The Beauty Snatchers

By C. C. Blake

Rick Cave has been a troublemaker in the past, but he knows a thing or two about loyalty. When his gal pal Miho gets herself in a jam, he will do anything to help her. This time, however, he has to keep ahead of his enemies . . . literally! Miho's body has been stolen, but her brain box has been left behind. Now, the Captain will have to track her down. Heaping doses of danger await him.

C. C. Blake returns to the galaxy of fun and adventure he introduced in The Positronic Pretty, spinning an action-packed adventure story that's out of this world!

This eBook edition contains a bonus sf story, "Starving For Answers."

• Language: English
• Publisher: Twice Told Tales II
• Release date: Nov 5, 2012
• ISBN: 9781301270293

C. C. Blake

C.C. Blake has lived across the United States, starting in the suburbs of Detroit, to Massachusetts’ second largest city (Worcester) to the country’s seventh largest city (San Antonio, Texas, that is). He’s has a variety of jobs, working as a substitute teacher, the graveyard shift dishwasher at a haunted Denny’s, lab research monkey and teaching assistant at a second tier college. Currently, he works as an automation consultant for a chemical company on the Northeast side of SAtown (which isn’t as Hellish as it sounds). Blake’s most popular character, irrepressible adventurer Chuck Cave, has appeared in over two dozen stories, including the 2005 Man’s Story 2 Story of the Year Award winner “Chuck Cave and the Vanishing Vixen.” The character’s supernatural thriller stories (which began with the seminal “Cave and the Vamp”) are all being released as a part of Vampires2.com’s initial foray into e-books. These new versions are presented in expanded and revised versions, all are the author’s preferred texts. Be sure to collect them all! In addition to his pulp stories for the 2-Empire (Man’s Story 2, Vampires 2, Androids 2 and Paranormal Romance 2), Blake’s fiction has appeared in several anthologies, including Unparalleled Journeys II (from Journey Books Publishing) and Fearology: Terrifying Tales of Phobias (from Library of Horror Press).

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The Beauty Snatchers

Science Fiction Adventure

By: C. C. Blake

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. The publisher does not have any control over and does not assume any responsibility for author or third-party websites or their content.

The Beauty Snatchers first appeared in slightly different form as Rick Cave and the Beauty Snatchers in Androids 2 magazine.

© 2012 by C. C. Blake

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The Beauty Snatchers

Bonus Story:

Starving For Answers

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The Beauty Snatchers

So tell me, Captain Cave . . . Devlin's scruffy beard spread wide with his ragged grin. "How much does it hurt?" He stomped on Rick's belly.

Rick curled up tight under the pressure. Holding himself together was all he could do.

I mean, Devlin continued, "being gut shot has got to sting. Does it hurt worse than knowing your girl is my toy?" Devlin glanced back at the shadows.

The biggest man Rick had ever seen emerged from the darkness. Tall and musclebound. A regular giant. In his callous hands, he held slender, lovely Miho.

Leave. Leaver her alone, Rick said. Though he was dying, his voice remained sharp. "I'll kill you."

You're already dead, you sorry sack. Devlin leveled his slug thrower between Rick's eyes. The weapon was nasty looking. Primitive. It launched steel jacketed rounds powered by a blast of ignited powder. Not a fifth as effective or efficient as a modern laz-blaster. I just let you see how everything'll turn out. To the muscle bound giant, Devlin said, We don't need her brain box. Get rid of it.

The giant grimaced and released Miho's waist to palm