Science Fiction Various: 10-Story Sampler. V1. 8 Aug 2011

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10 Story Book/Detective/Fantasy,etc. Various publisher over time.

Clip-Joint Chisellers—Mat Rand

She was a clip-joint chippie, but she tried to be a straight one. Could she escape those insidious coils of gangland that were dragging her down into the underworld web from which death was the only escape?

Lair of the Damned—Eric Lennox

He lay dying on the desert. Then a ghostly woman came—offered him water. He followed her—into a hideous lair which she ruled as the priestess of horror. There was no escape then, for at her call were two ghouls, half beasts, half men. And though she was beautiful, her eyes gleamed with the curse of eternal evil.

Little Boy Blooey—Tom Thursday

Blooey McCoy and Ape Anderson fight an epic battle in cactus gulch, new mexico.

Slugs Along the Mohawk—Ted Stratton

Pruning the orchard was an important item on Jeb's list for the day. But first he had a bullet-planting chore mapped out—a chore which was not intended to reap a crimson harvest.

Court of the Wicked Queen—Marion Shaler

Dame Yolande was unhappy because Lord Raoul de Trentanaye, her son, was showing symptoms of the old restlessness of the young. She held his tutor in conference in the hedged gardens of the chateau.