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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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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.

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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”.