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With the ever-faithful Trevor in tow, Christy defies her mother’s wishes and ventures back to the Empty World. Her father and Detective Lockhart have been missing for months, and she’s determined to bring them home safely. But trouble-maker Cory has his own reasons for wanting to go back, and he bullies Christy and Trevor into taking him along. The search takes them to a mysterious underground city, abandoned by an ancient race.

Christy’s parents forbid her from returning through the portal, but her grandfather is still stranded in the Empty World. When Danny and Brad accidentally take a trip into the portal, Christy finds the excuse she needs to disobey her parents and go after them. Unfortunately for Christy, she's stuck with Cory for a traveling companion. Thus begins another journey through the Empty World, looking for the people they've lost and for a way back home.

When her grandmother dies, 13-year-old Christy inherits an old family secret: The pond behind her house is, in fact, a portal to another world. What's more, she learns her grandfather went through the portal when he mysteriously "disappeared" nine years ago. Christy tries to respect her grandmother's final wishes to not go exploring, but when a classmate named Rob falls into the pond, she has to act.

In her home, a woman, nervously awaits a fertility expert, that will impregnate her. However, before he arrives, a baby photographer selling his services door to door and carrying a portfolio of his work does. Hilarity soon follows.

After dying in a hospital, a woman - now a ghostly apparition - discovers a waiting room from where the recently deceased are escorted to the afterlife. There, she awaits the return of an angelic little girl, "the maître d'", to take her, unaware she's destined for someplace other than where the little girl would like to take her.

Humanity learns that all energy consumption, no matter how "green", has consequences.

Earth's first interstellar mission arrives at the exoplanet Alpha Centauri Bb, believing it to be uninhabitable, to discover the joys and horrors of near light-speed travel.

In Welcome To Hexville, the first book of the Hexville series, a documentary crew meeting with the peacekeeper sheriff of Hexville discovers that with the exception of him and his deputies, the citizens of Hexville are far, far, far from what they expected when they left the "calm" of LA for this assignment. Everyone in the town possesses mystical abilities, and it's the job of the peacekeeper and his deputies, all unbiased and unaligned, to maintain order between the funny and at times contentious townspeople.

Following a breakup a couple unexpectedly meets and both fury and sparks fly.

An onslaught of supernatural events assails a man, who quickly realizes both the source and the two competing choices he faces.

Girlfriend Apocalypse I: Following a breakup, a couple unexpectedly meet, and both fury and sparks fly. Girlfriend Apocalypse II: An onslaught of supernatural events assails a man who quickly realizes both the source and the two competing choices he faces.

A man learns one of the hardest things in a relationship is differentiating your lovers' desires from their tests.

When a man murders his wife, her car takes revenge.

A discussion of some of the world's most notorious serial killers comes to a surprising conclusion.

When a book reviewer trashes a horror writer's latest work in her column, stating a blank page is infinitely more horrifying than his latest work, to her horror he sends her a blank page for comparison.

Zoe - a beautiful young woman, class president, driven to be the best at everything she does - uses skills honed as captain of the rifle team, when she finds herself the only thing between her class and a massacre at graduation.

The freest she's ever been, a young woman's joyous embrace of the day takes a horrific turn.

A man sensing something ominous is on its way prepares a bunker and chronicles a foreseeable tale of genetic engineering and corporate greed gone horribly wrong when a plant HIV - a PIV, plant immunodeficiency virus (HIV is human) - attacks our plant crops.

Through the exploits of Chicago's Big Dez Zombie Hunter, we see why zombie apocalypses have a season and why zombie hordes will never defeat humanity.

So you're in a bad job. You can, in time, get another job. After all it's not a matter of life and death. Or is it? A young man soon learns that no matter how bad he thinks his job is, it has a tremendous upside.