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    The Sticky Situations of Zwicky Fingers
    The Sticky Situations of Zwicky Fingers
    The Sticky Situations of Zwicky Fingers
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    The Sticky Situations of Zwicky Fingers

    By Rhys Hughes

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    Zwicky Fingers is a giant fruit bat detective who lives in the past, present and future simultaneously. He is often consulted by the police force when there are paradoxical, lateral or impossible crimes to be solved. His sticky situations are ten tricky cases, one for each finger of two human hands; but hands belonging to whom?

    That's just one of the mysteries you may or may not encounter when you join Zwicky on this decathlon of Calvinoesque whimsies! Prepare yourself to meet Mr Hyde and Dr Seek, the Sock Camels, the werewolf who prefers muesli to flesh, and many other curious beings in a world that isn't quite like our own...

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRhys Hughes
    Release dateAug 2, 2012
    ISBN9781476043760
    The Sticky Situations of Zwicky Fingers
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    Rhys Hughes

    RHYS HUGHES was born in Wales but has lived in many different countries and currently lives in India. He began writing at an early age and his first book, Worming the Harpy, was published in 1995. Since that time he has published more than fifty other books and his work has been translated into ten languages. He recently completed an ambitious project that involved writing exactly 1000 linked short stories. He is currently working on a novel and several new collections of prose and verse.

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      The Sticky Situations of Zwicky Fingers - Rhys Hughes

      The Sticky Situations of Zwicky Fingers

      by

      Rhys Hughes

      Published By Gloomy Seahorse Press at Smashwords

      Copyright 2012 Rhys Hughes

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      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      This ebook is humbly dedicated to

      all flying mammals

      Cover by Chris Harrendence

      Introductory Note

      It has long been the convention that any isolated event in a fictional story should be set in the past, present or future, and it should be located in this world or another. To switch between times or venues during the progress of a story is perfectly acceptable, but at any particular moment the action must exist only in one age and one place.

      Unfortunately, the tales of Zwicky Fingers don’t adhere to this rule. If you were to ask me whether they have already happened or are happening right now or will happen in years to come, I will only be able to shrug my shoulders and reply, All three! and if that seems unsatisfactory there is very little I can do to remedy the situation.

      Similarly, the question of where his adventures occur requires another shrug and the comment, Simultaneously on our world and not on it. At this point, you may conclude that I simply don’t know the answer, but the truth is that Zwicky physically overlaps temporal and spatial coordinates. He is layered and each layer is transparent.

      All this is quite baffling, but we needn’t worry too much about it. The main thing is that he’s keen to meet you…

      So step inside and say hello. And give him my regards.

      RHYS HUGHES, July 2012

      Table of Contents

      THE LEFT HAND

      Pinky: The Trial Separation

      Ring: The Reverse Midas

      Middle: The Tetrahedron Offensive

      Index: The Name of the Nose

      Thumb: The Experimenter’s Chagrin

      THE RIGHT HAND

      Mr Hyde and Dr Seek: Thumb

      This Werewolf Prefers Muesli: Index

      The Sock Camels: Middle

      The Haggler of Affection: Ring

      The Lap of Your Gaze: Pinky

      THE LEFT HAND

      The Trial Separation

      Have you ever noticed on a map of the world how South America and Africa are like two pieces of a jigsaw puzzle? Zwicky Fingers asked me one day as I peered into the aquarium in his study.

      That starfish resembles a hand! I declared.

      "Yes, well it is a hand. I’m growing them here so I can examine them more carefully than in the wild. There are plenty of things about hands that scientists still don’t know. But you ignored my question. Have you or haven’t you noticed that the coastlines of those two continents fit together nicely?" Zwicky paused to take a drink from his mug.

      I shrugged. Of course. Everybody has noticed that. But it’s no coincidence because long ago they were joined together for real; and so were all the other continents in the world. In fact they once formed a gigantic single supercontinent called Pangaea.

      Zwicky chortled. "A single supercontinent, you say? How wide of the mark one can be! My dear fellow, have you any idea what caused that enormous landmass to split into many separate fragments?" He finished his drink and casually dropped his mug. It fell into the aquarium and slowly sank to the bottom where the hands were.

      I rubbed my chin. Continental drift… Plate tectonics… The forces inside the planet that circulate magma beneath our feet? There were volcanoes and earthquakes and Pangaea shattered?

      Zwicky Fingers shook his head in amusement.

      So what’s the answer? I pressed.

      Love. The real reason for everything. Don’t look so disgusted, my boy, I’m not about to launch into some sentimental nonsense about how love keeps the world turning and all that, partly because it has been repeatedly demonstrated that inertia and angular momentum are responsible and partly because I’m not a slushy fool. I’m talking about facts. It was love.

      I groaned. Responding to my exclamation of dismay, the hands in the tank stirred and began making meaningless gestures. I thumbed my nose at them in return and they clenched and unclenched as if indicating a willingness to strangle me. With a small shudder I turned my attention

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