Fiction

Alien Infection
By Darrell Bain

When a laboratory technician on the verge of retirement accidentally infects himself with blood from an emergency room patient, he intends to report it-- until government agents swarm the hospital, confiscating every sample of blood taken from the patient--at gunpoint. Deciding not to report the incident just yet for fear of being thrown into an isolation chamber, he goes home--and falls violently ill. By the time he recovers and returns to work, scary things are happening. 

Stacy Addison, a beautiful and charismatic young psychic healer, is gravely injured in a car crash, after an argument with her doctor husband, David Kinnard. Deep in a coma, she is caught between this world and the next where she finds herself stalked by an unknown enemy whose single purpose is to revenge a sin she doesn't even realize she has committed. Unknown to both of them, an even stronger and more menacing power is forcing her toward a devastating decision which will alter not only her own life and future, but possibly the future of the entire world!

Between chronicles Stacy's journey through the unknown, sometimes terrifying, but always fascinating, realm. An eccentric neighbor with highly unusual talents, a talking cat, and a ancient Greek god who refuses to stay in the past guide Stacy through the intricacies of life between the two worlds. How will she make the impossible choice between her old commitments and those she loves, and a dangerous, but irresistible, offer that promises to turn her wildest dreams of fame and fortune into reality?

ALIEN$ : We’re Only Here For The Money
by Richard Bliss

Crop circles and Alien Pops are just two indications of what may be a "soft invasion" from the Visitors, and a new TV show THAT'S ALIEN! is expected soon. Are we being set up by a core group of aliens who want to take the money and run?

Lighthouse Rockets
By Richard Bliss

Lighthouses have guarded the coastlines for centuries. A new kind of guard is needed when the Lighthouses become vehicles for transformation.

The rockets of space travel explore beyond the horizon-boundaries of earth. Combining the two in a grand metaphor creates the platform for a launch into another kind of space.

Join Eddie Chaos and a crazed bunch of island identities as they are merged in a technological tapestry of cryptic intent. Love and hope, desire and despair are mixed in the Program to achieve Light Liftoff before the Dark can take hold of the distressed island planet.

OHANA : A Novel of Hawaii and Space
By Richard Bliss

What if you had one of two choices only? Lose your island Nation or recreate it in orbit prior to taking the entire nation to the nearest star? Given the choice, the Queen of Hawaii Nation, after a second insurrection in 2017, decides to follow the new age-new tech direction of Brad Ellis and create Ohana in The Whale. The Family of Hawaiians go up to orbit, creating Maui and Oahu in the huge canisters-ship known as The Whale.

Led by business developers and frustrations with administrative top-heavy High Tech park, Brad Ellis also sees the migration as a solution to how to keep the tech they have discovered alive in the world. A conservative presidential ogre, McBain, has outlawed all new technology as being "against the will of God" encouraging his followers to concentrate instead on the prospects of a perfect afterlife. With this spiritual war going on back on Earth, Brad and the Hawaiians head to Alpha Centauri II under the pilot of God of Stanley Ramo, a pilot whose bipolar faisure has created a glitch in the AI operating system of the ship, based on his neuronetworks. Once at the destination, more wonders are instore as the Infonauts take their Family of Space onto the next stage.

Monkey Trap
By Lee Denning

Lara and John are given the incredible powers of the next stage of human evolution by two alien visitors. One wants to help the human race fulfill its potential, to transition into the Nova sapiens state. The other wants to use those powers to return the race to a more primitive state of mindlessness and darkness. But which is which?

The human protagonists' identities are concealed from each other, and they are set on a collision course to death and destruction. Thus begins an intricate psychodrama and a furious battling chase in which John and Lara have to penetrate induced alien falsehoods, rely on their inner strengths, and relinquish power in favor of love. If they are to survive. If the human race is to survive.

This story takes place today, in familiar places. It launches from the current cutting edges of knowledge about human development and consciousness. Slight twists from this state suspend disbelief, and embedded mysticism creates a powerful undercurrent.

In a town nestled between magic and miracle, snuggled between dream and deja vu, Mary Jane Higgins embarks on a series of perilous journeys, determined to resolve the riddle of Christmasville. Although it's forbidden, she crosses train tracks, approaches the bottomless abyss, travels through a wilderness "that operates according to a different set of rules". Along the way she encounters a mysterious donkey, a shepherd boy with his lamb and three riders on ... camels?

