Santa, Aliens and War...: a collection of short stories

by Martin Booth

Overview

Santa, Aliens and War is an eclectic collection of 29 short stories from the pen of a previously unpublished author. Inside you will meet Jason, who walks on the surface of the sun, Vreep and Denar trying to do a boring job in an ancient spaceship, or experience horror at the bottom of the sea. Carefully researched, you can fly in a damaged Lancaster bomber trying to make its way home, or sit in an underground bunker awaiting nuclear Armageddon, or join a Tommy about to go over the top into No Man's Land in the First World War. Other questions will be answered, such as what really did happen when the snake tempted Eve in the Garden of Eden? And why you really should avoid pumpkins at Halloween. Things aren't all serious, though: meet Aggie whose morning isn't begun without a freshly make cup of tea, or Cyrus the sheep, worried about his appearance. Also inside are stories about candy floss (cotton candy to our US readers) mobile phones, one of the seven dwarves in therapy... There are even a couple of poems and a scientific piece on autumn! Some of the stories will make you laugh, some cry and some will make you think. It is designed to be dipped into when you have a few minutes to spare, or to binge read and finish in one glorious session. Enjoy!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781544693224
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	07/27/2017
Pages:	162
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.35(d)

About the Author

Martin Booth is a retired Science and IT teacher who swapped writing work sheets and lesson plans for short story fiction. Born in Nottingham, he moved to Newcastle upon Tyne in 1973 to study at the University. A career as a microbiologist followed until redundancy caused a change in ideas, leading to a second career in teaching. Martin retrained as a Science teacher and spent 20 years creating havoc in the classroom, baffling senior staff and bemusing but inspiring pupils.
While teaching Information Technology, many of the exercises could be explained using exemplar materials. Rather than use previously prepared ones, Martin would conjure up strange and wonderful worlds, characters and even his own political party, The Penguin Alliance (motto - Change, Reform and Fish). Later, his subversive writings were used to ease the pain of his school closing (which he assures us is nothing to do with him) and amuse the staff.
Once retired, Martin became full time carer for his wife, Kate, who suffers from MS and started to write short story fiction, which has led to this book.
Martin has three grown-up children and two cats, and lives a busy and somewhat chaotic life in a village in Northumberland.