Ann Stratton
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Paul Arsenault has been hired at the last minute to oversee security for this wedding. He's not secured a wedding before, but even so, there are things that don't quite add up for this one. Nobody will tell him what happened to the previous security director. The house is a fortress. The women keep changing their appearance. There's the usual gate crashers. ...was that a rifle shot...?
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The old parish house has seen everything and everyone come and go over the years. It also has all the usual problems with old buildings, like easily clogged plumbing. Jesus is the lucky soul who gets to come and deal with it. A sewer pipe full of roots isn't the only thing he finds, because somebody's been partying in the house when nobody else is there, leaving their foot prints all over the floors...
4) Crossroads
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Magda does not want this city boy that Armin gives her, but it's take him in or leave him to starve in the open country. On her way to Crossroads, she finds out just how important he is to the balance of power between the cities themselves when her caravan is attacked by a city security force. But her troubles are not over when she does make it to the safety of Crossroads itself, not for her, not for the city boy, and not for her youngest daughter....
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Five stories about meeting strangers and the lessons they migh have to teach: a boy on the cusp of manhood, a rat who leads his human to sanctuary, an apartment full of strangers, a man lost in the citrus trees, and a mysterious note leads a man all over town in futile pursuit.
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Eden's so called friends locked her in the witch's house. The leader, Angelica, stole a knick knack from the witch's house to prove she was there. How can Eden get herself out of this mess, when Angelica dumps the knick knack on her? Can she get it back to the witch, or is she doomed to have wierd battle dreams forever?
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Amanda Levinson and Sidar Nguyen are new in Little Port, and being the new people in a small town, it was inevitable they would meet: the lady in the lighthouse and the man from Oz. And then Amanda picks up the briefcase. Can she and Sidar forge a relationship that will help them survive the revelation of what the briefcase contains?
9) My Little I
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A collection of short stories from the first person that includes peeing on one's own tires, tracking down an annoying chirp, playing a child's game for the fate of the world, a fascinating encounter by the river, an extraordinary customer, a late night visit, a guilty conscience, a college trip, a human encounter of the nonhuman kind, and the end of summer.
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There's always something going on at Corey House, whether snooty and entitled guests, or an elephnt on her way to a sanctuary three states away, complete with entourage. Why an Elephant? Jenda doesn't know, doesn't care, doesn't want anything to do with the elephant in question. She doesn't know why it has to stay here. she hads work to do. she doesn't have time to look at elephants, no matter what her kids say. But it seems she's the only one who...
11) Gutter Ball
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John's down to the last day on his rent and one whole moldy sandwich to eat. To add insult to injury, somebody left a bowling ball on the kitchen table. John's never seen it before, didn't know how it got there, or what he's supposed to do with it. It has to belong to somebody, and so he sets out to find out who. Maybe he'll pick a job or something to eat along the way, too.
12) On the Bridge
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Santiago's back... and now he is harassing Alexander and Eden. They've just finished all the renovations on their dream house and owe money to everybody in the city, it seems like. He might be one of those contractors, but none of their contractors will confess to knowing anyone by the name of Santiago. There's only one thing left to do...
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The combined stories from the short collections Monday is Winter and Other Stories and Home Is What You Make It. Ten stories that look at what makes a home, and places far from home, and whoever or whatever you may meet there. A house haunted by a woman whose work is never done.A man in search of work, and the bowling ball that urges him onward.Leslie got roped into cleaning up the old parish house, and there's someone else there who's not there to...
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Five Stories examining how some people get along -- or don't -- with their fellow humans: Rains in Their Season: Arjuna and Deliya are the last of their family, surviving in a decaying old mansion. Arjuna dreams of past days' glory, but Deliya just gets on with the day. But she still has dreams too, and one day the dream comes home to roost. Arusa and Jim! At the Warehouse: Arusa is a talking semi truck with an attitude problem. Jim's just trying...
15) Yod's Story
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Leaders shouldn't act like spoiled children, but Yod is seriously thinking about turning them both over his knee. The fate of the world depends on their cooperation but they'd rather call each other names. He can build and create anything in the world, except for a lasting agreement between two spoiled boys. How will he find their common ground?
16) A Bowl of Light
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Josephina's church has just received a shipment of glass bowls. Nobody knows who ordered them, nobody wants them, nobody has a use for them, but there they are. Josephina tries to make the best of them, arranging them to complement the old parish house, but somebody keeps moving them around...
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A short collection of stories examining the idea of home.What happens when the previous tenant won't leave?What's the point of arguing with an inanimate object?Why does wrestling with demons make such a mess?What do you do with a body in the freezer?How can you defend everything that you hold dear?How do you define home?
18) Red Shadow
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The Guen'chee have a contract to check on and maintain the weather stations in the high Arctic. Except for station A-113. they just called in and said they weren't going anywhere close to that place. So it falls on Ray Thompson, the supervisor to go and find out why they refused station A-113. Everything looks all right...
19) Small Jewels
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Every day is a jewel: most are flawed, some are perfect, but every one is precious.If you think nothing ever happens around here, you'd be sadly mistaken. Between escapee heifers, runaway children, morning staff meetings, trips to the (sort of) big city, and interrogations by the county attorney, small town life is pretty exciting. I barely have time to stop and catch my breath!
20) Stress Fracture
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Beam Mahoney just woke up in a place she doesn't recognize, next to the last person she ever wanted to wake up next to. Where is she, and how did she get here? who are these people? And can she get a ride into town?