'... but camels only exist in myths and fairy tales, like unicorns and giraffes, dragons and elephants.' On the changing checkerboard of Christmasville, buildings and homes are re-shuffled annually. The calendar consists of only two pages: December and January. But no one gets any older. And the worst of ailments are poison ivy, color blindness, and signs of that most harrowing of conditions: partial baldness. It's a town perennially covered in new fallen snow, perpetually decorated in yuletide trimmings. It's a town that in many ways is typical, or evocative - one that we might dream of - but one which operates according to three, notably different, phenomena - time, space and memory. And no one - save one - suspects that something is askew."

Space Station, A Two Boys Adventure Story By Grant Edick

The Two Boys Adventure Stories will captivate the attention of readers 8 years of age and older. Throughout this series the main characters, Jimmy and Steven, encounter unexpected challenges whenever they embark on a new and exciting adventure. Their friendship grows ever closer as they work together as a team to over come these challenges.

In SPACE STATION Jimmy and Steven are partners who win a contest that allows them to become junior astronauts. However, their original plan to travel to outer space on an exciting mission of scientific exploration mysteriously turns into a struggle for outer space survival. Join these two boys as they show how the power of true friendship endures to conquer great obstacles.

The Uninhabited Kind - The Buffalo Skin Hide - A Treacherous Path
by H. Garni

Rescued from the clutches of certain death under one of Alaska s worst blizzard, an abandoned ten year old boy comes across an old chest relic that would change his life forever. Thrust into a world unbeknown to him as he gradually becomes aware of what he is destined to do and blessed with innate abilities to prove his worth, he must guide others through unforeseen darkness that looms ahead.

Sand Mansions: A Novel
by Norman Gilliland

In 1876, a close presidential contest was tilted by means of a few stuffed ballot boxes, one of which came from the village of Archer, Florida. That fraud is the departure point for Norman Gilliland’s historical novel Sand Mansions, a remarkable story of carpetbag politics, get-rich-quick schemes, and hasty justice—a story based closely on events that shaped the history of northern Florida and the nation in the years 1876 to 1905. Unforgettable characters include a former slave who became a wealthy plantation owner, a clever and corrupt political boss, a deadly black outlaw, and his Irish priest accomplice. And here are stories of a 14,000-acre lake that disappears, a grandiose planned community nipped in the bud by a yellow fever epidemic, devastating freezes, and a vote by ten men to determine the future of two competing towns.

The Bringer of Rapture
By Cissy Hassel

Desires of the heart gets in the way of family honor on the road paved with sweet revenge. When Sara’s father is brutally murdered, she finds herself obligated to the man she holds responsible. But Sara is determined to follow through with her plan to bring him down, for if she falters, her heart will be his next victim.

Deceit Times Two
By Cissy Hassel

A heart betrayed never forgets. And, someone must pay. Guthrie Cavanaugh has proof the child Marissa Harrington adopted eight years ago is his, one he never knew existed. And now, he wants her back by any means necessary. He presents her with a compromise. Marry him, be a mother to both his children, or lose everything she holds dear.

Nowhere
By Cissy Hassel

It would be a great thing to spend the rest of her life not living in fear. In a town called Nowhere, Harleigh Bleu takes measures to dig deeper into obscurity until she meets the local doctor who recognizes her wounded soul. Yet, no matter how hard she tries to blend in and remain anonymous, the menace of Harleigh's past catches up with her. Into this mix, comes a secret from the past, a mystery from the present and a searcher from the future. The question now is, will Caleb's love be enough to protect her from a menace so horrific it chills the blood?

The First Lady of Music
by C. Yvonne Hooper

The First Lady of Music is the riveting story of the powerful Rousseau family dynasty, headlined by the stunning and immensely talented Massina Rousseau, who endures tragedy and life-altering challenges to become one of the greatest performers in history.

Bill W., A Strange Salvation: A Biographical Novel
by Paul Hourihan

After Bill Wilson's supreme achievement in founding Alcoholics Anonymous, why would he have suffered a serious depression that lasted more than a decade? This book attempts to throw light on the question, one that has never been answered and rarely asked. In doing so, it involves the reader in many other themes of vital relevance to everyone--not to those in recovery alone.

