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Reflection of Ice
(Published by: eXtasy Books )
Reflection-of-Ice is a vranyxi with a problem: she’s old enough to take a mate, but she doesn’t like any of the bachelor vranyxia she’s met. So, she runs away before the Gathering begins. Hiding out on the Okyr MORE...
The Crimson Lamia
(Published by: Purple Sword Publications, LLC )
Sometimes the hunter becomes the hunted.
Cull is a man with no memory of his past. Something draws him forward, toward the supernatural, toward answers. The paranormal holds the key to his past, and possibly h MORE...
Shadow of the Blue Ridge
(Published by: Cyberworld Publishing )
Despite having traveled all over the world in the last fifty years, with extended residences in Japan, Thailand, and Cyprus, the author of this anthology kept coming back, in person and imagination, to the Blue MORE...
Blue Talk and Love
(Published by: Riverdale Avenue )
The award-wining collection Blue Talk and Love tells the stories of girls and women of color navigating the moods and mazes of urban daily life. Set in various enclaves of New York City — including the middle-c MORE...
The Adventures of Angel
(Published by: eXtasy Books )
Angel’s New Friends – Angel goes exploring into the forbidden forest, ocean, and farm in search of new friends.
Angel’s Band – Angel and her friends decide to form a band using objects found around the farm fo MORE...
Timmy the Turtle Goes to Freddy's House
(Published by: Midnight Frost Books )
Sometimes just going to a friend's house is an adventure.
The Wee Folk: Tales of Pixies, Elves and Drooly Dwarves
(Published by: CCB Publishing )
The Wee Folk is a book about the Pixies, Elves and Drooly Dwarves who live in the Great North Woods which lies just below the magical kingdom of TooDoggone.
This book will also answer a few questions like: How MORE...
Here's a fine selection of Alexander Raju's stories written over thirty years--ranging between the stories of a tyro giving expression to his idealistic perspective of the world and the society he lives in and MORE...
The Thirteen Hour Clock
(Published by: Written Expressions, LLC )
A girl wakes up in a room where there’s a strange clock, a black owl and a church pew. With no clue on how she got there, she tries to leave but a man on the other side of the door tells her she must stay there MORE...
Lilith
(Published by: Written Expressions, LLC )
Sheriff Ajana Povich arrives at a gruesome crime scene in an abandoned house where a pile of body parts is erected in the hall. A young girl suddenly emerges from underneath the pile and that’s when things get MORE...
Ghosts in the Graveyard
(Published by: esKape Press )
Most kids can’t wait to dress up in costumes and go trick or treating on Halloween. Not the Foster children. Even the promise of receiving a slew of candy doesn’t interest them. Charlie, Jack, and Millie know t MORE...
Spirit of Christmas
(Published by: Cyberworld Publishing )
An inspirational Christmas collection about the joy of sharing the Christmas spirit with those around us.
The Christmas season reawakens the desires and encouragement to give of oneself and to help others in n MORE...
Vampire Code
(Published by: Champagne Books )
Clothed in darkness and power, Jonas watches Carina from the periphery of her life. With all that he is, he secretly protects his young charge from harm. Only three months remain in the twelve-year prohibition MORE...
The Passionate Attention of an Interesting Man
(Published by: Riverdale Avenue )
In this new collection of fiction, a porn star turns up pouring cocktails in a small town's only gay bar, as the queens gape and gossip and the local auto mechanic lures the bartender into elaborate rituals of MORE...
Snake Eyes
(Published by: Beau to Beau Books )
Dick Dice P.I. (Problem Interceptor) is assigned to intercept a problem in 1930. The problem for the time traveler is Simon Temporello, a bored spoiled rich psychopath who chooses to be a gangster in the past. MORE...
Life Surprises: Seven Short Stories About the Unexpected
(Published by: CCB Publishing )
John W. Sloat’s latest book, Life Surprises, is a tribute to the discoveries and revelations that are part of every life. The book is a collection of seven short stories about the unexpected. These stories illu MORE...
The Painted Ponies of Partequineus:
While resting in her bedroom one day after school, eleven-year-old Vanessa is enveloped by a mysterious purple mist and taken to the enchanted land of Partequineus, where lon MORE...
The Love Spell
(Published by: Written Expressions, LLC )
Catherine is in love with Andrew but he is in love with Nancy. In order to get his love, Catherine tricks Andrew into going into her basement where she performs a love spell. Will it work?
Major Nathaniel Peabody, USA (ret.) first saw the light of day in December of 1987 in Volume 1, Issue 1 of the Shooting Sportsman magazine. Since that date, he has lived on the back page of every issue of that MORE...
Major Nathaniel Peabody, USA (ret.) first saw the light of day in December of 1987 in Vol. 1, Issue 1 of the Shooting Sportsman magazine. Since that date, he has lived on the back page of every issue of that m MORE...
Nightvine
(Published by: Beau to Beau Books )
Nightvine is an amuse bouche of short, dark stories including the tale of an elderly woman who goes shopping for cat food, an Army Company with a rash of AWOL’s, and the story of a nurse who shares a plant with MORE...
Save Me
(Published by: Written Expressions, LLC )
A tired, sleep deprived man witnesses a murder while sleepwalking, but mixed messages and hallucinations afterwards can’t let him decipher what is real and what is not. Would he be able to save the woman at sta MORE...
Motherhood
(Published by: Written Expressions, LLC )
After her husband left for work, Sarah is haunted by strange voices telling her to kill her five-months-old baby girl named Laura. The voices tell her that Laura is a demon but is that true? Strange paranormal MORE...
The Sacrifice
(Published by: Written Expressions, LLC )
Michael’s uncle John and father Joseph own a Christian healing resort to help out young women and teens that have addictions or have been brainwashed by religious cults. Their main mission is to escort the youn MORE...
Death in Three Quarter Time: A Collection of Short Stories
(Published by: CCB Publishing )
Death in Three Quarter Time is an eclectic collection of original short stories. By expressing life’s true meaning through the written word, these stories deal with conflict and times of grief that will surely MORE...
This is the first book in a 12 book Bedside Story Collection Series spanning across the 12 months of the year. Each of the 12 bedside stories is reprinted in color from the author’s black and white third editi MORE...
Hunting Season: A Love Story
(Published by: excessica publishing )
HUNTING SEASON: a love (blood) story
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This 8,000 (approx) word collaboration by thriller/suspense/horror writer Blake Crouch and erotic romance author Selena Kitt includes bonus interview mat MORE...
