Searching for his missing academic brother, Paul McIntosh travels to the coastal town of Crowsmere - unaware that beneath the surface seethes a village plagued with curses, insanity, horror and folklore...This free horror short is a standalone weird tale set in the same universe as the author's longer 'The Sinners of Crowsmere,' a bleak and skeletal horror novel described by the MR James Podcast as "Highly recommended... Wonderful arthouse / video nasty vibe on the Norfolk coast."

A reissue of bestselling, award-winning author Joyce Carol Oates' classic collection of essays on boxing.

Nancy investigates the kidnapping of Caterina Reigert by posing as the writer of the girl's father's autobiography.

Edward Mullen's debut novel, The Art of the Hustle, available in print and ebook.A true underdog tale is told in The Art of the Hustle. Self-made billionaire, Trevor Morrison, recounts his life from being a poor kid from a small town to creating one of the largest companies in the world, all before his 30th birthday.Edward Mullen's debut novel, The Art of the Hustle, available in print and ebook.Self-made billionaire, Trevor Morrison, recounts his life from being a poor kid from a small town to creating one of the largest companies in the world, all before his 30th birthday.A true underdog tale is told in The Art of the Hustle. When Trevor Morrison graduated high school, he was desperate to find his purpose in life. With a lack of money and viable options at his disposal, he eagerly took advantage of the first opportunity to come his way.The harsh realities of the world were soon revealed as people who he thought he could trust betrayed him. The only thing that he could count on was his hustle – namely his wits and his insatiable desire to forge ahead despite a multitude of setbacks.

They were illicit, outrageous, obscene. They were the films that were supposed to deprave and corrupt the minds of those who watched them. They were the Video Nasties....and everything you've heard is true.Short story in which YOU are the monster, as you roam your lair killing and eating all who enter. That is until he shows up.Inspired by the sword and sorcery fantasy gaming books by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone. A story told as if YOU are the monster.If you read this story then why not leave me a review to tell me what you thought. Any feedback (be it good or bad) is always most helpful.

Warnings and Wildfires: A Novel

Follow the true adventures of Abbie and her first pony, Sparkle (a beautiful Palomino) in her diary. Yes, she is a horse mad girl and when she gets her first pony...all her dreams come true.My First Pony will take you on a ride filled with fun, friendships and even near disaster - A wonderful story that is suitable for "horse mad" girls aged from around 8 to 12.Follow the true adventures of Abbie and her first pony, Sparkle (a beautiful Palomino) in her diary. Yes, she is a horse mad girl and when she gets her first pony...all her dreams come true..."When I first saw Sparkle, I knew that she was the pony for me! As soon as she cantered across the paddock, I think we both knew that we were meant to be together. But I certainly wasn't prepared for the exciting adventures ahead." My First Pony will take you on a ride filled with fun, friendships and even near disaster - the true story of a totally horse mad girl and a beautiful palomino named Sparkle. It is suitable for "horse mad" girls aged from around 8 to 12.Book 2 - Diary of a Horse Mad Girl: Pony Club Adventures and Book 3 - My Dream Pony are both now available on Amazon. If you liked book 1, I know you'll enjoy books 2 and 3. Thank you for reading my books. I love horses!Katrina

Paul Jean Cramer, abused and neglected, has never known a day of happiness. A demon latches itself onto him as he leaves home, and hits the open road. Other human predators go after him, and his tortured mind does what it knows to do, and he strikes back before any more abuse can take place.***Please leave a review for this book***Thanks.They paid millions of dollars to take part in a ritual of human sacrifice. They are a nameless brotherhood, a collective of bankers, military men, and corporate executives whose endless hunger has been the driving force behind every atrocity ever committed. Tonight, they are going to cook a world-famous chef in an electric chair on live television. Sigmund plans to make a great deal of money from this execution. So why does he feel like the guy strapped into the electric chair is pulling one over on him? Come and Watch a Man Die! is a strange story about living things being more than just meat, the universe being more than just molecules rubbing up against one another, and transcendence through unimaginable acts of violence.

