Street Smart Series
Short fiction with contemporary urban settings, well-drawn characters, and engaging plots. Perfect for commuting or reading in one sitting. These are "novelette" length works -- between 10,000 and 20,000 words -- longer than a short story, but shorter than a novella. Only $6.50 each!
As the temperature drops, Paris authorities make a plan to prevent deaths of the homeless: house them in disused train cars on the outskirts of the city. This unintentionally creates a social and political experiment that leads to a new form of society—and causes the police and authorities to clash with the homeless train dwellers and the anarchists who’ve come to support them.
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An American anarchist living and working in Paris finds that all is not well for him in the beautiful “city of lights”—his French girlfriend has left him, he’s fallen off the wagon after decades of sobriety, and a homeless cat is now tugging at his heartstrings.
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A turn down a New York City alley unexpectedly plunges middle-aged English professor Caroline Wilson into a world she never could have imagined, where young anarchists are battling against human traffickers—and they need Caroline’s help.
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A failed screenwriter turned private detective has his life turned upside-down when he’s talked into stealing MacGuffin, an unusual Tinseltown memento, from the home of one of Hollywood’s most infamous directors.
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Rookie police Officer Jenny Freitas races against time—and lava—to solve a series of almost perfect murders in this police procedural taking place on the Big Island of Hawaii.
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A homeless teen who works cleaning movie theaters at night gets his life back on track with the help a couple of unlikely friendships--and a chaotic uprising during a screening of an annoyingly ubiquitous summer blockbuster kids’ movie.
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A Chicago family’s lives are disrupted when two young brothers and their friend discover the body of a local store owner in a ditch, setting in motion their mother’s plan to move the family to a safer neighborhood.
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NEW! Street Smart Series Omnibus -- all seven stories under one cover!
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