A woman with a fear of fireworks is dragged to her town's 4th of July celebration by her friend, with terrifying results.At only 14 years old, John Malcolm finds school tough taking every hit on the chin (literally). John finally retaliates and the bully ends up violently injured. This attack causes John to go on the run making life even more difficult. On the run - John barely makes it out of his home town when a friendly stranger takes him in. With no escape John endures things that are far beyond imagination and holding onto hope keeps him going, or does it? “A bone chilling short story.”About the AuthorGareth Parker - educated at a military boarding school, always telling stories and with a proved vivid imagination finally decided to put pen to paper to create thrilling short stories for eBook readers. Parker - now enjoying the Welsh life in Cardiff works for a blue-chip company, even though he's always on the go spends his spare time enduring creativity for others to enjoy.

Detroit Homicide Detective Herbert Vale has a secret...Herbert Vale has been a homicide cop for a long time, and he has seen a lot. But what he has seen the most is bad people get away with bad things. But now he has a new partner, one that is helping Herbert bring those bad people to justice. In an unspeakable, horrifying,and quite messy way.Detroit Homicide Detective Herbert Vale has a secret...Herbert Vale has been a homicide cop for a long time, and he has seen a lot. But what he has seen the most is bad people get away with bad things. But now he has a new partner, one that is helping Herbert bring those bad people to justice. In an unspeakable, horrifying,and quite messy way.Tag along with Detective Herbert Vale in this new short story from Christopher Lee Cousino, author of the superhero novel HOMELESS and the ZOMBIE HERO series. Meet his secret partner, but just try not to look too appetizing when you do.

When a zombie outbreak of unknown origin hits their town, strongman Sven, gun-lover Jane, track star Lorie, and video game warrior Milt find that their lives have become entangled in zombie gore.The first sequel to Sven the Zombie Slayer is City Hall of Blood.The second sequel to Sven the Zombie Slayer is Mayor of the Damned.After being transported to a strange new world by a dragon in his coat closet, John soon found himself enraptured by this bizarre land and its host of eccentric characters. Even a shock attack on a nearby allied nation had done little to wane his enthusiasm.Now, John must use every resource at his command to help his new friends uncover the secrets behind devastating new weapons being fielded by their enemies. Even so, it quickly becomes apparent that everything isn’t truly as it appears. Their adversaries seemingly have an agenda beyond mere conquest. With the fate of John’s newfound world hanging in the balance, he and his allies must puzzle out the enemy’s goals before it’s too late.

They have been lurking in the shadows for untold years, waiting for the chance to burst free. Only the ragged few, held together by the charismatic Connor, have seen the signs and dare to stand up against Them, the undead. In this battle, no one leaves unscathed.The day Connor cornered me in the library, I thought he was cracked. The day he covered my walls with crosses and filled my apartment with garlic, I thought he was psychotic. The day he killed someone on the floor in my living room, I had no choice but to believe. This is my last confession, the story of the years we spent hunting Them and the mistakes we made. This is my memorial to the people we lost. This is my realization of the importance of Proof.They have been lurking in the shadows for untold years, waiting for the chance to burst free. Only the ragged few, held together by the charismatic Connor, have seen the signs and dare to stand up against Them, the undead. In this battle, no one leaves unscathed.

A short collection of weird fiction. "The Room Alone" and "A Gentle Breeze" have a thriller edge to them, while "Flicker" is more confessional in style. "And the Ivy," for which the collection is named, follows a woman experiencing the midnight phenomenon where familiar objects no longer appear familiar – or perhaps there's something stranger going on...IF YOUR DESTINY WAS TO KILL, WOULD YOU KILL TO CHANGE IT? This Kindle Book Contains a SAMPLE ONLY of the book "The Undivided". From the Prologue to the End of Part 1.EXTRACT"‘This ignorant ingrate is what you wanted me to protect? I should have stayed home.’ ‘It’s not his fault, Sorcha,’ Ciarán said, ‘that he knows nothing of our ways.’ And whose fault is it that he lacks any manners?’‘I do not lack manners,’ Ren protested. ‘You do,’ Sorcha said, turning on him. ‘And you also appear to lack the ability to follow a simple instruction. Take off your clothes. I’ll not have you dying on me, for such a mundane reason as catching a chill. I am not, however, averse to running you through myself, should your conduct convince me that this world would be better served by the discontinuation of your line.’ Ren stared at her, not sure he believed her threat, and then he looked at Brógán. ‘Is she for real?’ he asked in English. ‘Most definitely, Leath tiarna,’ Brógán said with a smile. ‘She is every bit as capable of killing you as she claims.’ "---The Undivided are divided. The psychic twins, Ronan and Darragh, have been separated by the traitor Druid, Amergin, who has kidnapped Ronan and thrown him through a rift into another reality. Now time is running out for Darragh. If Ronan isn't found soon, they will both die. But his twin brother is lost in a reality where Druids are legend, and there is no magic. Somehow, before the Autumn Equinox, they must find one young man in a world of six billion people...Meanwhile, Ren Kavanaugh has no notion of where he comes from. He is plagued by strange injuries that appear from nowhere and everyone is convinced he is deliberately harming himself for attention. Then he meets the enticing and mysterious Trasa, and before he can figure out how it happened, he is in serious trouble - arrested for arson and possibly murder.Rescue will come from a completely unexpected direction. Ren is about to discover more about his origins than he bargained for, meet the twin brother he never knew he had, and discover nobody is what they seem, especially his new friend, the half-faerie, half-human Trasa... Amergin's daughter.---This is the long awaited urban fantasy from best-selling fantasy author, J J Fallon, finally available on Kindle. Step into a world of alternate realities, Druids and druidry, magic and Celtic mythology, where Faerie lords and leprechaun come to life in an edge-of-the-seat action adventure that you wont be able to put down. Welcome to the world of The Undivided, Book 1 of the Rift Runners.This Kindle Book Contains a SAMPLE ONLY of the book "The Undivided". From the Prologue to the End of Part 1.

