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  A Third Term - A Political Satire

  Paul Greenberg

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  There is one last chance to save the democracy George Washington founded. That last chance is Washington himself. 
  It is 2028 and a certain president wants a third term. The Constitution shouldn’t allow it but the Supreme Court has found a workaround. The electoral system has been mangled. The media is a joke. Voters can barely be troubled to vote. But thanks to a team of scientists George Washington has been brought from the past to regain the presidency. Written by New York Times bestselling author Paul Greenberg, A Third Term tells the story of how hard Candidate Washington has to fight to win in these corrupt times. Riddled with pneumonia, possessing dentures fashioned from slave’s teeth, and an aristocratic sensibility tempered by war and religious faith, the Father of Our Country requires considerable rehabilitation to challenge the man he only refers to as “The Tyrant.” Fortunately a wily campaign manager and a sexy personal trainer are there by his side.

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  A Cat's Guide to Saving the Kingdom

  Chris Behrsin

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  Once again, the cat must save the day 
   
   
   
  Ben who rides dragons is twice a hero. He's defeated all kinds of demons and learned how to transform into a chimera. That's powerful stuff for a mere cat. 
   
   
   
  Oh, how proud his ancestors would be if they saw him today. 
   
   
   
  In fact, he's far too powerful for Astravar, the mighty warlock and Ben's nemesis, who can't stand the thought of being defeated by a mere moggie. But now he has allied with the other warlocks and together they have a plan to destroy the kingdom. 
   
   
   
  Obviously, when the warlocks attack, everyone's going to turn to the mighty Dragoncat for help. That's the problem with being a hero, you see. When threats loom on the horizon, everyone expects said hero to step up to the plate and save the day. 
   
   
   
  Alas, war involves giving up a lot of home comforts, and Ben doesn't like that one bit.

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  Alarms & Discursions -...

  G K Chesterton

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  The fragments of futile journalism or fleeting impression which are here collected are very like the wrecks and riven blocks that were piled in a heap round my imaginary priest of the sun. They are very like that grey and gaping head of stone that I found overgrown with the grass. Yet I will venture to make even of these trivial fragments the high boast that I am a medievalist and not a modern. That is, I really have a notion of why I have collected all the nonsensical things there are. I have not the patience nor perhaps the constructive intelligence to state the connecting link between all these chaotic papers. But it could be stated. This row of shapeless and ungainly monsters which I now set before the reader does not consist of separate idols cut out capriciously in lonely valleys or various islands. These monsters are meant for the gargoyles of a definite cathedral. I have to carve the gargoyles, because I can carve nothing else; I leave to others the angels and the arches and the spires. But I am very sure of the style of the architecture, and of the consecration of the church. -- From the introduction

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  1601

  Mark Twain

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  1601, written by Mark Twain, is a supposititious conversation which takes place in Queen Elizabeth's closet between the Queen, Ben Jonson, Beaumont, Sir Walter Raleigh, the Duchess of Bilgewater, and one or two others... If there is a decent word findable in it, it is because I overlooked it. 1601 depicts a highfalutin and earthy discussion between the Queen and her court about farting and a variety of sexual peccadillos, narrated disapprovingly and sanctimoniously by the Queen's Cup-Bearer, an eyewitness at the Social Fireside.

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  No Thoroughfare

  Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins

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  Walter Wilding has lived his life secure in the knowledge that he was the son of his mother. But a chance encounter shocks him to his deathbed, leaving his friend and Executor George Vendale charged with the finding of the real Walter Wilding, Meanwhile George pitches woo to Margerite Obenreizer, but has to deal with her dastardly guardian and uncle.  
  The story twists and turns from the wine cellars of England, Soho and then the Alps of Switzerland, where George discovers that Mr Obenreizer is right about one thing to the last... "So little is the world, that one cannot keep away from persons." 
  Originally written as a stage play by Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens, it was later turned into a collaborative novel by the two. 
  Narrated by Michael Ward.

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  More Dark Drink and Conversation...

  Thomas Kennedy

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  Humour with some adult themes and satire. 
  Step in for a pint and a chat. You'll meet Tracy the Australian actress, the Tramp and both Bruisers, senior and junior, together with Dwyer the bookie, the red Kelly, Rockette, the new recruit to the police force,the CIA agent callerd the Seeker and many more... 
  When the European Union Commissioner for Cultural Harmonisation is kidnapped the local horse betting syndicate of the Teacher,the Barman, the Sergeant and the Parish Priest are drawn into the mesh of International Intelligence.And there is the scent of a horse racing scam and they are in the loop....

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