Lorraine Ray
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Stephanie Falls, age eight, spends a weekend with her doting grandparents along with her Aunt Helen, who is recovering from a nervous breakdown after dropping out of economics graduate school. Trapped in a mansion full of creepy artifacts and unappreciated Native American art with a depressed aunt, Stephanie plays with everything she sees, breaking and mutilating quite a few objects. An excursion to march in a mountain man parade ends badly for Grandpa...
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Who hasn't dreamed of finding gold? After Juan and Willy are fired from their jobs as car detailers at a dealership, a desire for gold possesses them. Locating a lost mine, however, means they have to outsmart a kid, a huge challenge for this pair. With an idea of where some lost gold might be, they search for a truck with an intact transmission that isn't full of feral cats. Of course, abandoned mines aren't safe places either, a fact especially...
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Circuses and parades go wildly awry when James Sauerbaugh joins a band of Shriners as a substitute trombonist. The band members are ancient and bombed out of their minds, but James comes to relish the friendships and wild fun on the bus and on parade floats. When Moses Grand, a fellow trombonist, rescues him from death at the hands of a ruthless killer, the story takes an ironic twist. Nobody can have enough books with circuses and parades in them....
4) Dastardly
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Writer Marc Viglietti, known as Vig, suffers in his day job at a museum of carriages and carts while he dreams of fame and fortune from the unintentionally humorous vampire westerns he can't stop penning. Faced with eviction, Vig fools Marsha, his chief foil in the local writing community and the author of unsuccessful romance novels, into believing he's just gotten out of the hospital after a bout with pneumonia. Marsha gives Vig a thousand dollars...
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Teddy Redburn returns to his hometown of Los Hombres after selling his mattress factory in Las Vegas. On his first night home, several townspeople glimpse Teddy's satchel which is crammed with cash. Teddy subsequently vanishes and this triggers a crazed search of his childhood mansion and the town environs.
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Stacie, Tiffany and Yadira hope to shut down their rental house and get back their security deposit before leaving town, but first they have to fix the gaping hole in the adobe wall and rid themselves of unwanted graduation "presents," both the result of an uproarious final party. This comic co-ed romp will keep you chuckling.
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Live life dangerously; delve into these quirky tales. Flee to a reservation with an emeritus professor of archaeology. Snuggle kittens at a consciousness-raising under the critical eye of a crabby host. Freeze in place as rattlesnakes slither across a field at a gathering of Girl Scouts. Evade a demented stalker on your first day of work. Get engrossed in this world of short fiction.
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A herd of phantom cattle stampedes into the fertile imagination of a young writer. She corrals stray stories and stampeding images until she realizes a rustling folklorist has wrested control of the most important memory, the Phantom Herd. Join her for adventures in the desert Southwest, and witness the mysterious rustling of her fantastic livestock from Rancho Supremo. Mashers, and an attempt to give John Wayne LSD, are saved for the second part...