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<\/a><\/p>\nWhat are HOT SHOTS? They are bite-sized, low-priced, original tales that are quick and satisfying. You’ll be able to satisfy those late summer cravings for Kreme from the air-conditioned comforts of your homes but there’s just no escaping the heat!<\/p>\n
And for those readers who have offered suggestions, feedback, and requests, there may be a few surprises! Look for brand new SINtendo, brand new Trance-tory, brand new Kreme Kosmos, a Bimbo Bombing in the 23rd Century, hypnosis gone hinky and kinky, the opening of a Brain Drain’D brick and mortar store, prison reform on the way to Fertile Fields, an imaginative summer vacation on Mars Mountain, right near Mount Madness, and more curses, kinks, and craziness than one month has ever been expected to contain!<\/p>\n
There are futuristic inventions, fantastical discoveries, and medical miracles. Savor the science and the fiction with alien explorers thousands of years removed from the planet earth, and witness those evolved beings mistakenly finding archives of the very Kreme books you may have read… assuming them to be historical documents. Enjoy the extremes of working for a brilliant inventor when one girl accidentally shrinks herself down and every effort to be noticed and rescued leads her further and further towards a freaky fate she won’t escape. There are cursed costumes from Donnie the Demon, legendary lusty swords from ancient Japan, and rhyming fairy godmother magic courtesy of Lenny the leprechaun.<\/p>\n
So get ready for the fastball as the Kreme brings the heat, twenty brand new tales of perfectly bite-sized lengths. You’ll swell up, inflate, and your mind might just melt, but these are the tales like you’ve just never felt! All new original Hot Shots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
If Readers Choice Month hasn’t satiated your summer appetite for Kreme, get ready to ruin your diet! Coming this August, a brand new yearly event is unfolding, and there aren’t just ten new books to look forward to… not twelve new original Kreme tales… not even fifteen! All August, look for twenty brand new bite-sized … <\/p>\n
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