Robert J McCarter
1) To Be a Fool
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Who wants to rest in peace? Want to have a happy afterlife as a ghost? Then, stay out of the bardo (your own personal hell); avoid your old meat-life--it only leads to trouble; and take your time with your unfinished business. In other words, rest in peace. But, resting in peace doesn't work for JJ Lynch. He will have to break all the rules and risk everything to do the right thing and find his way in the afterlife. Using technology developed...
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A world within our world. A secret tunnel hidden under the Eiffel Tower. A small central sun at the center of our planet warming those lands in the hollow earth. Seas with no horizon because of the concave nature of those lands. Adventures beyond the imagination of the modern man at the dawning of the twentieth century. In 1889, seasoned explorer Marco Walker descends into the hollow earth on a desperate mission to rescue Jules Verne on the behest...
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A Novel of... Love, Life, & FamilyA Boy. Sixteen-year-old Aaron Wade. With his "second strike" with leukemia in remission and his health restored, the summer of 1977 feels like a turning point... until he starts to see a ghost in the Cedar City, Utah graveyard.A Girl. Seventeen-year-old Helena Monfort. She grew up too early, the tough girl with a bad reputation that just needs a friend.A Ghost. Lionel Malak. A simple man, he doesn't understand why...
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Life and death are not that far apart...What happens when we die? Viki Dobos knows. Her job is to help people talk to their dearly departed. She draws the deceased, and they come to life on the page... briefly. When a rich Russian man hires her and whisks her away to Hawaii, everything changes. The rich man wants her to do the forbidden, and a handsome man she meets on the beach needs her more than he knows. Viki will have to confront her past, face...
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What Do You Do When the Game Changes? Woody Beckman and June Medina defied the odds and found each other in post-zombie-apocalypse Arizona and made the friend of a lifetime in the free-spirited Dallas. No longer go-it-alone survivors, they now face the future together with something to lose. Each other. What happens when zombies get curious and what they are curious about is you? That seems to be happening when one of the new zombie pods follow the...
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Walter Anchor spends his afterlife solving murders in the hope of one day solving the toughest murder of all. His own. But when his partner and best ghost-friend Emily convinces him to relive his last few days to find a lead in his very cold case, everything changes. He finds his past and his relationships much more complicated than he remembered and uncovers an unthinkable clue. A clue, that if followed, will force him to reevaluate his life and...
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Love and the ApocalypseWoody Beckman and June Medina defied the odds and found each other in post-zombie-apocalypse Arizona. No longer go-it-alone survivors, they now face the future together with something to lose. Each other.After escaping the Grand Canyon and Phantom Company, June's ex now wants revenge. Together with Dallas they'll face off against Talia and her twisted "game" in a wild adventure across Northern Arizona. It will take every trick...
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A life worth living?
Paul Cruz is no longer human. He's a Singular, his consciousness technological, no longer biological. He was there at the beginning and helped ensure the survival of all the Singulars. Free from the limits of flesh and blood, he wanted to live forever, but now that he's lost what he cares about the most, forever is too long, much too long.
After suspending himself for decades he is about to enter a virtual world called "Home"...
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Walter Anchor spends his afterlife solving murders in the hope of one day being good enough to solve the toughest murder of all. His own. But when his partner and best ghost-friend Emily finds a body on top of a skyscraper killed by a long, hard fall, it leads to more clues and more suspects than the two of them can handle. It will take a team of ghosts working together with the Tucson police department to solve a murder this bizarre. From the author...
10) Hard Times
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Everything will change... Detained in a secret government prison and stripped of his powers, Nik Nichols (aka Neutrinoman) must face a new kind of enemy. Deprived of human contact and with only a faceless interrogator to talk to, Nik must battle his inner demons, find new abilities, and dig deeper. Can he survive prison and find a way to face the looming alien threat? From the author of Woody and June versus the Apocalypse comes a fun, romantic, superhero...
11) Meteor Attack!
