Perry Melstone had a malady as a child that gave his finger the power to promote a thick wire-like growth from whatever it touched 80 years later. It inundates the small town of Deerfield, Montana that Perry grew up in and will spread as the Perry begins to age and travel. When he passes on due to age, his sons must deal with the carnage created by their father. The sons continue the adventure in Africa, Montana, and the Oregon Coast.

Meet Perry Melstone... an aging single gentleman in his 80s retired on the Oregon Coast. As he makes his way to Montana for a medical check-up he discovers the joys of modern hospital visits. As a diversion he goes to the small town he grew up in to find several people killed by a strange growing wire coming from nowhere. It begins to seal the town off from the rest of the world. He escapes via Yellowstone Park and heads for Bozeman where one of his sons lives. While there he gained a new ...

Shrimp! Worms! Embryonic Sharks! His own buttocks!Phileas McNeil has eaten it all and more; practically one of everything – but there is one meal that will be his match. Phileas' semi-farcical journey through exotic alien cuisine brings him face to face with inevitable doom, endings, beginnings and the reason why anything is worth eating anyway.This eBook collects three short strangitudes of Phileas McNeil, along with a detailed annotation of the stories' curious basis.

Ulvendorf: the degenerate, corrupt jewel of a world far into its decline.Many rival nations has crumbled to its armies, their people enslaved in mighty campaigns of war. Yet all this is forgotten, known only to those reading rotten history books. The Kingdom has grown stagnant, decadent and corrupt.Under the rule of the tired, weak King Ecclesiastes, it falters daily, providing a festering environment for corrupt magistrates, conniving knights and worst of all, a sadistic, ad...

Safeguarding Children and Schools explains how schools are able to contribute to keeping children safe from harm and promoting their welfare, in line with Government Every Child Matters guidelines.The contributors, who are all experts in the field of child protection, put the potentially daunting task faced by schools in context, explaining relevant policy, the latest research findings and offering practical examples to help schools to be more proactive and meet their responsibilit...

It begins with just a few people falling ill. Another flu virus that spreads around the globe. And then the reports begin that people are dying…When most of the world's population is wiped out, a handful of survivors are left to pick up the pieces.Cities become graveyards. Technology becomes largely obsolete. Mankind must start again…1: Dark Rain by Ken BentleyIntroducing: Tim Treloar as Russell, Bernard Holley as RidleyMonths after the plague, storms ...