The Cloud Brother's Short Stories Series

​If the world treated your garden as a rubbish tip, how would you react? Alf and Bert are brutal security guards and their job is to keep trespassers out of the Cloud Estate. When slobs from the public dump rubbish on the estate, the guards, aided by Alf's enhanced third eye, swear retribution. All goes well until the police warn them to stop and a gang of litter mobsters take advantage. But then Alf 'borrows' an experimental matter transporter device and his fortunes take a turn. Will the new device render assistance, or will it deliver ruin? Buy now and find out what happens to this load of old rubbish.

Meet Alf. The world's only security guard with a microprocessor enhanced brain. Alf and his partner, Bert, are infamous thugs. Redeemed by the young Cloud brothers, they have now devoted their lives to protect the Cloud's ancient mansion and its mystical secrets. When Alf develops a crippling migraine, Bert is on his own and a mob of thieves take advantage. As Alf's brain disorder worsens, Trevor Cloud offers a drastic operation that will either make him superhuman—or kill him!

One professor. Two aliens. Three timelines. A yellow bathroom sponge could forever link their destinies and save our universe. Professor Maurice Masterson is Europe's head of extraterrestrial investigation and incomprehensible phenomenon. He's attended many séances where spiritualists claim to receive messages from the spirits. Part of his work is to keep an open mind and investigate such cases. So far in his career, he's exposed each testimony as a hoax. But then his bodyguard declares an alien has possessed him; an alien with a mission to save our universe from imminent collapse. The alien needs help, involving a journey through space and time—and a yellow bathroom sponge.

​Gypsies set up camp on the Cloud Estate, protecting themselves with powerful magic. Eviction by brute force proves useless, so Alf and Bert, the two burly security guards, compose a few tricks of their own.

​Most of us carry a potential bomb with us. Dr Grenn found out how to detonate them... Dr Grenn is a hypnotist, executive, inventor, television personality, and scoundrel. Driven by insatiable greed, he jeopardises the entire world's security and tricks Professor Maurice Masterson into being his scapegoat. Take this short story as a warning, hide it from terrorists, and pray it never comes true

​'Idle hands are the devil's tools'. Twelfth century saying. Alf and Bert, security guards, play with an experimental gadget that transports them back to the twelfth century. ​Frightened to tamper with history, they tread carefully–at first. Unable to withstand the challenge, they enter a tournament, fight with knights, and forget the threat to history.

​The prettiest snakes have the deadliest venom. Aren't they just a pest? Alf and Bert, the Cloud Mansion's security guards, are gifted with limitless brawn and gumption. A cunning pair of con artists have never failed to swindle their victims. When forces clash, only one side can win. The con artists fight dirty, but the security guards have a few tricks up their sleeves...

​A Diary that predicts death and doom? Chief Inspector Dobbs didn't believe either... A diary is handed in to the police as lost property. The pages are filled out ten days into the future, terminating with the prediction of Professor Maurice Masterson's death. As the days pass, and each day's account comes true, Chief Inspector Dobbs is forced to swallow his scepticism and prevent the inevitable.

​Who are the ghosts: them or us? On his way home from work, Frank, a humble accountant, witnesses a man jump in front of a train. The shocking suicide leaves Frank distraught, but the next day, he sees the same man again, alive and in a wretched state. Determined to solve the mystery, Frank investigates, only to watch his world fall apart.

Is it possible that Florence, living isolated from the world, is well over a hundred years old and still retains her youth? Or is she a ghost? ​Professor Maurice Masterson investigates. His conclusion astonishes everyone.