Tom Thornton

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• Nov-2016
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Nick Herrold was the horoscope writer at the local rag.� He had returned to his hometown area after college.� He did not want to make a difference.� He just wanted to make a living.� He was about to find out that there was a lot more to the occult th...

• May-2015
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• Dec-2013
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• May-2013
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UFOs AND ONLINE FRIENDS is a short novel about one week in the life of Sean R. Marian, a Saint Louis accountant, during the summer of 2012. Sean is also an extraterrestrial hybrid. Sean has held the interest of the Alphians for his entire life. Al...

• Mar-2012
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The secular media today claims that traditional religion is obsolete.  In reality, even ancient, pagan religions are alive today.  They are even practicing their old rites with new twists.  The stone-age media exists in a void of its own ignoran...

• Mar-2012
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As in the film, TAXI DRIVER, the victim in ICON saw crime and evil daily. He wanted to take a bite out of it. He tried one day when his anger overcame his caution. But he only walked away from it because he had a lot of supernatural help from the ...

• Mar-2012
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To paraphrase the words of the ancient, martial-arts master, Shun Shan: STRENGTH IN COMBAT IS THE VIRTUE THAT INSURES THE POSSIBILITY OF ALL OTHER VIRTUES. Samson, the strongest strong boy of all time, was on a mission from God to save Israel, by tak...

• Oct-2011
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Maryann was a brilliant teen, right out of Brilliant Teen Magazine.  But she had serious problems, like everyone.  Like everyone, she tried to cope as best she could.  She had help from unseen, supernatural sources.  But she did hear some of them...

• Jun-2011
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An ex-con and former mental patient was just trying to make it on the outside in Chicago.  He did something, quite by accident, that threatened to put him behind bars again for a long time.  He knew that the system had the cards stacked against guy...

• Jun-2011
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It is a fact that most murder victims knew their killers.  Maybe, they just did not know them that well, as SKYDIVE illustrates.  Be careful not to damage those who are close to you.  You can use that as a homicide prevention measure in your life....

• Jun-2011
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Inanimate objects with supernatural powers associated with them usually present horrifying problems.� We know what the classic 50s' car, Christine, did.� An old Twilight Zone episode featured a camera that took pictures in the future.� It caused the ...

• May-2011
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Jim and his dog, Shemp, were a K-9 Security team in Chicago.  They knew that each day on the job could get very dangerous.  They knew that one of their jobs was to come home alive.  That would be a challenge today. ...

• May-2011
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Nothing has changed under the Sun.  A young guy had his eyes on a young girl in a bar in the early part of the 19th century in England.  She rejected him.  A horror story then unfolded for both of them. ...

• May-2011
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Bill Dixon was being chased by cancer and old age.� Both of them were gaining ground on him.� Deep down,�Dixon�knew that it was a race that he could not win.� He started running again.� That was an old habit of his.� He tried to run from his own pers...

• May-2011
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An old man sees a man in the decorative window above his garage.  There is nothing except insulation up there.  It frightens the old man, but he did not survive to 94, living in fear.  He carries on the best he can until the end....

• May-2011
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Fred, an editor in a dying industry, found a way to solve all of his psychotic problems.  And he had a lot.  To the outside world, it would look like Fred had gone completely insane, but Fred had found a way to get the world off of his case....

• May-2011
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Some places illicit emotions.  Are there places that generate their own emotions in humans and animals?  Can places cause actions to happen?  Could a place prevent a murder or cause one?  THE PLACE takes a look at such phenomenon.  Be careful wh...

• May-2011
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Little Allie was afraid of the huge snake that he had seen when he was just six-years-old.  Or was it really a snake?  He did not believe that was even possible.  Its size made it not of this world.  When Allie became a man, he decided to attack ...

• May-2011
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• May-2011
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The future seems increasingly forboding with each day's bad news.  That's especially true if you plan to be around for a while.  Many believe that we are in the end of times.  ULTRAMARATHON takes a look at a small segment of life in the future.  ...

