A common theme runs
though this otherwise very varied boquet of short stories: a
sympathy for the underdog. Contemporary crime, science
fiction, fantasy, historical adventure, all of them can be
found here. A kaleidoscope of villains and heroes follow each
other, waiting to entertain you. 1.Game Planet
2. Cruelty and Compassion
3. A Chinese Joke
4. Thank You, J. S. Bach
5. The full answer
6. My Amanda 7. Let the Punishment Fit the Crime
8. Rotten Apple
9. The Bigger They Are...
10. Portrait of a Firebug
11. Takeover Bid
12. What’s in a Name?
13. The Making of a Champion
14. Keeping an Open Mind
15. Guilty, Until Proven Innocent
16. The Scarlet Pimple Gives a Nudge
17. Soft Targets
18. Fishing Expedition
19. A Perfect Crime
20. Another Kind of Poetry
21. The Takamaka Freedom Fighters
22. First Day at School
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Total length: 70,500 words.
Young Tigel's father bought him a magnificent 18th birthday present: an hour on Game Planet. He chose a young woman as his Pawn, but got more than he'd expected...
The blonde was so scornful about the cripple in the wheelchair, but he had his own resources for revenge.
Trevor has saved Charlie Chu
from a gang bashing, then fell in love with Charlie’s
sister Yvonne. But can the Chu family overcome prejudice
against a ‘foreigner’?
The little housewife is
helpless against the ravager. But is she as powerless as she
seems?
You can read this story now.
Fleeing in panic, running to
stay alive. Death chases a boy in a block of Housing
Commission flats.
This is a story of love
between a young Nepalese boy and the Australian nurse.
Tim O’Liam was the best
tree faller in all of Queensland — until, following
orders, he tried to hustle an odd little protestor off the
logging site.
A man awakens in the deadly
darkness of a cave. He doesn’t know how he got there, or
why...
Sherry has been arrested for
the brutal murder of her mother-in-law. Can her friend Cindy
save her?
Why would anyone start a terrible bushfire?
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The invader from outer space promised a lot of pleasure, but it made the mistake of choosing Cynthia.
Detective Sergeant Ted
Poynter had deduced how the man must have died. But, what to
do about it?
It was lucky for the village
that David happened to be passing through. For the slavers
struck that night.
As a child, Tom Grant had
learnt to deal with bullying. But the effects caught up with
him thirty years later.
When Hilary Hart’s boss
Stan is murdered, everything points to her as the killer.
No-one believes in her but Stan’s charismatic son.
At 13 years of age, Lindy is
aiming high. She wants to become a world-famous writer. When
the school is hit by a nasty crime, she uses the skills she
developed to set the Police right.
The local lowlife refers to
the old people as ‘soft targets’. But Maude has a
few resources they hadn’t anticipated.
The only difference between
rape and seduction is salesmanship. And Will is an artist...
Jimmy was small for his age,
and wore glasses. And yet, he swore to kill Susie’s
stepfather.
There is no point to a
romance when one person is filled with poetry, while the
other is a practical sort... is there?
Mr Billson knew he was doing the right thing, battery farming chickens, but that nasty Mrs Jones wouldn't listen to reason.
She was a slave girl in a factory, and saw her best friend die.