…tick…tick…tick… This is what normal was. The walls are white. The floors are white, and the only color was the black lines that separated the tiles. Us? Our names? What are we? We’re normal…. We wake, we walk, we eat, we wait, we walk, we sleep, just like you…. tick…tick…tick… This is a normal life. This is what they want…. A perfect world…. please...help me recall the memories one last time….

Set in a day, after another World War, the dust has settled and all we are left is the rubble beneath our feet of what once was....tick...tick...tick...The walls are white. The floors are white, and the only color was the black lines that separated the tiles. Us? Our names? What are we? We're normal....We wake, we walk, we eat, we wait, we walk, we sleep, just like you....tick...tick...tick......this is the good life, is what we are told.Good...

A web of lies. An assassination. A fake bride. Real feelings.She was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Simple as that. I should pull the trigger. No witnesses. It’s cleaner that way.I keep her alive. Who knows why. She's everything I always wanted, and never deserved. But now she belongs to me. I need her obedience.She needs to pretend to be my wife. If she can get me close to my target, I’ll spare her life.It’s a dangerous game, but I’v...

Daniel Rose should be having a good night. He's a bestselling author; he's had film adaptations of his books; he's met movie stars. And there's a storm outside tonight, electric and wild. Dan's always liked storms.Tonight, though, he's stuck staring at his computer and suffering from writer's block, out of ideas and inspiration. But when an adorable young man knocks at his door, asks to borrow Dan's kitchen spices, and announces witchcraft's real and their apartment building needs ...

NorthOutlaw.Outcast.Heartless.I know what people call me. I never bother to correct them. Because most of it's true.I don't date.I don't fall in love.It's pointless.She's the only one for me, and I'm nothing to her.While I haunt her nightmares, she claims my reality. I've watched the light fade from her six times, knowing each time may be her last.Her death is my punishment. Falling for her was forbidd...

I've always had a thing for monsters.That's why I started my costume shop. And I know what you're thinking: Geez, Bee, some rich dude just giving you a whole building in the middle of LA is obviously going to have a major catch. You know what I expected? Maybe some skeevy pick-up lines, a rotting pile of garbage, bad neighbors… a few ghosts.I didn't expect a portal to a monster-god prison would be in the basement. Or that I'd be seduced by shadows.And after they bri...

Poetic Justice at its best. An abusive husband learns the hard way "What goes around, comes around" with a grizzly twist.A short story.

The skullcap sits to one side of the chair. Its snaking wires and sensors throw a Medusa shadow against the basement wall. I touch its plastic. Stroke its wiry hair.The Machine gives me everything I want. Or the one thing I want. Life in a woman's body, under the tangerine glow of the Spiral Arm Nebula. But nothing remains the same for long, not even in the timeless worlds of the Experience Machine.From the author of 'HEDON', 'The Experience Machine' is a brutal story of id...

A heartbreaking, stunning prequel to the runaway sensation Harley & Rose, from USA Today bestselling author Carmen Jenner.We thought we had forever.We were wrong.Alaska Stone is everything I've ever dreamed of.For years, I've watched her in the halls, wanted her, but she never knew I existed.Not until she walked into my chemo session.For me, it was love at first sight.For her?...

The gatekeeper's responsibility is boundless.For the demons to access Earth, they must seek the gatekeeper. He regulates the passage from Hell to Earth and redeems souls and beings of Earth whom his master requests.Aker is just a boy, but his destiny is great. However, to acquire his title, he needs to prevail through the greater demon's tests.A novelette of the gatekeeper's journey.A little information about The Afterlife Series:These are thrille...

Zephan Amon is a psychic on the run. He comes from a powerful family famous for their wealth, but he cut ties with them over a decade ago. He's not nearly as powerful as they are, and they want him to either hide his existence or change his name, so he doesn't sully their reputation.Zephan refuses, and he's been perfectly happy living as a human far away from his family, but a series of events have left him jobless and homeless. He's about to work up the courage to ask his sister f...

An introductory part of the Division Mythos, "Beneath the Weeping Willow" is a surreal yet touching glimpse into the life of young David, an autistic boy of considerable power who possesses a gift of insight those around him are oblivious to.(Other layers of David's story are interwoven in the novel The Dampness of Mourning.)