Böcker av Anton Kukal

One More Score is a heartfelt novella that explores the meaning of friendship, the struggles of aging, and the lure of unfulfilled dreams.Around the middle of the twentieth century, scientific advances changed the world. Humans split the atom, developed computers, created robotics, and cracked the genetic code. It was only a matter of time before people started applying this new science to improving the human body, and the first supers came into existence. In this alternative-history earth where the average person can gain superpowers, there are three types of people. Normal people, called Norms, don't have powers. Duds tried to get powers and failed becoming mutant humans with horrible deformities. They are shunned by society. Supers have superpowers, and many reach the heights of fame and fortune. SafeCracker is an aging supervillain specializing in bank heists. With times changing and age slowing SafeCracker down, Gene, the supervillain's head henchman and friend of forty years, tries to convince his boss to retire, but a new team member has other plans. Carmella - young, ambitious, and attractive - fills SafeCracker's head with dreams of a comeback crime spree that threatens to ruin everything. Faced with two possibilities, SafeCracker must choose between lifelong friendship and the possibility of One More Score. This 30,000 word novella is set in the Mystic Realms multiverse, a vast reality of interconnected worlds and parallel timelines united by the mystic energies that flow like rivers of unseen power permeating all things and everyone. The heroic characters who wander these realms are the proponents of destiny. They have the ability to manipulate the mystic energies, and their actions can change the patterns of existence.

There are creatures lurking in our world. Obscure creatures long relegated to myth and legend. They have been sighted by a lucky-or unlucky-few, some have even been photographed, but their existence remains unproven and unrecognized by the scientific community.These creatures, long thought gone, have somehow survived; creatures from our nightmares haunting the dark places. They swim in our lakes and bays, they soar the night skies, they hunt in the woods. Some are from our past, and some from other worlds, and others have always been with us-watching us, fearing us, hunting us.These are the cryptids, and Systema Paradoxa tells their tales.***After what felt like a lifetime in the sewers, Inspector Max Dalton would have thought he'd seen everything. He would have been wrong. When his trainees discover something inexplicable in the muck, life changes radically for all of them, including Max's granddaughter, Gwen. News of their discovery gets out and bounty hunters invade the tunnels beneath the city, forcing Max's cooperation in their fruitless search. ¿With life and love and liberty in the balance, Gwen will need help from an unexpected source to evade those looking to capture her new friend.