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Short Stories and Flash Fiction This is the fourth anthology of short stories and flash fiction from the Blackwood Writers Group (South Australia). Speculative Fiction: Science Fiction and Fantasy with touches of HorrorYou will see stories that examine how the strings that hold a marriage together are strained in Andrew Loves His Wife, a scientist manages to elevate his discovery above what he’d expected in High Note, a new recruit in a near-Orwellian society is assigned to the effort in War Footing, and a young girl finds that she and her pet kitten share a very close bond that will make...

"Prizm is one fantastic novel. It starts mundane, then gets wild, with truly awful werebears and challenging alien cultures. How do Amazons reproduce? Violently! How do you control the leader you assign? You make a clone, and replace it if it gets ideas. Things make savage sense."—Piers Anthony "Prizm takes the most awesome elements of many of the major blockbuster sci-fi and fantasy movies in the last twenty years and gives them a dazzling spin! Were-monsters, ruthless villains, Amazon warrior women, runaway clones, and take-no-prisoners Scotsmen are just the start." --M.B. "Don't let ...

Annabelle was born immaculately, coming from a place of dreams and memories into the corporeal world, a Gemini or doppelganger of the ever popular Chelsea Clarke. She was meant to remain in secret. Discovered by Chelsea, Annabelle finds herself in the grip of a dysfunctional sisterhood, unable to do anything right and totally subject to Chelsea's cruelly whimsical treatment of her. Chelsea's overbearing control and insistence on immoral personal errands keeps Annabelle from finding out what her true purpose really is.

Legacy is an interstellar universe populated by extra-terrestrials who greatly resemble creatures from Earth mythology and folklore, such as Dragons and Fairies. Apparently, some of these aliens visited our planet in the past and inspired many of our old legends. When human beings gained the ability to travel through space, the existence of these aliens became an accepted fact of life. Around the same time, many humans developed magical powers much like their alien counterparts. These humans became known as Elementals and they took it upon themselves to protect humanity, acting as mediators...

Ancient giants, invading pixies and cannibal killers make San Francisco their home. Sarah Montgomery has no idea how her life turned into one long installment of strange, but last year when she went toe-to-toe with Poppycock, the most infamous serial killer the world had ever known, and survived to tell about it, she decided to just “go with it.” Now, she finds herself investigating an outbreak of a rare human growth disorder and dodging bullets from The Big Game Hunter, an eight foot killer with a sniper rifle. Meanwhile, a renegade Satanic priest is developing a grizzly blood magic, ...

The continuation of Ministry of Fire, part 1, picking up at the cliffhanger ending. Ryan Uruks and the other members of Squad 99 race to prevent a war between their Ministry and the Ministry of Water. As his mentor, Eramar, works to minimize the damage of an Elemental war and find a way to peace with their bitter rivals, Squad 99 are tasked with finding the true perpetrator of the hostilities. Their investigation leads them into the crosshairs of a corrupt nobleman determined to see Elementals destroy themselves. But even more dangerous are the mysterious Goblin assassins working for the ...

"A masterpiece of Shakespearean horror. A first of its kind." "It's Shakespeare meets Freddie Krueger. Serial killers, fairies and the apocalypse, the bogey man just got a hit of steroids." "An instant cult classic." Faeries return to San Francisco, and they don't believe in happily ever after's. Sarah Montgomery wasn't planning on saving her relationship, let alone an entire city, but when she learns of her father's transformation, she is swept into a world of weird magic and decayed gods. Here the rules don't apply, the police can't help you, and to stay "real" a serial killer called ...

This sci-fi fantasy adventure introduces the worlds of Rigil Kent, where the back-engineering of alien artifacts booms economies and enigmatic cultures clash on the verge of war. Jace, a trader and sometimes smuggler, finds himself shanghaied into running a mission for a ruling dynasty of the “spider folk”, members of New Earth’s rival faction. The mission takes him to the alien world of Matdu—the original home of the mysterious First Race—where a red dwarf sun presides over a half-lit world chock-full of arcane treasure.

