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Mario Milosevic
Books in Order: 54 titles
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The Candidate
How does a centaur survive 21st century America?By starring in a reality TV show, learning to dodge gunfire, befriending good Samaritans wherever he finds them, eating constantly, and when all else fails, running for president.A chronicle of survival...
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Alien Life
This latest installment in Mario Milosevic's Life series of poetry collections brings science fiction and poetry together in an inspired mash-up of visionary genres. A master of both sf and verse, Mario offers astonishing examples of both in this exp...
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A Bestiary of Imaginary Species
From the mind of poet Mario Milosevic comes a collection of fantastic creatures guaranteed to fascinate and amuse. Each beast comes with an illustration by the author. Immerse yourself in the mysteries and lore of these amazing animals. Rogue emissar...
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The Brotherhood
Abbot Francis and the brothers of the monastery prepare to celebrate their many years of service to God in a gala 150th anniversary celebration. But an unexpected and disturbing discovery about the activities of previous brothers threatens to wreck t...
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Mostly Invisible
Like icebergs, some stories hold their mysteries submerged beneath the surface. Poet and novelist Mario Milosevic conjures a cornucopia of such tales, presenting 2,002 opening sentences paired with 2,002 closing sentences, bridged by a brief universa...
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15 Strange Tales of Crime and Mystery
Crime knows no bounds. Past, future, present, all host wrongdoers of every stripe.
Mario Milosevic spins 15 yarns of crimes dire and humorous, cosmic and ordinary. Imagine the moon stolen -- in three different ways. Consider the nice old man in the...
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Labor Days
Acclaimed poet and novelist Mario Milosevic offers 100 sharp tales of employment -- each exactly 100 words long. Sometimes shocking, sometimes poignant, but always enlightening and entertaining, these narratives bare the souls of laborers doing what ...
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The Burning Artist
Franz Kafka’s final months battling tuberculosis find the author weary and miserable. When the pain becomes too much to endure, he turns to his scribbling for comfort. But Dora, the woman he loves, harbors other plans. Franz’s final work faces an...
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The Gambler's Tale
Amanda’s aunt gives her a magic dice that will help Amanda make any decision she needs to make in her life. Amanda uses the dice to pick her career and decide if she should marry Alex or not. When her daughter Laura wants to use the dice for her ow...
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How the Clouds Became Domesticated
Lisa's wife Carl brings home a cloud. The cloud messes up Lisa's living room and is a nuisance to have around. But as time goes on, Lisa grows to like the cloud. When they find abandoned aircraft and old kites in the cloud, things start to really get...
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Miniatures
Legend has it that Ernest Hemingway bet his fellow writers at the Algonquin Round Table that he could write a complete short story in six words. The other writers ponied up ten bucks each, and Papa claimed the pot with possibly the saddest six words ...
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Under the Mask
Helen wakes up one morning with an urge to get rid of her husband, Jerry. She kicks Jerry until he leaves. As she breaks dishes, lamps, dressers, and doors, Jerry looks for a way back into his house, but his efforts are complicated by a neighbor with...
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Before the Birds
Tom's parents want to teach him the value of life. They present him with a bill for his upbringing, to be paid beginning on his 18th birthday. Tom accepts the bill and takes it with him on his walk around the neighborhood. That's when he's confronted...
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Claypot Dreamstance
Claypot Dreamstance has a beef with the universe. Once a well-liked artist with a charmed existence, Claypot's life cracks wide open when his young daughter dies in a drowning accident. Crippled by depression and grief, reckless, belligerent, and ant...
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The Crying Stone
The old gargoyle hangs by the courtyard, cold and silent, but not dead. The spark of life burns inside him. When an old man approaches the gargoyle looking for wisdom, the gargoyle must decide how much of the truth to reveal. His answer will change t...
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The Restless Wanderer
An astronaut returns from Mars and everything changes. He loses his memory, paper robots skitter everywhere, and is kept in a rudimentary cell against his will. When he escapes his incarceration he encounters an entourage of forest dwellers who promi...
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The Infinite Garden
Ralph decides to take up gardening as a way to escape his fear of the spiders in his house. But when his garden gets out of hand and he needs to build an infinite greenhouse to enclose it, things get very weird. Then an encounter with a spider brings...
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Marble Angels
A plastic surgeon receives a strange patient when a marble angel raps on her window and asks for a radical procedure. At first the surgeon is hesitant, but the charm and beauty of the statue changes her mind. She gives the marble angel what she wants...
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The Universe of Death
Henry decides to spice up his space journey to the big crunch with a simulacrum of Amelia, his old girlfriend, and Death, his old nemesis. Everything goes along swimmingly for a while until Henry decides he’s bored and takes drastic measure. Then D...
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The Last Last Meal
Liz runs a greasy spoon near a prison where death row inmates wait to be executed. One night she takes an order for a last meal from a guy who is most likely innocent of the crime he is going to die for. Liz wants to make the meal as good as she poss...
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The Overtaker
Lance, one of the eccentrics in town, swishes his long net through trees, hoping to snag the souls of dead people. His fellow citizens think he's a little slow, but they live and let live and so does Lance. One day Lance finds a bottle with some stra...
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The Corrosive Properties of Dream States
Ever since her father killed himself, Debbie and her archaeologist mom do everything together. They even go time travelling when Debbie's mother gets a chance to research the disappearance of the Anasazi first hand by going to their cliff dwellings a...