• Apr-2011
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The Bible states that Angels often visit as strangers. It also advises to entertain strangers for that reason. These Angelic visitations, however, may not always be pleasant at all. The guys in 10-54 find that out graphically. But at least, they ...

• Apr-2011
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As orphans, Ted and Billy were well cared for in a Catholic orphanage by Saints of the Catholic Church. Those wonderful Saints saved their lives. However, one of the caregivers was not a Saint at all. Ted and Billy met him again when they were men...

• Apr-2011
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We seldom know the hour of our deaths.  That makes it easier.  The Grim Reaper of Death usually approaches his victims with great stealth.  Like most people, young Mr. Kitt never saw Death coming, but he did feel him approaching. Kitt managed to ...

• Apr-2011
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Professionals in the mental health field say that considering suicide is very common.  Few who commit this horrific act do it by jumping from high places to end it all.  Did you ever wonder why someone would choose the terrible, jumper method of s...

• Apr-2011
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A wealthy, young man in Los Angeles in 1982 loses his high-tech job.  Instead of relying completely on his inheritance, he decides to see how the "other half" lives.  He takes a menial job delivering pizzas in the interim between jobs.  Unfortunat...

• Apr-2011
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Because of a chronic case of ill fate, Old Bruce had been homeless most of his adult life.� However, Bruce was not an evil man.� When he reached the end of his life on a cold, murderous street in Chicago one night, it turned out to be a new beginning...

• Apr-2011
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Modern Earthling science now knows that there are countless billions of galaxies, each containing countless billions of stars, in the Universe. That means that it is a mathematical certainty that there are planets out there with corporal humanoids o...

• Apr-2011
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Is the occult operating in your neighborhood, right under your nose? Maybe, you should not go in the woods alone today. If you do, you may not be coming out alive. Maybe, it's best to stay out of all those forest preserves in the burbs that you hav...

• Mar-2011
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Like most people, fat, little Ned wanted to excel.  He never had excelled at anything in his short, failed life.  Ned did not care about hurting others to reach his goals.  He finds out too late that success can be too costly.  He also learns t...

• Mar-2011
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• Mar-2011
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The year is 2053.  The stunning reality of the final, new world order is as frightening to some as anything in all the morbid history of humanity.  It is worse than nuclear war to some.  It is worse than weird space aliens from advanced worlds. ...

• Feb-2011
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Seldom are we forced to confront our worst fears.  Those fears usually just remain in our nightmares.  The man in THE CLIFF is forced to face his worst fear.  He is afraid of falling from a high place.  That is how he meets his death atop a Calif...

• Feb-2011
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Two well-heeled citizens are planning a serial killing spree here in San Francisco in the wild 1960s.  The trigger man in this City-by-the-Bay demented duo will find out that justice can come in strange, supernatural ways.  The other killer will es...

• Feb-2011
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Do you believe that shape shifters exist? Do you believe that they are even possible? It was a common belief for centuries all over the world. It is still an accepted fact of life in some parts of the world. Pray that you never meet one in the wa...

• Feb-2011
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A college graduate receives an expensive gift for graduation from his wealthy father. It is a recreational water craft. But it becomes a vehicle to his future when he manages to survive a storm on Lake Michigan....

• Feb-2011
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Today, society has terms for just about everything.� "Senior moment" usually refers to some forgetful experience that is not related to Alzheimer's.� The man in SENIOR MOMENT had a real severe case of it.� Fortunately, for the rest of us, most senior...

• Feb-2011
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Young Mr. White had a very tough life up till now.  It was about to get a lot worse when he turned onto a highway marked "Scenic Route 66."  He should have suspected that the area that he was entering was not part of the real world when he turned o...

• Feb-2011
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Raul, a wealthy Cuban restauranteur in Miami, loved tropical birds and dogs.� The birds�reminded him of his brief childhood in Cuba.� He was now a fugitive from Communist Cuba.� Raul used his money and connections to get a rare blue parrot.� He shoul...

