Charles Sarlanis


Books

Sedative Shorts No: 2 - Ten For Bed    by Charles Sarlanis
Price: $0.99 USD. 31760 words. Published on April 8, 2013. Fiction.

Medicinal stories prescribed for what ails you. Knockout shorts – reading pleasure in ten calibrated doses with themes ranging from sad to glad, vile to virtuous and enough humor to leaven the seriousness of a spilled tear. Recline, relax and read – wake refreshed. WARNING: Contains a few bad words.
Sedative Shorts No 1 - Sixteen Sleepers    by Charles Sarlanis
Price: $0.99 USD. 38120 words. Published on September 10, 2012. Fiction.

Rx prescription for what ails you: sad, humorous, preposterous: meet old Babe, feisty Ms. Ingram, hater Kemal, poor Fiscis; heroes Charles/Chuck/Charlie, saintly 007, dutiful Josh; and then there is Bess. You know her, talk to her – but never see her. Follow directions on cover for uneventful sleep.
The Ministry    by Charles Sarlanis
Price: Free! 7420 words. Published on December 26, 2011. Fiction.

Heaven; Edenish place to visit but wouldn’t want to live there. Wonder what goes on upstairs? How management sees things? Faith in ‘The Scribe’ is all it takes. Trust Charles’s scribbled scriptures and your wish comes true.
Bible Booker Kansas    by Charles Sarlanis
Price: $0.99 USD. 67930 words. Published on December 19, 2011. Fiction.

Fundamentalist Kansas declares its independence from the tyranny of the US Department of Education. Maine’s Darwin University students vote “No!” and declare war; pitting Darwin’s Theory against His Biblical Word. Darwin’s army attacks; hard fight, many prisoners, suffering and treason. The only winners: those who fomented the conflict as an exercise in the ‘War on Terror’.
Purple    by Charles Sarlanis
Price: $0.99 USD. 79610 words. Published on December 1, 2011. Fiction.

The ‘Dom’; a giant corn tree Eden for crows but also for Widda, a spider, grown monstrously huge from eating her kin. Purple, mate Pitch, son Purpie and Flic friends resolve to rescue fledgelings caged and tortured by Widda. Swift, awesome; her body armored by an oyster shell, she seems invincible. A tale of courage, sacrifice and death as told by unappreciated story ‘Teller’ – Purpie.
FirstMac Shirley    by Charles Sarlanis
Price: $0.99 USD. 126380 words. Published on November 22, 2011. Fiction.

The plot? Illegal sea dump of USN’s ‘dud’ missile arsenal; sacrificing aged sub, naive captain, geriatric robot crew and traitor, rogue robot Shirley. J-Circ Shirley, returned in error from Japan, is found to be last ‘tapper’ on earth. A 3-way, undersea submersible life and death contest ensues: Japanese and Chinese samurai versus US Holy Buck Corp. Winner take Shirl.
The Cheerleaders' Last Cheer    by Charles Sarlanis
Price: $0.99 USD. 76360 words. Published on November 10, 2011. Fiction.

Hon. Judge Pete presides. Unrepentant, confessed murderer Charles, shouts: “I’d do it again! They had it coming!” Twelve former cheerleaders, exceptional beauties in their time; brutally murdered; octogenarians in their sunset years; their lives ended by the push of a button. Humorous? Yes; but not the murdering – gruesome.
Puffy    by Charles Sarlanis
Price: Free! 7170 words. Published on November 3, 2011. Fiction.

Don’t look here for salacious details out of ‘Puffy’ Eve’s sex life; a simple, small town pregnancy is all it was – the first, that is; but not the second – that went global. “Second Eden! Miracle!” they cried. “Miracle?” scoffed Reverend Faith, “No such thing, and no second Eden. There are no ‘Miracles’ in God’s universe.”
The Ossuary    by Charles Sarlanis
Price: Free! 6180 words. Published on October 14, 2011. Fiction.

Wondering what happens when your lights go out? Here's what.
The Ubiquitous Secret    by Charles Sarlanis
Price: Free! 1850 words. Published on October 8, 2011. Fiction.

Frosting exposed: the ugly truth about the cake bake breakthrough and the resulting treacherous commercial exploitation of an innocent immigrant; or, the American dream ─ unfulfilled.

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