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The King's Tale
As the sea level rises, the king's land disappears and his subjects flee. His last friend leaves his island empire and the king, with one last heroic effort, grasps for a chance to help his land survive. (short story)...
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The Spirit in the Ink
A lonely old tattoo artist gets a mysterious call in the middle of the night. A customer needs a tattoo urgently. The tattooist agrees, but when the customer arrives, he brings a strange aura with him, a mixture of danger and mystery. The tattoo arti...
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To Make a Puppet of Me
First she was born a doll. Then her parents abandoned her. Then she became a puppet. It's all a little too much for an ordinary toy, but no one said survival was going to be easy, even for a puppet. (short story)...
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The Clex Are Our Friends
Alien races clash on a remote planet laden with mineral riches. Earth successfully intervenes to save the peace, quell the fighting, and protect the valuable resources. Now human soldiers must deploy to the battlefield planet and make friends with th...
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Killing Time
Time is supposed to be something you can count on. But not if you're a physicist's spouse. Then time is as elastic as love. You never know what will stop it and you never know what will get it started again. (short story)...
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The Night Alex Almost Flew Over Old Lady Grayson's Place
Every kid in town flies over Grayson castle when they turn eleven. It is the town's rite of passage and now it is Alex's turn. He isn't sure he has the courage to accept the dare, but knows if he declines he'll lose all his friends. He takes the leap...
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They Taste Like Chicken
Dan and his hunting buddy have seen a lot of things in the woods over the years, but their latest outing brings them face to face with game they’ve never encountered before. They not only don’t know what the animals are, they don’t know if they...
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The Coma Monologues
Gary Hawken -- husband, father, civil engineer, and accomplished nerd -- enjoys a good life with his family in suburban Toronto. Then a crow distracts him at a traffic signal and a truck slams into his car, knocking him into a coma. Doctors doubt he ...
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Kyle's War
Kyle lives a typical teen’s life in Cedar Falls, Washington, with his Canadian expatriate parents who commit their lives to free expression. After Kyle’s parents display paintings at their art gallery that depict the president as a terrorist and ...
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My Administration
Forget 15 minutes of fame. What about 15 minutes of pure power? In the future everyone will have a chance to be president. The only catch is your term of office will last only one quarter of one hour. What can anyone, even the most powerful person in...
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Assistance
Hugh visits the dentist for a routine procedure when the examination turns up evidence of a mysterious double living inside Hugh’s body. Hugh, completely freaked out, flees from the office and falls into the hands of a mysterious woman who offers t...
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The Printer of Island Castle
In the printer's world ink is the ultimate judge: if she prints a poem of quality the ink stays fixed on the page. If the work is inferior, the ink disappears. Few poets can please the ink and the printer is resigned to producing pages that quickly b...
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The Last Giant
“In morning light/my heart’s delight/is slinking in/and inking skin.” Firefly, one of the river people, lives by this ancient song. She yearns to be an inker and tattoo giants, just like her mother. But one morning a rogue giant kidnaps her mot...
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Remembrance of Things to Come
Two strangers meet on a train. One knows the future. The other wants to forget the past. Together they will find and cherish the most important moments of their lives. (This short story originally appeared in Space and Time magazine.)...
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Dead Letters
Bart's ghost writing job finds him penning letters from a deceased man to send to his widow. It's a weird job, sure, but it's a living. Then one day Bart gets a call. "Is this the place that sends letters from my Max?" and fear strikes at Bart's soul...
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The Doctor and the Clown
An ice storm. Two passengers stranded on a bus: a doctor who lost his passion for medicine long ago and a clown who no longer cares about being funny. The storm lasts well past the midnight hour. The world may choose this night to come to its end....
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In the Library
Lowell never thought a library could be the most dangerous place in the universe. Then he gets an assignment to retrieve a book from the Universal Library. He soon encounters marauding bands of library patrons crazed with blood lust. Before long Lowe...
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Terrastina and Mazolli
Follow the everyday adventures of coffee shop owners Terrastina and Mazolli and their precocious twin daughters. Laugh and cry alongside them as they manage their business and cope with the eccentric members of their small town community. A sweet sto...
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Up Above the World So High
Camille and Anny are teenagers and best friends aboard World, a sailing ship of the post-apocalyptic future. World roams the ocean endlessly in an attempt to protect its crew and passengers from the savage dangers on land. When Anny becomes enamored ...
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The Lost Day
Noah, collector of animals, trying to save the world. Darwin, collector of animals, trying to understand the world. What happens when these two titans of bygone days meet and talk shop? A tale of history as it might have been. (short story)...
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Parallel Moons
The moon. Engine of tides and inspiration to lovers. Unchanging and eternal. Or is it? What if the moon disappeared? Savor three intertwined tales of the vanished moon: extinguished by semantics, indifference, and love. (This short story originally a...
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Winding Broomcorn
A man in the winter of his life carries on his family's tradition of making brooms. Making the world safe for witches, is the way his wife used to put it. One day a stranger comes to his workshop with an urgent request. (This short story originally a...
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The Untied States of America
Years after the nation breaks up, a mother still misses her long lost son. A land mass drifts into view, and a lone boat makes its way across the ocean to her shore. (This short story originally appeared in Interzone magazine.)...
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Terrasti and Mazolli
Follow the everyday adventures of coffee shop owners Terrastina and Mazolli and their precocious twin daughters. Laugh and cry alongside them as they manage their business and cope with the eccentric members of their small town community. A sweet sto...
