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C.D. Reimer
Books in Order: 38 titles
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A Late Night Tech Job
An experienced contractor runs the gauntlet for a late night tech job at a financial institution in the heart of Silicon Valley, getting past the trigger-happy security guard, dealing with younger co-workers who expect to get paid fabulous money for ...
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A Sorrow River Runs Through Here
A trio of short stories about the sorrows of family life."Walking Into The Night" - A little boy watches the darkened street from behind the plate glass window of the barbershop after midnight, counting the taillights of the passing cars as...
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A Sorrowful River Runs Through Here
A trio of short stories about the sorrows of family life.Walking Into The Night - A little boy watches the darkened street from behind the plate glass window of the barbershop after midnight, counting the taillights of the passing cars as his mother ...
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Travelers Among Strange Worlds
A trio of short stories about traveling to strange worlds."Silent Observers" - After a deaf person leaves behind a pen and card requesting a donation, money wasn't the only thing being collected. A team of xenobiologist students from a...
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Reaching For The Heavens
A trio of short stories about spiritual faith in uncertain times."A Leap of Faith" - A young man contemplates suicide by leaping in front of a speeding train when an old bus driver shows him the miraculous wonders of everyday living that makes life m...
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As The Tequila Flies
A collection of four 500-word speculative flash stories."As The Tequila Flies" - Pedro, drunk from drinking tequila after killing his wife in the living room, keeps killing the flies between his hand until one escapes."Fair Trade" - Nathan breaks int...
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Circling The Drain
A collection of four 500-word speculative flash stories."Circling The Drain" - A night owl finds the assistant leasing manager at his apartment door with an unusual list of things not to flush down the toilet."Trillion Dollar Odds" - What are the odd...
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Falling Earthward
A collection of four 500-word speculative flash stories."Falling Earthward" - Mission specialist Taylor kept having the same dream over and over again: the space capsule breaks up on re-entry, his fellow astronauts are burning to death, and the coyot...
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The Giggling Mongoose: Scarlet Hearts
After confronting a prominent attorney with three young sweet things for not leaving a generous tip, Charles Goodwin, the cannibalistic owner of The Giggling Mongoose, fumes at not being able to teach the old goat a lesson in restaurant manners un...
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Godspeed With Minister Ruth
A minister and her unemployed driver argue about the spiritual consequences of driving in the fast lane to get to a church meeting in San Francisco on time while running late in rush hour traffic in Silicon Valley.A shorter version of this 2,340-word...
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Tagging This Side Of Hell
A collection of four 500-word speculative flash stories."Tagging This Side Of Hell" - As Atanacio tries to deface the mural of condemned souls under the watchful eyes of the devil, his sister Malia discovers why the mural remains unblemished by tagge...
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The Lunch Box
Little Suzy and her dog, Spot, are trap inside the detached garage on her late grandfather's ranch in Morgan Hill during a fierce thunderstorm with an unspeakable horror from inside a handcrafted lunch box that hungers for revenge against her fami...
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Let Me Be Your Spook
As their respective dates wander off for refreshments and then the dance floor, George, a low-level C.I.A. analyst from San Francisco, and Gracie, a medieval history student at Stanford University, compare notes on why their dates conspired against c...
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A Misplaced Stick
After his uncle disappears into the forest with a bucket of lard in hand, Little Billy and his grandfather tracks him down to an isolated area of the family ranch. Along the way he learns about the birds and the bees, what being a girl-crazy teenager...
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The Devil's Advocates
John Wormwood, a veteran news reporter for The Silicon Valley Gazette, witnesses a satanic human sacrifice that opens the bronze doors of the Rodin's The Gates of Hell statue at Stanford University, unleashing the Horseman of Death into the world, an...
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The Semper Fi Engagement
After a retired U.S. Marine sergeant evicts a group of pot-smoking, beer-drinking and promiscuous teenagers from the back stairs of his apartment building, they return that night for cold revenge and dump his dying body inside a shopping cart into th...
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How Not To Stake A Vampire
A collection of five 500-word speculative flash stories."How Not to Stake A Vampire" - A master vampire hunter and his apprentice have a disagreement about staking technique while inside the crypt of two vampires."Hog Wild Under The Moon" - Three tee...
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Dead Enders
Claudia and her three guy friends get more than they bargain for when they pick up the mysterious girl in white hitchhiking on the I-5 in Southern California to Mexico, who is neither human nor vampire and harbors a deadly secret. This 4,975-word sh...
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The Bomb Hole Incident
On the last day of summer before their junior year in high school, two boys finish blasting off fireworks inside the bomb hole in the front yard to annoy the lady across the street and grin like idiots at the police doing a slow drive through the nei...
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Marigolds For A Vampire
Jeremiah Smithfield, a vampire hunter who spent a lifetime driving the vampires into extinction, returns home after a quarter-century absence to attend the funeral of his former partner. All is not well when he shows up at the funeral with a bouquet ...
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The Nowhere October Surprise
A bored intern at the U.S. Department of State mail room takes home mis-routed diplomatic letters to keep the colorful stamps for her collection, inadvertently starting a war with an obscure island nation of Nowhere in the South Pacific during the 20...
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Paying Taxes, American Style
With 15 minutes left on the clock until the county courthouse closes for the weekend, Leticia was all alone at the front desk, deep into a bodice-ripper paperback and hoping that no one walks in at the last minute. As fate would have it, an old man w...
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The Pot Washer's New Magic Trick
After Alejandro the waiter performs a new magic trick that humiliates him in front of the whole kitchen, Johnny the pot washer comes up with a new magic trick of his own to serve up a cold dish of revenge.An original 2,190-word short story ebook....
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The Potwasher's New Magic Trick
After Alejandro the waiter performs a new magic trick that humiliates him in front of the whole kitchen, Johnny the pot washer comes up with a new magic trick of his own to serve up a cold dish of revenge.An original 2,190-word short story ebook....
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An Ironic Flash of Life
A collection of nine flash stories about the sacred and the profane in an ironic kind of way."The Forgotten Sinner" - An old man explains to Peter at the Pearly Gates on why he never got right with God."Uncle Fred's Wild Splash Hit" - Uncle Fred's wi...
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The Cabbage Patch Doll Fight
Have you ever wondered how far a grandmother would go to get the hottest Christmas toy for her baby granddaughter? I never did until I witnessed how desperate my mother was to get a Cabbage Patch doll in the early 1980's. A fist-punching brawl betwee...
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The Giggling Mongoose: Kitchen Elementals
When restaurant owner Charles Goodwin has high standards, expects perfection from the people around him, and indulges his cannibalistic tendencies, it's best to stay on his good side to avoid becoming the special ingredient at The Giggling Mongoose."...
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The Uninvited Spook
As three veteran spymasters discuss the future of a senior spymaster running late for his own surprise birthday party, the uninvited spook across the street listens in and disagrees with every word they say.This 1,000-word short story was first publi...
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The World's Best Coffee
Mark has never had a problem walking out of a crowded coffee shop without ever paying for the world's best coffee. The barista always made another one. As he savors the first sip of his illicit brew, Georgia is right behind him and she wants her coff...
