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STORIES IN OVERDRIVE: Fast-paced stories of novella length, written in a "vertical" writing style for reading on smart phones and tablets. Engaging stories for quick reads.

Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Overdrive #10 chosen

Posted by Charles Deemer at 9:27 PM

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Ray, a corporate employee, plans to blow the whistle on dangerous side effects of the company's "suntan pill". But before Ray can break the news at a stockholders meeting, he is slipped an overdose of the suntan drug -- and wakes up as a black man. See reviews at Amazon.

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Victor, who was adopted, is engaged. Wanting to know his medical heritage, he searches for his birth parents -- and discovers they are vampires in recovery! When his vivacious mother relapses, he tries to understand her cravings for blood - and discovers that he has the family craving for blood himself.

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An alien scientist survived the Roswell crash. He's been observing humans and sending back reports for 40 years. Now an entrepreneur from his home planet wants to turn Earth into a destination resort with a stellar safari, where galactic vacationers can observe primitive life forms, i.e. Earthlings. But the Refugee from Roswell, who has taken a liking to Earth, is determined to stop him.

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Duncan, a computer programmer made homeless after losing his job, finds a corpse near where he camps. He steals the man's identity, and for a short time he has a new life. Then the FBI shows up -- the corpse was on the witness protection program, getting ready to testify against the mob. Duncan runs and starts a new life again in a small town in Utah. He falls in love. But both the FBI and mob track him down and have plans for him. Can he play one against the other and try this new life business one more time?

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A dying old man engages the help of his grandson to kidnap his high school sweetheart from a rest home and go on a fly fishing adventure. When they are named missing persons, they decide to go on the run and continue the adventure. By the time it's over, the grandson has learned important lessons about dying with dignity.

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A battered woman tries to hide out in a treatment center, unaware that she is learning skills for one last confrontation with her abusive husband.

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An aging English professor and unpublished novelist is wooed by a new literary agent from the Internet. After he signs with her, he discovers others have received the same boilerplate email of extraordinary praise. Being a victim after so much rejection, he decides to get revenge and make the agent's life a living hell -- which he does with unexpected results.

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