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These twenty-five tales from Geoff Nelder have increment as a theme.INCREMENT: Noun - an increase or addition, especially one of a series on a fixed scale. Synonyms: increase, addition, gain, augmentation, step up, supplement, addendum, adjunct, accretion, boost, enhancement. Verb - cause a discrete increase in. Mathematically the difference can be negative - decremental.For example a pothole doubles in size every day, a meteorite hits the sam...

An infinite universe yields infinite possibilities, and not all realities are as laborious as the one we find ourselves trapped. In another set of dimensions, a world analogous to our own grinds the wheel of monotonous life, but to a different beat. In this parallel land, elves, dwarves, goblins, and halflings live just like you do, in mind-numbing tedium, desperate to make it though the working week and blow their wages on drugs, fags, and bo...

Young secretary Tori Van Camp wakes one morning on a luxurious ocean liner where she is offered whatever a person might desire: food, clothes, recreation, and the companionship of congenial people. But Tori has no memory of booking a cruise. What she does have is a vivid recollection of being shot point blank in the chest. With the help of the stunningly handsome Mike and the unnervingly serene Nancy, Tori soon learns the purpose of her voya...

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Murder at The Galvez Eighteen years after discovering the murdered body of her grandfather in the foyer of the historic Galvez Hotel, Sydney Lockhart reluctantly returns to Galveston, Texas to cover the controversial Pelican Island Development Project conference. Soon after her arrival, the conference is cancelled, the keynote speaker is missing. When his body turns up in the truck of Sydney's car, she's hauled down to the police station for ...

The disaster facing the Gulf Coast has been on the minds of millions of people and the ladies of the She Writes(TM) - Southern Writers group expressed many feelings of anger, sadness, and disgust. We are not helpless, but what can we do? She Writes(TM) members Zetta Brown and Nicky Wheeler-Nicholson Brown decided that something needed to be done where people can put their talents together and help make a difference. What better way than to pr...

Islington is a great storyteller. Weaving the protagonist's hunt for justice through the bayous of Louisiana culture was captivating." Bridget Gibson, Editor The Times-Tribune - Grant City, Missouri Special Agent Trey Fontaine has his hands full as he tries to juggle three different sets of cases in his hometown. While healing from a bullet wound, and on limited duty, he is charged with helping find out what's happening to young women who a...

EPIC, the Electronic Publishing Industry Coalition(TM), is a global organization of published authors, publishers, editors, cover artists, and other industry professionals. EPIC was established as a strong voice for electronic publishing. www.epicorg.com Literacy is close to the hearts of EPIC's members. In celebration of the new century, EPIC established the New Voices Young Writers Competition to encourage reading and writing among students...

Selected stories inspired from the recorded gems of the Delta blues, Chicago blues, Memphis blues and Texas blues. Called "the Devil's music, " the stories of the blues goes beyond jump turns, slow drag ditties, reel, jigs, minstrel songs, ragtime, or the buzzard lope. These lyrics connected to these stories celebrate heartache, separation, distrust, betrayal, lust, but they promise a healing love of revival and renewal. It's a celebration of...

In Exile: The History and Lore Surrounding New Orleans Gay Culture and Its Oldest Gay Bar is the first comprehensive treatment of the history of gay New Orleans. Drawn primarily on the recollections of dozens of gay men and women, Frank Perez and Jeffrey Palmquist weave a fascinating narrative of how gay New Orleans evolved throughout the twentieth century. In addition to showing the incredible and previously unrecognized contributions gay peo...

When Dead Detective Seamus is asked to investigate the death of wealthy businessman William Dunbar, he agrees, but there is an additional request. Will he take a detective-in-training along? Reluctantly, Seamus agrees and meets Mildred, who seems charming if a little headstrong. Suspects include Dunbar's family and staff, notably his beloved grandson Bud, who was with him when he fell from a bluff overlooking Lake Michigan. There's chemistry ...

Alien Retrograde Infectious Amnesia Today, Jack caught a bug at work. He catches a bus home. By the time he disembarks in the desert town of Rosamond, all the other passengers and the driver have fuzzy heads. Jack had caught an amnesia bug, and it's infectious. Imagine the ramifications: The passengers arrive home, infecting family, some shop en route infecting everyone they meet. The bus driver receives more passengers giving them ch...

Alien Retrograde Infectious Amnesia In 2015, a case found in the struts of the International Space Station is brought to Earth. It releases a virus giving people amnesia. They lose their memory at the rate of a year's worth every week. No one is immune. Infectious amnesia is unheard of. Industry breaks down as people forget where they work and how to perform their duties. People die as they forget their medication, and production ceases along...

For Sid Tillsley, the end is near... When Sid Tillsley, the most prolific and lethal vampire hunter the world has ever known, cancels his subscription to Tits magazine, Middlesbrough locals know that something isn't right in the world. And that's an understatement... The vampire nation is ready to launch an assault on society. The Coalition, a council of vampires and humans whose purpose is to hide the existence of the creatures of the nigh...

Sid Tillsley is back! Sid Tillsley, forty-six, is an alcoholic from Middlesbrough. He's sexist, homophobic, overweight, extremely lazy, and a dogger. However, two things set him apart from the rest of his fellow Northerners. Sid Tillsley can kill vampires with a single punch. AND he's no longer claiming benefits. In the eyes of everyone apart from the taxman, Sid Tillsley is officially a vampire hunter. The old hunter, Reece Chambers, is u...

Sometimes, even the best vampires can earn themselves a good smack... Sid Tillsley, forty-six, is an alcoholic benefit fraudster from Middlesbrough. He's sexist, homophobic, overweight, extremely lazy, and a dogger. However, one thing sets him apart from the rest of his fellow Northerners... He can kill vampires with a single punch. Meanwhile, in Northeast England, a monster has arisen, one that doesn't subscribe to Tits magazine. A vampire...

Treasures of the Vieux Carré is not only a collection of ten self-guided walking tours of New Orleans' French Quarter, it is also an insider's look, in full color, at America's most unique neighborhood. French Quarter resident and professional tour guide Frank Perez draws upon his years of experience living in the Vieux Carre to offer visitors and locals alike an in-depth exploration of the hidden treasures throughout Bienville's ancient La No...

Arts and Death in Austin, Texas Changes are happening fast and furious for reporter Sydney Lockhart and her detective boyfriend Ralph Dixon. No sooner do they open their new detective agency, a high-profile case walks through the door. Stringer Maynard, an influential Austin businessman, wants business partner/brother-in-law Leland Tatum investigated before Tatum's campaign for governor begins. Tatum has been keeping company with an avante gar...

Oops! is the third collection of stories by Darrell Bain. When Cupid and a Gremlin bump heads, the sparks fly in a rare fantasy story by the author. Others stories in the collection include A Simple Idea, an almost ludicrously simple method of eliminating corruption and idiocy from the political process, one that has been around for centuries but gone unrecognized. Cure for an Ailing Alien finds a nurse who must come up with a cure for an alie...

Bark! is the humorously wild tale, set in Texas, of an addled little, ADHD-affected dachshund named Tonto, who just happens to be the only thing standing between the earth and an accidental alien invasion. The book also contains the autobiography of the real-life little "weenie dog" who inspired the story.