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Rare & unpublished short stories by Matthew Barron along with stories previously appearing in Generation X-ed, Sci Phi Journal, Ill-Considered Expeditions, The Dread Machine, And the Dead Shall Sleep No More, Outpost of Beyond, House of Horror and more!

What is the point of knowing if nobody will listen? Ancient Sumer, 3800 BC. Indentured and forced into prostitution to survive, a reluctant seer known only as Girl finds herself experiencing cataclysmic visions. Kaylem--the most junior scribe of the temple and Girl's one, true friend--realizes Girl is the mouthpiece of the gods and is the only one to believe her.

What starts as a sweet gesture of family gratitude, quickly goes viral and soon this dynamic duo will have much more to be thankful for.

After so many years yearning for the gift of magic, Arrah has the one thing she’s always wanted - but it came at too steep a price. Now the last surviving witchdoctor, she’s been left to pick up the shattered pieces of a family that betrayed her, a kingdom plunged into chaos and a love that can never be. While Arrah returns to the tribal lands to search for survivors of the demons’ attack, her beloved Rudjek hunts down the remnants of the demon army - and uncovers a plot that would destroy what’s left of their world.

The Ghouls are out tonight kiddies!!!! If you have a dirty/sick sense of humor and love movies...Your in luck. Join the cast of In the Mouth of Madness every other week as they bring you their warped sense of humor over some of their favorite all time films. Email us: ITMOMpodcast@gmail.com

Detective Gabriel Hugo has never been able to forget Kate Franklin. Eight years ago he let down his barriers and made love to her, but guilt and regret tore them apart. Now she's the prime suspect in the murder of her second husband, an ambitious congressman. The FBI wants Gabe to use his connection to Kate to prove her guilt. Unfortunately his desire for Kate is as intense and forbidden as ever. Kate is shocked to be a suspect and that the lead detective is the man she always wanted.

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Black Rising is a novel by author Kevin Barron about Marcus Brooks, Zarida Johnson, and Lisa Banks, who are operatives of an organization called The Black Liberation Organization. The military wing of the BLO, which they belong to, has set out to enforce their own version of justice against those individuals and organizations who have gotten away with injustices against black people.

All Helena really wants is a better life for her 12-year-old son, Luke. To do that, she needs to get him into a good school, which isn’t easy to do when you are a single mother and a Catholic in a near-future United States where there is no more separation between church and state. States, even neighborhoods, are divided along religious lines, and Helena faces discrimination everywhere she goes. Adam, a teenager from her congregation, convinces Helena to leave everything behind and take him and her son across the new American landscape to New Secular City.

Arrah is a young woman from a long line of the most powerful witch doctors in the land. But she fails at magic, fails to call upon the ancestors and can't even cast the simplest curse. Shame and disappointment dog her. When strange premonitions befall her family and children in the kingdom begin to disappear, Arrah undergoes the dangerous and scorned process of selling years of her life for magic. This borrowed power reveals a nightmarish betrayal and a danger beyond what she could have imagined.

Arrah has paid many prices in her battle against the demon king. Now, forced to give up the gift of magic she’d sought for so long, she has finally reached the survivors of the demons’ attack on the tribal lands. But when she comes to them without the power of the chieftains’ kas, the new tribal leaders are suspicious of Arrah’s motives, and her connection to the Demon King. While her heart is loyal to Rudjek, Arrah cannot deny that her soul is bound to Daho – through her past life as the orisha Dimma, the years they spent together, and the child the orishas destroyed.

Raised in busy East London, Kate followed the expected path: excelling in school and forging a promising teaching career. But beneath the layers of her conventional life simmered an irrepressible desire to explore the world and live a life of adventure. Kate's journey led her through the vibrant landscapes of South America and into the dangerous terrains of Afghanistan. Then one day on a cliff top in Scotland, fate struck when she crossed paths with fellow adventurer Chris Lewis. This chance meeting became a love story of epic proportions.

Author Mac Barron assures us that Jesus loves us, even though we're human. We know this, because the Bible says so. Over and over and over again. With its hilarious, sometimes irreverent, and always humble reflections, this book will make you laugh and help you look at the Bible - and yourself - in a whole new way.

Based on the book "Unspoken Truth From A Buried Past."The revelation of one's DNA and what lies in it can leave you breathless or maybe not. Do you really want to know what's behind that door, are you able to handle the results, good, bad or indifferent? This app permanently alters lives. You choose. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It is 1937 in a northern mill-town and a class of 12- and 13-year-old girls are writing about their lives, their world and the things that matter to them. They tell of cobbled streets and crowded homes, the Coronation festivities and holidays to Blackpool, laughter and fun alongside poverty and hardship. They are destined for the cotton mill but they dream of being film stars. Class of '37 uses the writing of these young girls, as collected by the research organisation Mass Observation, to rediscover this lost world.

Set in 1995 against the backdrop of Auckland's burgeoning party scene, Golden Days is the story of an intense late-teens friendship between bookish Becky and star-dusted Zoe Golden, and what happened when one terrifying night changed their lives and destroyed their friendship forever. After finding out that her husband has been cheating on her, Becky is mourning the end of her picture-perfect marriage at the bottom of a bottle. She thought she'd left that summer far behind, but the trauma of her present day brings back memories of the horrific night her brother died.

Become a person that people naturally follow without you having to boss others around! What if you could unlock your leadership potential to become a person of influence and gain more recognition and respect in both your personal and professional life? Best-selling author and management consultant David Barron presents leading-edge techniques and scientifically-backed research that will allow you to lead others in both your professional and personal life. By following the techniques and strategies outlined in this book, you will gain more influence.

The Key Seekers is an action-packed introduction to the worlds of The Brute and Valora...you will find out how the Necromancer made his way into the modern-day world of The Brute...and discover what really happened to the Gatekeeper of Valora. Like many college sophomores, Mike doesn’t have a clear direction in life. When he inherits an old house from a mysterious family friend...He gets more than he bargained for when he falls through a portal in the attic and lands in a frightening, medieval fantasy land where myth, folklore, and reality are one.

Collateral Consequences is a dramatic novel about three families, the Stevens', the Davis', and the Boyd's, and how they deal with the many challenges they face when their loved ones are incarcerated. It also tells of the support and lack of support the families receive and the abuses that happen in a broken prison system.

Laurie’s an introvert who takes her time. She’s a dreamer and a night owl who can read emotions. Barron, her husband, is an extrovert, and an early bird, who knows how to read a map. How do incompatibles make a life together? They’ve done it for 40 years.