In A Twisted Mind A Collection of Short Stories by Larry R. Liberty

A farm kinfolk in northern New Jersey is consistently shaken by means of a brand new airport. Supernatural job, noise, and worry forces the family members to relocate their farm to rural Northeastern Pennsylvania. An ironic and twisted ending.

People in northern Montana are disappearing, specifically while these lighting look within the "Big Sky." An investigative reporter discovers it really is occurring in each nation. He then discovers a central authority conspiracy and a mystery historical society. the remaining is yummy, yet now not for him.

An archeologist in Tibet discovers a brand new species of terrestrial trojan horse averaging 20 toes in size and a pair of ft in diameter. He collects a few eggs and returns to his domestic at the Palisades in Alpine New Jersey. He buries the eggs alongside the Palisades and is quickly overrun with those massive worms, so he harvests them for a fishermen's bait and turns into very filthy rich with a sequence of bait shops. Later his worms are chanced on to be very clever and feature an schedule. In a funny twist, the bug meat is located to treatment madness and Washington D.C. has an epiphany. what is with the cartons of Pall Mall cigarettes piled high?

The kids in historic Egypt are troubled with a flue like virus. the subsequent generations of boys began donning skirts and feature little interest in ladies. quickly the nice dynasty went into decline because the inhabitants diminished. different empires suffered a similar destiny until eventually glossy technology defined the explanation, and embraced the virus for inhabitants keep watch over. A funny and outrageous tackle homosexuality.

A glitch in software program at a dictionary writer seems a prototype reproduction with part the phrases given the incorrect definitions. the single faulty replica is unintentionally put in a kid's backpack. whereas on holiday within the South Pacific the editor and his younger sons are marooned on an uncharted island while their excessive velocity boat crashes right into a rocky seashore. The editor suffers a head harm and his younger sons needs to fend for themselves. the one resource of schooling is the faulty dictionary within the kid's backpack. they're rescued after 10 years and go back to the USA, the lads are teenagers, and pop misplaced such a lot of his marbles. They develop into wards in their uncle, and after they input society, their scrambled phrases make for a hilarious chain of occasions. never-ending, with a twist.