• Jan-2011
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God's� beyond-awesome Universe is untold trillions of light years across.� It is a mathematical certainty then that there are other planets with living creatures inhabiting them who are far ahead of us technologically and in their social advancement....

• Jan-2011
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Scientists today believe that God's Universe is essentially infinite.  It contains untold billions of galaxies.  Each galaxy contains billions of stars.  Our Sun is just one of those stars.  It is a mathematical certainty then that there are civi...

• Jan-2011
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We know now from modern science that the Biblical statement:�"There are more stars in the heavens than grains of sand on Earth," is true.� In the untold trillions of light years across the Universe then, it is a mathematical certainty that there are ...

• Dec-2010
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A man in a big city in America has a near-death experience.� He comes back from it, knowing that there is a Hell, a real place,�where he was heading.� He also knows then that Hell is a terrible place.� The near-death experience changes him forever.�...

• Dec-2010
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Of course, legions of people have been treated unfairly at their jobs.� Ted Milner, in DATA ENTRY HELL, was just one such story in the big city.� He felt like he was being slowly killed off.� In anger, he decided to do some killing of his own.� It di...

• Dec-2010
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At some point in time, we all reach the ends of our ropes.  A very small percentage of people actually have nooses at the ends of their ropes.  That was the fate of two men in this story.  One deserved it.  One did not. ...

• Dec-2010
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Father Tom Batt had been a success story for his entire life.  His winning streak came to an end when the Catholic Church caught him violating his vows.  Tom continued to practice his profession, clinical psychology, after leaving the Church.  Sev...

• Dec-2010
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Do you have a secret involving the supernatural?  The man in this story did.  When it was over, he realized that he should not have listened to the supernatural entity or talked about it.  But it was too late by then....

• Dec-2010
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The pagan, Aztec, high priest would have been considered a pedophile and a serial killer even in today's degenerate world.  After the high priest's last sacrifice in 1521, he finds himself suddenly transported to the 21st century.  All of his vict...

• Dec-2010
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Eddie Glaser had a lot of contempt for the world.  He did like the old, dead poet, Edgar Allan Poe, however.  Because of what Eddie would do at the poetry slam, he would get a chance to meet Poe in this life.  He would also begin to reform himself...

• Dec-2010
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• Dec-2010
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Do you have any ghost stories to tell?  The guy in this story sure did.  But he was more concerned with his own secrets lately.  Unfortunately for him, the nightmare ghost story came to life. ...

• Dec-2010
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Winters in the Northeast United States can be brutal.� Often, they become lethal.� The lethal winter is exacerbated when people act foolishly, without any decent concern for the welfare of others.� SNOWDRIFT takes a look at a tragic scenario like tha...

• Dec-2010
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Modern Earthling science now knows that the Universe is countless of�trillions of light years across.� And remember that light travels at a speed of 186,000 miles per second.� It is a mathematical certainty then that there are civilizations of corpor...

• Dec-2010
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God's Universe is essentially infinite. It is countless trillions of light years across. That means that it is a mathematical certainty that there are corporal beings in other solar systems that are light years ahead of us technologically. Mayb...

• Dec-2010
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Currently each year worldwide, millions go missing.  There are usually mundane explanations that apply to these cases.  Sometimes, UFOs or even stranger phenomenon are named as the culprits.  THE UNKNOWN CONFEDERATE STRIKES AGAIN takes a look at o...

• Nov-2010
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Jeffrey Ashworth, a man without a soul, loved historical artifacts, especially those from famous disasters, like the Titanic sinking.  In DEATH EXHIBIT, he finds out that there are spirits who are very attached to those same artifacts for personal, ...

• Nov-2010
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Envy is one of the seven deadly sins. It really turned out to be deadly for the guy in ENVY, along with some others he had contact with that bad week in San Francisco. Try to clean up your own act before you get so critical of others out of envy....

