Binti had one ordinary face and one extraordinary figure. She knew which one people noticed. At twenty-five she had a college degree, no job, no husband, and a father who called her a burden to her face. That same night she opened her mother's Almera cupboard in the dark, took the jewellery kept for her wedding, and walked out of her Kochi home at four in the morning. She had no plan. She had no contacts. She had never been to Bangalore. What she had was a six month promise to herself. Eit...

⁣⁣Dad’s my hero.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣Since Mom passed away, he had taught me to be strong and accept our lives without the woman we both loved so much in it. ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣But Dad isn’t the only man I could always count on.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣When he takes me to his beautiful cabin in the mountains, where we would spend one whole summer with his two best friends, Shepherd and Davis, I didn’t expect to fall in love. Let alone with both of them.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣It was innocent at first, but it quickly turned into something m...

Emma Lawson is a good mother. She makes her son's sandwiches into triangles every morning. She puts a little drawing in her daughter's lunchbox. She loves her husband. She laughs at the right moments. She remembers everyone's name. She also has a small glass vial in her handbag. Between 2022 and 2024, five people died at ordinary gatherings in Valencia, Spain. A street festival. A school parents' evening. A birthday dinner. A children's fete. A New Year's party. Nobody connected the deaths...

Juno⁣⁣ ⁣⁣As his student, I should’ve kept my distance.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣Out of all the guys in the world I could’ve fallen in love with,⁣⁣ it had to be my new teacher.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣We fell in love slowly, hidden from others.⁣⁣ Keeping it secret, and falling deeper each day.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣But no love is perfect, and we learned it the hard way.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣When the truth came out and he left town,⁣⁣ he left me broken and alone.⁣⁣ He’s to blame, at least that’s what everyone says.⁣⁣ But to me, he’s still th...

I hated him at first sight.I know he hated me just as much.But annoyingly, I'm now forced to work on a school project with the new student, the rude, aloof Connor Harman.My good friend Ethan seems to know Connor from somewhere else, but won't admit it, even though he clearly hates Connor too. Ethan finally tells me that if I knew the truth about Connor, I would run screaming.But the more time I spend with Connor, the more I realise he isn't what he seems, an...

An entertaining tour of the seemingly simple formula guiding the search for extraterrestrial intelligenceCloudy with a Chance of Starships takes readers on an irreverent expedition through the marvelous world of astrobiology, using as a guide the most important equation in science since E=mc2. With an irresistible blend of wit, insight, and the latest cutting-edge research, Seven Rasmussen looks at the thrilling possibilities of life in the cosmos through ...

As the first Demon Sovereign in the history of the demon beast world, he would go for the heavenly tribulation, and as long as he endured the ninth heavenly tribulation, he would ascend to the legendary Demon Ancestor. Unfortunately, standing on the flying platform, he had acted too arrogantly. His luck was poor when he encountered the talking Nine Layered Heavens, and he was chased for ninety-one days and eighty-one days before being chopped into an immortal demon essence. From then on, h...

Maeve McKinnon, a computer nerd from the Prosperia system, is wrongfully accused of a capital crime. She avoids the death penalty, commuting the sentence by signing on to a hit intergalactic reality show. Contestants compete in weekly challenges, winning means a ratings boost. The contestant with the lowest ratings is voted off the show each week, never to be heard from again.Now Maeve is trapped on a luxury ship, dozens of warp gates from Earth, with celebrities, mutants, and othe...

Echoes of the VoidIn a world where ancient Yoruba myths are the living fabric of reality, a terrifying force known as the Primordial Stain begins to unravel existence. What starts as inexplicable disappearances quickly escalates into a catastrophic unmaking, dissolving matter and consciousness back into formless, primordial clay. This insidious entity consumes the very Ashe– the divine life force – that brought all creation into being.Driven by the dire warnings of Professo...

Tales of the Devoured and the Damned" unveils a quartet of dark horror stories that explore the boundaries of fear and the macabre. From a man's terrifying discovery about his miraculous cure to a hotel manager's horrifying secret, and from a chilling ghostly encounter to a descent into the abyssal unknown, these tales will plunge you into a world of relentless suspense and disturbing revelations. Prepare for a journey into the heart of darkness, where the line between predator and prey bl...

Delve into the darkness with this collection of chilling tales, where the supernatural and the unsettling intertwine. From a haunted mansion with a tragic past to a sweet shop's eerie midnight customer and a terrifying encounter on a desolate highway, these stories will keep you on the edge of your seat.

Delve into the darkness with these gripping horror stories. Experience a photographer's unsettling encounter with a vanishing woman, a driver's eerie journey aided by a dead man's spirit, and a twisted tale of betrayal in a wife's desperate insurance plot. These stories explore obsession, the supernatural, and the chilling consequences of greed.