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The late genius, Stephen Hawking, said in his masterpiece A Brief History of Time: "So what one needs, in order to warp spacetime in a way that will allow travel into the past, is matter with negative energy density." If you're a member of the Alien Affairs team, warping spacetime is part of the job description.The Alien Affairs team once again heads across the multiverse in a desperate effort to placate disgruntled copies of themselves in a parallel universe where the relocated Nordic aliens are not living happily ever after. Half alien, Terrie Deshler, is summoned before Congress-again-where the Senate Special Committee on Aging threatens her if she doesn't divulge the secret of eternal youth. Terrie hatches a plan to put the government on the right path by resurrecting an American hero. Meanwhile, she uncovers the mystery of the collapse of the Mayan civilization at the same time as she struggles to terraform Mars so she'll have a place to stash the surplus Nordics a millennium in the future. The discovery of a dark family secret threatens her burgeoning romance with the grandson of Elon Musk, and the family's computer avatar, Cassiopeia, is kidnapped by a geriatric member of Congress and his wife. Carrie, Terrie, and her alien parent, Deshler, race to find her, but every time they cross the portal to the multiverse, someone launches a nuclear-armed missile at them.

Doctor Josef Mengele selected thousands for the gas chambers on the platform of the train station at the Auschwitz death camp. The survivors called him the Angel of Death. He was brilliant, urbane and charming, and he performed vivisection on the prisoners he spared from the Zyklon B. Then he spent forty years being hunted.Although at one time he was in the hands of the U. S. Army, Mengele was never charged with war crimes. He moved about with the help of dozens of people, sometime unwittingly, though often knowing full well who he was. He evaded scores of professional Nazi hunters and spies for forty years even though his wife's name was in the Buenos Aires phone book. The stories told about him by the Simon Wiesenthal and the other pursuers grew in proportion to the years that they searched for him as did his fear and sense of isolation as well as the price on his head.Now, read the facts and the fantasies surrounding the Angel of Death in South America.

George Washington Skipper was a man with secrets. He kept multiple wives in two states, spawned at least sixteen children, adopted three, spent four years in the Confederate Army, was shot twice and lived to eighty-five.Then there was one more thing and a hundred years later the family is still scandalized over it.

How did a witness to the beheading of Charles I come to find himself an Indian Chief in Colonial Virginia? Read how three generations of troublemakers ran afoul of the Governor and their wives in a whimsical tale is based on historical events. Much of what seems to be nonsense actually happened to real people as related in the historical record. As for the parts that are pure invention-well, if you knew the Skipper family the way that I do, you wouldn't doubt them for a minute.

The United States invaded Mexico in 1846.What if they never left?See what the world might look like today if the Old South had acquired the territory of Mexico before the Civil War. This alternative history covers the period from 1846 to 1946 and indulges in political satire still relevant today.

How does a half-alien teenager cope with her over-protective mother, genocidal aunt, Islamic terrorists and an alien follow-up invasion? She copes very well, but it sure gets in the way of her love life.Years after her mother cajoled the secret to reversing the effects of alien induced global infertility from the libidinous alien, Deshler, the birth rate begins to rebound when another alien craft arrives on a follow-up visit. Terrie Deshler desperately tries to be a normal teenager while threatened by jihadists, hounded by the government, pursued by Russians and menaced by fertility probing aliens. Being only one of a handful who can communicate with the no nonsense alien, Mischa, she and her mother apply their wiles to convince the suspicious invaders that their plan for human extinction is on track. The fact that her aunt is secretly dispensing the fertility restoration cure to an elite few brings the wrath of the masses down on them all while the space raiders circle the planet searching for evidence of reproduction.

Satire: humor that shows the weaknesses or bad qualities of a person, government, society, etc. (Merriam/Webster)If ever there was a time that government deserved to be satirized, it is 2016. If you think reality has gone crazy, wait until you see how Candidate Jim agitates the crowd, and the world.

