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Wicked twists and dark humour are the signature of these short stories, extracts and vignettes, narrated by Jack Sanger to amuse, challenge, inform and entertain the listener. Intro music by Joseph Myoushin Sanger (Ravel's Bolero) Outro music by Luke Sanger (This Session Has Now Ended). Novels, plays, poetry and short stories can be found for free download or donation at: www.jacksanger.com
A child. A world in collapse. A solution...By Jack Sanger
What leads the investigator of a tiny immortal jellyfish to become involved in the analysis of an alien artefact tumbling through our solar system?By Jack Sanger
A complete short story about the search for archaeological treasure on an alien moon.By Jack Sanger
The arrival of twins in a man's life is both joyful and tragic. What will be their effect as they grow into women?By Jack Sanger
Sci-fi short story. Forced by a car breakdown to stop at a small town. Surely there is nothing of note here....By Jack Sanger
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An Inseparable Companion: back to the future…
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Sci-fi short story. If you had the opportunity to have, as your companion, the person of your dreams....By Jack Sanger
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The Year of the Wolf Dog: who can redeem the human race?
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Sci-fi complete short story. What starts in a petri dish does not end in a petri dish!By Jack Sanger
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The Scroll in the Olive Tree; a 2000 year old hidden mystery!
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A sc-fi complete short story. A scroll is found, hundreds of miles from The Dead Sea....what follows?By Jack Sanger
A complete short story about pharmaceutical science and the in-built capacity of human beings to risk the consequences of their actions.By Jack Sanger
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Rrrring!: you want door security? Be careful what you wish for!
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Sci-fi short story. What lurks underneath the glossy exterior of your new appliance for your home?By Jack Sanger
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The Galaxy Final: One on one. No neuronal enhancements!
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Sci-Fi short story. The greatest tournament known to any intelligence in the Galactic Arm. A test of individual genius so great, it can damn a losing finalist to perpetual darkness... and enrich the winner beyond all dreamsBy Jack Sanger
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The Artefact: the macabre case of an alien bracelet
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Sc-fi short story. An artefact from Mars with strange properties. A train of unforeseen events.By Jack Sanger
Sci-fi short story. Asteroid approaching? Blow it up or deflect it? - after all, we are the defenders of planet Earth…By Jack Sanger
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Post-Script: what happens at the end of days?
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Sci-Fi short story. Revelations at the point of death can be massive, unforeseen and overpowering...By Jack Sanger
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Bugarach Mountain: what awaits those who dare enter its caves?
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Sci-Fi short story. Bugarach Mountain is a place of myth - and strange happenings. A young couple decide to visit it and see and feel for themselves, its strange ambience.By Jack Sanger
Sc-Fi short story. CRISPR ( known by its popular name 'genetic scissors') is up and running today. but cast your mind forward a few decades and think what the consequences might be...By Jack Sanger
Sci-fi short story fusing biological changes, asteroid sampling and a burst of human evolution!By Jack Sanger
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The Mental Traveller: a story of close male friendship
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What does Lawrence do when he receives a plea from his oldest friend to travel to Scotland and save him? Even though their lives seem to have gone their different ways in recent years.By Jack Sanger
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The Chess King: cheating to win or something else?
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Sci-fi meets chess meets medieval history. The vitriolic accusations of cheating in the recent World Championship stand-off between Carlsen and Niemann is as nothing compared to a game being played out in a parallel universe in this story!By Jack Sanger
A lighthearted ramble through musings on death and the afterlife in my near eighty years of life.By Jack Sanger
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Change of Heart: after the transplant - who are you?
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Sci-fi short story. The future is here - and nowhere more than in the operating theatre. But surgery may end up giving you more than you anticipate...By Jack Sanger
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The Sim Six: a story for all ages about chess and an alien
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Benoit, an eleven year old French boy, encounters the strange disappearance into thin air of a variety of creatures while he is fishing. He returns home and opens his internet chess site - only to discover his chess playing group from across the world have had the same kind of experience.By Jack Sanger
Even justified acts of killing carry deep emotional consequences for those who kill. Witness the nightmarish after-life of so many war veterans. Depicting killing requires thought, empathy and a deep sense of responsibility..By Jack Sanger
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The Art of Writing: don't write off e-novel publishing!
