by Brian Bakos
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Frank and Robert Kough, the successful team, sat in the Texas-style steak house eating dinner. The older man grinned broadly, taking pleasure at the number of people who were looking their way. Bob remained impervious to the attention.
“Is Mom coming back?” he asked.
“I don’t know,” Frank said.
“Maybe I’ll go look for her,” Bob said.
Frank adjusted the napkin spread across his new designer jeans. Not long ago, this restaurant had seemed the height of luxury, now it was just another lower class place that needed to be left behind.
“She’s not at your grandparents’ house,” he said, “and she quit her job at the grocery store. Nobody knows where she went.”
Bob nodded gravely and returned to his steak, bloody and rare.
“I don’t think she wants to see us anymore, son,” Frank said.
Bob glanced across the table toward his father, the man who had made him what he was, and his trigger finger itched.
END of the stories
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Brian’s Other Books
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Return to Mech City
The end of the world as you've never seen it before. Life goes on in Mech City, but it is no longer human.
As mankind succumbs to its follies and exits the stage, scholar model robot, Winston Horvath, makes a perilous journey to Mech City, the place of his manufacture.
But Mech City is in a downward spiral. The robotic inhabitants, are turning to suicide or brigandage. Winston meets Star Power – the world’s only functional female robot. She and Winston “click,” but Winston cannot satisfy Star’s robust desires. She is on a whole new level of creation from him.
Things unravel when a despised test bed robot morphs into Fascista Ultimo and establishes a Roboto Fascist dictatorship. He has designs on Star. Winston flees with her to gather forces for a counter-coup and, perhaps, get himself upgraded so as to bring Star true satisfaction.
Science Fiction / Humor / Dystopian
Expedition Westward
Sequel to Return to Mech City
What is the cost of rediscovering true love in a shattered world? Whatever it might be, Star is willing to pay, or not survive the outcome. A trek along dangerous roads provides the answer. The dystopian adventure continues.
Science Fiction / Humor / Dystopian
Raptor Aces
The terrifying Zone of Destruction – ZOD, the absence of God. It has taken over the lives of the Raptor Aces, an elite Youth League air squadron and its commander, Dytran. They must overcome its toxic influence or face annihilation.
Dytran is the cream of his nation – proud, dynamic, convinced of his inherent superiority. Although a supporter and beneficiary of his totalitarian society, he lacks the brutal heart of the true fanatic. His world unravels when a poor decision goes horribly wrong, resulting in death and destruction. When his fighter ace brother is reported killed in the great Eastern war, the bottom goes out of his life.
An encounter with the Magleiter, leader of the nation, bucks him up. He grabs at a chance to volunteer for support aviation service in the war. At the front, he and his comrades encounter an enemy who is not the degenerate race of the propaganda broadcasts but a tough, resourceful foe. They are scattered to fend for themselves in a landscape so ravaged by war that normal reality has become unhinged. Dytran becomes swept up in violence and revenge until escape seems beyond reach.
New Adult / Action-Adventure / War
DAS ROAD
A road novel with fascinating turns through exotic Asia, workaday America, and Iran caught up in revolution. Travel realms where anything is possible, wonderful, or horrible. And always on the road ahead, the mythical figure of Jon Glass who haunts the entire journey. A story imbued with meaning just below the level of articulating. A siren call to your wanderlust.
Travel / Mystery
Career Moves for Burnt Out Personifications
Santa, the Grim Reaper, and others scramble to find new careers and identities. Outrageous political and social satire. “A smorgasbord of paranoid ramblings ideally suited to today's sensibilities.”
Humor / Political Satire
