An athletic young man learns he has telepathic powers that can affect how people think and act. Can he learn to harness these powers? Can he use them to get the girl he wants? What happens when he's recruited into a high-level spy organisation and discovers its head is corrupt?
Brian Abell is a forgotten man living in a rusted trailer on the edge of nowhere. He was obese, unloved, and invisible to a world that never gave him a chance. Bullied since childhood, abandoned by his mother, and rejected by women and society alike, Brian spends his days scavenging storage units and venting online. But when he discovers an ancient amulet containing Sila, a powerful and seductive jinn who has waited centuries to be freed, everything changes. She offers him three wishes.
Sent alone to a dead planet in a tiny rover named CRAWLER, nineteen-year-old Elise Hart is offered redemption in exchange for obedience. Tasked with mapping buried ruins through a world she can’t see, isolation, pressure, and constant monitoring wear her down. Until the mission reveals that the planet is not as empty as it was meant to be, but will anyone believe her?
A story in the The Mayhem Universe
Set in the same universe as "Hump Day Block Party," but set earlier in time and with the title inspired by a certain song. The arrival of the deputy commissar assigned to reorganize the local law courts sets in motion a chain of events that affects many folks, but especially several connected to recent family and divorce law cases.