Showing results for "The Infinities" in Short Stories

Providence is flooded. An agoraphobic artist watches from his window as the sea takes the streets. But the ocean has brought more than storms, as the presence of something alien prods and grasps his mind. Can he find the courage to flee, or will his mind and body be taken by the storm and the creatures within? Even as the skies open and the streets fill, an international art thief takes one last job to steal from the legendary Miskatonic Library. His mission is the Incendium Malificarum, powerful enough to end the world, or to save it. But is he simply a pawn of powers greater than he knows?

A follow-up to his 1970 science fiction collection, The General Zapped an Angel, Fast’s book of 13 new science fiction stories is brisk and engrossing. In "The Hoop", a scientist builds a portal to an unknown destination, which the mayor of New York City hijacks to use as a garbage dump until the location’s surprising, and hilarious, revelation. And in "The Egg", set 3,000 years in the future, a research team discovers an egg, something they have never seen before, cryogenically frozen in a nuclear bunker. These 13 stories are bizarre, hilarious, poignant, and sure to entertain.

The human mind… a maze of secrets and contradictions! Why do we act the way we do? What really controls our decisions? A philosophical journey into the depths of human behavior!

Brad had all the advantages last round when the play happened in the kitchen, so Anna must dream up her best plan if she is to win this challenge. Even though she gets caught with a vegetable shoved in her cleavage in the produce section, she’s not deterred—she intends to win. Shedding her inhibitions and sometimes reveling in them, she slowly seduces Brad to cave in to her sexual charms. But he’s not laying down dead, he throws a few kinks in her toolbox during the playful shopping trip. When the grocery list is almost complete, they both relish the delicious rise and fall.