A SEXY standalone romantic comedy Meet Levi Masterson… I’ve never had a problem with the ladies. I’ve got all the right equipment and I know how to use it. But my life just landed in a blender and my head is still spinning. So when Harlow Hartley comes jackknifing into my world like a tornado, I try to steer clear. She’s my sister’s best friend. She’s having a tough time right now, and I was asked to let her move in with me until she can get on her feet. With Low at the house, dripping with attitude, dancing around in those tight jeans, that T-shirt that stretches in all the right places, I’m ready to lose what’s left of my mind. Sure she’s beautiful and smart, but she’s mouthy and feisty as can be. As tempted as I am to try to land my mouth over hers, my sister made it clear that Low is off limits. As much as I’d like to think that’s a good thing, I can’t seem to shake the need to have her. Maybe it’s time to scratch that itch—something quick and dirty that takes the edge off for the both of us and we can call it a day. But nothing in life is ever that simple—sometimes your heart gets in the way. A 3:AM Kisses Series SEXY* spinoff! Welcome to Hollow Brook!*

When Pierre-Anthon realizes there is no meaning to life, the seventh-grader leaves his classroom, climbs a tree, and stays there. His classmates cannot make him come down, not even by pelting him with rocks. So to prove to Pierre-Anthon that life has meaning, the children decide to give up things of importance. The pile starts with the superficial—a fishing rod, a new pair of shoes. But as the sacrifices become more extreme, the students grow increasingly desperate to get Pierre-Anthon down, to justify their belief in meaning. Sure to prompt intense thought and discussion, Nothing—already a treasured work overseas—is not to be missed.

A ghosty, witchy, spell-casty Halloween love story… Bar owner Kayla Sloane knows she has it good. Too good to complain about anything as trivial as her big brother’s over-protective streak or poor impulse control when it comes to judging her dates. After all, the guy’s a ghost—it’s not like his life turned out the way he planned either. So Kayla can’t date. So what. The only man to make her want more moved away the day she met him, and a year later, she’s accepted her lack of love life for what it is. Her meddling wanna-be-witch little sister though? Not so much. Rafe Carpenter is a haunted man. For more than a year, he's dreamed of Kayla's smile, her laugh, and her sexy kiss. Now he's back in Chicago, looking for a second chance with the woman he's sure is The One. Only Kayla isn’t convinced. She’s got a few concerns, including her non-traditional family. But Rafe’s a see-it-to-believe it guy, he’s not seeing anything but how right they are together. Now he just needs to convince her… LOVE LIKE A CURSE is approximately 16,000 words, and was originally published as LOVE LIKE MAGIC under the pen name Moira McTark.

Sixfold.org is an all-writer-voted journal. All writers who upload their manuscripts vote to select the highest-voted $1000 prize-winning manuscripts and all the short stories and poetry published in each issue.Sixfold is an all-writer-voted journal. All writers who upload their manuscripts vote to select the highest-voted $1000 prize-winning manuscripts and all the short stories and poetry published in each issue.In Sixfold Poetry Winter 2013: Alysse Kathleen McCanna Pentimento & other poems; Peter Nash Shooting Star & other poems; Katherine Smith House of Cards & other poems; David Sloan On the Rocks & other poems; Alexandra Smyth Exoskeleton Blues & other poems; John Glowney The Bus Stop Outside Ajax Bail Bonds & other poems; Andrea Jurjevic O'Rourke It Was a Large Wardrobe, from My 4-foot Perspective & other poems; Lisa DeSiro Babel Tree & other poems; Michael Fleming Reptiles & other poems; Michael Berkowitz As regards the tattoo on your wrist & other poems; Michael Brokos Landscape without Rest & other poems; Michael H. Lythgoe Orpheus In Asheville & other poems; John Wentworth morning people & other poems; Christopher Jelley Double Exposure & other poems; Catherine Dierker dinner party & other poems; William Doreski Hate the Sinner, Not the Sin & other poems; Robert Barasch Loons & other poems; Rande Mack bear & other poems; Susan Marie Powers Red Bird & other poems; Anne Graue Sky & other poems; Mariah Blankenship Tub Restoration & other poems; Paul R. Davis Landscape & other poems; Philip Jackey Garage drinking after 1989 & other poems; Karen Hoy A Naturalist in New York & other poems; Gary Sokolow Underworld Goddess & other poems; Michal Mechlovitz The Early & other poems; Henry Graziano Last Apple & other poems; Stephanie L. Harper Unvoiced & other poems; Roger Desy anhinga; R. G. Evans Hangoverman & other poems; Frederick L. Shiels Driving Past the Oliver House & other poems; Richard Sime Berry Eater & other poems; Jennifer Popoli Generations in a wine dark sea & other poems

