Thomas P Hanna: 59 books

In each of these four unrelated What will happen? stories someone works to conceal where someone else is to prevent unpleasant, illegal, and/or murderous consequences.Action in Motion: Revenge-seeking kidnappers hide their victim by riding the subways with him while their demands are considered and...

Larry Ritter arrives in Anytown with a secret agenda, a lot of self-confidence, a list of aliases, and a suitcase full of smiley faces pattern bandannas. He visits with many of the town’s residents and persuades them for various reasons to wear one of those and gather in Town Square that evening....

The good witch Mistress Pleasing is wary when the wizard Kluklicks arrives in the kingdom in magical fashion. He immediately strongly challenges the king to a contest of magic ability between himself and the wizards of this and other kingdoms. The winning wizard will be free to claim any items he...

Inept burglars Tony and Bill Perrine sneak in to steal a valuable painting from an office where it is on display only to find after all their trouble that it was moved to a local college art show as a temporary exhibit. An art collector and thief currently handicapped by injuries anonymously hires...

Gay Adam Parker, feeling lonely and horny too long, purchases Roger, a humandroid “buddy” on the order of Star Trek’s Mr. Data, but the lifelike fully functional Roger is so versatile, witty, and has so much personality that he amazes, amuses, and complicates Noah’s whole life with laughs,...

Prison guards Henderson and Killian, looking for some easy money, plot to secretly spring convicts Jones and Williams whom they have talked up to the Press as very dangerous, and promptly recapture the pair for the reward. Prisoners Carson and Dees who really want to escape are persuaded to forcibly...

At closing time the Barkley kids (Tim, 12; Sheila, 8; Billy, 5) are accidentally locked in the Harding Commerce Center, a large urban shopping center and office complex with state of the art security and interior environment systems controlled by a voiced computer called D.O.C. Deliberately hiding...

Seven unrelated tales for grown-ups played for laughs.“Love Drug Connections”: Hunts for an aphrodisiac and a statue, both called Love Goddess, result in chases, lies, and comeuppances.“Funerals Are For Drama”: Backers of an Indie film die suddenly and further funding depends on the actors’...

In each of these fifteen unrelated stories someone gets a surprise, often an unpleasant one, that alters his or her chances of success or even survival. In a few cases a character gets the satisfaction of revenge or relief but in most cases what he gets is his comeuppance. Some stories involve science...

Merganser “Merk” McNeap tries to lift a wallet to get money owed to him but grabs the one of Big Momma Turnyipp, a witch-in-training, instead. She curses whoever stole her wallet that it will stick to his hand - and it does. He soon learns the many things that he can’t do with that thick item...

A for-laughs collection of 216 book proposals never actually submitted to any commercial publishers that would and should have been rejected for various rather obvious reasons.

Bodybuilder Max Engler joins inventor Oscar Digitarius to develop a business in which clients pay to use a special high-tech system involving earplugs to tune into and share a hard-body like Engler’s actual sensations during his gym workouts. The pair soon find that the system in fact gives the...

Saskatchewan Indianapolis Smithe (Polie to friends and foes), is an honorary curator of the Thyemaster Museum of Science and Man-Made Arts where he often accidentally causes chaos. Curious, Smithe attends a local event for amateurs interested in greeting alien visitors - or hunting them. There he...

Fifty-plus Tess Lanzetta and Hal Sitko, who have never met before, are separately recruited to help with the Prosperity Point Kitchen hot meal program. When they must prepare lunch for the delivered meals and the soup kitchen clients with only bits and pieces, most of them left-overs, Sitko and Lanzetta...