The Battle of Jotnar Valley was over and won. But at what cost?You can count the dead or you can count the living. But, life goes on.Slakter's army was on the run, left in disarray. And our home was safe. My wife and child were safe. So, life goes on, right? But tonight, I found Professor Irons at my door—distressed, faint, but very much alive.Count the living or count the dead—but she was among the dead. So, how is she back?She begged me for help. All the quest...

The pharmacist, Carolynn, pushes her glasses against her nose and looks over the prescription. "Mr. Little, you have taken these before, correct?""Yes."She takes a closer look at the prescription."Wow," she says under her breath. "That's quite a heavy daily dose.""Um, yes. Yes, it is.""And, this is for… anxiety," she says just as I say…"Anger."Reese and Emma are a young couple struggling to make ends meet while raising their four-year-old s...

There are a number of common misconceptions or, more frankly, lies about youth ministry. During his years serving as a youth minister in several different churches, Aaron Shaver encounter a multitude of misconceptions, myths, un-truths, and outright lies about what a youth pastor is and does.Most of these myths and lies were never intentionally created by any one person, Aaron says. Rather, false assumptions and romanticized expectations from so many pastors, and so many would-be y...

The opening chapter of a yet unpublished novel for fans of Jason Bourne and Jack Reacher.A mysterious stranger barges into a tequila bar and starts making demands. He wants something and he won't take no for an answer.

A short story prequel to Furious, The Berserker Heritage. Read the patient evaluation record for 8 year old Agatha Irons direct from the psychiatrist's own notes.

On a hillside farm in Norway 1905, a young girl learns that monsters are very real.

What would you do for a million dollars?Risk averse expatriate life insurance agent Bob Proctor has to steal back the head of famed American legal thriller author to claim a million dollar bounty from a retired Mexican drug lord. He soon finds himself way out of his depth on the back roads of Mexico. Army snipers, wild dogs, gold Cadillacs, one-handed Narcos. The whole enchilada."Bring Me the Head of John Grisham" is a loco literary story. With enough twists to give you whi...

Masturbation, a natural function of life, yet strangely taboo for some.But the world is changing, and not only is this activity being promoted around the world as one that contains many health benefits, but there is a global explosion in online services happy to assist you in reaching your autoerotic goals.Now you can masturbate with the world, here is the where and how to.

A gifted teenager whose ancestor inspired a literary classic descends into a mystical under-land in this romantic, dark fantasy series debut.Alyssa Gardner hears the whispers of bugs and flowers—precisely the affliction that landed her mother in a mental hospital years before. This family curse stretches back to her ancestor Alice Liddell, the real-life inspiration for Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Alyssa might be crazy, but she manages ...

Novella: Cara Montero had been kidnapped and then rescued by her sister Ali and Ram Torres. Now free but traumatized, knowing she was going to become a sex slave sold to someone in Asia, she wrestles with PTSD symptoms. When Ram and Ali have to leave, she feels as if she’s been abandoned, relying heavily on them.Tyler Hutton, ex-SEAL, is assigned to take over and be there as a bodyguard and support for struggling Cara. He’s destroyed his marriage two years earlier because of his ow...

The first collection of poems and short stories by young writer, Kate Greenlee. Thirteen poems and two short stories make up a varied selection of styles and subjects; from the supernatural to the political, Greenlee deals with themes around feminism and femininity, mathematics, body image and violence in the modern world. ‘Ghosts in the Attic’ is a short selection of crafted works, a well-fitting debut.

The PEN Literary Award–winning author “writes with honesty, intelligence, tenderness, and love” about her Colombian-Cuban heritage and queer identity in this poignant coming-of-age memoir (Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street).In this lyrical, coming-of-age memoir, Daisy Hernández chronicles what the women in her Cuban-Colombian family taught her about love, money, and race. Her mother warns her about envidia and men who seduce you...