Tales with a Twist Box Set

Volumes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

De: Michael Williams

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

An eclectic flash fiction collection offering 179 tales of fantasy, horror, humor, satire, sci fi, and suspense, Michael Williams's box set Tales with a Twist Volumes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 offers a veritable feast of fiction that should please the palates of every taste.

It's a huge book—approximately 200,000 words!

Stories include a comedian's encounters with “small assassins,” a divorced husband's regrets about feeding his ex's cat, drone technology's new windows of opportunity for theft and ransom, a woman who takes it upon herself to kindly put “losers” out of their “misery,” an invention that gives men too much of a good thing, and a mobster's son who learns too late what honor means among thieves.


This collection also treats readers to an invention that buys another year of life for its inventor; a lovelorn Yeti; a compassionate con man; a desire for peace and quiet that turns into the road to hell; a modern-day Norman Bates with a thing for classy blondes; a talking statue; a couple of stories about Santa; and much more.

And that's only a third of the tales in Volume 1!

Among a plethora of other stories, Volume 2 contains tales of weather control, homicidal software, oceanic crime-solving, a cameo by the Almighty, a collector who may just have found a cure for what ails her, an unfortunate film crew's encounter with unexpected extras, an extremely unfortunate man, and many other surprising, sometimes shocking, persons, places, and things.

Volume 3 delivers tales (to mention only a few) that involve players who discover that cheating is no bed of roses, a VP of Marketing who never expected his wife's recent renovations to include a tunnel of love, a date with Daphne, which brings out the beast in Chad, and people who, everywhere, it seems, are losing things—important things like hands and eyes and—well, it's better not to think about it.

In Volume 4, readers will encounter a social media influencer, an animal trainer who's also a chess master who hates to lose, a prospective homeowner who won't take a loan officer's “no” for an answer, and a woman who wants to be famous by association. And that's just for starters!

The final volume of the set also has something for everyone, all in delicious and nutritious, bite-size helpings.

There are other features, too: an afterword; writing tips for aspiring authors; an appendix of aphorisms, apothegms, axioms, maxims, and proverbs disguised as epigrams, an interview with Michael himself, and a biographical note on the author. This box set has everything but the kitchen sink (it wouldn't couldn't be digitized).