The world looks so different with just one dark twist. Each of the stories in Chorus of Whispers has a setting that feels familiar but contains a discordant note jarring us out of a pleasant melody. Feral babies. Silent women. Plastic surrogates. Gods walking the earth and remaking it one step at a time. Monster hunters as monstrous as their prey.Don’t let familiarity lure you into a false sense of security.No one is safe from the darkness of these warped realities...

Ashleigh and her little family of misfits are on the run, searching for a new home where they can rest and finally get clean. The police hot on their heels, they flee to the abandoned asylum at the top of the mountain, thinking it’s the perfect starting point for their long road to recovery. They’re ready for this. They long for their new life. The asylum is in disrepair with no running water or electricity. It does provide shelter, but maybe they are not alone in seeking it. If only they’...

What if the world needed saving, but only those past their prime could answer the call?In Never Too Old to Save the World, discover a collection of nineteen stories where the fate of humanity rests on the shoulders of unlikely heroes navigating midlife. Forget the Chosen One trope—these are the soccer moms, cat ladies, retirees, and social workers who've already weathered life's storms and are ready for a new kind of battle.This anthology explores:...

DIGITAL HORROR FICTION ANTHOLOGY25 Horror Fiction Short Stories2:51, Behind the Caterpillar — Gregory L. NorrisA Dream for Sugar — Bruce MemblattA Pocket of Madness — Samuel MarzioliAces and Kings — David M. HoenigThe Animals — Aaron GudmunsonThe Borrowed Man — James DorrHis Own Personal Golgotha — Geoff BrownBuilding Condemned (Seeking Asylum) — Adrian LudensCompartmental — Jay CaselbergDemocrac...

Love Edgar Allan Poe and want more? Explore new gothic stories and poems inspired by Poe in this haunting, award-winning anthology!Take a tour through Poe’s Baltimore home, experience “The Tell-Tale Heart” through the old man’s eyes, go corporate at Raven Corp., witness “The Fall of the House of Usher” from the perspective of a hidden Usher sibling, and much more.Don’t miss the award-nominated stories “The Heart of Alderman Kane” by Eleanor Sciolistein and ...

A short novel perfect for fans of Emily Shore, Tiffany Roberts, Opal Reyne, Katee Robert, CM Nacosta, and Kathryn Moon.Noelle wants to change. She doesn't want to be depressed and angry. She doesn't want to keep hurting the people who love her. So this Christmas, she's writing a letter to the North Pole for help making the change.But she's not writing to Santa, because she doesn't deserve gifts or forgiveness.She deserves punishment, so she's writin...

Since the 1990s, contemporary art in the Arab world has experienced exponential growth and numerous changes. With the appearance of artists from the region in international exhibitions, the dynamics within the art scenes changed significantly. Museums & art foundations began to collect, biennials were launched, contemporary art galleries, fairs, residencies and schools emerged in many countries, and the governments of the Gulf states launched megaprojects. This reader serves as a guide for...

Augustine and Ethics examines the topic of ethics in the life and works of Augustine of Hippo. Adopting a global perspective on ethics as a field of philosophical and theological investigation, this volume includes reflections on virtue and vice, love and sin, and the political outcomes to which certain ethical stances tend to give rise. For Augustine himself, ethics was never merely theoretical. Ethical concerns are concrete; and ethical solutions should be practical. Accordingly, this vo...

Many people have different experiences with the Catholic church, that much is for sure. Despite the scandals, there can be no way to definitively say whether it's the church itself, or the bad apples that are drawn to it for the positions of power they can take up. For those who met with Hans B. Schmidt, a German Roman Catholic priest, their experience with the Catholic church would be their last.

Historians working in the classical liberal tradition believe that individual decision-making and individual rights matter in the making of history. History written in the classical liberal tradition emerged largely in the nineteenth century, when the field of history was first professionalized in Europe and the Americas. Professional historical research was then imbued with liberal values, which included rigorous attention to the sources, historicist suspicion of an ultimate mover, an hon...

Eine optimale Betreuung am Lebensende erfordert einen engen Austausch zwischen Medizin, Pflege, dem psychosozialen Bereich, der Seelsorge und allen anderen beteiligten Berufsgruppen. Dieses multiprofessionelle Herausgeberwerk zeigt, wie eine solche Zusammenarbeit gelingen kann. Aus multiperspektivischer Sicht und anhand vieler Fallbeispiele beschreibt es eine optimal abgestimmte individuelle Behandlung, Beratung wie auch Begleitung am Lebensende für Betroffene und ihr soziales Netz. Es wer...

Mentalisierungsbasierte Pädagogik legt den Fokus auf Emotionen, Verstehen und pädagogische Beziehung bzw. Bindung und spricht damit alle an, die in pädagogischen Feldern praktisch oder in der Forschung tätig sind. Das Handbuch greift den aktuellen Stand der Forschung wie auch fallbezogene Erfahrungen aus den pädagogischen Feldern auf und diskutiert sie. Es klärt die entwicklungspsychologische Grundlage der Mentalisierungstheorie (insbesondere für Kindheit und Jugend), bevor es sich grundle...