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Consequences May Vary
Paperback
Series: The Screw Turns, Book 8
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Humphrey Archer
Published: Mar 17 2026
Pages: 164
Weight: 0.43
Height: 0.38 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
In The Screw Turns, Vol. 8, ordinary cruelty meets extraordinary consequences.
A pharmaceutical tyrant, a lecherous manager, a fame-hungry podcaster, an influencer on a meat-only alpha diet, a private-equity ghoul, a conspiracy-driven vigilante, a corrupt CFO, a toxic coach, and dozens more-all collide with the one force they can't outwit:
Reality.
No magic. No ghosts. No convenient monsters.
Just physics, biology, medicine, probability... and their own arrogance aligning at exactly the wrong moment.
Drawn from real incidents, OSHA reports, and healthcare life, these darkly satisfying tales celebrate the grim mathematics of karma-stories where terrible people get precisely what they engineered for others, often with hilarious inevitability.
Perfect for fans of:
✔ Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected
✔ Poe-tinged moral ironies
✔ Edward Gorey's sly macabre tone
✔ Medical realism and narrative inevitability
✔ Short, sharp stories with wickedly satisfying endings
Come meet the rotters, the bullies, the fraudsters, the predators, the self-deluded, and the spectacularly unlucky... and enjoy watching the screw turn, one delicious click at a time.
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