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|  | | Asterisk: Red Sox 2086
In the year 2086, the world is a different place. Cars run high above the ground with the help of electromagnetism. The political boundaries of the world have been reshaped by a long war with China. Much of California has been lost to the big earthquake and life has been discovered elsewhere in the universe.
The world of the future is fantastically different, but the game of baseball remains largely unchanged.
At Fenway Park in Boston, an elderly man shares with his grandson the joy of the game's history. Unfortunately, baseball has been marred by cheaters and scandals. As scientific advances have come faster and faster, so has man's abilities and desires to cheat.
| |  | | Box of Lies
27 short stories of the macabre and fantastic.
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This box is for you. It's all yours, to do with as you wish. Keep it closed and it stays dark in there, entire worlds trapped in endless night. Keep it closed and its inhabitants are unable to excite you, thrill you, touch you. Maybe it's better that way. It's difficult to judge what is safe and what is a rotted beam ready to give way beneath your foot. Yes. Better to keep the box closed and spare yourself.br />
One peek might be okay. Just a fast glimpse to see what stirs at the corners of the eyes.br />
There. Men and women forced to march for their daily bread. br />
And th | |  | | Delirium Tremens
An desperate alcoholic sees dead people whenever he tries to put the bottle away.
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A grieving man disappears with the body of his dead bride and imperils his father's bid for the presidency.
Gov. Frank F. Cotton is out of his mind. He has learned of his son’s nighttime ghoulishness and panic has set in. It is the kind of sordid scandal that can bring about ruin. He’s seen good men go down in flames for less. Howard Dean with the animal scream in 2004. Edmund Muskie with the phantom tear in 1972. And if press got a hold of this? Frank F. will not let it happen.
Thomas Cashman is thinking outside the box. Given the circumstances, he finds this idea deliciously funny. A mercenary with secrets of his own, his top priority is to find young Calvin C | |  | | The Pink Room
The Pink Room is a place where lost loves come home. And you can't send them back.
The Pink Room. A leading physicist attempts to use the science of string theory to bring his daughter back from the dead. Government agents and a best selling author race to find out if he succeeded.
| |  | | Vegetation
When you offend the kingdom of plants, the whole world really is out to get you.
Bertram Luce did a remarkable job concealing the murder of his wife. His story was unshakable, his alibis sound. No human eyes witnessed the atrocity and Luce went on his way, wealthier and more pompous than ever with the success of his crime. The deed might have gone unpunished if not for the wrath of the most dominant and diverse army on the planet. Typically silent witnesses to the atrocities of man, the world of plants this time will rise up collectively to see that justice is served. And Bertram Luce will find his pursuers literally everywhere he turns. When you offend the kingdom of | |  | | Worumbo
A young newspaper reporter with a blossoming psychic gift and government experiments with mind-control at an old, Maine mill.
Jack Wilding has a gift. The young newspaper reporter can hear the thoughts of his fellow man, random snippets that come to him unbidden. But this blossoming psychic ability brings Jack no joy. Some thoughts, he will find, were not meant to be shared. And along with the voices in his head come the memories – dim recollections of a childhood experience at an old Maine mill.br />
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Meanwhile, an intelligence group with grim secrets is desperate to contain the damage. Things have gone wrong with experiments in mind control and now a young reporter is asking questions. It' |
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