Fun Size Fiction

This collection of sixty-five bite-sized stories—none greater than 250 words—gives a window into many different lives, each with its own particular insight into the human experience.

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When three friends start a salvage business on the New York waterfront, they aren’t expecting to get caught in the crossfire between a Colombian drug lord, the Mafia, and Iranian terrorists. Enter the FBI and an illicit love affair, and suddenly all hell breaks loose.

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She was the homecoming queen and a college basketball star, but she’s out of college now, living the California life, with her boyfriend, a bunch of roommates, and that Santa Monica sun.

He’s got no job, no girlfriend, and no prospects.

As their paths cross, they each begin to wonder what direction to take with their lives. Will it be the road less traveled? Or the road not taken?

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The world erupts in an epidemic of mass insanity, and the only person who can stop it is an unstable rogue hacker. A renegade to the core, she can’t do it alone this time—this time she needs the help of a straight-and-narrow but hardened New York cop.

Can they stay alive for long enough to save what’s left of humanity? And what does it all have to do with the freak but spectacular display of northern lights in summertime New York, the set of prime numbers, and a rare genetic disease? The answer may be closer than they think.

Chased through the city as the human race comes apart at the seams, they must solve the greatest puzzle of all—that which is buried in the hidden ciphers of our very own DNA.

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The Lady Tickleworthy is not amused at the arrival of a baby brother. With her butt-ler and maid doing double-duty as footman and cook, she’s already short-staffed! Then, one day, after a severe tickling, she begins to appreciate her new sibling and learns the true meaning of Tickleton Abbey.

With nostalgic watercolor illustrations evocative of childhood, Tickleton Abbey is the perfect book to introduce a new sibling into the family or even just to share with children and adults alike.

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When a traveling saleswoman begins an affair with her road partner, there’s more at stake than just her marriage. Or his. For anyone who has ever sung the blues, this short romance with a musical twist will pull you in and leave you wanting more.

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The second in a series of noir romance “Blues” novellas, Brick City Blues centers on a chance meeting between two strangers on an airport layover in Newark, New Jersey—the Brick City. She’s shuttling between her teaching job at Cornell and a research project in DC; he’s on his way to deliver a briefcase full of cash from the Cuban mob in Miami to a local capo for the Italian Mafia in Utica, New York. But opposites attract.

Unaware of what he might be mixed up in, she finds herself slowly drawn to the tall, well-dressed stranger with the black briefcase. And he is undeniably attracted to the bookish Ivy League professor. They quickly discover that they have more in common than not. Or so it seems.

Welcome to the Brick City, where anything can happen.

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Dawn breaks, and Emily Williams awakens, hungover and alone in an unfamiliar park. A crazy night with too much to drink and not enough self-control. But, as she soon discovers, she’s not quite alone.

A drunken hookup . . .
A night in the park . . .
And now he’s dead, and she can’t remember.

What’s a girl to do?

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In a land of unrelenting turmoil, in a city that’s been laid siege by Mongols, Huns, Turks, Tartars, Germans, and Russians, a cop from Brooklyn joins the chase for a notebook with a mathematical formula that could turn the world on its head.

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A Wall Street felon serving his sentence at New York’s Rikers Island Prison, Sterling Walsh desperately needs to set his life straight. But he gets more than he bargained for when he accepts an FBI offer to infiltrate a Muslim sleeper cell.

Set in the dark corners of New York City’s five boroughs, Hart Island is a soul-stirring tale of revenge and redemption.

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