'Now's the time to curl up with a ghostly tale - and this collection should be your go to!' Fabulous 'This cracking collection of spooky tales is perfect for the season of darkling nights' Mail on Sunday FROM THE CREATORS OF THE HAUNTING SEASON AND THE WINTER SPIRITS COMES A BRAND NEW COLLECTION...

Only fools fall in love, and hell is filled with fools. Our damned lovers include: Christopher Marlowe and Will Shakespeare, Napoleon and Wellington, Orpheus and Eurydice, Hatshepsut and Senenmut, Abelard and Heloise, Helen and Penelope, Saint Teresa and Satan's Reaper, Madge Kendall and the Elephant Man, and more . . . -- all of whom pay a hellish price for indulging their affections. Shakespeare said "To be wise and love exceeds man's might," and in Lovers in Hell, the damned in hell exceed all bounds as they search for their true loves, punish the perfidious, and avoid getting caught up ...

Jack Matthews is caught driving home in a heavy storm. When he stops to help a young boy stranded in the rain, little does he know that he is entering a strange and sinister world. Black suited men are chasing the boy, and now Jack, and he realizes that he may never escape from the world in which he now finds himself.

Jack Fuller’s life took a swan dive after he cheated on his wife two years ago. His most recent spate of “bad luck” is a list of symptoms that don't seem to fit any particular disease profile. Things get worse when a mysterious blood deposit is found in his bed. Then, there is the intense hunger to contend with, the repeating erotic nightmare,s and the panic attacks. When the cause of the illness finally manifests, it is wilder than Jack could ever have imagined. The illness has a name. Its name is Jerry.

The Purgatorial Man: Classic literature read in the classic style.Put on your headphones and follow me, Michael J Andrews, with my brooding, expressive, and distinctly English voice, as I interpret the dark, poetic and intense literature I love.Featuring the works of Edgar Allen Poe, TS Eliot, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and many more.Join me on BlueSky, where you can engage with me in everything that makes me tick: https://bsky.app/profile/mickey-jay.bsky.socialAnd visit my website, where I post personal writings and other stuff I want to share: thepurgatorialman.com

I am Thomas Hunter, a paranormal investigator and part-time ghost charmer. I walk a thin line where the shadows of perception reshape the definition of reality. I used to be a cop. I used to have a wife. Then I died. When I woke up, I had three entities in my head, a bad case of amnesia, and an insider's view of the occult.

Welcome to Utter Football Nonsense, home to Football’s stupidest podcast! Every week, Andrew, Ciaran, Dennis and Michael go over the weekend’s wackiest moments, from VAR drama in the Premier League to hilarious interactions in Non-League, with sprinkles of European action included! Full episodes uploaded on YouTube, Spotify and Apple Music every week, with smaller clips posted on X, Instagram and TikTok!

Their ship crashed on a primitive planet inhabited by giant predatory cats and prehistoric hominids. The only ones who survived were housed in a portion of the ship that was built more securely: the nursery.

Die Tradition, zur kalten Jahreszeit Spukgeschichten zu lesen, hat sich über die Jahrhunderte hinweg bewährt. Denn was gibt es Schöneres, als es sich an langen, dunklen Winterabenden bei Kerzenlicht mit Geistergeschichten gemütlich zu machen? In Wintergeister hauchen sechs hochgelobte Autor*innen und Expert*innen des unheimlichen Erzählens der Tradition des Schauermärchens neues Leben ein. Ein heimgesuchtes Herrenhaus, ein unheilvolles Theaterstück und eine Geisterbeschwörung zaubern eine wohlige Gänsehaut.

Do you want to break into the world of production but don't know where to start?To be honest neither did we! So we decided to share our stories, our journey and any tips, tricks and advice we've picked up along the way.What Does This Button Do? offers a look behind the curtain at how a production company is run and how you can go from working on your own picking up side jobs, to working full time as your own boss!

Hosted by life long Batman fans Andrew Leyland and Michael Bailey, The Overlooked Dark Knight shines a light on the Batman stories that hardly anyone talks about. Mostly. Sometimes the guys talk about Batman stories EVERYONE talks about, but they try to stick to a mandate of the overlooked stuff because the character is more than the sum of The Dark Knight Returns, Year One, Hush, and The Long Halloween.

A podcast for people who create, well, anything