P Thomas: 439 books

Prison guards Henderson and Killian, looking for some easy money, plot to secretly spring convicts Jones and Williams whom they have talked up to the Press as very dangerous, and promptly recapture the pair for the reward. Prisoners Carson and Dees who really want to escape are persuaded to forcibly...

At closing time the Barkley kids (Tim, 12; Sheila, 8; Billy, 5) are accidentally locked in the Harding Commerce Center, a large urban shopping center and office complex with state of the art security and interior environment systems controlled by a voiced computer called D.O.C. Deliberately hiding...

Seven unrelated tales for grown-ups played for laughs.“Love Drug Connections”: Hunts for an aphrodisiac and a statue, both called Love Goddess, result in chases, lies, and comeuppances.“Funerals Are For Drama”: Backers of an Indie film die suddenly and further funding depends on the actors’...

In each of these fifteen unrelated stories someone gets a surprise, often an unpleasant one, that alters his or her chances of success or even survival. In a few cases a character gets the satisfaction of revenge or relief but in most cases what he gets is his comeuppance. Some stories involve science...

Merganser “Merk” McNeap tries to lift a wallet to get money owed to him but grabs the one of Big Momma Turnyipp, a witch-in-training, instead. She curses whoever stole her wallet that it will stick to his hand - and it does. He soon learns the many things that he can’t do with that thick item...

A for-laughs collection of 216 book proposals never actually submitted to any commercial publishers that would and should have been rejected for various rather obvious reasons.

Bodybuilder Max Engler joins inventor Oscar Digitarius to develop a business in which clients pay to use a special high-tech system involving earplugs to tune into and share a hard-body like Engler’s actual sensations during his gym workouts. The pair soon find that the system in fact gives the...

Saskatchewan Indianapolis Smithe (Polie to friends and foes), is an honorary curator of the Thyemaster Museum of Science and Man-Made Arts where he often accidentally causes chaos. Curious, Smithe attends a local event for amateurs interested in greeting alien visitors - or hunting them. There he...

Fifty-plus Tess Lanzetta and Hal Sitko, who have never met before, are separately recruited to help with the Prosperity Point Kitchen hot meal program. When they must prepare lunch for the delivered meals and the soup kitchen clients with only bits and pieces, most of them left-overs, Sitko and Lanzetta...

Maddie Dullboy, identified by those behind the scheme as “the face of Mrs. Everyman”, is conned into signing a contract that under the guise of making her the winner of a contest requires her and husband Jake to pose for print and video ads for a token payment of one dollar, all other payments...

Various strange and disturing happenings gradually convince Jeeves Baldwin and the Drackenmire family of ghouls, ghouligans, and reformed vampires of which he is butler and representative to the world that a Remo, a REally Mean Ogre, is astir. When fully developed this deviant creature will be large,...

Jeeves Baldwin is hired as butler/ driver/ representative for the Drackenmire Estate family of assorted ghoul types and reformed vampires. He must sell jewels “acquired” by the family over the centuries and now in the mansion’s treasure room to pay the bills including his own salary. Neighbor...

Only when suspended from school does Fiona Harbison, 14, learn that her parent didn’t abandon her at age four as relatives told her, they died. The school problem begins Fiona’s education about her parents and how they dealt with authority figure. It also pits her against the school principal...

In these 14 unrelated stories a cast of good guys and gals and a parade of con men and women give and take in their routine lives. The stories are about ordinary enough people each of whom is though a schemer to a degree, at least in domestic matters. Many are people you would be happy to know and...