Insulated from the world, a precocious girl believes that all she needs lies within the boundaries of her street and just barely beyond the property lines of her parents' home.When the racism snakes itself into her neighborhood, the little girl struggles to reconcile the illogic of this intruder with everything she knows and loves.The answer to her questions comes dressed up as an aloof old woInsulated from the world, a self-assured precocious little girl believes that all she needs, all she will ever need, lies within the boundaries of her street and just barely beyond the property lines of her parents' home.Life is idyllic for Katie, a the six year old living in a suburb in Louisville Kentucky KY in the early sixties. Her neighborhood offers every imaginable pleasure: plenty of places for exploration, loyal friends, the occasional walk to Whirlies, bike rides and go-carts and cardboard sleds.When the racism snakes itself into her neighborhood, the little girl struggles to reconcile the illogic of this intruder with everything she knows and loves.The answer to her questions comes dressed up as an aloof old woman in dull baggy clothes driving an old pickup truck from Nebraska.You will be charmed as you come to know Katie Arlene Morgenstern, Mama and Papa, Danny Watson and his family, a small group of teaching nuns, Katie's neighbors, and just past the old barn at the end of Thistlewood Drive, the residents of the Rainbow Forrest.And, of course, dear Aunt Myrna.

Seven haiku style poems about ghost stories found from all over the world.There are many ghost stories in every culture around the world. This book details seven of them. A witch that owns a skin tree, a bloodthirsty creature that demands tolls, an evil pack of boys at night, and many more (a total of seven). In the tradition of the haiku, each story is detailed in multiple sets of haiku's for a complete story. They also are paired with a blood-curdling image each, giving more insight to the evil of each tale.

Richard learns the hard way that no good deed goes unpunished.Where am I? The question is paramount. In total darkness, at the side of a dirt road, Richard is paying for breaking up an instance of domestic abuse outside an Albuquerque saloon. Attacked by the woman he thought he was rescuing and then by two of her assailant’s friends, he is knocked cold, hogtied and left in the middle of nowhere to die of the things you die from in the middle of nowhere. But someone else is out there, too, and he’s praying that the driver of the truck he hears will spot him before running over him.

Warning: experimental translation (hybrid)Drawn by the harvest "Star by Star" by Luca PoggiPunchbag and the Mystery of the Litter Louts is a delightful Bedtime Story Book for Adults of all ages. Beautifully illustrated by pictures in your head, the story follows the escapades of our adorable little rascal of a cat, Punchbag… who lives on Mr. Brown’s farm… and is 5ft 10.Full of important life lessons this inspirational story scampers along… as Punchbag begins to discover that there is litter everywhere… and realises just what he can do about it.Punchbag and the Mystery of the Litter Louts is a tale you’ll want to keep for years to come, as you follow Punchbag from his time as a little kitten with his Mammy and brothers and sisters in their midden, through his visit to see Larry the Downing Street Cat; who has been devising policy to free young people from the benefit-trap by getting them to work for nowt, to eventually finding his way to Mr. Brown’s farm… to help him in his blood feud with the Mexican Drug Cartels.Oh Punchbag... what will you get up to next…?!Please note... this is not a children’s book; and will also probably be lost on anyone not British… although please feel free to try and wade through it wondering who these characters are... and at exactly what point it’s supposed to be funny. It might also help if you are middle aged, cynical… and feel like screaming most days.

This poetry has been written during strong emotional times. These poems are how I interpret my feelings. They have to do with love, loss abuse. nature and more.This is a short fictional story, inspired by thinking about the words supposition and speculation. Observing people in daily life, recalling snippets of overheard conversations and the comments of strangers enabled me to stitch together a contemporary scenario wherein a woman notices a young male emerging from a public toilet in a park and notes that he looks ill or ill at ease. The woman is somehow moved to feel concern for his welfare. An older man who is known to the woman exits the toilet block immediately after the young male. This sets off a spark of curious imaginings by the woman as to what might have occurred, if anything, between the two men. Plagued by doubt and speculation, the woman begins to observe the older man at his place of work and she questions his character and possible motives.

Whilst Mark is busy making Caitlin's 'acquaintance', Ikari sets out on a new path of his own, leaving the hallowed grounds of Sha'Klairon on the first leg of his journey to Carpassan.*Nym's Road Trip... is the fifth chapter of The Orphans Revolt. I'm planning to release it and its sister volume His Staying Hand episodically whilst I get a head start on writing the concluding volume of the trilogy. So if you enjoy the above keep your eyes peeled for future instalments. Thanks.