Sterling Fairchild returned from war wounded and looking for more from life than being the second son of a duke. He finds it in the arms of midwife and aspiring physician Cecilia, the disgrace and outcast of local society.From Publishers Weekly"Time travel and romance converge in this tale of star-crossed love"-Publishers Weekly Review of The Legend of the Bloodstone 2013 ABNA Quarterfinalist manuscript In 2012, a woman cuts her hand and picks up a strange colored stone -Suddenly she is staring into the eyes of an angry Powhatan warrior.And the only town nearby is Jamestown, circa 1622.Maggie McMillan wakes up one day as a college student, yet ends the day in 1622. Captured by Winn, a warrior who is torn between his duty to kill her and his desire to keep her, she is thrust into a life she had only read about in history books.Hunted and feared by both the Powhatan and the English, she struggles to find a way home while Winn plots to keep her there. Maggie fights to survive as she finds herself entangled in the Indian Massacre of 1622, and Winn sees everything he ever believed in shattered by the knowledge she holds.As they battle against each other and the message she brings from the future, she must decide whether to return to her own time, or to make a life in the past with the man who holds her heart captive.

“So you’re trying to break into paradise to give the people there more character?”“No! Of course not. You were just saying it would be“Hmmm… I don’t know. I can’t imagine you could even get a good reaction out of the good ol’ emotionless prigs.”“Yes, but that’s the funny part, I think I can break them down, and give them some character.”At that he just laughed, “oh Alan.”“What” I questioned.“So you’re trying to break into paradise to give the people there more character?”“No! Of course not. You were just saying it would be impossible to get a reaction out of them.”“Oh so you’re doing the impossible,” he scoffed.

In the wake of a traumatizing near-death experience, 16-year-old Charlotte is sent to live with her extended family in Hawai‘i but still struggles to come to terms with the ghosts of her past.Meanwhile, her cousin Emi finds that adjusting to life with a new family member is not nearly as challenging as negotiating the psychological warfare of high school.In the wake of a traumatizing near-death experience, 16-year-old Charlotte is sent to live with her extended family in Hawai‘i. Haunted by the ghosts of her past, she struggles to adapt to this strange new life, and finds love and solace in some unlikely places.Meanwhile, her cousin Emi finds that adjusting to life with a new family member is not nearly as challenging as negotiating the psychological warfare of high school. When her long-time boyfriend runs off with her best friend, Emi decides it's time to seek revenge.

The setting is Danzig during World War II. The narrator recalls a boyhood scene in which a black cat pounces on his friend Mahlke’s “mouse”-his prominent Adam’s apple. This incident sets off a wild series of events that ultimately leads to Mahlke’s becoming a national hero. Translated by Ralph Manheim. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

Burlington Bear (Burly to his friends) and Grum the Groblin go trick or treating for the very first time. Not only do they collect lots of candy they make friends with a fairy and come across a chilled out creature of the night!Write On Press Presents an incredible collection of original short fiction including 9 of the best new and original short stories of 2014! We put together a collection of work by some of the hottest new authors of fiction, fantasy, sci-fi and romance. With well over 125,000 words of quality short stories, there is sure to be something for every taste. Enjoy the works of J. J. Haile, Assad Deshay, Damien Butler, and many others!Fiction:J. Grayson, Talent ScoutLetting GoBoat House~*~Fantasy:A Satur'morn AdventureEndings & Beginnings~*~Science Fiction:Roadside AttractionThe Mad DashThe Conspiracy of Things~*~Romance:Jesse's List

