Tom Lichtenberg


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Just Released: 'Ledman Pickup' (taking 'World Weary Avengers' to the next level)

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Books:

Tiddlywink the Mouse
Ebook Price: Free! 5220 words. Fiction by Tom Lichtenberg on January 26, 2010
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A collection of oddly surreal stories for unusual children, featuring a mouse and his friends - a squirrel, an elephant, a limpet and a fish - along with an assortment of mischievous clouds and cowardly mushrooms.
Ledman Pickup
Ebook Price: Free! 31280 words. Fiction by Tom Lichtenberg on January 13, 2010
The problem with mind control is the question 'who controls the controller?'. It's an annoying little paradox. And if it's a device that's capable of mind control, it just gets worse. Who's operating it? Who programmed it? Who wrote the specs? Who's behind the company that made it? When such a device gets lost in the mail, the race is on to control the ultimate. Experience the exception!
Golden
Ebook Price: Free! 21890 words. Screenplays by Tom Lichtenberg on November 28, 2009
A man saved by accident from global human extinction is able to travel back in time within the previous century – the only problem is, he’s a black man in 20th century America. A screenplay based on characters from the novel Time Zone
The Part-Time People
Ebook Price: Free! 25870 words. Fiction by Tom Lichtenberg on November 25, 2009
DeBarrie's Stationery Store needed help again. Somehow, the part-time people never worked out. It was a problem. One after another, the part-time people came and went, and sometimes, nobody ever found out what happened to them. The newest one seemed even more hopeless than usual. His job application announced "there's a man who follows me around and ruins everything I try to do".
Rampant Pheromonix
Ebook Price: Free! 19820 words. Fiction by Tom Lichtenberg on November 24, 2009
When an overpopulated city is exposed to an epidemic of clairvoyance, all hell breaks loose. It’s up to the ‘wuns above’ and Science to fend off the forces of both good and evil in a race against certain annihilation.
Fissure Monroe
Ebook Price: Free! 24210 words. Fiction by Tom Lichtenberg on November 24, 2009
Dawn Debris is hired to find a possibly-radiation-poisoned leg bone of a high society fashionette who only wants to fit in with the new craze of skeletal transplants that’s sweeping the nation. A store detective, a street musician, a tedious pundit and a suspicious beautician are all involved as market forces compete in a world where beauty is no longer skin deep.
Cashier World
Ebook Price: Free! 44590 words. Fiction by Tom Lichtenberg on November 15, 2009
A collection of stories, including the Legend of the Wandering Cashier, the roadside diner Angel of Death, the classic tale of the Bathroom on the Bus, and featuring private eye Dawn Debris in the Land of Many Things
Hidden Highway
Ebook Price: Free! 20150 words. Fiction by Tom Lichtenberg on November 15, 2009
Sharad LeMaster ran away from his own cult, and tried to hide from his followers by taking a desk job in a motel in the middle of nowhere, but when a certain lazy ghost from his past reappears, Sharad is lured into a haunted house and becomes the proud possession of the witch Eugenia, and gets caught between rival black-market magic-potion dealers in their fight over a girl.
World Weary Avengers
Ebook Price: Free! 15880 words. Fiction by Tom Lichtenberg on November 15, 2009
Tom and Chris have a problem. They’ve invented a device with extraordinary powers. Unfortunately, none of those powers are either legal or even really ethical. What to do with a gadget capable of inserting putting into other people’s minds ... will they use their powers for good, or evil, or something else entirely?
Time Zone
Ebook Price: Free! 34790 words. Fiction by Tom Lichtenberg on November 15, 2009
This is not your father’s time travel. There’s no machine, no dial. There’s no telling where or when you’ll go. The only thing that can change is you. It will make you what it needs to make you. And if you come back, it won’t be the same you. You’re messing with the nature of things, and the nature of things does not like to be messed with. Welcome to a riddle of change and addiction.
Squatter with a Lexus
Ebook Price: Free! 21440 words. Fiction by Tom Lichtenberg on November 15, 2009
Pearson Holmes disappeared a long time ago, leaving behind a potentially valuable safety deposit box. Freddy the Freegan is the first to stumble across the mystery, but soon a whole cast of characters are out to find the key and claim the treasure before time runs out and the contents are forfeit to the state. Who will solve the riddle of the Squatter with a Lexus?
Somebody Somewhere
Ebook Price: Free! 24060 words. Fiction by Tom Lichtenberg on November 15, 2009
Some psycho kidnaps his would-be girlfiend, gets chased by the cops halfway across the state, runs out of gas right outside your house, where you and your spouse are enjoying a quiet evening at home, and now you’re held hostage at gunpoint and surrounded by police. It could happen.
Snapdragon Alley
Ebook Price: Free! 22570 words. Fiction by Tom Lichtenberg on November 15, 2009
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Ten year old friends Alex and Sapphire discover something strange on the city bus map, a street that existed for only one year. As they set out to solve the mystery, they encounter the possibility of another world, another dimension perhaps, lurking in a vacant lot, but they are not the only ones on the trail. Who will discover the truth, and who will pay the price?
Secret Sidewalk
Ebook Price: Free! 20890 words. Fiction by Tom Lichtenberg on November 15, 2009
Beauregaard Sweet became invisible, but his troubles began when he suddenly reappeared. Now everybody wants something from him. Manny the mechanic wants his wife. Sharad LeMaster wants his secret. Emma Biggs wants another shot at the TV news, the Four Tribes want to send him back to wherever it was he’d gone, and all he wants to do is eat donuts and watch reality TV (cover by InterHuss)
Orange Car with Stripes
Ebook Price: Free! 20030 words. Fiction by Tom Lichtenberg on November 15, 2009
On a dare, Gian Carlo Spallanzini set out to discover the deepest darkest secret of a person picked at random. He had no idea what he was getting into. Even a fat, bearded know-it-all ought to know better than to leap before you look. Add a crystal ball, a foul-mouthed parrot, and an cranky atheist talk show host and you'll never guess the outrageous mystery behind the orange car with stripes.
Missy Tonight
Ebook Price: Free! 26990 words. Fiction by Tom Lichtenberg on November 15, 2009
These days it seems like everyone is cashing in on the New Atheism craze, except for lifelong unbeliever Alan Musted. What’s a portable toilet dispatcher to do? Crash the party, that’s what! Join Alan and his friends and enemies in this ground-breaking work of “atheist pulp fiction”, the spellbinding sequel to 'Orange Car with Stripes'
Macedonia
Ebook Price: Free! 24330 words. Fiction by Tom Lichtenberg on November 15, 2009
A gang of street kids, an anonymous radio announcer, a detective from the future, a presidential assassination attempt and a frequently mistaken narrator all play a part in this jumble of introductions to an open-source novel inspired by the works of Macedonio Fernandez.
Freak City
Ebook Price: Free! 25840 words. Fiction by Tom Lichtenberg on November 15, 2009
It’s hard to control your destiny while you’re waiting for the bus. The trouble for Argus Kirkham began when a stranger pushed his way through a crowd at a bus stop and pressed a package into his hands. Inside the package were various random items . As Argus and his friends unraveled the clues, very strange things began to occur in this story of mystery and ghosts
Bobby and the Bedouins
Ebook Price: Free! 25970 words. Fiction by Tom Lichtenberg on November 15, 2009
Mario Flambeau was once a guitar god, a superstar in the psychedelic heyday. Now he's a burned-out wreck. When a desperate producer finds him in a church basement in a band with other derelicts, he has visions of a major comeback payday. Add a drummer with an anger management problem and a preening drifter diva lead singer, and you've got all the makings of a true rock and roll apocalypse

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