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John Porter

The large district of western Lancashire, denominated from time immemorial the Fylde, embraces one third at least of the Hundred of Amounderness, and a line drawn from Ashton, on the Ribble, to Churchtown, on the Wyre, forms the nearest approach to an eastern boundary attainable, for although the section cut off by its means includes more land and villages than properly appertain to the Fylde, a more westerly division would exclude others which form part of it. The whole of the parishes of...

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John Porter

All small towns thrive on gossip. It's not what happens that matters but what's said about it. A clergyman visiting a crazy old lady soon finds that tittle-tattle can be socially harmful, as well as confusing, and quite dangerous to his own health. One of ten stories in a compilation called A Collection Of Dirty Little Stories.

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John Porter

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Corinne Morgan, Corbie

Corinne Morgan wasn't looking for a hard time when she decided to become L.A. county's rookie superhero, Corbie. All she wanted was a little bit of revenge against the terrible schoolyard trio the I.C., as a treat! But it wasn't long before she found herself at the heart of a family feud between her mentor, trickster goddess Morrigan, and nefarious younger siblings Neamhain and Macha. Now our battling bird...

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John Porter

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Corinne Morgan, Corbie

The origin story of L.A. County's battling bird gal continues! Corinne Morgan has found herself face-to-face with her ancestor, Celtic war goddess the Morrigan, returning after a thousand-year banishment. Both are hungry for revenge against their respective enemies - and for Corinne, that means taking down the I.C., Anna Dale Academy's terrifying trio of bullies! To do so, she forges an alliance with Morrigan, whose spirit now resides with...

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John Porter

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Corinne Morgan, Corbie

Teenage superhero Corinne Morgan (AKA Corbie) is back in Los Angeles and soon finds herself facing new challenges. Not only has the schoolyard turf war in which she's aligned with best friend Sadie Byrd against ruthless girl gang the I.C. taken new twists and turns in her absence, her great aunt Grace Morgan-Matterhorn has returned to the States demanding the family turn over the Mystical Sphere of the Bad...

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John Porter

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Corinne Morgan, Corbie

Corinne Morgan has always gone out of her way to stay out of trouble. All she wants is to graduate from the notoriously brutal Anna Dale Academy in one piece. Unfortunately, her headmistress seems out to get her – and a vicious trio of students known as The I.C. are too! All this would be enough for anyone to handle, but things get a million times crazier when Corinne acquires a crystal ball that revives her ancestor, an Irish war goddess with her own plans for revenge and...

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John Porter

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Corinne Morgan, Corbie

Action and adventure with the coolest corvid in comics continue in Corinne Morgan, Corbie issue #3! Everything seemed to be going well for Corinne Morgan when she suited up for action as Corbie for the first time, handing school bullies the I.C. a humiliating defeat - but events took an unexpected turn when sibling goddesses Neamhain and Macha emerged to confront her. Now Corbie must go toe-to-toe with both, and it doesn't take long for the action to spill out of ...

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John Porter

The world in which we live is permanently poised between a series of extremes; up and down, dark and light, yin and yang... life and death.In fact the very fabric of what we experience teeters constantly on the knife edge that separates reality from fantasy.Sometimes it's very difficult to know where the division between the two truly lies, and often physical experiences and imagination share a hazy common ground where each one is as valid as the other. That's when matters ca...

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John Porter

Two females each competing for the same male... a recipe for heartache and horror. Perhaps this story was drawn from something I overheard many years ago, or maybe something I read about or dreamed of when I was younger. If you find that it rings a bell… schh… don't let the cat out of the bag… This is one in a series of ten short stories by the same author about cute little animals which behave in unexpected and sometimes quite horrible ways.

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John Porter

Two centuries of one of Australia's founding families unfold as generations are shaped and moulded by historic events, relationships, and the grand and majestic sweep of the Hawkesbury River. One in a series of ten short stories published in a compilation entitled A Collection Of Dirty Little Stories. A companion volume calle The Cutest Little Animal Horror Stories is also available.

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John Porter

There are a number of things which almost all human beings that have walked on this planet have had in common. Ever since he first hauled himself upright and stopped dragging his hairy knuckles along the forest floor, man has pretty much both suffered and enjoyed the same emotions year after year, century after century. Down through the ages - for millennia in fact - men, woman, and children have, from time to time, felt the unsettling mental torment of unknown fears, the energy-sapping ef...

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John Porter

We all know a few braggarts. People who would have to be 150 years old to have fitted everything into their lives that they boast about. But what if they were telling the truth? Some surprises are in store for the owner of a small hardware shop as he finds out some unexpected facts about one of his customers. One in a series of ten stories published as A Collection Of Dirty Little Stories.