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A NIGHTMARE OF DREAMS:- A strange tale about a jinxed tramp steamer that seen better days and her haunted Captain, both left to the mercy of the north Atlantic Ocean and the evil spawning within, just drifting blindly on towards their destiny through the ice fields of the far North.


THE LAST CHANCE: - Perhaps this tale could contain an element of truth. The quest by man for power and wealth was slowly destroying the world. The destruction of the rain forests, the drying up of the rivers and the oil wells all added to the slow demise of life. Until appearance of a strange young man with a proposition that could not be refused?


THE SILVER LOCKET: - A tale about a drunken writer trying to come to terms with his past. A chance meeting with a strange woman in a Lakeside Inn during a drunken stupor and a memory of a long lost love, perhaps the three meet will again?


THE SUITCASE: - This tale is about a strange man struggling on foot through a gale force storm carrying a heavy suitcase. He stumbles upon a run down airfield with a solitary aircraft stood on the runway. He makes an offer of ten thousand dollars and demands to be flown anywhere on the mainland.


ALL THE BOOKS IN THE WORLD: - A tale of a drop out, an obnoxious man who turned his back on the world. A man obsessed with books who suddenly finds out he has all the books in the world. But is the world about to turn its back on him.


THE LONE SENTRY: - A tale of a soldier trapped on the Western front during WW1 waiting to be relieved from sentry duty on the front line. But will it happen?