Innocent men go to prison. There is no denying the fact that overzealous prosecution, bigotry, misplaced agendas and political expediencies pervade the criminal justice system. The precept of innocent until proven guilty in this country is a farce of the first magnitude. The police, courts, jails, prisons, and parole systems operate at the whims of a shadowy elite cadre of men and women who profess to be working in the best interest of society. Hutch is one such victim of the American justice system. Witness his story as a florid example of no justice in Texas.

A strange woman, Lucy, appears in the middle of the night to call, at gunpoint, a plastic surgeon, Victor Cannon, to change the appearance of her crime lord employer. Lucy and Victor begin an adventure of romance, suspense and avenging murder in South Florida and the Bahamas. Victor remains ignorant of Lucy's activities until his patients start mysteriously dying.

A chance to laugh is a way to enjoy the absurdities of life whenever they occur. It is the quick mind that is ever alert to those situations which are laughable. Come read the following stories: In Landshark see what happens after thieves break into a laboratory and inject experimental shark serum into the hapless researcher; in Smarter see how the gift of an alien changes the life of a dumb country person; in Fatter the quest for a way to easily lose weight produces paradoxical results; in The Stiff Arm War a third party combatant comes up with a unique way to stop hostilities; in Roids the...

Stories about the sea are always intriguing. Two thirds of our planet is covered with water which makes for an exciting venue for stories. The ocean is a place where anything and everything can happen. This collection of short stories is a mix of true, nearly true, and possible tales above and below the water. These stories contain something for everyone: adventure, horror and science fiction. Read and be transported to places far from shore.

Women, in a balanced world, comprise one half of the population. In ancient mythology Amazons were a special race of women known for their exceptional warrior skills. In any case, women are different from men, not only anatomically, but intellectually, or are they? Take a journey into the tales of women as heroines and villainesses. Decide for yourself how different they are from men.

The universe is a big place where the Earth occupies an infinitesimal small part. According to recent cosmology there are countless worlds which may harbor life. Although we may not have the technology to span interstellar distances, those aliens may have the ability to visit our world. The stories in this book tell the tales of the good, bad, and indifferent aliens we may encounter. These stories are meant to entertain, tickle the imagination, and give serious thought to the concept we are not alone in this universe. Read on and enjoy. The universe is filled with innumerable worlds on which...

The imagination is a place where anything can happen. Every story is a vehicle of transport into worlds, times, and places the reader has chosen to traverse. There are challenges along the way that excite and titillate the taste for more insights into possibilities of what might happen. This collection of short stories begins a journey of the mind through the places of those possibilities. Science fiction provides an intellectual landscape to explore possibilities; and there is nothing that is impossible. What comes as fiction may, in fact, become reality in the near future. It is not the...