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Orange Car with Stripes
Gian Carlo Spallanzini, fat bearded know-it-all, self-renowned pundit and Professor of Defunct Sciences at New Harbinger College, finds his lack of faith challenged by an encounter with a flamboyant parrot who claims to be from outer space, and that's not all. Deepest darkest secrets are revealed as Spallanzini's world is transformed by the mysterious driver of the orange car with stripes in this atheist science fiction comedy cult classic.

Secret Sidewalk
Beauregaard Sweet became invisible, but his troubles began when he
suddenly reappeared. Now everybody wants something from him. Manny the mechanic wants his wife. Sharad LeMaster wants his secret. Emma Biggs wants another shot at the TV news, the leaders of the Four Tribes want to send him back to wherever it was he'd gone, and all he wants to do is eat some donuts and watch reality TV. (podcast)

Hidden Highway
Sharad LeMaster ran away from his own cult, and tried to hide from his followers by taking a desk job in a motel in the middle of nowhere, but when a certain lazy ghost from his past reappears, Sharad is lured into a haunted house and becomes the proud possession of the witch Eugenia, and gets caught between rival black-market magic-potion dealers in their fight over a girl who just happens to possess the most perfect skull ever for turning into a shrunken head.

Squatter With a Lexus
Pearson Holmes disappeared a long time ago, leaving behind a potentially valuable safety deposit box. Freddy the Freegan is the first to stumble across the mystery, but soon a whole cast of characters are out to find the key and claim the treasure before time runs out and the contents are forfeit to the state. Who will solve the riddle of the Squatter with a Lexus?

Macedonia
A gang of street kids, an anonymous radio announcer, a detective from the future, a presidential assassination attempt and a frequently mistaken narrator all play a part in this jumble of introductions to an open-source novel inspired by the works of Macedonio Fernandez.

Somebody Somewhere
Some psycho kidnaps his would-be girlfiend, gets chased by the cops halfway across the state, runs out of gas right outside your house, where you and your spouse are enjoying a quiet evening at home, and now you're held hostage at gunpoint and surrounded by police. It could happen. (podcast)

Dawn Debris
A potty-mouth, bad-tempered, barely competent private eye takes on FedCorTron, "the makers of everything", and their sinister plot to implant desirable consumer tendencies by means of genetically altered orange juice.

Time Zone
This is not your father's time travel. There's no machine, there is no dial. There's no telling where or when you'll go. The only thing that can change is you. It will make you what it needs to make you, to fit you in, to make it work. And when you come back, that is if you come back, it won't be the same you at all. You're messing with the nature of things, and the nature of things does not like to be messed with, as Garrett Ronson and his friends find out, the hard way. (podcast)

Golden
A man saved by accident from global human extinction is able to travel back in time within the previous century - the only problem is, he's a black man in 20th century America. A screenplay based on characters from the novel Time Zone

Fissure Monroe
In 'The Case of the Missing Fibula', Dawn Debris is hired to find a possibly-radiation-poisoned leg bone of a high society fashionette who only wants to fit in with the new craze of skeletal transplants that's sweeping the nation. A store detective, a street musician, a tedious pundit and a suspicious beautician are all involved as market forces compete in a world where beauty is no longer skin deep.

The Futile Epikles
A collection of character sketches inspired by 'Earwitness' by Elias Canetti

In the Bathroom on the Bus
While on a long bus ride to a job interview, a young man and his fellow passengers get a little freaked out after discovering a corpse in the back of the bus, and a jammed bathroom door which may be concealing the murderer.

Phantom of the Mall
A personal apocalypse in subway-surface style - a devoutly orderly man wakes up to find he has forgotten to prepare a list of his plans for the day, throwing him into a chaos of possibilities foreseen by a terrible dream from the night before.

Rampant Pheromonix
A science fiction novel about an extremely overpopulated world coping with a deadly contagion of clairvoyance.

The Part Time People
A stationery story has trouble finding the right person for a swing shift position. Somehow, they all keep mysteriously disappearing.

Frederick Hardware's Store
The original tale that started the legend of the wandering cashier.