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E-books have different lives. Once published they travel forever through the ether, never static, always available for modification and refinement.By Jack Sanger
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The Art of Writing: the writer's ego and barriers to better prose.
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Writing for an audience means putting yourself on the line. You are probably being more intimate about your inner self than you realise. How can you elicit help in removing the ego barrier between your self and the reader? Can you take this step?By Jack Sanger
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Future Imperfect: What kind of saviour is needed for future humankind?
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It's rumoured that NASA likes games players with high skills, capable of handling both the unknown and the virtual terrors of the gaming world. Exactly what these skills might be forms the basis of Future Imperfect. And the kernel of it is in the first chapter!By Jack Sanger
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Trial and Punishment Cantos 4 and 5: a space epic in verse
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Earth's descent into a final madness is momentarily stilled - as Seth and Zora find themselves together for the first time in a beautiful setting. It is here they will discover the alien's plans for them and their planet....By Jack Sanger
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Trial and Punishment Canto 3: a space epic in verse
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Thousands of years of so-called progress have brought Earth to the point of no return. The aliens are arriving to judge whether humanity is to be trusted to stay in charge of the planet, with its continual warring, polluting and decimation of fauna and flora ...By Jack Sanger
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Trial and Punishment Canto 2: a space epic in verse
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As the alien craft containing the Entity moves towards Earth in Canto 1 we now move in Canto 2, to two revolutionaries, Seth and Zora, as they whip up the masses to effect change in India and the United States. But governments have a way of dealing with young idealists....By Jack Sanger
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Trial and Punishment Canto 1: a space epic in verse
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Trial and Punishment is an epic poem in five Cantos. Earth is in crisis, climatically and socially. It is on the brink of world war. Governments are losing control. There is growing chaos and unfettered violence across the globe. Meanwhile, out there in the cosmos, help may be arriving. But what kind of help? Does it augur well for the planet and i…
From my book An A to Zen of Management I have chosen one aphorism for each letter of the alphabet. the book contains many more! But here you can glean the gist of the experience my senior executives experienced when they used this book as a meditative tool.By Jack Sanger
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The Sense of Being Sinbad: how bad can a doctor's prognosis be?
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When the cancer surgeon delivers his verdict after the examination of the x-rays, how do you react? Maybe we all think we'd be super-heroes in this situation...By Jack Sanger
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Rupture Part Two: Giles Castell faces the sanity-bending paradox of being two people.
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How would you react if you found videos of yourself with people you cannot recognise - and have no knowledge of how you came to be on them? Hallucination or reality? Madness or some trick of your very existence?By Jack Sanger
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Rupture Part One: an artist discovers he may not be who he thinks he is ...
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How would you react if you found videos of yourself with people you cannot recognise - and have no knowledge of how you came to be on them? Hallucinatory or real? Madness or some trick of your very existence?By Jack Sanger
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Without Blemish: Looking for sex? Careful....
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A complete short story. Claude receives a new phone. He wants it for one reason - to search out the woman of his dreams and satisfy other cravings. But there is a thin line between dreams and nightmares....By Jack Sanger
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I Could Have Been a Shaman: drugs and trips of a lifetime...
