Psecret Psociety Pshort Pstories, vol. 4

… from the [virtual] inside flap … All thirty-six short stories from calendar years 2018 and 2019 are invisibly bound together in this digital document. Just like the other collections of Psecret Psociety Pshort Pstories (Volume 1, Volume 2, and Volume 3), these brief tales run the gamut from the densely thought-filled, presumed meta-real, to the subtly surreal, to the almost ordinary. Most would be American-movie-rated PG-13; quite a few are ok for all ages. All fall between 1,000 and 6,000 words (quick reads), except for a naughty, noir-esque, near-novelette-length one (I-40, Wire to Wire) that would probably warrant an R rating. The average run of curvilinear script (my vision is somewhat arched now) is 1919 words. Nineteen - nineteen. A repeated-prime pairing. Numb burrs. Monique, Agent 32, explicitly features in only two of the stories this time. She started holding out for more money in August of 2018. Negotiations continue, but seem to have bogged down, down in the bog. But, there's always that next scratch-off ticket! Delusional fantasies intertwined with cold, hard realities. Human life on Earth. Stuff like that. I guess. [Approx. 70K words]