A strange and curious story is this, about a banker whose only fear was that he might be buried alive, like his grandfather before him...Notice: This Book is published by Historical Books Limited (www.publicdomain.org.uk) as a Public Domain Book, if you have any inquiries, requests or need any help you can just send an email to [email protected] This book is found as a public domain and free book based on various online catalogs, if you think there are any problems regard copyright issues please contact us immediately via [email protected]

With a word count of less than 5,000, this Christmas short story holds horror and thrills based on two fables: the Kallikantzaroi and Santa Claus.With a word count of less than 5,000, this Christmas short story holds horror and thrills based on two fables: the Kallikantzaroi and Santa Claus. In a rustic cabin in the woods, Britta awaits the arrival of her newborn child. But a few minutes before midnight on Christmas Eve, her family is confronted by an unusual creature, a Kallikantzaroi. Legend has it that any child born during the Christmas season could be taken by a Kallikantazoi or, worse yet, change into one.

"Stand by Me" meets "The Walking Dead" in this chilling, nostalgic tale from the mind of Kevin J. Fitzgerald. Part of the forthcoming "Breach of Reality: Volume 1" collection. Bonus material included! Read a sample chapter of the newly released "UnAlive" Novel!"Stand by Me" meets "The Walking Dead" in this chilling, nostalgic tale from the mind of Kevin J. Fitzgerald. When his little girl is kidnapped by hideous zombies living in the sewers, Stuart Rutland embarks on a daring mission to save her - at great cost! Part of the forthcoming "Breach of Reality: Volume 1" collection. Bonus material included! Read a sample chapter of the newly released "UnAlive" Novel!

An American shaman, Val, recants the beginning of his paranormal profession in an uncanny interview under curious circumstances. The series itself explores the odd and mysterious parallels between the supernatural and the psychedelic in an eerily insightful yet mysterious work of short fiction that touches on answering the question, what happens when we die?This book is an experimental first in its series and is free.I started writing this book series when a friend of mine told me a story that-- according to him-- was true. It inspired me to write a series that delves into the connection between the spiritual and the psychedelic. I was just getting into chemistry as a cleaning chemical engineer when I came across the subject of non-recreational mind-altering drugs... While I give no comment on any of my personal experiences (or lack thereof) regarding this topic... The subject did make for a great book.Val himself is an American Shaman-- and he characteristically blends many of the other-worldly or spooky aspects of what we think about when alone at night. It's the kind of character that has all the traits that can and should scare you-- but packaged and delivered in such a charismatic and charmingly familiar way that you can't view Val as anything but the protagonist of the story. Which is exactly what I am going for. The aim of the book's philosophical narrative is to wedge in open-mindedness towards readers who have yet to experience the psychedelic. It's to tie in religious belief and language with authentic phenomena that occur right within our own psyches.We are made of chemicals. We experience everything about this dimension of the universe that we call reality though chemicals. Other dimensions and far more than we know are not light-years away; they are molecules away.So follow a story that explores and explains these questions that we've designated as unsolvable. Explore the possibilities of life... and death... as you never have before. Don't just search for the supernatural; experience it.