Generally based on the facts of Wilson's life, the author has not restricted himself to the literal truth: the prerogative of the novel. Many of the events in Wilson's history he has passed over in favor of an intensive, original recreation of its key moments from childhood to early middle age, when the power of the depression was first felt. As a work of the imagination as this chiefly is, it probes deeper into the real life, the hidden life of the individual than non-fiction can do. This is the first in-depth study powered by meditative insight of Bill Wilson, the AA founder, "the greatest social architect"--in Aldous Huxley's words--of the past century.

The Assassination of Rush Limbaugh (Hardcover)
by Tom Layne

Facing extinction by the GOP, a splinter group of Democrats hatches a frightful solution. With the help of an organized crime lord, they plot to assassinate the mouthpiece of the Republican juggernaut conservative talk-show host Rush Limbaugh.

The Assassination of Rush Limbaugh is the fascinating multi-generational tale of two immigrant families set on a collision course one beholden to Democratic ideals and social change, the other quickly absorbed by the underworld.

Washaka-The Bear Dreamer
by Jamie Lee

Tunkasila-hear my plea. In Lakota country, Tunkasila is the creator, the mysterious one who brings all things into being. When Little Chief dreams of a white bear who has been tied to a tree and is bleeding at the neck, his grandfather says he must pray about this, that some day he will meet the animal of his dream-or something like it-and he will be asked to free the bear.

Little Chief prays about this, sending his plea out to Tunkasila, and, when he later finds a white boy tied to a tree, his neck scabbed and bleeding, he knows this is Mato Ska, the white bear of his dream.

Washaka is the story of two boys, one Lakota and one white, as they find brotherhood across a great cultural divide. The original story is based on Leon Hale's dream. A Lakota man from the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation, Hale has had a reoccurring dream his whole life. Sick with diabetes and cancer, he prays with his grandson to meet a writer who will put his dream into print. Such is the genesis of Jamie Lee's new novel, Washaka-The Bear Dreamer.

The Master of Plans: A Love Story
by Carol A Miller

This provocative love story captures the pulse and texture of a contemporary woman's failure and success. The path vicariously twists and turns with elements of surprise portraying vivid characters with a haunting resonance.

The Master of Plans Part II - A Story of Love
by Carol A Miller

As an inherent lover, Carrie Moretti Malone seizes every opportunity to broaden her horizons, through failures and successes, in an endless search for love and contentment. She performs every task with spontaneous ease, simply to share unselfishly and generously. Carrie is haunted by a psychic prophecy, having finally found-then lost-her true love. Will this fairy tale have a happy ending?

The Belize File
By Harold Miller

Penn Gwinn, a private investigator based in San Rafael, California, was hired to find a friend’s daughter missing on her honeymoon. He didn’t expect the case to be involved with his hunt for the murderer of a private investigator associate, nor with the CIA, DIA, DEA and the USCG drug running operations in the Caribbean. Nor did he expect to confront the leader of one of the most notorious, albeit seedy, film operations in San Francisco!

The investigation takes Penn Gwinn to Belize, where the manipulations of greedy government agents are revealed. He unwittingly discovers the weaknesses of the U.S. government’s poorly managed, doomed to failure, war on drugs.
This exciting, fast paced tale resolves the story’s three plots with a surprise twist that has become the author’s trademark.

When a mysterious client hires Penn Gwinn to locate the legendary opal called the Aqualene, he thought it would be a quick buck. He had no idea he was about to become involved in a bizarre chase for the Aqualene, called the Eye of God, part of the Australian Aborigine heritage.
As this case takes him through Mexico and on to Australia, he attracts many so-called friends and allies. The Quad Lateral Council, an international criminal syndicate, is confronted. The case leaves a trail of bodies, as Penn deals with phony detectives and seductive female agents.

In this chase for the Aqualene, nothing is as it seems!
This fast paced tale of action and intrigue is based on the author’s private investigating files. The flowing, easy reading style will have the reader turning pages in anticipation as the twist ending is revealed!

