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A practical farmer discovers a crossroads connecting four different realities. An elderly woman is granted forty-eight hours of youth, beauty and wishes. A circus performer learns how to switch bodies. A gold miner confronts a seventy-five-foot island god. New York landmarks mysteriously vanish. And a powerless drifter discovers he can heal—or kill—with a glance. Across these fantasy short stories, wishes, powers, supernatural encounters, alternate realities and impossible changes create adventure, humor, danger, wonder and unexpected consequences.

Circus performer Little Tom Little has spent his life looking up at bigger men—especially Hermann Schmidt, the commanding ring master who seems to possess everything Tom wants. Then a dying mystic leaves Tom the secret of switching bodies. Suddenly Tom can trade his small frame for Schmidt’s powerful one. But becoming another man means inheriting his dangers and his enemies—and Tom is about to learn that getting what you want can be far more dangerous than wanting it. One soul. Multiple bodies. One impossible secret. And one wish that may leave Tom wishing he had stayed exactly who he was.

Drilling for oil is a dirty business, and for Bill Murphy, it’s about to turn positively filthy. But Murphy’s as big and tough as his home state of Texas and he’s more than a match for everything the oil-rich land of Venezuela can throw at him. Everything, that is, except for one woman. Her name is Marcia Stewart. She’s fiery, she’s brave, and she’s beautiful...and she’d like nothing better than to see Bill Murphy dead. Her oilman father’s been killed, and Marcia tags Murphy as the murderer.

Sheriff Kyle of Deadeye, Nevada, is headed east to the nation’s capital. Kyle’s about to discover that the law can be even wilder in the big city than in the Wild West. It’s a fact that hits home when he’s the one accused...of murder. Kyle’s come to the city to give a report to his senator on the misdeeds of Nevada’s filthy rich copper kings. But before he has a chance, he’s knocked unconscious, later coming to alongside his senator - now dead, with Kyle’s knife embedded in the corpse.

Do you love a good whodunit? Detectives and mobsters, newshawks and murderers–all ingredients for disaster in this murder mystery collection. Whether it was sending a detective after missing ships at sea or chasing down grisly headhunters at a carnival, Ron knew how to thrill readers and keep them guessing until the end.

Farmer Eben Smith is tired of being told to destroy good crops while people go hungry. He loads his wagon, heads for the city and reaches a crossroads unlike any on Earth—four roads, four kinds of travelers and four realities with very different ideas about trade. Eben has produce to sell and a Yankee instinct for a bargain. But every deal he makes sends another world spinning in an unexpected direction, and the farther he travels from the road he knows, the stranger the consequences become. Four roads. Impossible customers. A wagon full of ordinary goods.