Long Cool One Books: 119 books

Passively waiting for some nice lady to come along and discover him isn’t working for John. He’s been alone for far too long. Something needs to be done about it. A quirky lady carpenter and a face from the past are enough to crack that fragile shell wide open. Rebecca has been alone for a while too. She has tickets to the big premiere, and no one to go with.

Maria sets out on the adventure of a lifetime. She’s leaving France, now decadent and corrupt, and heading for America, which is still young, and strong and vigorous. Travelling on the S.S. France on the Atlantic crossing has its own perils. She’s been getting an awful lot of male attention, and...

Italian frogmen sink two battleships in Alexandria harbour and the Admiralty is thirsting for revenge. The only question is where and when and how. No matter what is decided, there’s really only one man for the job and that’s Wilbur ‘Butch’ Cobb, former long-distance swimmer and now a member...

Hank Beveridge and Lieutenant Newton Shapiro are a couple of nice guys whose worlds just happen to collide. Hank's getting up in years and Newton has his first independent field command. On Third World, women of marrying age are scarce as hen's teeth. Hank's still looking though. Newton has a job...

Steve and Theresa have a baby. They’re staying home, conserving money and entertaining themselves. It’s the long weekend. Good friends like Mitch and Kelly, some cheap wine, a few doobs, two well-prepared lady conspirators, and a little something else thrown in for good measure, turns a simple game of Spin The Bottle into something just a little bit different.

Rene is the most beautiful woman in the world to Ben. When he sees her in the ward, he has no choice but to speak to her. Falling hopelessly in love doesn’t take Ben too long. The trouble is, he has a board assessment coming up and he has a sneaking suspicion that they’re going to let him out—at the risk of losing Rene. A romantic short story.

Blanchard has been tramping all up and down this valley with a rucksack and a camera on his back for as long as he can remember. And yet there is something, someone else out there. After exactly two short glimpses and a few indistinct tracks in the mud, he’s determined to get the shot of a lifetime. A short fantasy story.

Helen has taken a fancy to a soldier living in her neighborhood. Just looking at him causes a flutter in Jill’s tummy. They’re wondering what it’s like to be taken by a real man in a place swarming with pimply-faced boys and dirty old men with beer bellies. Conspiring together, the life-long accomplices set a honey trap for Phillip. A short and erotic story

What would your town look like if the lights went out and never came back on again? Trevor Ratigan has lived long enough to find out. Seventy year-old Trevor is the closest thing to a general on hand when an invasion fleet arrives to seize the strategic Bluewater Bridge. In a world where cattle and corn equates with money and power, the rivalry between Detroit and Chicago is heating up.

Etienne, Sieur de Berignac, and his young cousin and protégé Pierre, have tools, kettles and blankets to trade. It is the guns that are the most sought-after. A little brandy and some diplomacy will take them a long ways, but as Pierre discovers, the language barrier is a killer. A short story of Canada’s colourful and romantic past.

On a solo canoe trip in Algonquin Park, Mason Richards has plenty of time to think. That's not always a good thing. It's never too late to make some positive changes in your life. It might be long overdue. A short story.

Lieutenant-Commander Oliver Dunbar and the crew of E-17, thirty men and boys in a steel cylinder a hundred and eighty feet long, must penetrate the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus and get into the Black Sea. The inland sea has been an Ottoman lake for hundreds of years. It’s their job to sink the...

Anna changed my life. Anna was the perfect woman for an emotional cripple. She really brought me out of my shell. I'd been on the inside for a long time. Now I'm retired, just some scholarly old gentleman with his young wife. I even ditched the .45 Colt for Anna.

Chauncey Mifflin owns everything in sight, including her. The whole planet is corrupt. Selena has thought long and hard about escape. The only thing she needs is opportunity, but a heart turned to steel and a burning desire for revenge is enough to tip the balance. A short story.