Thai Moon Saloon
By Harold Miller

After the Viet Nam ‘non-war’, Penn Gwinn and his combat buddy, Jim Starret, relocated to Bangkok, Thailand. The duo purchased a saloon to house their bodies and beleaguered souls. Despite it’s meager profits, they considered it to be their retirement. However, their former involvement with the Defense Intelligence Agency came back to haunt them.
When the sister of their deceased DIA field operative friend showed up and demanded their help, their retirement ended. She led them into a confrontation with the warlord of the Shan State in the Golden Triangle, who was also known as The Prince of Darkness. Their harrowing disruption of his opium growing operation had them running for their lives. But exposing the rivalry between the DIA and the CIA, and their inter-agency battles, could be their final action!
When the CIA faces the DIA, only the losers win.

Thai Moon Saloon is based on Mr.Miller’s involvement with the DIA, CIA and DEA. Once again, he has proven his ability to hide his intentions until the last possible moment! There is no need for a code book to understand this story. You’ll be hooked from the first chapter!

Penn Gwinn had turned from private investigator to relic hunter. Retiring to Belize provided a high standard of living. However, his pseudo retirement came to an abrupt halt when he ran into a thorny bush, and curvaceous persuasion. Joining up with a group of three teenagers from Northern California was not in his game plan. Nor was a wild squad of Guatemalan soldiers bent on liberating the people of Belize! His worst nightmare was heading into the Belizean jungle with all of them!
When the Emerald Head is found, it is beyond everyone’s expectations and beliefs. Mr. Miller ties all three plots into an explosive finale!
In Belize, anything can happen!

Claude Clambo joins five other guests for dinner in the mansion of an eccentric vintner host. The dinner is late, the host can’t be found, the guests are guzzling wine, and begin to disappear, one by one. It’s gotta be the butler, except there isn’t one. The guests are natives of Germany, Belgium, Italy, England, Los Angeles and Napa, or are they? Is it coincidental that each of them had a relative who died in their own wine cellars? Who could be the murderer? Is it one of them? Suspicions abound as you reach the twisted resolution of this verbal slapstick, comedy mystery.

Sound familiar? Don’t bet on it! You’ll die laughing.

Disposable Girl: A Novel
by Kate Moulton

Disposable Girl is a complex story of a young girl's battle to reclaim her life. A poignant and disturbing look into the secret that this upper-middle class family desperately wants to keep from the rest of the world. Winnie Stapleton appeared to have everything going for her. The only daughter of a prominent Denver physician, she and her brothers grew up in a small but comfortable home in a nice neighborhood. Beneath the surface of this seemingly perfect family, Winnie was a troubled adolescent who lived through severe depression and paralyzing panic attacks after suffering unthinkable abuse by her own father.

Peace I Ask of Thee, Oh River
by Lyda Phillips

El Campbell just wants to have fun over the summer between high school and college. She’s in charge of several girls at a North Carolina summer camp, and El hopes they interfere with her fun as little as possible, especially after she meets Arthur, a muscular world-class kayaker.

But Tiffin, the governor’s daughter, arrives and instantly begins to make El’s life miserable. Tiffin refuses to follow rules, won’t set tables, won’t stay in her cabin at rest period, talks back, defies the elder campers, and vandalizes a cabin in her own unit. She tortures animals, bites other campers, and blows spit bubbles.

When word leaks around camp that Tiffin’s sister drowned a year or so earlier, some campers begin to whisper that Tiffin must have killed her. As the pressure mounts, El is sucked into Tiffin’s downward spiral.

Mr. Touchdown
by Lyda Phillips

In 1965, the South remained defiantly segregated. Eddie Russell, a star football player, and his timid sister, Lakeesha, are told they will be helping to desegregate an all-white high school. Their father tells them they will be fighting for a righteous cause, but they aren’t buying it—because they have no choice in the matter.

This Great Divide
By Eric Prochaska

Breakout writer Eric Prochaska deftly navigates "subjects from which less venturesome spirits shrink" in these "artfully balanced" stories that fathom the distance between human hearts and the separation of people from God.

Prochaska's intensely crafted fiction captures the "ache of faded aspirations," but leaves readers with "an ultimately liberating affirmation of the life one has been dealt." Initial response has compared the mood to that of Sherwood Anderson (Winesburg, Ohio) and Carson McCullers, while adding that Prochaska's "voice is fresh and in tune with the uprooted, polarized America of the New Millennium."