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We all feel that this is not the only reality. Shamans have long been considered guides to these other realms, these other worlds somewhere out there. The question remains - how do we cross to them? By meditation? By unexpected visions? By drugs? I have had one or two promising experiences and I recount them here.…
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(Sci-Fi) Show and Tell: the girl who gave Charles Darwin his theory …
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A precocious ten year old girl prepares her homework for a class Show and Tell in 2432. Times have changed. The future is woman. But the past has its interest!By Jack Sanger
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(Sci-fi) Transgression: Where there’s a taboo, the young will break it
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A Sci-Fi complete story. Making pacts with the Devil has always happened over the centuries. What form will it take in the future? If you like Edgar Allan Poe - or Isaac Asimov - I hope you'll find this worthy!By Jack Sanger
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I Could Have Been a Shaman: shapeshifting
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Is it possible to fundamentally change who you are? I think so - if my experience is anything to go by.By Jack Sanger
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Heavenly Bodies: Beauty can be a curse that kills…
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Beauty makeover meets The Squid Game... ? In this tale of the near future, a Reality TV programme offers not just a wonderful cosmetic uplift but a complete physical rebuild to its participants. It's cutting edge. New refinements are added all the time. The consequences cannot be predicted. Particularly when the very psychology of a person becomes …
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I Could Have Been A Shaman: The World of the Occult
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A brush with the Devil - or the vagaries of human psychology. Decide for yourself! This account is real - only cropped to safeguard the identities of some of those involved.By Jack Sanger
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The Neanderthal: even today, some of us have Neanderthal genes. What if ...?
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Sci-fi. Surely a Neanderthal cannot bring chaos to the peace and security of a harmonious present day mankind? Not when the genome has been washed clean of faulty or dangerous DNA? Surely? Chilling! If you prefer to read the story go to www.jacksanger.com. You can download the story for free or make a donation.…
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Dead Meat: smart joints of organic flesh give you higher intelligence.
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Vegan Sci-fi. The strange tale of Harry Bates, butcher. A kindly man, minding his own business - and a very successful business at that! Until the day of this story ..... If you prefer to read the story go to www.jacksanger.com. You can download the story for free or make a donation.By Jack Sanger
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The Second Birth of Anaïs Balanchine: a taster
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Social and cyber sci-fi! A complex and colourful future projecting how a Government might keep its population in thrall, believing everything is for the best. As long as there is no evidence of criminality and a person can shop - what else matters? Our protagonist, Anaïs Balanchine, has escaped from a psychiatric hospital, having been there, exclud…
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“I Could Have Been A Shaman”: The French Connection
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How do you buy a house if you are a shaman! Following two podcasts on the subject of my being a shaman, albeit unwittingly, this third one examines the apparently universal (occasionally traumatic) business of choosing a property to live in. For the shaman there may well be extra layers of reality.By Jack Sanger
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"I Could Have Been a Shaman": The Irresistible draw of Ghana
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Magic and mystery make up much of a Shaman's life, I would imagine. Well, here are some links in a shamanic chain which were only revealed to me decades after the chain was formed. It starts when Four future writers meet in an attic in Norfolk, England, weekly, to offer critique and encouragement to eachother’s work. Lindsay Clarke, author of A Chy…
On being a Shaman. A digression into my biography highlighting minor otherworldly events which, taken together, might - just might - suggest I missed out on something major. My Robert de Niro/ Marlon Brando type reflection on what might have been, had I had the power to put a harness on it fully... In the photo, taken in India 1944 illustrating thi…
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A Woman Who Kills: extract from the novel - she’s a hero assassin
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The future is now. The internet has collapsed. International relations have broken down. British society like all others, is broken. The rich live in protected city centres. Food and fuel are prized. Here we are introduced to a Government assassin who is contracted to locate and kill gang bosses who organise attacks on the fragile legal chains of p…
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(SciFi) She: A Tale of Wandering Womanhood
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A creature, still recognizably human who has traversed the stars, makes her way back to the world which built her, gene by gene from all the fauna and flora of the planet. What impels her to make this return? What reaction will she get from the civilisation that built her in the first place? Is this the future of humanity in these dark times? A sci…
Jen Cord, ophthalmic surgeon, returns to her operating theatre in the dead of night, to undertake a most hazardous operation, far beyond anything a trained surgeon would contemplate. The possible consequences, both physical and psychological, were terrifying for her sanity - never mind her career.By Jack Sanger