• Nov-2010
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Scientists today believe that God's Universe is essentially infinite.� It contains untold billions of galaxies.� Each galaxy contains billions of stars.� Our Sun is just one of those stars.� It is a mathematical certainty then that there are civiliza...

• Nov-2010
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Principal Taylor had a dental appointment after school today.  Taylor had a very high-paying position with the Chicago Public School System, the worst in the United States.  Taylor never really cared much about his school's performance.   He was ...

• Nov-2010
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Do you know any ghost stories?  Has one affected you?  Have things moved in your house?  Have you heard strange noises? The guy in this story was very affected by a ghost and his story, but, at least, it did not kill him, like it did some others i...

• Nov-2010
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Do you believe in ghosts?  The soldier in this story did not, until he became one.  He survived World War II.  His work was not yet finished in the earthly realm after he was killed in a car wreck back home in the South after the War, but it did b...

• Nov-2010
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It is accepted that Lucifer, king of the demons, is the commander-in-chief of the Stygian realms.  If that is true, it is possible that the numero uno of the fallen angels, God willing, could command the souls of humans that Hell has claimed to r...

• Nov-2010
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Retired, L.A. Bob got a bright idea for making some supplemental income.� It led him to the horrifying recognition that there really are more things in Heaven and Earth than he ever dreamed about in his little�life.� One day, you too, will be introd...

• Nov-2010
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A young prosecutor in Wisconsin in 1982 had some great political expectations.  He didn't hesitate to put some old friends away to reach his goals, especially when those old friends were in organized crime.  The prosecutor, himself, was a felon. �...

• Nov-2010
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Your friends and enemies are often difficult to identify in today's pc, confusing world.  Maybe, someone that you think is your friend could be an enemy, who has more power to use against you than you could ever imagine. ...

• Nov-2010
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Psychopaths have a different way of looking at things than all of you "normal" people.  In their minds, they are not the only bad guys.  At times, they believe that they are not the bad guys at all. MURDERED OUT OF PAWN takes a look at some crimina...

• Nov-2010
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Pride is one of the seven deadly sins.� It certainly can be very deadly.� PRIDE�demonstrates that in a very graphic way. Try to beware of the seven deadly sins lurking in you, including pride. One might just get you killed....

• Nov-2010
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They say that history keeps repeating itself.  They say not to judge others.  They say a lot of things.  But you see all the time that there are consequences to different actions, and there are truths.  Because of his behavior, the main character...

• Nov-2010
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Most ex-cons have a tough time making it on the outside, unless, of course, they are former politicians.� Sam Jonatas was sick of working as a towel man at urban car washes for chump change.� The mob made him an offer that he could not refuse.� Sam t...

• Nov-2010
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A convict on Texas Death Row starts becoming aware of truths and supernatural realities that are beyond his ability to know or understand.  He realizes that these revelations are coming from sources infinitely greater than his own poor power to co...

• Nov-2010
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Four ghosts have been wandering the Earth for decades in SATAN CLAWS.  They obtain powers that they never had as corporal beings.  They form opinions about the modern world.  Most people fear the concept of ghosts whether they believe that they ex...

• Nov-2010
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Ted, a-not-too-successful man, found something in the old, basement storage room.� It was something very extraordinary.� Ted thought it was a dream come true for him, but it quickly turned into a nightmare for Ted and others.�...

• Nov-2010
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Because of her deadly sin of sloth, the world had been beating Carol down.� When she was faced with her own violent death at the hands of another piece of urban vermin one night, she decided to fight back.� She won a victory over the serial killer, w...

• Nov-2010
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Have you ever seen a real monster, like on Monsterquest?  Remember the Monsterquest episodes on giant birds?  Do you believe that they were just hoaxes?  The kid in THUNDERBIRDS sure saw a giant bird like that.  It happened in broad daylight in t...

• Nov-2010
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If you see a shortcut to riches, whatever form it comes in, you should think carefully about taking it.  The guy in TOMORROW'S PAPERS thought that life had finally dealt him a royal flush.  Then, he got flushed.  He took some others with him. ...

