You can find the alternate cover edition [here](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25520316-outgrowth-of-the-brain). Alf and Bert, the burly new security guards, are no match for professional thieves who break and enter the Cloud Brother's mansion. That is, until young Master Trevor adapts Alf's cranium. Although Alf, Bert, and Professor Maurice Masterson play minor roles in the Cloud Brother's lives, their characters are so interesting that I'm compelled to report what happens to them. Every so often, between the Cloud Brother's main events, I plan to release a short story. Here's the first, 'Outgrowth of the Brain', in which Alf and Bert find their new duties as private-security guards involves more than brute force and muscle.

The Alternate Cover Edition can be found here A defect television blasting white noise is not only annoying, it could also signal the end of the universe. Professor Maurice Masterson is selected as our saviour. All he needs is a bit of persuading – and a yellow sponge. Alf, Bert, and Professor Maurice Masterson are minor characters from the 'Cloud Brothers' series. Nonetheless, their lives are so interesting that I feel compelled to recount their exploits. Every so often, between the Cloud Brother's major adventures, I plan to release a free short story. Here's the second, 'White Noise', in which Professor Maurice Masterson and his bodyguard, James, try to save the universe with a yellow sponge.

What should we do with those louts who leave their litter behind them wherever they go? Would they think twice about disfiguring our environment if their rubbish automatically ended up between their bed sheets? Alf and Bert, the Cloud brother's two security guards, 'borrow' one of Trevor Cloud's half-finished experiments and start a revenge campaign against the litterbugs. Which would be fine, except human error and half-finished experiments make a poor combination… Alf, Bert, and Professor Maurice Masterson are minor characters from the 'Cloud Brothers' series. Nonetheless, their lives are so interesting that I feel compelled to recount their exploits. Every so often, between the Cloud Brother's major adventures, I plan to release a free short story. Here's the third, 'Litter Thugs', in which Alf and Bert take on the unlikely role of environmentalists.

During a lecture, Professor Maurice Masterson, resolute advocate of physics and logic, presents a mystery that drives him crazy. Only one student has conviction enough to offer a solution – God alone knows if he's right. Alf, Bert, and Professor Maurice Masterson are minor characters from the 'Cloud Brothers' series. Nonetheless, their lives are so interesting that I feel compelled to recount their exploits. Every so often, between the Cloud Brother's major adventures, I plan to release a free short story. Here's the fourth, 'The Professor's Conundrum', in which the professor of physics confesses his shortcomings.

Alternate Cover Edition can be found [Here](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25520343-gypsy-spell). Gypsies set up camp on the Cloud’s estate, protecting themselves with strong magic. Eviction by brute force proves useless, so Alf and Bert, the two burly security guards, compose a few tricks of their own. Alf, Bert, and Professor Maurice Masterson are minor characters from the 'Cloud Brothers' series. Nonetheless, their lives are so interesting I feel compelled to recount their exploits. Every so often, between the Cloud Brother's major adventures, I plan to release a free short story. Here's the fifth, 'Gypsy Spell', in which Alf and Bert do battle against gypsy magic.

Is the bell tower suite haunted? Colonel Mortimer doesn't think so, he doesn't believes in ghosts. His club associates dare him to spend a night. Sibyl, the mansion's housekeeper, fears for the colonel's sanity. Alf and Bert, the security guards, can't resist the temptation to give him a solid fright. Nobody expects the outcome.

Dr Grenn is a hypnotist, executive, inventor, television personality, and scoundrel. Driven by insatiable greed, he jeopardises the whole 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…

Alf and Bert, security, 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 end in a tournament, fighting with knights, the threat to history forgotten…

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.

On his way home from work, Frank, a warm-hearted accountant, witnesses a man jump in front of a Tube 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 own world fall apart.