When a leftwing activist from the Nixon era morphs into a conservative writer of political incorrectness, can she ever escape the evil eye of Big Brother? Political winds may shift but some things never change. If you pull on the dragon's tail, you'd best be ready to take some heat.Is it true that the more things change, the more they stay the same? For Kate it seems that way, but perhaps there is a new and more ominous threat, jihad. Her computer is hacked, there are mysterious voices on her phone, her condo is bugged, why would someone spy on a sweet old lady from Ohio who writes snarky novels about the government? Kate fought to get the bureaucratic monkey off her back at both ends of her life. She just can't get on the good side of the establishment. In fact, she has a gift for drawing harassment upon herself. Her feud with the Feds spanned four decades from the sixties to the days of TSA, NSA and Homeland Security. Her persecution soars to precipitous heights. What is a grandmother to do when somebody is after her head? Well, WTF.

To the peril of all who accompany him, a salvager sails the globe searching for a creature supposed to have gone extinct before the time of the dinosaurs. Megalodon was the length of a sperm whale with jaws that could swallow an orca. Its teeth that still wash onto distant shores measure six inches from tip to root. How much fame and fortune awaits the one who proves such a monster from the Pleistocene still exists?Also, included in this anthology: The Stainless Steel CoffinPain Below the Equator (Travelogue)The Time ShrinkA Death in CarolinaThe Happiest Man in HellThe Pig and the ParamourNightshad

In the late seventies, a young Californian takes a job in South Carolina. On his first day, he is introduced to a stunningly beautiful, but married, woman, the black janitor, a hard-drinking electrical engineer, and a couple dozen assorted misfits. In the first week, the janitor is found hanging from a light pole, and the married woman begins paying attention to him. On his way to work on Monday morning, the vacant field that he thought was a farmers' market contains the charred remains of three crosses.After his divorce, Mason is desperately in need of a job and equally in need of a woman, but what is Jill's motive for coming onto him so blatantly? And where do the bruises come from that she tries to hide beneath makeup that her faultless face doesn't need? It doesn't take long for Mason to realize that leaving California was a major mistake. He is now in a world where he can buy a gun at a gas station, but can't buy a broom on Sunday, and every other Saturday night, the field where the crosses are burned is full of police cars.

There is an infinite number of parallel universes in the multiverse. With access to them, one can choose what age to be, or to arrive at the end of a journey across the stars before departing. This could be a very powerful tool in the hands of someone determined to alter the future. It could also be extremely dangerous.Half-alien, Terrie Deshler, and her alien bashing mother, Carrie Player, surf the multiverse when they hear that Deshler, who tried to annihilate the human race, is in trouble for failing in his mission. The only way that they can reach Tau Ceti IV in time to intercede is to go back in time the thirty-two years it takes to make the transit, which also resets their ages. Then there is the minor issue of a marauding race of aliens who are looking for a new planet because theirs will be incinerated by a supernova. One more time, the Alien Affairs teams must save the human race, but this time they have the mind-twisting force of the multiverse to wield as a weapon more powerful than gravity waves.

A successful author loses his grip on reality, his marriage, and his life as weird and even impossible things begin to happen to him. He struggles to discover where it is coming from and to keep from slipping over the brink of sanity. As the layers peel from the kernel of truth, he grasps at whatever or whoever can pull him back from the abyss. Is the source of his torment human, paranormal, or is it himself?

Dealers in illicit artifacts, murderous pothunters, an amorous homicide detective, an enigmatic shaman, and two irregular aides-de-camp conspire to thwart the larcenous efforts of a young widow from California to recover her husband's body and get rich in the process.Vicki never dreamed that she would turn to a life of crime. Neither did she dream that she would be running through the jungles of southern Mexico dodging a disparate group who variously want to rob her, kill her, and arrest her. She is, however, a resourceful and determined woman who weaves a web of lies and red herrings from Mexico's southern border to its northern one. Along the way, a new man slips into her life. Can she trust him? Can he trust her?