Short Tall Tales are a series of quick reads with surprise endings that are either shocking, disturbing, mysterious, humorous or thought-provoking — and most often all five. In short, think 21st Century Twilight Zone.
A hardboiled cop, on suspension from the NYPD, gets an unexpected visitor who tells him that a stranger wants to see him about a matter of life and death. The cop’s heard it all before. Except this time, it’s a matter of his and everybody else’s life and death.
Is the man demanding to see him a terrorist? Crazy? Someone looking to become famous or perhaps infamous? Or is there something deeper?
When you turn the final page of Mann’s Last Prayer, you’ll question reality, your beliefs and perhaps even your sanity.
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Ethan Dimwiddy returns home from work to find two gigantic stuffed animals and an invitation to the place where his identical twin brother mysteriously disappeared twenty years before. Like a pendulum, Aunt Mamie, by turns, goes from light comedy... to tragedy... to dark comedy... to a revelation that will drop your jaw or leave you laughing — likely both.
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They say good things come in small packages — jewelry, chocolate chip cookies, winning lottery tickets. What they neglect to point out is bad things also come in small packages — baby rattle snakes, hand grenades and a two-and-a-half foot tall neighbor from hell.
No one would confuse the kid with a cute Dennis the Menace mischief maker. And, chances are no one would take him for a “Bad Seed” homicidal psychopath. Yet this wildly out of control toddler managed over two years to turn four adult’s lives into a PTSD hell where they were forced to give up a third of their home and take trips to nowhere just to get away from him for a few hours.
The toddler’s parents saw nothing wrong with his behavior. And, after the landlord and police refused to get involved, the situation grew ever more heated and closer to boiling over.
Something had to give. Finally it did.
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Who’s on first? What’s on second? I Don’t Know’s on third. And Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s most famous consulting detective is on deck to solve the mysterious death of Lord Redcomb — Or is he? Could even the detective be a suspect? Who, how and why Lord Redcomb met his end is only the beginning. Suspects are plentiful and right out of a Dame Agatha Christie whodunit. There are Sir Bernard and Lady Haveanother, also known as Lord Lipgloss and Lady Felicia, Colonel Bravely-Done, Steinmetz the butler and a host of others. Here’s mystery charged with humor, and ending with a twist we promise will be anything but elementary.
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Victorian poet Robert Browning famously wrote “a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?” Father Pope, a Catholic priest undergoing a minor medical procedure that’s gone very wrong, suffers a Near Death Experience and discovers exactly what a heaven is not for.
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The Great Depression at its soul-crushing worst. Soup kitchens. Bread lines. No Social Security. No Unemployment Insurance. Nothing to ease the pain.
Jobs are impossible to come by even for strong, tough, smart, able-bodied, young men. So when he’s fired, what’s left for a gimpy-legged octogenarian with no family or friends except kill himself?
But, after that, what’s he going to do?
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In a race against time, a man attempts to reach a cure for his infected lover. To succeed, he has to cross a barren wasteland, braving the elements, the dead and even the living.
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