As spirit man, Aruk has been called upon to use his gifts to solve many problems. With guidance from the ancestors and the spirit world he has great wisdom and gives good advice.But the first true crime his tribe has ever encountered will put him -- put them all -- to the test.Without the power of the world's five elemental crystals, the world of Vida will fall into darkness. Only the prophecy of the Light Bringer can restore peace to Vida.In this first novelette of a five part series, Regina Lepue finds herself taken hostage by a nameless vandal, who claims the world's Crystals of Balance are in peril. Can she believe this ruthless killer, or is there something deeper to his story?

A sweet little girl.A bullying big brother.A creepy old well.Beware of what you wish for.Get ready for engaging, and oddly humorous content in this month’s edition. Alessandro Cusimano and Jerry Williams will kick off this issue with speculative poetry that may disturb the deeper you wish to analyze. Then we present Richard Lee Landridge’s The Missing Limb, an excellent story of a horrific haunting that doesn’t rely on ghost and spirits, but rather the mind and body split in relation to a known medical phenomenon known as phantom limbs. After surviving a horrific night a slave to your own body’s sinister unconscious intentions, take a break from the bloodletting with Every Twenty-two Days. It’s a slightly dark tale with a hint of erotica with a man cursed to live in torment, denied of freedom and bliss until he can find that certain lay.

"A gripping, atmospheric, heart-breaking, almost-ghost story. Not since Stephen King's Overlook has a hotel hiding a secret been brought to such vivid life." —Lydia Kiesling, author of The Golden StateThirty-one years after workers first broke ground, the magnificent Hotel Neversink in the Catskills finally opens to the public. Then a young boy disappears.This mysterious vanishing—and the ones that follow—will brand the lives of three generations. At the root of it all is Asher Sikorsky, the ambitious and ruthless patriarch whose purchase of the hotel in 1931 set a haunting legacy into motion. His daughter Jeanie sees the Hotel Neversink into its most lucrative era, but also its darkest. Decades later, Asher's grandchildren grapple with the family's heritage in their own ways: Len fights to keep the failing, dilapidated hotel alive, and Alice sets out to finally uncover the murderer's identity.Told by an unforgettable...

In the sacred city of Axcanan, the time of the Chosen has come again.The sky-god and the goddess of the dark night waters require sacrifices.For Clever Sun-Fox and his twin sister, Red Flower Hummingbird, it is an honor.For Ulli, twinless slave to the temple priest, it is a terrible duty that will reveal a more terrible truth.Ten years ago two children went missing and were presumed to be victims of a satanic ritual. Police charged the antisocial brother of one of the victims with the crime, but the real culprit's still on the loose. The approaching anniversary prompts the killer to strike again, but there's a private investigator who's beginning to ask the right questions about what happened a decade earlier. The killer discovers that he's being hunted, and decides to do whatever it takes to stay hidden. Lincoln Pierce always wanted to be a private detective, but his life didn't end up the way he expected. His daughter's debilitating disease forced him to make some questionable decisions, and he's been paying for them ever since. He's determined to make the most of a bad situation, and has started looking into a case that could change his entire career, if he doesn't get killed in the process.

Paige and Daniel's new apartment seems too good to be true. A great place for a young couple with a baby on the way. Spacious, good location, fireplace, appliances, and such reasonable rent! What could be the catch?It isn't like it's close to the asylum -- well not that close.And it isn't like it's built on an old burial ground -- not an official one, anyway.Okay, so, maybe there was a secrePaige and Daniel's new apartment seems too good to be true. A great place for a young couple with a baby on the way. Spacious, good location, fireplace, appliances, and such reasonable rent! What could be the catch?It isn't like it's close to the asylum -- well not that close.And it isn't like it's built on an old burial ground -- not an official one, anyway.Okay, so, maybe there was a secret potter's field where they'd bury the lunatics, but that was ages ago.After all, the rent's so reasonable!

"How can a guy have driven a hundred thousand miles by the time he turns twenty-one, and never leave the same town?"T.J. Lawton keeps asking himself that question until one desert night when everything changes.Peter Claydon is an R.A.F pilot during The Battle of Britain. Fate leads him on a mission to pursue a traitor in occupied France.

Too tough to be aborted, Super Fetus fights back! He’s a fetus growing in the womb of a whiny white trash whore of a mother. His problem: she wants to have him aborted. But what this bitch doesn’t know is that she isn’t pregnant with some mild-mannered developing human form. Heck no. This is Super Fetus. He has an attitude and he is deter mined to be born, whether she likes it or not. Doing push-ups in the womb day and night, until he becomes amazingly buff, this little fetus is prepared to fight off the onslaught of vacuums, tongs, coat hangers, and scalpels. Once that sonofabitch doctor comes for him… he’ll be ready. A horrific and humorous romp with strange characters, stranger sex scenes, and one kick-ass musclebound fetus.

Steffa thought that by moving across the country and changing her name, she could start a new life free of the stifling old-money and high-society obligations of Hartford Cove.She should have known better. Her ex-mother-in-law doesn't give up that easily. When Virginia Vandermere wants something, there's no distance too far, no lengths too extreme, and no hurt too deep.Steffa thought that by moving across the country and changing her name, she could start a new life free of the stifling old-money and high-society obligations of Hardford Cove.She should have known better. Her ex-mother-in-law doesn't give up that easily. When Virginia Vandermere wants something, there's no distance too far, no lengths too extreme, and no hurt too deep.

A girl is found, dead, with a dog wedged in her surgically enlarged throat, turning Detective Gill's missing persons case into something much darker.Drug addict, Vanessa, has been gone for weeks. Her baby girl too. Gill was already fearing the worst but until he saw that dead girl with the snake jaw, he thought there were lines that people just didn't cross.But surgeon Gerald Phalanx knows better. There are no limits to his obsession. No lines that he won't step over. Even if his latest patient is flawed - horribly flawed - Dr Phalanx is certain he can fix nature's mistakes. He knows he can transform her into his image of feminine perfection. Whether Vanessa likes it or not.After all he does have her baby.

The True Hollywood Story of mue celebrity Sky Tongues, the biracial hermaphrodite with tongues for fingers. Most people know Sky Tongues as the wise-cracking, gum-chewing angel from the smash-hit dramatic series featuring an all-mue cast, Exquisite Afterlife, but Sky has had a turbulent rise to stardom that has been kept secret from the public ...until now. In this tell-all autobiography, you will learn more about the abusive childhood at the hands of a racist shark-skinned father, the early acting gigs, the illegal birth with love interest Rabia (a mue with transparent skin), the kidnapping, the murder, and the fight against mue-oppression. Plus a behind the scenes look into the relationships between the actors on the set of Exquisite Afterlife. The life of Sky Tongues is a rags-to-riches success story that will give you a deeper understanding of this controversial super star.