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Falling in love and saving the world...When Nik Nichols (aka Neutrinoman) and Licia Lopez (aka Lightningirl) first touch, electrons and neutrinos fly. But neither wants a relationship, both overwhelmed by their new superpowers, keeping their identities secret, and dealing with the demands of the military.But now, with a huge planet killing asteroid hurtling towards the Earth, can they master their powers, save the world, and fall in love?From the...
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Walter Anchor spends his afterlife solving murders in the hope of one day solving the toughest murder of all. His own. When a case brings him to Hollywood, Walter takes on a murder that could only happen in Tinseltown. An actor playing the part of a corpse murdered during the filming of a funeral scene. Walter will deal with an interfering ghost and confront his past as a failed actor to solve this case. But can he stop the murderer before someone...
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Love and the ApocalypseWoody Beckman and June Medina defied the odds and found each other in post-zombie-apocalypse Arizona and made the friend of a lifetime in the free-spirited Dallas. No longer go-it-alone survivors, they now face the future together with something to lose. Each other.After barely surviving the twisted "game" of the worst petty, psychotic, wannabe warlord of them all, Talia, they decide to go back to the Grand Canyon to stand with...
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Explore the Curious and ConfoundingA gritty sci-fi / western featuring a genetically modified talking horseA karmic sci-fi apocalypse haunted by the "ghosts" of the deadA man who erases memories, desperate to remember something importantAn old-fashioned story of survival in space, with a twistThese stories by Robert J. McCarter are different, strange. They are the anomalies, the divergences from his usual storytelling. Darker. Stranger. Weirder.Genres...
15) Gossamer Ghosts
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A story from an unusual apocalypse.
The aliens came in peace and we met them with violence. After we attacked them, we thought they left for good, but the day the alien's gossamer threads fall, everything changes. Now the dead become gossamer ghosts, haunting the living, intent on balancing the scales of their lives.
In "Gossamer Ghosts," Glenn watches as events unfold that will change everything. Not knowing what they are, he welcomes the gossamer...
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Walter Anchor wants nothing more from his afterlife than to solve his own murder, complete his unfinished business, and move on. This failed actor turned dentist teams up with a ghost named Emily to find his murderer. But when they solve a series of cases that lead him to the truth about his death, he gets more than he bargained for. Can he face the reality of his own death, save the woman he still loves, and do the unthinkable before anyone else...
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Seriously? You Call This a First Date? When Woody Beckman meets June Medina, neither expects the adventures that will follow. Dedicated go-it-alone survivors, they've learned not to trust anyone in post-zombie-apocalypse Arizona.Woody thinks that June just might be too much for him. She's beautiful, smart, and way too good with a gun. Their jaunt to the Grand Canyon to put Woody's fungus theory of zombies to the test doesn't turn out quite like they...
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Two dragons, a kraken, Cthulhu and a bunch of zombies, lots of monsters here. A couple of unicorns, a naiad, the Grim Reaper, and the Devil, plenty of creatures too.
From the fertile imagination of Robert J. McCarter comes Creatures Featured, a collection of 13 stories that cross genres and take some old stories in exciting new directions. Each tale featuring his unique style of storytelling. Expect surprises and wonder at the creatures featured...
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Sometimes death wakes you up...Death comes for us all, but when JJ Lynch dies, it's one hell of a wakeup call. He's forced out of the rut of his going-nowhere meat-life and must embrace his new after-life. With a gallows sense of humor, JJ fights his way through the five stages of grief on a journey you will never forget.
Along the way he has to confront the bardo (his own personal hell) and delicately tie up his loose ends. If he's not careful,...
20) Chupacabra
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Private investigator and Arizona native Conner Bright tries to hide from his past with a b-movie quality Australian accent, alligator skin boots, and a bowie knife strapped to his side, but it always seems to catch up to him. When a bizarre murder in the desert gets blamed on the mythical blood-sucking Chupacabra, Conner gets called in to investigate. But nothing makes sense and when Conner uncovers the truth, he faces an impossible choice between...