Technology vs The Witches and other strange tales by Edwin Hird - Available from Amazon• Kindle Edition £3. 99• Paperback Edition £10.

01• Hardback Edition £14. 99Another collection of stories showing strange situations, or perhaps normal happenings, going in unexpected directions.

Technology vs The Witches - Two ‘good’ witches are instructed to assemble a team of non-magical people to stop two ‘bad’ witches causing chaos in the community. The Monastery - Prof Giles and three of his students are investigating the remains of an old monastery.

They discover more than they expected. Best Served Cold - A ghost takes revenge on his murderers.

The Hospitals - A patient can’t decide if he is dead or alive. This causes some of the nurses to be assigned to ‘special’ duties.

The Winter Wedding - Nineteen-year-old Stephanie is left in charge of her brother, sister and cousins while the adults are away at a wedding. She tries out some thought experiments which get out of control.

The Dark Side - Glen is brought out of retirement for a Top Secret moonshot. They warn him he might find strange things, but what he finds is stranger than anyone anticipated.

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