Mississippi Flyway
by Nel Rand

Set in 1967 along the banks of the Mississippi River and bird flyway, thirty-one year-old Ellie Moon, recently divorced, hounded by a controlling mother, and haunted by her dead sister Rose, goes on a road trip with her estranged father, Tiny, famous gambler and conman. Ellie flies along her own inner flyway as they travel south to her sister's grave in Mississippi, to a near drowning in the Mississippi River, to a Voodoo ceremony on a deserted bayou near New Orleans. Tiny gambles his way down the river route, meeting his colorful cronies along the way, staying one step ahead of Dover, a Kentucky sheriff seeking revenge on Tiny for stealing his truck after a heated game of poker on Kentucky Lake. Ellie retrieves dark memories of her childhood that have haunted her adult life.

She learns that in order to forgive, she must first remember.

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The Elixir
By Thomas Francis Root

Tom and Carole are a happy young couple who have everything they could possibly ask for--except good health. While vacationing on Cape Cod, they meet Lucinda Hobson, a mysterious woman who deals in herbal teas and claims to possess a potent elixir, capable of curing almost any illness and extending life indefinitely.

A Man of His Village
by Tanyo Ravicz

In this novel of pride and redemption Florentino Cruz is an ambitious Mexican migrant worker. When Florentino takes a promising job in Alaska, his dream of glory turns into a nightmare.

A Man of His Village occupies the epic terrain of the West, from the borderlands of California to the strawberry fields of Oregon, from urban Seattle to rural Mexico, from the crowded slums of Tijuana to the isolation of the Alaskan bush.

It is the story of a passionate soul's journey out of innocence and across a continental landscape of exploitation and betrayal.

The Roar of the Huntids
By Rose Rosetree

This satirical novel about spiritual empowerment received top ratings from Heartland Reviews. Set in America in 2020, "huntids" are strange insects attributed to terrorists. Religious extremists use the insects as an excuse to take over the presidency and the nation.

Devil In The North Woods: A Novel Based On The 1908 Metz, Michigan Wildfire
by Walt Shiel

In October 1908, a wildfire swept through northeast Michigan and consumed 900 homes and two million acres of farms and forest. Despite the valiant efforts of the farmers, lumbermen, and shopkeepers, only Lake Huron could quench the flames. With no fire watch towers, spotting aircraft, telephones, or organized firefighting and only limited telegraph, warnings were too few and too late. The conflagration left 43 dead and 4,600 homeless as the relentless winter loomed.

Devil in the North Woods contrasts the terror of nature’s destruction with a chronicle of family, love, sorrow, and recovery. The story leaves the reader buoyed by faith in the resilience of the human spirit and belief in love’s ability to germinate amid the ashes of ruin. The book includes a map and five historical photos.

Lord of the Dead
by Lisa A. Shiel

Lord of the Dead, Book Two in the Human Origins Series (begun with The Hunt for Bigfoot), launches Katy and Rick on a continuation of their quest for the truth about human origins, this time through the pages of the enigmatic Book of Thoth.

The story affords a chance to explore the real debate between Egyptologists, who believe the Book of Thoth contained scientific knowledge largely reproduced elsewhere, and New Age enthusiasts, who assert the book held magical power and wisdom.

Once again, this imaginative series blends author Shiel’s in-depth knowledge of archaeology, anthropology and alternative history into an entertaining and fast-paced tale of mystery, UFOs, Bigfoot, murder and mayhem.

Pilots and Normal People
by Walt Shiel

Is it really possible to forget a prejudice ingrained during war?
Does death really close the door to life?
Can a grounded pilot find another way to return to the sky?
Are physical laws the same throughout the universe?
Is aviation mostly intellect or mostly emotion?
Are criminals just as smart as the law-abiding?
Can one man fight back against society's increasing crudeness?
Do space explorers really need a spaceship?

These and many other intriguing questions are explored in Walt Shiel's eclectic short fiction collection, which includes the award-winning "Remember" about a WW II veteran still haunted by memories of violence. Pilots and Normal People presents 21 tales of mystery, science fiction and humanity, six involving pilots and aviation.

