An old man dies and his spirit goes to Heaven, but it turns out to be entirely different to anything he had ever imagined in his mortal life.He discovers that it is governed by very strict rules, many of which goes against the grain especially when he has to account for all the bad things he did when he was alive.. One of his tasks is to be sent back to Earth as an Accompanying Angel to report on a Seraph and later returns to unravel a situation that could affect the whole planet. He meets...

GREAT SHORT STORIES is an anthology of fourteen stories comprising comedy, sci-fi, logic, romance, drama, and some fantasy tales, as well as other genres comprising great characters and novel stories. You will not only enjoy them but they will stick in your mind after you have read them as they are all truly original.

Diana is married to a high-ranking Civil Servant who is a workaholic and he neglects her badly. Diana takes part in an experiment after receiving hospital treatment on her holiday. In due course, she notices that everyone else is getting old but she is still remaining young and beautiful. When she visits the scientist, he tells her that the experiment is one where, if successful, she will live to almost two hundred years of age and remain exactly as she looks at present for all that time.

This anthology is vibrant in its nature including tales of comedy, horror, intrigue, fantasy and romance. It contains a host of wonderful characters and many quite ingenious. Stories.You will really enjoy reading them!

When his sister collapses and is taken to hospital where she lays in a coma, her brother goes to her bedroom to collect some of her items she will need in the hospital. He sees her personal diary and picks it up. He has not seen her for fifteen years and knows nothing about her past. He was fourteen when she ran off with a schoolmaster to marry him in Gretna Green so he was curious to know what had happened to her in that time. The revelations set out in the diary amazed him. In the meanti...

An ex-soldier living in Cornwall gets an invitation to his sister's house in the north of England. He drives there but loses his way and ends up at a remote place called Keppelberg. It appears to be very strange to him, being set in Victorian times, and he is unjustly asked to leave by the police. He continues his journey to his sister but he remains curious about Keppelberg and goes back to find out more about it. The inhabitants do not make him welcome and he is incarcerated in jail. How...

Gus is twenty years old and his life was just beginning even though he had a long start by reason of experience and there was also the remote possibility of the crown of Sweden in his sights! This is the third book in the series from exciting author Stan Mason.

The story is divided into two sections which meet in the latter part of the work but both relate to the Botallack mine in South Cornwall. The first involves a group of Russian students who defect to the West seeking political asylum from the British Government. However the incident causes international dissent from the Russian government, to the embarrassment of the British government and the students are hidden away in a remote spot in Cornwall until the dust dies down. Ivan becomes their...

A new movement has been formed intending to take control of Europe. Jimmy Savage, a newspaper reporter finds himself at the forefront of the assignment, investigating matters far beyond his capability having been recruited, reluctantly, for the mission. He discovers the movement is being operated by the children and grandchildren of World War Two Nazis, supported by funds secured from liquidated Nazi war treasures which have been invested internationally. The plan is to progress the Fourth...

NEIL WAVERLEY returns home one evening from the major bank branch in the centre of London bank where he works, to discover that his wife has left him. She leaves a note to say that she is leaving him after having had an affair with another man for the last six months. He is absolutely devastated and very angry at her deceit and he cannot get over the fact that his life is in ruins. He finds solace in the company of PAULA STRATTON, a woman who has just joined the amateur dramatic society th...

Jeff Hunter’s wife is killed in a hit-and-run accident which leaves him devastated. However he is plagued by her apparition because she tells him she cannot move on to the next world until the rapist and killer of a murdered young girl is found. She tells him it is imperative that he finds the murderer albeit it took place some years ago and no one was ever arrested or punished for the crime. Hunt is an architect but he is forced to turns detective to find the criminal and he finds himself...

John Trevelyan Parfitt, a refrigeration engineer, is made redundant and goes to an Employment Exchange to find work. Unknown to him, a schoolboy had hacked into two databases and joined them together. The result is that Parfitt is abducted to Harwich Docks where he is put on a ship that takes him to a remote volcanic island in the Arctic Ocean. He is taken to a complex built underground and told that his work is to decimate the world’s population which is growing too fast. Suddenly, people...