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Douglas T. Vale
Book List in Order: 130 titles
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Dinner For Two With Drama
- Nov-2011
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Don prefers not to go out for dinner because he tends to provoke strange reactions in people, but his date Elizabeth insists. Soon one thing goes wrong after another, and Don fights to keep the date from becoming a disaster. Don't miss this humorous...
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Macaroni, Sheltie, Chase
- Nov-2011
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Amber contends with her gifted Sheltie Sunny for ownership of a Macaroni noodle. But what starts as a little game gets interesting when Sunny begins to talk, and even more interesting when he transforms Amber into a cat to even the odds of their gam...
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Adam Meets Donkey Sue
- Jan-2012
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Adam helps his friend Lew by asking a Chinese student to a school dance for him. The girl thinks Adam is taking her to the dance, and accepts. But Adam already has a girlfriend, and doesn’t know enough Mandarin to make the Chinese girl understand...
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Medusa Shampoo and Other Stories
- Jan-2012
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A shampoo turns a vain man’s hair to snakes. A robotic butler pranks his master’s guests. A wealthy heir finds alien heads on a distant world, but discovers the heads have different plans than he does for what to do back on Earth. Find these and ...
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The Road and Other Stories
- Jan-2012
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Jim waits to be God after winning the privilege in a lottery. Maynard suffers through his worst job interview ever. A confused man tries to keep balance as he walks over a tightrope with no safety net in sight. Read these gripping short stories an...
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The Disease
- Mar-2012
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A sickly high school student catches a strange disease that makes him healthier. He just wants to live his life and benefit from the lucky coincidence. But others have different plans for him. Don't miss this science fiction short story....
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The Company Is Always Watching
- May-2012
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An unemployed man gets an interview with the Company which offers him his first chance at a job in a long time. But he has little idea what kind of work he’ll really have to do, or how involved in his life the Company will become. Don't miss this s...
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Lady Beard
- May-2012
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A female college student wakes up one day with a beard, and can’t get it off. At first she thinks it’s a prank, but she discovers that the beard is far from ordinary. A fantasy short story....
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Treefeather
- Jul-2012
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Don't miss this tale of a hot-blooded prince who balks at a marriage arranged by his ailing father the king. To satisfy his bride and obey the king, the prince sails through dangerous waters towards a strange new homeland. Troubles wait for him. Tree...
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The Bear and The Travelers and Other Stories
- Jul-2012
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A bear menaces hikers. A man walks out his front door and discovers honey has drenched his house. A teacher finds a tattoo growing on his arm. These are some of the fantastic short stories you'll find in this collection....
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Crushing Mountains and Other Stories
- Aug-2012
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A young woman wakes up with a full-grown beard. Living mountains threaten to crush humanity. A boy contracts a disease that makes him healthier. Don't miss the diverse and gripping speculative tales you'll find in this short-story collection....
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Jade Frost
- Oct-2012
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Ron and his companions are trying to put the past behind them. They stumble upon an island of jade ruins, mysterious vineyards, and a giant snow-capped mountain which holds dark and dangerous secrets. Don't miss the Treefeather Chronicles book 2....
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The Keeper of The Sunset Lamp
- Oct-2012
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She had a long eventful life, but now she's old and tired and afraid her kids will stash her in a nursing home. Then, one night, she gains a mysterious second youth. Her new vitality comes at a terrible and unanticipated price, and attracts unwanted ...
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Multitudes
- Nov-2012
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Drinking coffee with a colleague one minute. In a chair with his arms and legs strapped down the next moment, not sure how he got there and at the mercy of a madman. Don't miss this horrifying science fiction story....
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When Jerry Built A Woman
- Nov-2012
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A lonely and industrious young man brings a woman back to life, expecting gratefulness and eternal romance. But the woman gives him some unpleasant surprises. Don't miss this disturbing science fiction story....
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The Sting of Love
- Jan-2013
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Two women lost in a desert just want to survive and get to safety. But after a scorpion stings them their lives take an odd and surreal turn. Are they merely delusional, or cursed by some magic? A fantasy short story....
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The Wandering Pedestrian
- Jan-2013
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Rebecca's just walking along a street minding her business when a policeman stops and arrests her. Declared a criminal and put in a brutal rehab center, she struggles to make sense of things and gain her freedom. An SF horror story....
