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Best-selling author Susie Bright’s first work of fiction and her first collection of short stories. Bright reveals the outlier reaches of family, tribe, last rites—as well as the elegiac care and feeding of the fast-disappearing.

J.R. Hamantaschen returns with a collection of his inimitable weird, dark, and imaginative fiction. In these intelligent and haunting stories, Hamantaschen pushes the boundaries of horror, exploring the deepest corners of the human psyche with an unflinching eye.

A boy is given a girl's name so that he can escape the attention of malignant ghouls. A devout Catholic priest is suspected of hanky-panky with a submissive Chinese wife when she gives birth to an albino child. A young girl student dies before her English examinations, but still manages to write...

What begins as an ordinary day for Grace Winters quickly turns to horror when her plane for a company retreat crashes somewhere in the North Atlantic Sea. The following days become a test of survival for her and her co-workers, and threaten to expose their true character. Complicated by Grace's ongoing health struggles, the burden of surviving until help arrives rests heavier upon her shoulders. We Are but Dust thrusts you into a world of chaos, and leaves you stirring with questions.

Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) was a prominent modernist writer of short fiction and a close associate of D. H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf. 'Something Childish but Very Natural' is a story about a young couple who meet by chance on a train and fall head over heels in hot-headed teenage love.

This is a collection of insanity. Read nine twisted tales, each one reaches deeper into the Abyss than the previous. Stories about: Serial killers, revenge, addiction, madness, isolation, indescribable horror, cosmic forces beyond our understanding, the very depths of hell, and a broken reality. The first work of fiction by T.L Oberheu will be the cause of sleepless nights and a reason to fear the dark again.

My new girlfriend is about to unleash a side of myself that's wilder than I've ever before seen. I'm just a little bit late to the party when it comes to my sexuality. Growing up, I was what you might call a closeted lesbian, and it took entering into college to break me out of my shell as far as that was concerned. I suppose I should be considered a fully grown adult now, but my squeamishness when it comes to sexual matters has remained largely intact for some time now.