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Eric Stringer
Books in Order: 50 titles
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Curious Shapes
Some boys are reared by cruel fathers. For them, the beatings don't stop until they're old enough and large enough to fight back. Carson McCullers once wrote, "The hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world...
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The Man with the Finger and the Rank
Mr. Kristen dreams of world domination. Finally his chance comes. He finds himself in a launch bunker with the red button before him. Yes, that red button. And what he launches will not soon be forgotten....
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If Mama Ain't Happy
Johnny Marsden sets out for home after a few hours' fishing. His grandfather becomes concerned and goes out looking for him. But what happens with Johnny and his grandfather is far from anything you might expect....
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Rare Women
This is a five-story collection. "But Babies Are Just So Cute!" is a touching story of how human beings react to babies. All babies. Just remember that in Eric Stringer's world, very seldom is anything as it appears. No difference, maybe, in this int...
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Normal Louisiana Ladies Club
As is so often the case in Eric Stringer's stories, nothing is quite as it seems. When Marie LeBleaux, a Louisiana novelist, has to do strange research, she also tries to make it a boon for the community. She comes to learn her acquaintances in the N...
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But Babies Are Just So Cute!
This is a touching story of how human beings react to babies. All babies. Just remember that in Eric Stringer's world, very seldom is anything as it appears. No difference, maybe, in this intense, perhaps humorous, short story. ...
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A False Sense of Finality
In this intense horror story, Eric Stringer brings to life a woman who lives through her memories and her child... and possibly through memories of her child. Come along and help us unravel this tale. ...
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Heart to Heart
Noted psychiatrist Robert "Bobby" Singleton is defended in action and deed by his lifelong friends, connected guy Joey Di Salvo and NYPD Officer Salvatore Acolese. After all, Bobby just wants to turn the tables on his filthy rich sociali...
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Stern Stuff
Three of these five stories feature Charlie Task. Ever wonder what goes into making a psychopath? Find out in "The Odd Task." Ever wonder what it might be like to sit down in a psychopath's home and interview him? Check out "A View to the Curious." I...
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Mouth Watering
In this intense SF short story by Eric Stringer, when Lisa Reddich stops by a small café for a plate of French fries, she's looking for a mouth-watering experience. What she finds is considerably more than she bargained for. Then again, she's consid...
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Confessions of a Professional Psychopath
In Eric Stringer's first novel, Charles Claymore Task, a man who has been labeled a psychopath by hypocrites who see themselves as "normal," is asked by a group of wealthy investors to detail for a film crew what makes people like him tick. At least ...
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The Ethics of Murder
In this intense short story by Eric Stringer, a hit man returns to his hometown to visit with an old friend at a high school reunion. The friend has asked Charlie to attend because he needs a favor. Yet again, it's always a good idea to be careful wh...
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The Odd Task
In this intense short story by Eric Stringer, Charlie Task is the unnamed protagonist. He's taking care of business, doing what he can, using his special skills to remove blights from the world....
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The Passing of Rosario
In this humorous, intense short story by Eric Stringer, the adult child of a woman who recently passed leads you through a humorous, sometimes irreverent look at her life and the impact she had on the other residents, males and females, of the villag...
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A View to the Curious
This is an intense psychological horror story by Eric Stringer. Ever wonder what makes a psychopath tick? Ever wonder what it might be like to sit down in a psychopath's home and interview him? ...
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Saving the Grenlow
In this SF short story, Jim Cable, a professional recovery expert for System Retrieval Inc., has been sent onto the Grenlow, a Morgan-class interplanetary transport, to stabilize it and bring it home. He scans and checks every space on the ship, but ...
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Strainge Times
In these five short stories a woman is drawn to a shop that looks like an antique store; she's looking for furnishings for her home in the French Quarter, where she lived a very, very long time ago. Jim Cable has been sent to stabilize the Grenlow, a...
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The Compartmentalized Mantis
This is a humorous science fiction short story. Can a man have a relationship with an EnviroSuit? Could an EnviroSuit, especially one with a female personality, long abide the imperfections of a human male, especially when she compares him with a mas...
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Rabbits & Wild Dogs
Marco and the author chase down Joey Bones, ostensibly to teach him a lesson. Joey's been trash talkin' Marco, a boss, and threatening to shoot him. The threat doesn't bother Marco, but being called a rat? Now that bothers him. ...
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This Is Not a Mosquito!
This volume contains ten intense short stories from Eric Stringer. Attend a writers' conference and meet an unbearable woman; move out in the woods with a couple good ol' boys to talk about what happens at the moment of death; meet a hard-luck woman ...
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This Is Not A Mosquito! A Collection
Ten short stories from Eric Stringer. From an unbearable woman to drinking in the woods and talking about what happens at the moment of death; from a hard-luck woman who's mixed up with the mob to a miniature mosquito-like creature who's invading; fr...
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Granny Mose
In these five short stories you attend a writers' conference and meet an unbearable woman; move out in the woods with a couple good ol' boys watching a storm close in and talking about what happens at the moment of death; meet a hard-luck woman who g...
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The Curious Events Surrounding Thomas Pilsen
Thomas Pilsen, a man more than absorbed by his fantasies, takes a cab to the airport. Along the way he becomes a mobster, and after he arrives he remembers an alien invasion, discovers a spaceport, and finds himself on the way to a mine on an alien p...
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Pregnant with Ideas
These tales by Eric Stringer range from the merely odd to the fantastic, from the tragic to the magical. In one story you'll accompany a Cajun on a single-minded mission into the backwoods of Louisiana on a deep, humid night. In another, you'll witne...
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Finding Time to Write
This is a short story. Hmm... a description... I don't know. Whether our hero is a great writer to be or just another psychopath out wandering the beach or a friend (or stalker) for a professional writer... I guess all of that will have to be left to...
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Monday: Alcoholics Anonymous
Anonymity can hide any number of faults. Married to an uncaring, workaholic husband, Shylia Allred walks to alleviate stress and to consider her divorce. Typical of many abused spouses, she dreams of escape but always comes up with a reason to thwart...
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The Reverse Lizard Move
Fifteen year old Harold Silt dreams of becoming a king... but is it only a dream? Just shy of his fifteenth birthday, in an attempt to defend himself and his mother, Harold Silt kills their tormentor. Thanks to a turncoat whom he thought was his best...
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Tuesday: Eating Disorders
Would being a cannibal qualify for having an eating disorder? While under armed guard and being tended to in an ER, accused cannibal and murderer John Searcy, AKA Randall Sly, escapes custody and takes a nurse, Susan, hostage. Does he want her for he...
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Crossing a Blue Carpet Every Day
Mind Cleaners are used to dealing with humans. What can one do for an angel? Psychology has advanced to the point of using Mind Cleaners, specialized psychologists who enter the mind, lock away all the bad stuff, clean and polish the good stuff, and ...
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Giacomo, 2080
What happens when the only woman Giacomo Casanova has truly loved through the ages finds a way to bring him back to life? Accompany Giacomo Casanova through the swirl of long-dormant synapses firing, giving him snapshots, memories, names, short films...
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Ground Rules
This is a literary psychological suspense story that investigates the little quirks and oddities that we all encounter on a daily basis. or maybe these are quirks and oddities that only Eric Stringer encounters....
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