A Newsflesh novella from the New York Times bestselling author that brought you Feed, Mira Grant. Stacy and Michael Mason are among the most famous heroes of the zombie apocalypse. Stacy, however, has fallen into a deep depression after having to shoot their infected son. In the aftermath of the pandemic, they start publicly documenting the recovery effort, which Michael hopes will take Stacy's mind off of her trauma and help her recover. As they film the rescue of an enclave of orphans and report on the orphanages that have sprung up to care for traumatized, parent-less children, they begin to consider the last, greatest step of recovery: adoption. More from Mira Grant * * Into the Drowning Deep * * Newsflesh Short Fiction Apocalypse Scenario #683: The Box Countdown San Diego 2014: The Last Stand of the California Browncoats How Green This Land, How Blue This Sea The Day the Dead Came to Show and Tell Please Do Not Taunt the Octopus Newsflesh Feed Deadline Blackout Feedback Rise: A Newsflesh Collection Parasitology Parasite Symbiont Chimera

Dark Gods tire of hell.Within a tavern, where the veil is thin, treachery reaches out from the madness and into our world. Of heroes and virtuous gods there are few. From the depths crawls a lowly spawn devoid of conscience. Knowing only hate and fear, he will do anything to stay out of hell.Dark Gods tire of hell.Within a tavern, where the veil is thin, treachery reaches out from the madness and into our world. Of heroes and virtuous gods there are few. From the depths crawls a lowly spawn devoid of conscience. Knowing only hate and fear, he will do anything to stay out of hell.God Wars - A dark fantasy trilogyDark Gods RisingAbominationRevolution

(3800 words) A pair of fantasy stories wherein an orphan's curse brings about the death of a ship's captain, but the captain's dying curse is worse. (Yes, the title is from that poem by Coleridge) In the sequel, “Dead Man's Ashes”, Dar, a young thief, is sent into the darkest part of the city by Peli, King of the Beggars, to recover the ashes of the man who cursed him, so he can exact his revenge.The cool sand in the Dunes is comforting to a young girl as she seeks to find her goddess and finds a Sun God instead. A walk barefoot reveals cool secrets and a lakeshore ramble results in a myriad of butterflies. Inspirational.

During the highly improbable zombie uprising of 2013, the fearless American bulldog Riley quickly discovered that it was up to her to keep the pack safe. Together with Yorkshire terrier Ben-Ben and former archenemy Patches the cat, Riley struggles to keep the zombies at bay while helping her favorite human, Jessie, as they travel cross-country, dodging pepper paint balls and taser blasts from the evil, misogynistic Icely and his band of thugs. Now this motley mishmash of mammals are running for their lives. The wicked Icely has picked up their scent and is now chasing them across the badlands of Colorado in hopes of seeking revenge—a painful one at that—on the dog that tried to kill him, as well as on the "bitches" who got away. Seen through the eyes of a random narrator and Riley, we have to wonder: will Icely and his men chase them down and zap them into oblivion, or will the zombies finally win and get the brains they desperately crave?

Nine Women. Nine Stories. And nothing ordinary about them. From the slightly askew mind of Regan Wolfrom comes this collection of hilariously dark tales of love, death, and horrible timing.Nine Women. Nine Stories. And nothing ordinary about them. From the slightly askew mind of Regan Wolfrom comes this collection of hilariously dark tales of love, death, and horrible timing.Heather SmythePretty. Shy. About as lapsed as a Catholic can get.Heather's trapped in the a cult of killer succubi with a taste for East Hollywood douches.("High Times at the Sixth Annual Succubus Sisters Garage and Bake Sale")Amanda HackensackSomewhat tall. Can't dunk. Never knew her father.Amanda wakes up in a world of voodoo and zombies that she knows shouldn't exist.("The Zombification of Amanda Hackensack")Marguerite FrunkelLonely. Awkward. Painfully ginger.Marguerite finds two strange little gnomes who show her just what she's been missing.("Gnome on Girl on Gnome: A Love Story")Laura DanielsPolitical outsider. Maverick. Avowed crazy cat lady.Laura learns the sinister truth behind her unexpected electoral success.("The Siamese Candidate")Stephanie MunroHard working. Hard drinking. Hard to please.Stephanie comes to regret taking a trip on the edge of the world with people she knows she shouldn't trust.("The Raven's Head Dagger and the Custom of the Seas")Marie-Claire GrimsonPink hair. Pretty smile. Like to eat people.Marie-Claire may soon discover that meat is murder no matter how you slice it.("Vegans Are F**king Delicious")Maddy McKayA little lonely. A little self-conscious. Starving to death.Maddy's trying to slim down to starving model size, but her little housemates don't seem all that supportive.("Maddy McKay and the Elves in Her House")Vanessa DervoeSoftball legend. Proud Yooper. Breathes underwater.Vanessa's strange gift has gotten her nowhere in life, stuck in a sad amusement park and surrounded by death.("The Ocean Goddess and The Home Run Queen")Kara HerminMysterious. Troubled. Loads of fun at parties.Kara's lived a long and dangerous life, and may be forced to live it all over again.("Born Again at Granny's Cave")

Joe suspected his wife was having an affair. The consequences of his actions led to hungry pigs, an elaborate plan and surprising resultsThis short story mixes elements of jealousy, horror and old-fashioned revenge to serve up a dish best served cold.Joe suspected his wife was having an affair. The consequences of his actions led to hungry pigs, an elaborate plan and surprising results.This short story mixes elements of jealousy, horror and old-fashioned revenge to serve up a dish best served cold.