Showing results for "Control" in Literature & Fiction

Bob Dillon is a down-on-his-luck exterminator from Queens who just wants to make a killing with his radical new environmentally-friendly pest elimination technique, involving his hybrid assassin bugs (a very real group of insects). But when Bob decides to advertise, his flyer falls into the hands of a European murder-for-hire broker who mistakes Bob for a professional assassin.

There's a lot to cover here, ok, first what if the voice inside your head left and became a mop, you ever think of that? of course not, why would you, forget that. Second! If particles are everywhere all at once until they are observed, then why do we all see the same thing when we observe them, who is doing that, it can’t be us or we would all see something different, who or what controls what particles become when we look at them?

Eleanor Merritt, a do-gooding American family-planning worker, was drawn to Kenya to improve the lot of the poor. Unnervingly, she finds herself falling in love with the beguiling Calvin Piper despite, or perhaps because of, his misanthropic theories about population control and the future of the human race. Surely, Calvin whispers seductively in Eleanor's ear, if the poor are a responsibility they are also an imposition.

Jack Freestone's first novella, a satirical but humorous piece, based upon his experiences as a defense lawyer in New Zealand.

An episodic adventure of life in the confines of "the city." The reality of renting, dating and mingling with eight million others takes place in Rent (minus) Control. This narrative follows our main character to Brooklyn and back in search of a new beginning after learning that things aren't always as perfect as they appear and that sometimes you need to let life take control.

Mia Müller has spent her life going along to get along—agreeing to what others want, even when it silences her own voice. But when her cousin Jakob disappears after a shady visit to The Mancini Dealership—a used car lot that’s really a front for the local mob—Mia can no longer afford to stay quiet. Jakob had his flaws, but he was family. All he wanted was a car—not trouble. When things go horribly wrong, Mia is forced to confront the powerful crime family behind it all.

When Debbie de La Fontaine tries to spice up her love life by supernaturally tampering with her sex life, she is cursed to spend every future encounter in a magical place called "Sex Hell", where the sex is ludicrous and amazing, but the romance is scarce. Her only chance for escape is through the stingy clues supplied by an obnoxious demon.