That Boy Ain't Write in the Head

A Collection of Mixed Genre Stories:
Sci-Fi, Alternate Universes, Time Travel, Supernatural, and More

A science-fiction author tries to save the world from alien attack, alien visitors that only eat cancer, a baseball player travels back to the past, and a Secret Service Agent must protect his friend, the President, from destroying the White House. These are just a few of the new and fantastic tales that await you inside.

From sci-fi to stark reality, these short stories will entertain, provoke, and whet your appetite for more. This collection contains not only serves up the best of Paul K. Metheney's short stories, but an all new menu of fresh tales to stimulate your literary palate.

CONTENTS
Foreign and Domestic
A Secret Service agent must attack the President

The Dark Knightmare
Superhero, the fantasies of a comatose child, or something worse?

A Wheelbarrow Full of Honey
Will a redneck scientist thwart an alien invasion?

Upon A Star
Not your papa's Pinocchio

More Powerful than a Locomotive
Retired reporter from a metropolitan paper catches her extraordinary husband flying off to save the world

The Other 1963
Two brothers clash in an alternate history

The Truth in the Dark (What Lies in the Dark)
Two modern tales combine the supernatural, serial killings, and a hidden truth.

Cancer-Free
Aliens can rid us of cancer, one way or the other

Follicles, Fables & Follies
Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down ... never mind

A New York Yankee
Time traveling baseball player upends King Arthur's court

The Fall
On the cliff's edge of suicide, a mortal questions God's power.

The Bet
Immortal entities wager on a man's choice of life or death.

Carefree
A motorcyclist's worries fly away while rolling

Shock and Awww!
Not everything in space is what it seems