• Nov-2010
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Breaking bad habits can be difficult beyond belief.� Think about your own horrible experiences with that sort of thing.� The weight-loss industry is a multi-billion-dollar business just in this country, and the United States is the Fat Capitol of the...

• Nov-2010
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Some American Indians believe that history is alive.  Einstein believed that time travel was possible.  Of course, all things are possible with God.  In UNKNOWN CONFEDERATE SOLDIER, an unknown, college actor takes a difficult trip into history aft...

• Nov-2010
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It is 1968 in America.  The seeds of communist revolution II are being sown across the land, while brave, young Americans fight hardened communists on the other side of the globe.  Young men are planning to give their input to the political scene t...

• Nov-2010
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In American Indian lore, history is alive.  One can go back to it possibly.  Even if the Indians are wrong about that, there is no debate that history is alive.  It lives on among the living and the dead.  To some, history is so burned into their...

• Nov-2010
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Wrath is one of the seven deadly sins.  Tom Dorsey had a really bad case of it.  Fortunately for him, he had some supernatural help in dealing with the deadly sin of wrath.  He managed to escape the demon of wrath this time. But remember, demons ...

• Oct-2010
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Eleven years after 911, some experts say that America is losing its endless, politically-correct wars with worldwide Jihad.� It has already bankrupted and cost the United States thousands more American lives unnecessarily.� The technologically-poor-b...

• Oct-2010
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The Alphians are making another mission to Earth in 2010 of Earth time.� Alpha is 78 light years away from Earth.� They are coming back yet again, bearing gifts.� They still have their agenda for the watery prison planet.� They especially don't like ...

• Oct-2010
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Einstein theorized that time was relative and that time travel was possible.  A jet pilot on a test flight discovers graphically that Einstein was correct.  As he always did, the pilot played it by the book and went with his own instincts when he f...

• Oct-2010
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Do you get some strange calls on your cell phone or your land line?  Do some of those calls seem to come from other countries in other languages?  Do some come from even further away?  Ruth, in CALLS FROM MARY, received some calls like that. ...

• Oct-2010
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The pseudo science, led by politicians, of global warming continues to damage Western economies.  In reality, the temperatures worldwide have been dropping for the last 10 years.  Instead of the gigantic scam of global warming, a.k.a. climate chang...

• Oct-2010
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CRUEL MESSENGER is a novel about a young sociopath, a ghost and a demon.  Their existences intersect, as they always do in this bloody world.  The tale starts on a hot, dusty day in the Midwest. A mob outfit is out playing softball. They are visi...

• Oct-2010
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Be careful what you pray for because you just might get it.  The college student in ENCORE had a noble motive of wanting to join the military to help some people who were surrounded by enemies.  He made it into the army and the war, but it was not ...

• Oct-2010
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During olympic years, most try to watch some of the spectacle and ignore the world chaos for a few days.  GERIATRIC OLYMPICS gives you a glimpse of what kind of olympics could be coming your way.  And it will not be an hour on the La Z Boy in front...

• Oct-2010
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Gluttony is one of the deadly sins.  It proved very deadly to the man in this story.  He was enormous, weighing over 500 pounds.  He could not even walk without his sturdy walker.  The morbidly obese have at least one upside in their deaths, whi...

• Oct-2010
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America is currently fighting two PC wars in the Middle East for pseudo democracy.� This is coming at tragic costs in soldiers' lives and taxpayers' dollars.� The neocoms�have continued the neocons'�PC-war agenda.� HACK gives you the Chicago version ...

• Oct-2010
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It is said that many of the worst of humanity have good qualities, like courage and strength.  Hardened criminals suffer too, like everyone else.  Justice comes to them also in many ways, even if they are not prosecuted in the courts correctly.  A...

• Oct-2010
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If you have ever been in an urban heat wave during rolling power failures, you know the real-life horror stories that can happen.  HEAT WAVE takes a look at some people and their pet trapped in that situation.  It also offers an alternative theory ...