Walk the streets of old London just before Christmas with a retired police inspector haunted by the mysterious death of Jacob Marley. Meet the people he investigates, including Ebenezer Scrooge, Bob Cratchit, Fagin, and Bill Sikes.Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it: and Scrooge’s name was good upon ’Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.Inspector Ian McFergus had not been satisfied; not in the least satisfied. He had inspected Marley's body using all the due processes and checklists upon which the police division insisted and in which he had been trained. And he was not satisfied.Marley's body had been found at the bottom of the stairs, dead as a doornail (McFergus wondered where that expression had come from). The inspector had walked around the body as required and had drawn a sketch as required. And however much it looked as if the old guy had simply tripped, Inspector McFergus had not been satisfied at the time and had been no more satisfied after the coroner had hauled the corpse, clothed in a shabby nightgown, away. The next day he was told by his superiors that there were other things he should be working on, so he tried to forget about the incident of Jacob Marley.Seven years later…. “Remember the Marley case?” Amy asked. “Nobody else seemed to think his death was suspicious. Just a careless man falling down a flight of stairs.”“Ah, my dear. Nobody else on the force was warned in advance.”“Pardon?”The former inspector smiled. “A week before his death, I was told by a snitch that someone was going to kill Jacob Marley. of Scrooge and Marley. It would probably look like an accident, the fellow said.”Retired police inspector Ian McFergus, haunted by the mysterious death of Jacob Marley, walks the streets and underworld of Victorian London looking for the truth, just before Christmas. He meets with a number of characters, including Ebenezer Scrooge, Bob Cratchit, Fagin, the Artful Dodger, and Bill Sikes. And he consults with a youth who would, of course, deny any resemblance to a person named Sherlock.

The Newbery Award winning author of Up a Road Slowly presents the unforgettable story of Jethro Creighton—a brave boy who comes of age during the turbulent years of the Civil War.

What makes a person's opinions and insights valuable to society? It might not be the vision from the top, such as from presidents and billionaires. The outsider sees where the herd is going, and what beliefs are leading it there. In general, there are no outsiders as potentially valuable as the disabled; in these two stories, the inspiring visions of two young mentally ill people are displayed.These two short stories examine the hidden lives of outsiders from society - people who are put on the outside because of mental illness. Their remarkable stoicism and the valuable contributions they can make are put on display here, for the reader to consider.We all know by now that the mentally ill suffer from cruel and crude stereotypes and stigmas of being "defective," "crazy," and "weak", as well as a still-pervasive belief that they are generally prone to committing crimes. Here are two portraits of mentally ill people that show how they often do stand aside from mainstream society, yet inject that mainstream with important insights and inspiration.In the first story, "The Exalted Mortals," Lester, a young man with schizophrenia, finds through the darkness his niche in the world of art - he makes as his subjects the mentally ill and other people with disabilities, conveying to his audiences what contributions the disabled make, and how they strive to love be loved just as others do. He finds in the efforts of the disabled remarkable examples of what the human spirit is capable of, and there is the implication that even more could be accomplished if the seen and unseen barriers to the disabled were lowered.The second story, "Strange Jill," shines a light on the unique perspective of a mentally ill school girl, who knows what "cool" really is, and tries to teach a curious schoolmate what knowing is all about in this world.Neither story contains adult or otherwise explicit content, though the themes might best be discussed with the younger reader.

LET THERE BE LIGHT. My name is Calla Price and I’m broken. My pieces are all around me, floating on the wind, even as I desperately try to grasp them. Who is dead? Alive? Insane? What is the truth? I don’t know. I do know this: The darkness is strangling me. With every breath, I choke on another lie. My mind has protected me, but that shield will soon be lowered. All will be revealed. Every answer to every question. It’s all been leading to this. Don’t be afraid. Be terrified.

An eBook short. A dispatch from the underground world of Birdsong, a story of love and World War I.  In a stagnant war of trenches and barbed wire, there is one final desperate front: underground.  Jack Firebrace is part of an elite group of British tunnellers, miners by profession, without the military training of infantry but facing unfathomable dangers just the same, forty-five feet underground with several hundred thousand tons of France above their heads. Birdsong, published to international critical and popular acclaim, has become the canonical novel of romance and devastating violence in World War I. In this selection, we are introduced to Jack Firebrace, one of the novel’s central characters, and are given an unforgettable portrait of the lives of soldiers in an unimaginable position.

Amulet is a monologue, like Bolano's acclaimed debut in English, By Night in Chile. The speaker is Auxilio Lacouture, a Uruguayan woman who moved to Mexico in the 1960s, becoming the "Mother of Mexican Poetry," hanging out with the young poets in the cafes and bars of the University. She's tall, thin,brand blonde, and her favorite young poet in the 1970s is none other than Arturo Belano (Bolano's fictional stand-in throughout his books). As well as her young poets, Auxilio recalls three remarkable women; the melancholic young philosopher Elena, the exiled Catalan painter Remedios Varo, and Lilian Serpas, a poet who once slept with Che Guevara.brAnd in the course of her imaginary visit to the house of Remedios Varo,brAuxilio sees an uncanny landscape, a kind of chasm. This chasm reappears in a vision at the end of the book; an army of children is marching toward it, singing as they go. The children are the idealistic young Latin Americans who came to maturity in the '70s, and the last words of the novel are; "And that song is our amulet."