Edges: O Israel, O Palestine
by Leora Skolkin-Smith, Grace Paley (Editor)

"Edges takes the reader to an Israel before high walls formed a border, when, instead, metal wires hung "like hosiery lines" across the land. Liana Barish is fourteen years old when the suicide of her American father forces her mother, mourning, in despair back to her family--to Jerusalem where she grew up. For Liana it is the place where the powerful interdependence of mother and daughter--physical and spiritual--ends. It is the place of her sexual awakening."
--Grace Paley, author of "The Little Disturbances of Man, "Enormous Changes at the Last Minute"

Threads
by Patrice St. Onge

Threads, a novel raw in honesty and gentle in compassion chronicles Maggie's journey through life as seen through the eyes of those who wove her path. You will meet a cast of sometimes zany, sometimes cruel and sometimes transcendent characters who will have you looking at your life's tapestry to elucidate and examine your colorful threads.
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The Divine Plan: A Novel of Obsession
By Sarah Vigil Swiger

Tragedy strikes when Jack Kacey, who has searched his entire life for the one, finds his twin soul married. Seized by obsession, possessing Faith consumes him as her unfulfilling, albeit comfortable, marriage collapses. With each new discovery emerging she wavers, trying to decide which path destiny intends for her, and he becomes more certain this is their lifetime to reunite, pressuring her to abandon everything she fought to keep.
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Who's Got Skills
by Tyrenna Tolbert

From Harlem to Brooklyn, a killer, is on the loose, riding a motorcycle, wiping out high profile executives with a horrible past they must confront before dying. Skilz knows the real secret but enjoys the lust, passion, money and heat on the New York City streets daily to be dealt with. There are many secrets, but Skilz is not sharing any information. Patience a consultant and business owner in Manhattan knew she found trouble when she met Chin, a fine and sexy man who quickly wanted to be her future. Patience determined to find out about her stranger hoped her motorcycle skills kept her alive long enough to find out his dark secrets? Chin had no family and no worries. He was a hired killer to remove the filth from the earth as a favor to society, and got paid well to do it. After losing his career by helping out a friend, everything about him that was ever good, was now malicious. Was there any good left in his heart? Shy loved being a young detective riding a motorcycle as a part of his case looking for the killer. Shy sacrificed his family, especially his sister Rachel to become the youngest detective at a Brooklyn police station. Shy's sacrifices come back to haunt him when Shy doesn't expect to find the killer is closer than he would ever realize.

Sacred Vow
by C.G. Walters

In a world growing increasingly heartless, “…there is a legend that the life-force of the Collective Consciousness begins to weaken when true bonding between those who should share love is not being practiced. Like all magic, when the magic of loving commitment is not believed in, or not being practiced, it begins to fade and die.” Sacred Vow is a journey toward our one true love . . . in its infinite expressions . . . bringing together two individuals from disparate realities, but one spirit, to heal the rift in the Collective Consciousness . . . a breach that threatens us all.

Sumdar, The Tetralogy, Book One: Birth Into Dreams
By Peter Q. Warinner

The main character, a young American man of French ancestry, Pierre, is forced into a metamorphosis of both mind and body as he discovers that he is not the ordinary human he thought he was. As he experiences numerous adventurous encounters with several fascinating and eccentric Sumdar characters, he is haunted by the mysterious disappearance of his first true love, Grace. The story builds up with almost unbearable suspense in anticipation of answers that are laced into the countless unexpected twists of fate. The story builds momentum as it draws the reader into what is likely to be considered a great work of American literature. This truly original concept is so well developed, that it will easily gain its status as one of the great legends to be born in the 21st century.

Dead Drunk
by Michael Wildman

The twenty-seven stories collected in Dead Drunk together conspire to lead the reader through an alcoholic haze -- a very fast ride in which a legion of vivid and unrelated characters expose the secret workings of a single twisted mind.

With fact obscuring fiction while fiction hurries to conceal the facts, Dead Drunk reads much like a madman's confession disguised as cabaret.

Angelos
By Robina Williams

The quantum cat is back! And so are his friends, some of whom are very old friends indeed - King Minos, Deiphobe the Sibyl, Androcles, St. Jerome and the Minotaur of labyrinth fame. The Minotaur is a quiet home-loving sort of creature. So he's not too happy when a falling rock in his labyrinth bounces off his head, giving him a splitting headache and setting off a quantum leap that flings him into a garden shed somewhere. He's relieved to find his horns haven't been broken, but where in Zeus' name is he now? Brother Jerome, pottering around in the friary shed, is suddenly hurled into a maze of passageways. Where in the Lord's name is he now? The quantum cat, coming to the rescue, shows that 'now is a somewhat fluid concept...