• Oct-2010
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All of his life, the partly-Polish Richard Revelski had hated Polish jokes.  When he died, he found out that all those damn Catholics had been right all along.  There was a Hell.  Since he had not accepted Christ's Salvation in life, he found him...

• Oct-2010
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Most of us have little knowledge of our direct ancestors going back beyond our own grandparents, if that.� Some, in contrast, know exactly what their direct ancestors were doing hundreds of years ago.� That is because those people are doing a lot of ...

• Oct-2010
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KINGDOM of DARKNESS is an eschatological novel set in a post-World-War-III world, facing the Apocalypse. A worldwide event called the Rapture occurs. The tale then centers on the lives of two men in New Mexico, who try to survive this latest, evil NW...

• Oct-2010
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Are you worried about the scam of global warming, n.k.a. climate change?  The Earth has been around for eons.  We have been around for much less than one percent of that time.   And we all leave this life quickly, even if we live 100 years.  The...

• Oct-2010
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• Oct-2010
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That charming psychic that you have been calling to help you with your love life and your other big problems could be leading you down a rocky road that ends in Hell.  And, in the end, things will not turn out well for the psychic either.  NOSTRATH...

• Oct-2010
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Look in the mirror.  Get on a ship, bus, train or plane.  Watch a parade go by.  All you will see are fools passing by on their way to their ends.  And those endings always come quickly. Your end will too.  What do you think will happen to you?...

• Oct-2010
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A scientist and professor at a Midwestern American University, known more for basketball than astrophysics, takes a walk right into another dimension.� PASSERBY is part of the Demonminds' Fall 2008 print collection, ISBN 978-1440433509.� Tom Thornton...

• Oct-2010
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• Oct-2010
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Because of the infinite nature of the Universe, it is a mathematical certainty that there are beings out there in the vastness of Space that are light years ahead of us technologically.� And that includes more than just Angels.� Their civilizations m...

• Oct-2010
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Captain Flores was leading an expedition for Spain in the gold-rich New World.� He did not like Youth Island, south of Cuba.� It held treasures and pleasures, but it also held demonic secrets.� Flores�suspected that. Today, Flores would find out how ...

• Oct-2010
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Do you suspect very strange things about some people, which you cannot mention in our politically-correct society?  Ted, in SIMIAN, sure did.  And the police asked him to talk about it.  He did.  You could be surprised that you are not the only ...

• Oct-2010
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Justice has always come in many ways and in many forms.  Software can now think much faster than humans.  Computer memory is becoming virtually endless.  Soon, courts may have software judges, applying software justice. ...

• Oct-2010
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The year is 2019.  The 60s' baby boomers are now seniors.  They are eating up all the social security and other government funds.  They are as greedy as ever.  The younger generations have been defending the country now for a long time.  They ar...

• Oct-2010
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• Oct-2010
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The year is 2017.  The West has failed to deploy their superior weapons' technology and lost the Islamic wars.  Anarchy now rules in what was the United States.  The wild kingdom has also gone entirely mad, to complicate the horrors further.  Sti...

• Oct-2010
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• Oct-2010
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Modern scientists, including Einstein, maintain that God's Universe is essentially infinite, endless trillions of light years across.  And you recall that light travels at 186,000 miles per second.  That means that it is a mathematical certainty th...

• Oct-2010
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A Greyhound bus is forced to make an emergency stop at a motel in New England on a cold winter night in 1961.  The motel is owned and operated by extraterrestrials from another planet in another solar system, 78 light years from Earth.  They have b...

• Oct-2010
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Corporal humanoids from the planet, Alpha, which is 78 light years from Earth, have been visiting our watery prison planet since our prehistoric times.� They were particularly interested in the British scientist and inventor, Sir Isaac Newton.� They ...

• Jun-2007
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Scientists explain to us that God's Universe is essentially infinite. If that is true, it is a mathematical certainty that there are civilizations out there in the vastness of space that are thousands of millenniums of Earth time ahead of us technolo...