Nelson Lynch: 22 books

An ultra-bright shooting star lights the neighborhood at midnight. The next morning Joseph and a clearly pregnant Mary walk up Nelson and Jeanne’s lane in late June. Joseph wants only a barn with a little hay for Mary to rest on. Dolores and Jeanne believe this is the real thing. Nelson tells them...

The Oracle lives on Horizon Street. At least that’s what another crook told Dunce and Ed. There was easy money to be had with a minimum of work. All that would be needed were a few threats and a bit of arm-twisting.The Oracle lived in a dark room at the end of a dead-end alley. She had no intentions...

Two aliens, J#*49 and Z+*18, are searching for an engine part in Las Vegas. Most of the time they are in bars and trying to find a little sex. They favor tequila and beer chasers. They try to pick up two out of work chorus girls. The barmaid demands money for their bar tab. J#*49 produces a credit...

Jack’s helmet is hit by enemy sniper fire while on a patrol in Afghanistan.. The concussion causes him to sing most everything and use the word fool excessively. Their orders were to go ten klicks and check for enemy activity. Sergeant Evans decides to return to base with the wounded soldier.For...

The CIA thinks her husband, a friend and his wife are terrorists on their way to Baghdad. She says her husband and his friend Smitty are shooting nine-ball at the local pool hall. The agent says they have been spotted getting off of a plane in Tehran. They have to be stopped at all costs before they reach Baghdad.

A semi-fiction story of rum and scotch being unloaded to Assateague Island during prohibition. The schooner anchored offshore and the whiskey was brought to shore by small boats. A storm approaches and the ocean becomes nasty. The small skiff’s engine dies when it is caught in a huge breaking wave....

Her husband appears two weeks after she receives his urn. George suspects foul play from his wife. He is running a minus temperature. He wants to go to bed to warm up. She wants nothing to do with that idea.

His second wife has trouble fixing his special Bombay martini. A classic spousal abuse tale. The splash of vermouth is never correct. The garnish is wrong and the gin is from Baltimore.A woman writes of her visit to the Head Hunters of BorneoA man wants a cell phone in his casket. He fears the undertaker...

The Feng Shui woman is not prepared for Grandpop and his harem. He has taken over one of the upstairs bedrooms. He is loud, smells of sulfur and brimstone and a general nuisance. All of this began the day he was buried. As the Feng Shui woman approaches the top of the stairs, she hears the trumpet...

The Taylorville Writer is having problems with his memory. He thinks he is fine. His wife thinks otherwise. She gives him three words to remember and goes to the drug store.He is primed and ready for the question. When she returns, walks around eating a candy bar and talking about other things.Then she finally asks what are the three little words?

A spy has a package to deliver. He is not sure of the contact. Her hair is light brown, not blonde. Her green sweater is not solid, it has yellow triangles. What should he do? They are meeting in a honky tonk dance hall.. She asks him to do the Turkey Trot with her. It is close to the password.He...

The ship wakes Charlie up after only ten years of a hundred year trip. His cooling unit is broken and unfixable. The ship's computer decides that Charlie is using food and energy at an alarming rate. It declares Charlie excess baggage.

A lightning bolt rearranges his brain. He can kill flies by slowing their reaction time. He can move small items with his mind. The girls want to make a killing at the race track. Can he slow racehorses with his mind? A big-boob-blonde-bimbo distracts him as the trotters come down the home stretch.

Two men in white coats are searching for an escapee. He wanders into a book signing. The author captivates him.She has seen pictograph on rocks in the Grand Canyon of a woman with a halo. The Indians describe remains of an old, old ship. His heart is on fire. He has to go with this lovely woman.The...