Jud Widing: 6 books

Karen McCorkal, a mid-level programmer at family-run corporation/sovereign nation Westmore Industries, has created a program capable of programming other programs. This renders human programmers redundant, and Westmore is nothing if not efficient. So they fire her. And, oops, sort of erase her identity...

For the first time in their lives, nineteen year-old Nur De Dernberg and her younger sister Deirdre are leaving Seychelles, Africa. They’ve come to Boston for a year, but not to party with the college kids – they’re here to learn English. Nur, trapped by her inability to speak the language and...

Nine-year old Brobson Lutz didn’t want to go to summer camp. He only wanted to hang out with his best buddy Fischer. But then, that was why his parents had sent him to First Stone in the first place. Because First Stone wasn’t any ordinary summer camp. It was a camp where they fixed broken...

ACTION! - Samuzzo D'Amato might be the biggest bruiser on the boardwalk, but he's got a secret, a real Achilles heel - he's some kinda jumpy about loud noises! Not the sorta thing a tough guy wants people knowing. Nobody's gonna hire muscle maybe might jump outta his skin if a dog barks too loud,...

"Fidget’s Mill was a town full of secrets, populated by people who had no idea how to keep them." It is a time of revolution in the American colonies, an epoch in which men of exceptional talent and ambition agitate to reshape the course of human events. Their names will pass into...

A man loses his shoes on an airplane. A woman gets trapped in a bathroom by a ghost (maybe). A mob enforcer startles easily. A young actor wants his face on the wall of a pizza parlor. What do they all have in common? Nothing. This is a short story collection. That would be a super weird novel, if...