One Department

      Thomas A. Young
     One Department

A man who is set up by police for a "justifiable homicide" declares war, and sets out to exterminate the entire one department that tried to murder him."When police are killing people at will, and the courts and the politicians and their own peers will not hold them into account, what is our recourse? Is war not the appropriate remedy?" --Randy GustinRandy Gustin lives in a town in Washington State where the police are out of control. They run roughshod over the citizens of Randy's town with impunity, and even have a highly questionable shooting or two to their credit. But unlike the other citizens who have learned to put up with it, Randy is taking political action to rein them in, and in doing so he has incurred their anger.That anger comes to a head one evening when an officer from this department does what many other cops have done in the past, and tries to set him up for a "justifiable homicide." But Randy fights back, and before he knows it, two cops are dead at his hands.He knows it was self-defense, but the trouble is that when you challenge authority in any fashion, let alone with a weapon, justifications don’t mean a lot. The same system that lets cops off the hook no matter what they do will pull out the stops to ensure that your life is as good as over. Randy considers that unfortunate fact and decides that rather than spend what remains of his life in a cage, he’s going to go out making a statement. Then he picks up a police radio and declares war on this department, a war that will end either when he is dead, or this entire one department has been exterminated, to serve as an example to other departments like it.Set against the backdrop of real shootings committed both by and against police, One Department is a novel about the convoluted and ever-escalating conflicts between citizen and cop, and tells a story of just how bad things could get.

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    Uncanny Tales of Crush and Pound 3

      Christopher D. Carter
     Uncanny Tales of Crush and Pound 3

Crush races for his life to recover the Staff of Helios!! Pound and the agents of the DAM battle witches and demons in their quest to find the missing Senator Fromage!! Don't miss all this action and the reappearance of the mysterious Bat Jackson in the third installment in the ongoing series of the Uncanny Tales of Crush and Pound!!Our Voice is a student written and edited ebook produced by the students of Twin Lakes School Corporation in Monticello, Indiana. It is a crosscurriculur, inclusive writing project that seeks to raise interest in creative writing amongst K-12 students in our district. It may not be the only student magazine out there, but it goes two steps beyond by creating an entrepreneurial opportunity for students interested in digital media, publishing, marketing, and entrepreneurship as well as offering the chance for student writers to get published. All proceeds from sales go into a scholarship fund for students or towards publishing a physical version of the ebook.

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    The Stepsister

      R. L. Stine
     The Stepsister

Emily wants to like her stepsister, but it hasnt been easy. As soon as Jessie moves in, she takes over Emilys room, steals Emilys clothes, and lies to everyone. Then Emily picks up Jessie' diary and learns a horrifying secret. Is Jessie really capable of murder? Emily tries to tell her parents, but no one believes her. So its up to Emily to expose the real Jessieif she can stay alive.

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