P Thomas: 439 books

What kind of emotional burdens does the person who accidentally harmed or even killed another have to live with and how does it shape the rest of the perpetrator’s life? What kind of special help might they need to get beyond the guilt? Abrasive lawyer Martin Southby, 35, a successful attorney and...

In private Bint Uldrich calls himself Phone Man because he had invented a device that lets him transport through the landline phone wires to distant places where he can look out, reach out of the phone, or even emerge from it entirely to thwart bad guys, do good, or simply note and report back about...

In Colonial America Herkimer Barnard attacks the “one-eyed” Stranger on the road to rob him - and becomes the latest in a string of unwilling hosts of the monster the Mondoki when something bursts out of the stranger’s gut at him. Barnard won’t remember the gpry details. He is eventually left...

After having several planned robberies ruined by the unexpected arrival of the pompous but well-meaning local Bishop Tweeney, the Clarkson Gang, a quartet of inept small time thieves, risk taking a convent full of nuns as hostages for ransom to get cash for themselves and to solve an elderly friend’s...

When the Budlow family hire a live-in housekeeper, Mrs. Stanton, she proves to be more than they expected. She notes from the start that the others all mistreat the youngest son, Craig, ten, who wishes that the Payback Phantom, someone inconspicuous but effective who gives them a taste of your own...

There is great tension in the ant colony since something special is going on in the Council. Nac, “the voice of practicality”, and Kar, “the voice of idealism”, are preparing for the critical Council debate on whether to authorize continued development of the thermofungal energy technology...

Stanley is notified by an Angel that his soul is being repossessed for failure to say the prayers he promised after a narrow escape from death. He received a first notice in the mail but laughed that off, now he has only a short time to make some arrangement with Heaven. The Angel uses the body of...

Roger Mabry decides to sneak into the local Mob’s office and get an item to use as evidence against them. He helps Gwen Haley, a total stranger, carry bags inside with building security hardly noticing him. He gets what he went in for but must exit disguised as “Mabel” with Gwen innocently helping...

Galaxy Tours, Inc. was formed when Earth’s Space Exploration Agency fleet were sold to be used as Love Boat style tourists vessel in an economy move. On a chartered space tour to the ruins on the planet Dis-Astra there are multiple concerns on the ship G.T.I. Ziltch: About a trio of non-humanswho...

In what is for her a lucky accident, a curse spell spoken by Big Momma Turnyipp affects Merk McNeap whom she enjoyed tormenting with a different curse earlier. This time he grows thick fur on his palms and soles, making it hard to do many routine activities and even harder to hide that pelage so he...

These eight stories, two of novella length, are about people and their foibles more than about machines or schemes, although those may be involved with emphasis on the humorous elements.There is funny stuff going on in a train sleeper car, a strange doctor’s office, a walnut grove, an office building...

Small-time con man Sylvester Pernell expects to make enough money pulling little scams on the train ride from Philadelphia to Miami to keep him through the winter. However, impressed with his smooth talk ability, two other cons mess that up to force him to make a pickup for them from mobster Alfonso...

Sound technician and inventor Dred Faraday enters a block-square, three-story municipal garage that has heavy metal roll-down grilles to block vehicle access in or out when it is closed for the night to test his special sound equipment that lets him echo-locate, listen from a distance, and play back...

The Proudly Defiant Provocateurs are three anonymous civil rights defenders, gay men in flamboyant Cavalier costumes, who periodically appear in public to support causes or to oppose abuses. In this case they lock horns with a right wing group who are determined to keep the trio from getting public...