Matt Randles
THE BOOKS
DEEP FOCUS Vol. 1
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A collection of stories from a world very much like our own. But it's a world where a man can look at you, and know the day you'll die. Where a woman can stop time. Where scientists are developing a medical treatment to turn the worst man in the world into the most morally upright person who ever lived. Where you might find a DVD of deleted scenes... from your own life.
Yes, it's a world very much like our own, but where the impossible--and the not yet possible--can happen.
You Can Run...
DEEP FOCUS Vol. 2​
Another collection of stories of the offbeat and unexpected, including: A business-savvy executive discovers his personal thoughts begin to appear on social media, whether he wants them to or not. A girl is tormented and tempted by an everyday object that keeps her grandmother’s secrets. A connoisseur of fine things tries to cash in on his long-dead sister’s surprisingly valuable paintings, but gets more than he bargained for. A teenage jock fleeing the reprisals of a girl’s enraged brother finds a strange portal in the woods; but will it lead him to safety? And more.
The Expanding Universe Vol. 6
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Twenty stories by twenty authors in more than 600 action-packed pages of never-a-dull-moment entertainment, including my own contribution, "The Derelict."
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Five hundred years after the fall of Earth, humans are little more than slaves in the Sendel Empire, but Cason Fallor has a job with actual authority: overseeing the dockworkers on a deep space transit station. When a derelict ship rumored to contain Earth artifacts is found, he’s faced with a choice: trust a rogue Sendel and risk everything for a culture he knows nothing about, or play it safe and mind his own business. But what he finds on the ship means playing it safe isn’t an option.