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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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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.

Dark Mirrors: Dystopian Tales by John Walters – Now Available!

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When it malfunctions, a teacher discovers a microchip implanted within her forehead which was designed to eradicate her free will.  She determines to rescue the orphaned children in her care from a similar fate.

In the aftermath of a conflict in which all adults were killed or driven away by their progeny, children and teens roam the streets of a ruined city.  When they near the age of 21 they must play the ultimate game, snuff sport, to prevent themselves from becoming hated adults.  A lone grown-up who re-enters the city on a mission of reconciliation is captured and put on trial for his life.

The people of Earth are losing a war with aliens that they themselves provoked.  Every able-bodied person is being called up to fight, even prisoners.  A battle-hardened general enters a prison to recruit a woman who refuses to fight, but who may have a most unusual special ability that can turn the tide of the war.

These and other tales offer terrifying glimpses of Earth’s future gone wrong.

From the author’s afterword:  “When I postulate dark futures it is not to get you to despair.  When I hold up dark mirrors before your eyes it is not so that you will see the worst in yourself and do yourself in.  Far from it.  Some of our greatest illuminations come from deep dark prose.  Dark literature is not meant to overwhelm us.  It is meant to purge us, to provide catharsis.  It is a cleansing and purifying process.  We must be aware of the evil within before we can clean it out.”

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In various elecronic versions at Smashwords here.

Includes “Dark Mirrors”, “Life After Walden”, “Generation Gap”, “This Won’t Hurt A Bit”, “Brown-Eyed Girl”, “Tasting the Forbidden Fruit, or, If This Is Hell Then Why Is Everyone Smiling?”, “Noah and the Fireflood”, “The Earthborn”, “The Perspicacity of Soaring Eagle”, “Afterword: Future Tense”.

Love Children: A Novel by John Walters – Now Available!

It is the mid-1970s.  The Summer of Love and the Woodstock Music Festival have come and gone.  Into the atmosphere of cynicism and doubt following  the wild optimism of the youth revolution the Love Children, raised from birth by benevolent aliens, come home to Earth.  Sexually free, telepathic and honest to the extreme, they are appalled to find that the world they left behind is full of darkness and deceit. As they set about using their extraordinary powers to bring light and unity back to their world, they run up against a sinister alien force intending to keep it in darkness.

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At Smashwords in various electronic formats here.

Painsharing and Other Stories by John Walters – Now Available!

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This short story collection is now available in print and electronic editions.

After nuclear war, a survivor of the monster-populated ruins of Oakland California joins the crew of a clipper ship sailing the waters of the Pacific; a typhoon shipwrecks him on a tropical island whose inhabitants share a bizarre secret.

An unlikely team investigating the deaths of the crew of an interstellar spaceship near Pluto are confronted with a life-or-death conundrum stranger than anything they could have imagined.

On a distant planet the ultimate civil punishment is to be genetically deformed into an abhorrent beast and forced to live in the forbidden compound called Purgatory as slaves of the State.  When authorities arrest and condemn the woman he loves, a man determines to find and save her, even if he must descend into Purgatory itself.

These and other science fiction stories, some previously published and some original, are set on near and far future Earth and on distant planets.

Print edition is here.

Amazon’s Kindle version is here.

It’s also available at Smashwords in various electronic formats here.

Includes “Painsharing”, “Leilani”, “State of Grace”, “The Orpheus Equation”, “The Coma Killings”, “The New World”, “The Left-Handed League”, “Fearful Symmetry”, “Beyond Purgatory”, “Afterword: Here, There, and Everywhere”.

The Dragon Ticket and Other Stories by John Walters – Now Available!

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High in the Himalayas a young woman receives an extraordinary gift.  Beneath the streets of Calcutta a man discovers a terrifying presence.  In a palace full of sybaritic pleasures a demigod incurs terrible retribution.  On a far desert planet teeming with venemous creatures a woman searches for ultimate truth.  In these and other strange and wondrous tales John Walters explores the ramifications of human/alien encounter.

This short story collection is available at Amazon in print and electronic editions here.

It’s also available in various electronic formats at Smashwords here.

” Includes “The Dragon Ticket”, “Under Calcutta”, “The Golden Ones Who Work Miracles”, “Ceasefire”, “Star Over Babylon”, “The Touchstone”, “At The Edge”, “Clear Shining After Rain”, “Afterword: Concerning Reality and Fantasy”.