A curated story collection featuring fifty terrifying and disturbing dark fiction drabbles.

The narrative focuses on the British forces' time in Siberia, where they were tasked with assisting the White Russian army against the Bolsheviks. Ward, a participant in this mission, provides detailed accounts of the harsh conditions, the terrain, and the local populations. He describes the camaraderie between the soldiers, the brutal cold of the Siberian winter, and the complex political and military situation of the time. Throughout, he emphasizes the "Die-Hards"—a nickname for the Brit...

When his father disappears without explanation, Daniel is sent to a boarding school deep in a large wood. There he makes friends with the school misfit, Blunt, who tells him a secret about the school and a man he has met who lives in the woods. But can Daniel believe him? In a gripping story of friendship and betrayal, Daniel has to decide who he really is and who his friends are.

In a city full of unsavory businessmen, desperate refugees, and hard-boiled spies, almost everyone is a suspect.Detective Amir Omar Duran was just a boy when the British invaded his beloved Granada. Now—after two decades of colonial rule—the ancient city of winding alleys and iconic architecture is a smoldering cauldron of corruption, poverty and strife.On the eve of a political summit between the city’s wrangling factions, Amir is dispatched to Granada’s t...

In a city full of unsavory businessmen, desperate refugees, and hard-boiled spies, almost everyone is a suspect.Detective Amir Omar Duran was just a boy when the British invaded his beloved Granada. Now—after two decades of colonial rule—the ancient city of winding alleys and iconic architecture is a smoldering cauldron of corruption, poverty and strife.On the eve of a political summit between the city’s wrangling factions, Amir is dispatched to Granada’s t...

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""Originally written for the private use of my sons in case I did not return, this narrative of events connected with the expedition to Siberia must of necessity lack many of the necessary elements which go to make a history. I wrote of things as they occurred, and recorded the reasons and motives which prompted the participants. Many things have happened since which seem to show that we were not always right in our estimate of the forces at work around us. Things are not always what they ...

The Big Book of Boys Names brings over 40,000 of the most commonly used boys' names in the English-speaking world together in one handy volume. Each name has a brief explanation of origin, with the most popular names having an expanded historical entry. Also includes an introductory chapter on the naming of babies and why it can be so important to pick a suitable name for a child.

Originally written for the private use of my sons in case I did not return, this narrative of events connected with the expedition to Siberia must of necessity lack many of the necessary elements which go to make a history. I wrote of things as they occurred, and recorded the reasons and motives which prompted the participants. Many things have happened since which seem to show that we were not always right in our estimate of the forces at work around us. Things are not always what they se...

When former US Army captain Eric Tucker decided to visit Old City in Jerusalem with his daughter and granddaughter, he thought it would be a chance to get some family time with his girls and enjoy his retirement. But when a terrorist organization threatens his family's safety, Captain Tucker must reach into his past in order to survive. Can he do so without becoming the cold-blooded killer he once was?Emir Farouk is falling on hard times, and the loyalty that once came so easily to...

After a bloody stint abroad, onetime spy Amir Duran, has returned home to the British colony of Granada, Spain, to do what he does best: police work.But it’s a bad time to be a cop in Granada. Climate change has ravaged the colony’s all-powerful agricultural industry and its unscrupulous plantation owners have resorted to farming the most lucrative—and addictive—crop their hothouses can produce.With half the city hooked on plantation dope, crime is abundant...

What had been a rescue mission has become a hit job.Special Agent Amir Duran can’t wrap his head around any of it. First, his boss tells him about the boy down in Zanzibar. He’s immune, she says—immune to the Red Death. A potential cure for the most catastrophic disease in human history? If that weren’t enough to blow Amir’s mind, she lets him know who the brass back in London have chosen to chase the kid down. And, quick—the Russians and Japanese...