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Ghost Blanket
- Feb-2013
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A young woman finds a strange blanket in her deceased grandmother's attic that no one else can see. But she soon discovers that that isn't the blanket's only unusual property. A dark fantasy short story....
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Lady, Bread Roll, and Giant
- Feb-2013
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His girlfriend called early in the morning babbling about bread rolls and giants, and he thought she was crazy or pranking. The phone died, and he shrugged it off and went back to sleep. But then she goes missing, and things really get weird--not t...
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Monsters and Machines
- Feb-2013
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Two women lost in a magical desert look for a way out. A tired ghost examines the follies of the modern world. A figment of a boy's imagination struggles to survive and find meaning. A teenage mad scientist builds a woman too difficult to handle. ...
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Tasha and Janelle
- Feb-2013
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While trying to relax with a cold beer after a hard day's work, Tasha notices a young woman getting mistreated. Tasha rescues the woman, and develops an attraction in the process. A dystopian short story....
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The Shadow Masters
- Mar-2013
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Four teens share one unsettling problem. Christy, John, Erika, and Amy wake up in a creepy old manor they've never seen before. They don't know how they got to the manor, and can't find a way out. But that's only the beginning of their troubles. ...
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Floating Through Midnight
- Mar-2013
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A woman wakes up one day with a beard. A newborn man digs himself out of the dirt from which he grew. A teacher discovers tattoos growing under his skin. These are some of the spellbinding, fantastic short stories included in this collection....
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Orchid Constellations
- Mar-2013
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An employee struggles against a tyrannical and stifling corporation. A mad young scientist builds a woman with more life and will than he intended. A sheriff seeks to escape an alien-infested colony world. These are just a few of the science ficti...
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Shadows and Starlight
- Mar-2013
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A hardened lawman tries to get himself and his lady love off a hostile colony world. An overworked student finds a nefarious shortcut to solve all her problems. An office worker constantly struggles against a fantastical stereotype. These are some...
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Drifting In The Dark
- Apr-2013
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A woman goes missing, and a detective starts scouring the worlds, offline and online, for information. But the detective finds that there is much more at stake than just one missing person. A horror novel....
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Maggie Pearce
- Apr-2013
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It's the first day of school and Maggie, a rebellious new student, already hates the staff, stifling rules, and conformism. She thinks the school is evil, the principal bossy and overbearing, and the students a pack of miserable slaves. But Maggie ...
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Darin The Doubtful
- May-2013
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Darin had just gotten home and started to read a newspaper before dinner when the world disappeared. One minute he was sitting in his own comfortable home, the next he was huddled on a tree stump in a snowy waste. He struggles to find shelter, make...
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Dream Prisons
- Nov-2013
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A demon traps a woman in a box and makes her a slave, and she struggles for freedom. Another woman deals with ghosts haunting her. A stranded man tries to decide whether an island or society is the greater prison. Don't miss the provocative and sp...
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The Golden Womb
- Jun-2014
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The sisterhood cares for the golden womb, a source of great blessings, but soon they find themselves menaced by outside forces that don't understand their unusual kind of parenthood. Don't miss this dystopian short story....
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Cyborg At Farmer's Market
- Jul-2014
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Adrian 454 wants to see the strange sights at that ancient and nearly extinct attraction, the farmer's market. But his girlfriend opposes him every step of the way. As if that weren't enough, a bunch of new troubles further complicate things for Ad...
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Quests and Questions
- Oct-2014
- / Horror
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Don't miss this thrilling and diverse collection of horror, fantasy, science fiction, and other short stories. Includes a Halloween story, the tale of a bodybuilder who loves math, a story in the spirit of epic fantasy, and more....
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Collected Vale Volume 11
- Aug-2015
- / Fantasy
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The eleventh volume of the collected short works of Douglas T. Vale, which includes many wonderful and entertaining stories in a pleasing variety of genres. Science fiction, fantasy, sitcom, horror, and other types of excellent storytelling are incl...
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Lady of The Phoenix
The old lady just wanted to watch the goldfinches and quail eating in her back yard. But something always seemed to disturb the peace of her home. Can she defend the peace of her back yard? Don't miss this fantasy short story....
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