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Invasive Procedures: Stories

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A dying detective’s final assignment, to solve the mystery of a series of kidnappings of infants from maternity wards of hospitals, becomes complicated when he discovers that aliens are abducting the babies to use as vehicles for their non-corporeal colonists.

An elderly warrior faces ignominious torture and death as a sacrificial scapegoat offering to prevent total warfare.

Invisible aliens infiltrate human society as innocuous researchers, students, and tourists, but when humans become aware of them and react violently, the aliens strike back.

While seeking solace among the station riffraff before a violent alien invasion, a lonely technician on a remote moon outpost learns of a wild plan to save the populace by driving them to the edge of sanity and beyond.

These and other exciting, surreal, enigmatic, gut-wrenching, breathtaking, uplifting, tear-inducing tales offer you strange journeys into mysterious and wondrous places that you’ve never before imagined.

Includes: “The Beatification of Lady Poverty,” “High Time in Low Town,” “Invasive Procedures,” “He/She/They,” “Manifest Destiny,” “The Siege of Bright Hope,” “A Voice in the Wilderness,” “The Rip Van Winkle Effect,” “The Scapegoat,” “What Really Happened to Martin Eden,” “Camp College,” “Afterword.”

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Writing as a Metaphysical Experience

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From the author’s introduction:

“For me, writing is metaphysical because it is inseparable from who I am and my conception of the universe and my place in it.  My interpretation of writing goes far beyond the definitions of hobby, job, or career – it is rather in the nature of a calling.  It is something that blossomed from within me and, though invisible to instrumentation, has been as integrally a part of me as my flesh, bones, and internal organs.  How this transpired and how it manifests itself is the subject of this book.

This is not a how-to book on writing, although in its course I offer many practical tips and suggestions.  It’s more like a travelogue, a story of the life’s journey on which my writing has led me.”

This journey has led Walters on a decades-long quest from the United States to Europe to the Indian Subcontinent and back in the pursuit of voice, inspiration, and literary excellence.  On the way, he has written and published novels, short story collections, essay collections, memoirs, and numerous individual novellas, novelettes, short stories, and essays.

For Kindle here.

The One Thousand: Book Four: Deconstructing the Nightmare

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It is the early 1970s.  Their hunt for a group of alien-possessed psychopaths intent on igniting a rampage of mass murder leads the Team of Seven, composed of counterculture humans and benevolent aliens, to a prison in Turkey, war-ravaged Vietnam, a luxurious nuclear fallout shelter, and finally to direct confrontation with their enemies.

For Kindle here.

After the Fireflood: A Novel

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Aa consequence of the Fourth World War, the entire Earth is engulfed in a torrent of fire, transforming the landscape and obliterating all life.  Using terraforming, time travel, and other expediencies, human survivors from Moonbase and outer colonies attempt to cope with their devastating loss, reconstruct the Earth’s surface, and reorganize Earth sociologically to ensure lasting peace.

In print and for Kindle here.

The One Thousand: Book Three: Black Magic Bus

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To escape pursuit, a fellowship of alien-possessed psychopaths has fled to Europe.  In the mountains of Italy they customize a psychedelically-colored tour bus, intending not only to pick up and murder unwary young travelers, but deliver a cargo of lethal pathogens to a major city in the East.  Only the Team of Seven composed of enhanced humans and benevolent aliens can find and stop them…

In print and for Kindle here.

The Fantasy Book Murders by John Walters – Now Available!

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After a famous fantasy writer is murdered in his castle-like mansion, two unlikely investigators discover a pattern of similar murders suggesting a serial killer. They begin to research the killings, starting with the most recent and working backwards into the past. Danger mounts as they uncover the backgrounds of the victims and the truth begins to resemble the fantasy writer’s most bizarre and horrific fiction.

In print and for Kindle here.

At Smashwords in various electronic formats here.

Opting Out and Other Departures by John Walters – Now Available!

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A homeless man fleeing confiscation of the van he lives in stumbles upon a seemingly paradisiacal haven. A housewife enters a mysterious portal to another world. A coma victim, wide awake in a world of the mind, finds that the struggle between light and shadow in his dream is a life and death battle for the real world he left behind. A man who feels redundant and forsaken is offered a one-way ticket for a fresh start on an alien planet.

Those who embark upon a hero’s journey are often not heroes when they begin. The choices they make and the deeds they do make them heroes as they encounter obstacles and dangers. These stories concern misfits, outliers, wanderers, loners – those who have stepped beyond the norm or who have never fitted into it. Each is confronted with the call of the open road. For some it is physical and for others metaphorical, but all must choose to either cower in mediocrity or set forth on the path of adventure and destiny.

Includes “Opting out”, “Portals”, “Plants”, “Lady Linguist”, “Evermore”, “A Gathering of Shadows”, “Slug”, “The Precedent”, “Weapons”, “Downloading Catherine”, “Opting In”, “The Island Story, As Revised by One of the Participants”, “Afterword: The Call of the Open Road”.

In print and for Kindle here.

America Redux: Impressions of the United States After Thirty-Five Years Abroad by John Walters – Now Available!

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In 1976 John Walters left the United States in search of adventure and literary inspiration.  He lived for many years in India, Bangladesh, Italy, and Greece.  He married and had five sons.  Finally, faced with the economic catastrophe in Greece and the lack of opportunities for his sons, he returned to the land of his birth.  Without home, without job, without resources, he confronted his own country as if for the first time.

This is a memoir of someone who, late in life, was forced to leave everything behind and start fresh in what for him had become a new land.  It will appeal to those who are confronted with major life changes in these troubled economic times; to those who, though they may desire rest and retirement, must continue toiling to make ends meet; for those who desire insight into the vast, multifaceted culture of the United States from a fresh perspective, unencumbered by familiarity.

In print and for Kindle here.

At Smashwords in various electronic formats here.

Fear or Be Feared: Fantasies by John Walters – Now Available!

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A teenage girl climbing Mount Olympus with friends becomes possessed by an ancient Greek god who uses her as an instrument of vengeance.

A young artist pursued by her abusive stepfather is recruited to join a society of people linked together by telepathy which exists completely outside the awareness of the present world system.

Paranoia overwhelms a young college student as reality and fantasy merge in the midst of a drug trip that he realizes a dark power may be controlling.

During the British Raj an American reporter discovers a hidden valley in the foothills of the Himalaya ruled by a lovely but sinister woman who may not be human.

In these fourteen weird, surreal, frightening, and fantastic tales, unwary people discover that the world is very different from what they imagined.

In print and for Kindle here:

At Smashwords in various electronic formats here.

Includes “Fear or Be Feared”, “The Disappearance of Juliana”, “Invisible People”, “The Elephant’s Eyes”, “War Horse”, “The Lady of the Lost Valley”, “The Ghost of Halkidiki Past”, “Wolf in a Cage”, “The Gift”, “Clouds Without Rain”, “Mendocino Mellow”, “Slice-of-Death”, “The Illuminations”, “The Customs Shed”, “Afterword: Deviations”.

The One Thousand: A Novella by John Walters – Now Available!

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It is the late 1960s…

What better place than prison to recruit psychopathic killers?  So thinks Benny, possessed by a thousand alien entities which he intends to share around with the other inmates before unleashing hell on Earth in the form of a murderous rampage.  Only William Stafford, a Vietnam War veteran unjustly convicted of killing a girlfriend, can stop him.  But to do so he has to break back into the prison he has just escaped from…

In print and for Kindle here.