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A high-end burglary outfit finds out where a long-lost, multi-million-dollar Faberge' egg is being housed. Once the imperial egg is seized, it must go all the way from the Atlantic coast of southeastern North Carolina to the Mojave Desert in southern California. An eccentric waitress is encountered along the way, and puts an insidious monkey wrench into one 30-something male's best-laid plan in film-noir-esque fashion.
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… from the virtual inside flap …All thirty-six short stories from calendar years 2018 and 2019 are invisibly bound together in this digital document. Just like the other collections of Psecret Psociety Pshort Pstories (Volume 1, Volume 2, and Volume 3), these brief tales run the gamut from the densely thought-filled, presumed meta-real, to the subtly surreal, to the almost ordinary. Most would be American-movie-rated PG-13; quite a few are ok...
3) Foxfire
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Agents 32 and 33 take a weekend trip to a camper in the NC mountains (near Lenoir) in March of 2017. Agent 33 then discovers a glowing fungus on a tree in the forest. When he investigates, quotes by Aristotle soon fill his head. Agent 32 is dubious until ...
An 8,000-word novelette.
If this story were an American movie, it would most likely be rated PG-13, possibly even G (all ages ok).
4) Boingo!
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A new meta-game emerges in early autumn 2023 in east Charlotte (NC, USA). Agent 32 lends some near-post-match commentary. Malloy takes a pass. 1111 mots.
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In June of 1984, four future agents go to Morrow Mountain State Park to chart the terrain (real, imagined and hyper-perceived) while under the influence of a strange psychoactive substance.
A 9,000-word tale. Another psecret psociety pshort pstory.
Sex: No
Violence: No
Drug usage: Yes
Strangeness level: Very high at times
Mr. Malloy: Not present
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Eight meta-real short stories that take place in southwestern Virginia and southern West Virginia are gathered into one e-file:
1. Galax_ Galaxy (thought interception in a quaint Blue Ridge town)
2. Charlie West (kicking about in Charleston, WV)
3. Fries or Freeze (a quick sketch by an old New River dam)
4. Gallivanting in Galax (a second round in the quaint Blue Ridge town)
5. The Race (a crazed boss and a nighttime off-road bicycle race)
6. The...
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A virtual soccer/football game (which could be used in a betting pool) is devised by a seldom-heard-from psecret psociety agent. The lottery-numbers-based procedure is outlined meticulously. The scoring averages are very realistic. Zack sure had some time on his hands.Approx. 1300 words.Rating: G (ok for all ages).
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