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Satori in the Slipstream is a collection of dark flash fiction and short stories. Many of the stories are set in Japan and deal with challenges young adults face. There are also several stories about soldiers dealing with the aftermath of war. Homeless and the brutality of living on the streets is also a major theme in this collection.

Annie Acorn Audio is pleased to present The Horses of Paiute Canyon written by D.A. Grady and narrated by Lee Foreman. It's late spring and the last of the early blooming desert plants in Nevada are at their best. Battered and bruised, Jim Crenshaw rides away from his past and onto the Diamond G ranch, where he seeks employment - not as the foreman he is, but as a simple cowboy. Not much later, he finds himself on a two-week trip, riding fence line with only his animals, unaware and unprepared for what awaits him.

Deadlift is a weightlifting term that refers to the action of lifting a weight from the floor to a standing position, gripping a bar. David Lowe is currently performing the heaviest unrecorded deadlift, performed outside competition rules, or any rules, by holding the severed cable of a thousand-pound hotel elevator containing his wife and an undetonated bomb, while a killer in a sackcloth mask looks on, and a hit man holds a loaded gun to his head. David is no superhero; he has no special abilities other than mere human strength and the will to save his wife.

The scene of unrelenting human ingenuity during World War Two, while the story of the decipherment of the Enigma codes and Alan Turing is celebrated in the movie the Imitation Game, less well known is what life was actually like for the thousands of women and men who worked at Bletchley Park under clandestine conditions. With access to Bletchley Park and contributions from historians and scientists Maggie Lee meets two remarkable people who worked at Station X, learning how the top secret work carried out here helped usher in the computer age and deepen the foundations of the UK's cyber and intelligence centre.

Mankind has fallen to darkness and a new breed rules the earth. The age of the vampire has begun. Few survived the fall of man. Those who remain to witness the darkening of the world live by the gun or live in fear. There is no middle ground. The cities lie in ruins after the last war and vampires have inherited the blasted remnants. Some will not cower in the night. They fight because there is nothing left to them, and they fight without hope of peace or victory.

A contemporary ghost story made all the more terrifying for being based upon actual events. When the terrifying entity that Maggie and Katie Fox unleashed in Hydesville in 1848 returns in 2018, a gallery owner, his wife, a journalist, and her boyfriend join forces to battle it...the powerful entity that controls the area unleashes a deceptive command. If those gathered in the village succumb to the edict, they will partake in the creation of union children, psychically gifted offspring whose malevolent powers will reach far beyond the confines of the township.

A very short piece of fantasy world-building, following a few men and their curious line of work revolving around a quiet, dusty shop in a quirky, distant city.

From scientists to sports stars, aerospace engineers to artists, every person shines in this collection. Dynamic portraits portray each person with bold colors and clever, precise details. Each biography celebrates the determination and courage of people who were on the forefront of changing society.

Lucas Kelsey, a Kansas City attorney whose comfortable but relatively mundane legal practice centers around adoption cases, finds his world turned upside down when he discovers the body of a murdered four-year-old girl in his office. Never in his wildest dreams could he imagine how the case would come to involve him and then pull him into a vortex where past meets present.

With so many sides to the legalization of marijuana, how do you know who’s right? Based on what is happening in Alaska right now, The Cannabis Stampede is an on-the-ground, narrative nonfiction look at the legalization of marijuana told from 30 perspectives. These perspectives include the housewife, aging hippy, police chief, doctor, school teacher, historian, Evangelical, Republican, Democrat, liberal, conservative, THC refugee, and half-way house owner along with the people who will be making the money: Pot delivery man, grower, importer, and edible product inventor.

India, The Netherlands, the Philippines - What is it with the Hoosier state that inspires authors from all over the world to dredge up their darkest visions to make readers tremble and shudder? Could it be the ghost towns that dot the landscape? Or do we fear the living ghosts that walk its cities, large and small, that breed and fester on dashed hope and creeping dread? Or do their dark writings mirror the thoughts we thought we had buried deep beneath layers of civility, exposing them for what they are, reflections of the darkness all around us.

Dusty horses and riders, gals and guns are the backdrops for most Westerns because that's what life was in those days. Add to that a mystery identity, one really bad tornado, and the way country folks help each other when times are tough, and you have all the ingredients for great entertainment.

Elton Burlock's done his time. On the outside, he takes the only job he can find as the custodian of a local cemetery, but there are three black angels that won't let him rest. The first is a little girl who roams the night and two women, one a vision of beauty in white and the other a nightmare in black. When the killing starts, who can rock the restless dead back to sleep? There are no lullabies for the dead, and if he's going to live, Elton will have to give the little girl what she wants. Maybe then he can find peace for them both - in the grave or out.

In the 1800s and before, ranchers hired a lone cowpuncher to look after their cattle stuck in the high country for the winter. Normally a lonely assignment, most punchers said, “No!” to such an assignment, but Ben Thomas said, “Yes.” Soon the job becomes the surprise of his life and the most dangerous, as From Gents' Pens storyteller D.A. Grady winds the resultant tale around actual happenings of a time long past. A unique telling, The Cow Camp Affair follows the daily living of folks in those days and keeps you turning the page to see if they can make it to the next night. All the things that you expect from this internationally beloved author – suspense, romance, mystery, and a good dose of humor – are intertwined in a story that will keep you reading until the sun sets on the last word.

Telling tales around campfires goes back to the beginning of cowboy days and even before.

Holland's a man who's good with death - a killer for hire - but is he a match for a God? When his daughter goes missing, Holland finds himself pitted against powerful enemies; a changeling, a mage, and a god who wants to destroy the world. Holland's daughter isn't just a girl, though, and she's far from an easy mark.

Annie Acorn Audio is pleased to present Dark Tales from Gents' Pens, an anthology of works written by the authors of From Gents' Pens and narrated by Lee Foreman.

Where can you find all the suspense, thrills, blood, and gore that reflect the dark underbelly of our world? Where do murder and voodoo curses stand alongside innocents and little children? Where do the kinder, gentler things disappear?

Sam O'Donnell's just another addict on the road to ruin. He knows it's time to make a fresh start - to save his marriage. Yet when Sam and his wife move to an estate by the sea to begin anew, they find something has taken the estate for its own...and it hungers. When weighed in the balance a man can only face his demons and pray he is not found wanting. But Sam is not alone. He never was.

The Mantle follows the life of a civil servant, Akaki Akakievitch who just loves his work! Born in St Petersburg, he is a copy writer, meaning he copies text from one place to another. In his spare time and after work hours, he also copies. When given more responsibility, he begs to return to...copying. One particular winter, he notices that, between home and office, he is cold, his mantle is threadbare, and he can no longer repair it himself. Our conflict begins here, as Akaki seeks a solution to his threadbare mantle.

The stories in this collection examine the ways we use imagination to set aside human anguish and move on with our lives. Here, baseball opens a passageway to life after death, obsession transforms romantic complexities into a corrupted form of happiness, conquest and empire begets guilt and a healing sacrifice, and the recipients of medical technology deal with the well-meant horrors inflicted on them.