After baby chimpanzee Sam Simian's mother got killed by a leopard he is adopted by Liz Day the primatologist who happened to be studying Sam's chimpanzee clan. Liz decides to try and raise Sam no differently than a human baby and begins to teach Sam American Sign Language only the version she teaches him was developed by KOKO the gorilla who modified ASL for a creature with non-opposable thumbs. Sam becomes fluent in sign language and eventually shows a penchant for painting abstracts pictures eventually winning a prestigious art contest. But in Sam's new keeper's twilight years the money...

Count S. Von Teleki sees them almost every art show he attends to display his sculptures. Ove the years they evolve but all of them dress and behave exactly the same and their art is atrocious and Teleki despises having to see them practically sell out every show despite the fact their work is terrible. Meanwhile Teleki's fantastic chrome sculptures sell slowly and it is all he can do to survive on the few sales he can make and that's after traveling the entire country to attend as many art shows as possible. But Teleki begins to obsess over the Neftunian Art Clones, believing that space...

Gunther Dewellen achieves the pinnacle of success when he successfully wins the 2025 United States Presidential election becoming the 47th US President. But no sooner does he report to the Oval Office to begin his job as President than do a series of important men representing the various branches of the military and all the other federal government funded agencies, who arrive to give Gunther the bottom line. What these men and women come to say shocks Gunther and he soon discovers that he is not only beholden to the corporations that donated over three billion dollars to his campaign, but he...

Sparky the toy robot was a gift for a little boy's eighth birthday. But after Sparky gets lost and is transported all the way across New Los Angeles, he goes on an adventure trying to find his way back home and to his friend, the little boy. Along the way Sparky meets various people who each teach him a different human virtue, which Sparky can understand and that he adds to his personality. But before he finds his way back home Sparky is called upon to do something heroic and he draws upon the virtues he has learned to know to do the right thing.

Sudanese man Jabari Nuru gets conscripted by slave traders and finds himself working as a slave in the Lazuli Conglomerates gold mine in the Congo. But after a race of aliens called the Annunaki arrive all over the Earth, they too are interested in precious minerals so Jabari ends up working the gold mine on behalf of his new masters the Annunaki. But the Annunaki are not the cruel taskmasters his human masters were and the Annunaki also select the earths most downtrodden people to be their servants while declaring everyone else genetically inferior and they literally eat them as livestock....

Terrible Bill Lancaster got his nick name in Nam. But while picking fights with any man that crossed his path in the bars he frequented, when it came to the girls he was a softy and never laid a finger on them in anger. Trouble was Terrible Bill was so ugly the best he could manage were the morbidly obese and hags. But Bill didn't discriminate and loved those hags and heifers all the same. But Terrible Bill's one true love was the bottle and it was Heaven Hill Whiskey he preferred to dance with and make love to, washing down the shots with a beer back. Bill stayed loyal to the bottle until it...

It has been a hundred years since the atomic holocaust. The descendants of the consumer culture are all that remains and everything about them reflects the remnants of the past, as they even go as far as to name themselves after ancient snack foods. But one family encounters a man who possesses examples of the lost technology and he comes from a place where the people have electricity and electronics. The man invites the isolated family to travel with him back to this fantastic place where their lives are forever altered.

A behind the scenes look at the food service professionals working in a high pressure kitchen at a high profile seafood restaurant in a popular tourist destination, Destin, Florida. But when the star chef the restaurant is named after flakes out totally the restaurant's owner finds a replacement with another hot shot New Orleans chef, Julian Romeo. But the way Julian runs his kitchen is unusual. Then everyone working in the popular restaurant get involved in something they will all pay a high price for. But even after paying that price there's still a busy kitchen to run.

The Tucumcari City Bank is a masterpiece of art deco style architecture from the viewpoint of an Italian artist named Giovanni Francesco Salvatore the Third. Giovanni makes arrangements with the bank's president to correct the buildings single flaw. A much needed mural on the mostly unadorned west wall. Giovanni stipulates no one can see the mural until it is finished. But something no one working at the bank could ever have suspected occurs. An incident that is only made more mysterious after the completed mural is unveiled. But by then Giovanni, the artist is long gone.

Fabulinus has been a world famous performing artist ever since he won a televised talent contest and was thrust into stardom as a teen idol. As a young adult, Fabulinus serves as the heartthrob and sex symbol for millions of adoring female fans worldwide. But Fabulinus knows something about his sexuality that he feels he cannot express publically or risk alienating a major portion of his fan base. Thus Fabulinus can only stay in the closet until he reaches a stage in his life when he can be an openly gay man.