Reminiscent of the writings of Anne Sexton, Najwa Zebian, Nayyirah Waheed and Rupi Kaur comes the debut poetry collection by Deena Mehjabeen. 'Mind Verses' is a collection of poetry and prose that is born from the author's experiences, musings and in moments of joy, insecurity, grief and the feelings that are sometimes hard to voice.'Mind Verses' is a collection of poetry and prose that is born from the author's experiences, musings and in moments of joy, insecurity, grief and the feelings that are sometimes hard to voice. The four parts in the collection-Life, Love, Loss and Lessons are written with the hope to resonate with you, the reader.

Faerie princess Trista had the perfect plan-fool King Braedon of Greenbriar into thinking her sister Solara would not marry him, thereby freeing Solara and allowing her sister to marry the man she really loved. Only the plan backfired and their father promised Trista to Braedon instead! Braedon is cold and barbaric, but within his outer shell of indifference lurks a man filled with passion. Trista intends to break his protective layers of ice until she uncovers the heat within him. She will make him choose her for love or there will be no marriage at all. Braedon doesn't care which sister he marries, needing the union only to unite their lands and keep Greenbriar safe from the wizards. Love causes nothing but death and heartbreak. But Trista creates havoc within Greenbriar, her mischievous spirit causing an uproar as she demands his attention in disconcerting ways. He fights the lust burning within him, afraid to love the faerie who torments him with her sensual magic. For Trista has brought energizing life back into Greenbriar. And with life comes love and with love comes danger.

Though raised Catholic, in the early 1950s Jack Kerouac became fascinated with Buddhism, an interest that would have a profound impact on his ideas of spirituality and their expression in his writing from Mexico City Blues to The Dharma Bums. Published for the first time in book form, Wake Up is Kerouac's retelling of the story of Prince Siddhartha Gautama, who as a young man abandoned his wealthy family and comfortable home for a lifelong search for Enlightenment. As a compendium of the teachings of the Buddha, Wake Up is a profound meditation on the nature of life, desire, wisdom, and suffering. Distilled from a wide variety of canonical scriptures, Wake Up serves as both a concise primer on the concepts of Buddhism and as an insightful and deeply personal document of Kerouac's evolving beliefs. It is the work of a devoted spiritual follower of the Buddha who also happened to be one of the twentieth century's most influential novelists. Wake Up: A Life of the Buddha will be essential reading for the legions of Jack Kerouac fans and for anyone who is curious about the spiritual principles of one of the world's great religions.

In 1951, it was suggested to Jack Kerouac by his friend Ed White that he "sketch in the streets like a painter but with words." In August of the following year, Kerouac began writing down prose poem "sketches" in small notebooks that he kept in the breast pockets of his shirts. For two years he recorded travels, observations, and meditations on art and life as he moved across America and down to Mexico and back. In 1957, Kerouac sat down with the fifteen handwritten sketch notebooks he had accumulated and typed them into a manuscript called Book of Sketches; he included a handful of new sketches he had written that year. Published now for the first time, and with an introduction by George Condo, Book of Sketches offers an intimate glimpse of Kerouac at a key period of his literary career.

A marvelous hybrid of mythology and mystery, A Wild Sheep Chase is the extraordinary literary thriller that launched Haruki Murakami’s international reputation. It begins simply enough: A twenty-something advertising executive receives a postcard from a friend, and casually appropriates the image for an insurance company’s advertisement. What he doesn’t realize is that included in the pastoral scene is a mutant sheep with a star on its back, and in using this photo he has unwittingly captured the attention of a man in black who offers a menacing ultimatum: find the sheep or face dire consequences. Thus begins a surreal and elaborate quest that takes our hero from the urban haunts of Tokyo to the remote and snowy mountains of northern Japan, where he confronts not only the mythological sheep, but the confines of tradition and the demons deep within himself. Quirky and utterly captivating, A Wild Sheep Chase is Murakami at his astounding best.

It’s not easy being a good detective – when your brother’s a serial killer. Sam Blue stands accused of the brutal murders of three young students, their bodies dumped near the Georges River. Only one person believes he is innocent: his sister, Detective Harriet Blue. And she’s determined to prove it. Except she’s now been banished to the outback town of Last Chance Valley (population 75), where a diary found on the roadside outlines a shocking plan – the massacre of the entire town. And the first death, shortly after Harry’s arrival, suggests the clock is already ticking. Meanwhile, back in Sydney, a young woman holds the key to crack Sam’s case wide open. If only she could escape the madman holding her hostage . . .