Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    The One Thousand: Book One: The One Thousand, #1
    The One Thousand: Book One: The One Thousand, #1
    The One Thousand: Book One: The One Thousand, #1
    Ebook55 pages46 minutes

    The One Thousand: Book One: The One Thousand, #1

    By John Walters

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    It is the late 1960s... 

    What better place than prison to recruit psychopathic killers?  So thinks Benny, possessed by a thousand alien entities which he intends to share around with the other inmates before unleashing hell on Earth in the form of a murderous rampage.  Only William Stafford, a Vietnam War veteran unjustly convicted of killing a girlfriend, can stop him.  But to do so he has to break back into the prison he has just escaped from...

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAstaria Books
    Release dateNov 23, 2012
    ISBN9781536584448
    The One Thousand: Book One: The One Thousand, #1
    Author

    John Walters

    John Walters recently returned to the United States after thirty-five years abroad. He lives in Seattle, Washington. He attended the 1973 Clarion West science fiction writing workshop and is a member of Science Fiction Writers of America. He writes mainstream fiction, science fiction and fantasy, and memoirs of his wanderings around the world.

    Read more from John Walters

    Related to The One Thousand

    Titles in the series (4)

    View More
    View More

    Related ebooks

    Suspense For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      It Happened to Me…

      Jun 16, 2022

      A genuine miracle occurred at the art opening of the Blinky 40th Anniversary Exhibition at California State University Northridge Gallery in Southern California on 2 February 2019. An artwork by Erika Ostrander of the “Shroud of Blinky” was found wee

      6 min read

    • Article

      The march OF TIME

      Aug 3, 2022

      As I watched the newsreel footage on television, the memories came flooding back. It was a programme highlighting the year 1984. The place was Trafalgar Square. I had been young and passionate in those days, and I had been there. The occasion was a

      3 min read

    • Article

      The Mind Reader

      Sep 10, 2022

      It happened so long ago you’d think I’d just forget it. But I haven’t, I can’t; it’s nested in my mind, coiled and twisted into my memory like a serpent I can’t get rid of. I remember it at odd moments: when I’m eating breakfast or riding the train t

      23 min read

    • Article

      Appreciating Hate

      Sep 10, 2021

      Felix thought of his mind as though it were artwork – a painting. His skull was the frame, the canvas inside the frame was the grey matter, the applied paint was his education, and that insubstantial feeling evoked by the art piece was his consciousn

      7 min read

    • Article

      A Year in Reading: Tim Lane

      Dec 8, 2021

      We stopped at the Topaz Internment Camp, where my wife’s family was held during World War II, near the tiny town of Delta, Utah. We found the apocalyptic remnants of one of our country’s great shames. The post A Year in Reading: Tim Lane appeared fi

      7 min read

    • Article

      Cruel Means, Bitter Ends

      Nov 10, 2021

      “In order for this speech to mean anything to me, I’ll need to dispense with the usual demagoguery and, instead, make an attempt at honesty. With this in mind, there is one thing I have to make clear. I’m not in this race to serve your interests, but

      12 min read

    • Article

      Barry's Last Words

      May 31, 2023

      Barry's Last Words
      4 min read

    • Article

      Bird’s Words

      May 15, 2023

      Once upon a time I was at the Edinburgh Festival – oh, circa 1988 – watching a truly gifted comedian telling a story. Confessions of a Furtive Nudist by the late and great Ken Campbell was a monologue delivered in a voice that was a cross between Ken

      3 min read

    • Article

      This Is Who I Am

      Nov 10, 2023

      This Is Who I Am
      11 min read

    • Article

      Quantum Radio

      Feb 22, 2023

      Quantum Radio
      5 min read

    • Article

      Green Ticket To Ride

      Feb 19, 2024

      Green Ticket To Ride
      8 min read

    • Article

      Fenne Lily

      Jan 6, 2020

      Fenne Lily
      3 min read

    • Article

      How to Live

      Feb 12, 2020

      IT IS hard to believe now, but until relatively recently there were usually just two places you could see a writer you admired: on the back flap of a book or at a public event. In the 1960s and 1970s, a very small number of writers, James Baldwin and

      9 min read

    • Article

      Ten Essential Noir Novels

      May 26, 2021

      Those books were about psychologically damaged people trying to navigate a cruel, cutthroat world. And they were written by what seemed to me psychologically damaged writers. It felt like I’d found a home. The post Ten Essential Noir Novels appeared

      5 min read

    • Article

      Naked Truths

      Nov 22, 2020

      Of course we had a row. You can’t, or I can’t, interview Paul Henry and not have a row. Somebody once took a picture of us glaring at each other in an Auckland bar, silently but furiously having a row, and put it on social media. It was a picture of

      8 min read

    • Article

      Good Dog!

      Sep 1, 2019

      Good Dog!
      8 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for The One Thousand

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      The One Thousand - John Walters

      ȧbbook_preview_excerpt.htmlWM6+:U9M$*dϲն%E >[g *Ly,nL䒂ooh}|!_y7O/޾;Laze>T&G3:gpݒ { wSVɹo+^1pFD5U %<9MkܯVSXMX}*'R=SX2~+_<VNH+gǩ ÒZ^' un$&qR%ily,e W}Vx7i:" ưm)V0(ģݓ%ِ-3V:sh'ޟA qɡs̲mDQw\Xw*1l;*^<}3[‰Rg-i#Kmˮt_ 0Λ](BR-x~i`B"ʦ}H`cg^׍Gܙ.rާ'c3fO87|ZGp$كaQ/]<r偁108 rB!8́ nVʫEX.5jn@8@*>K)5nMZC|$d|xZ?]-jW%u\LD_x4 ܊ו #0 6wmnBL~[ DN0>nNNF_ŜP?]ErԷa}pi}| 'pK'-Ձ) ੟: A (_DM@Z#Ţ j!~y yF:Sd.KUÚ6֧Ԃ0Z
      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1