicine' had created through their own negligence.
Most of the big city hospitals had these outbreaks, and had sent their worst cases out to live their lives in suburban hospices - often...
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They didn't know that they were going to solve a mystery that had raged across decades. The mystery that tore down Mary's heart and soul to pieces.
She sat at the diner only to drown her sorrows in their famous apple pie with cinnamon-vanilla ice cream.
John only came to sample their famous dessert he'd heard about all over town.
Mary had just found out that she'd been lied to for years. The truth can hurt. It's those emotional claws and shrieks...
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At the beginning was The Games. Because they were running out of people.
The gangs were killing each other off too fast. And the city was running out of money to keep them all on free food and free medical.
The Games put everyone in the city to work. They competed with each other for production bonuses. Citizens that didn't work, hardly ate. There was a Plan, and the Game was part of the Plan.
In this plan, the cities were going to rise up into...
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You don't expect a goddess to visit you and start talking about your writing, or the lack of it.
Yet here she was, dressed in a garment so thin that it was nearly transparent if the sun hit it just right.
And, here with some message for me.
Of course, she didn't get to it right off. Like her dress, she used her conversation to get my full attention before she could tell me what that message was.
It didn't take long for me to see she was dead serious...
6) The Lazurai
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An unintended result of a terrorist bombing a children's hospital, the Lazurai could kill a person without touching them.
The government made it worse by their experiments. All the children wanted was to feel love like any child. When they grew older, their powers increased. And they found they couldn't be stopped.
Chuck hears a rumor of one coming his way, to his remote way station on the highway. But he can't leave his wife, who's dying. So he...
7) Mind Timing
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Can the future be saved by returning a woman to affect the present?
Peter was a perfect gentleman. When he showed up at an all-woman's club unannounced, the defenses came up. Mari met him, surrounded by women like herself who battled criminal men daily. There was no longer any need for physical sex, the war between sexes had already been won.
Yet here was a white male in a three-piece suit asking for her help to save humankind.
This one man, who...
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I was sent here to keep me safe. From horrors I wasn't supposed to know about.
But they didn't understand the first thing about arriving in a female body with raging hormones and a genius beyond understanding of myself and anyone around us.
Of course, they wiped my memory. That didn't mean I couldn't figure out that I didn't belong.
Then I met someone that I could almost trust. Not to give me away.
Because if anyone really found out who I was...
9) Snow Gift
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A farmer out checking his cattle finds a newborn calf of many colors. Deep in fresh snow with no momma cow in sight. It is supposed to get well below freezing tonight and the sun is going down quickly.
What choice does he have but to pick the newborn up and get her to where it's warm and dry for the night?...And then come back in the dark to find its mother.
40-pounds of calf a quarter of a mile from anywhere. So, he wraps her up in his coat, picks...
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An Epic Road Trip and Fantastical Semi-Memoir
Living life is nothing that any moron or better couldn't accomplish, even without setting one's mind to it. The trick is to do something with that life. Or live several at once, so that one could at least be a success in one of them.
Herbert, having endured his mid-life crisis with all the aplomb possibly available to him, now was set on making a new life for himself. This is his book.
Such a book has...
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A minimalist tale of an Emperor who sought Truth that one of his student-scribes found - but then disappeared...
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One day, as court was held, the teacher was in a particularly foul mood. The weather was humid, hot, and everyone's robes stuck to their skin from sweat. The teacher strode up and down the ranks dispensing his cane strokes with rapidity.
The one student was receiving more than his share, and the teacher found himself gravitating...
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The last, final Middle East war was over. Fast. Brutal. Final.
Jerusalem experienced the final solution as all their combined defenses couldn't save it from sinking beneath a new sea of irradiated water.
General Marshall persuaded the President and he cajoled Congress into preserving the site as an International Memorial.
But the secret plans were to test a new energy dome over the site to defend it against any future attacks - fueled by the very...
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Sue returned to earth in what looked like a meteor to those watching.
But it was an escape pod from the Moon colony. Where the cities had gone to escape Earth and its governments' leaving the rest of the planet to its new dark age.
She had fallen unconscious when she popped the pod's hatch to get fresh air.
And had been saved from the surrounding fire by the one witness who saw her land.
A sentient, telepathic wolf.
Now the dominant sentient...
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