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In the gripping story of Into Your Being, immerse yourself in the haunting tale of a couple whose once-unbreakable love has eroded into a chilling void. The story unfolds against a backdrop of fading affection and mounting resentment, where the weight of their unspoken burdens threatens to consume them both. Amidst the silence of their disintegrating relationship, a single night of passion unravels a sinister turn. As desire and desperation intertwine, boundaries blur, and forbidden impulses surge to the surface. In a moment of darkness, an unthinkable act shatters their world.

When Geoff gets home drunk after a pool night, he accidentally stabs and kills his long term girlfriend, Jennifer. Ignoring his opportunity to act, he flees to Pnie, a village in Poland, hoping to rebuild his life. After meeting Maria, a local shop owner, Geoff finds himself helping out in ways he could never have imagined. However, an earthquake stops their lives dead and he looks to his old skills as a builder to steady the situation.

Echoes of Green follows Chase Hughes returning to his hometown, Grand Meadows, Texas, for the first time in 20 years. He is haunted by memories as he attends the funeral of his former best friend, Stefano "Steve" Moretti. The journey brings back painful reflections on his daughter Rosie's death, which bears unsettling similarities to Steve’s recent car accident. Throughout this journey, Chase is forced to face the past he left behind, reuniting with old friends, a former love interest, as well as those who wronged him.

Chris Anderson has everything. He’s the son of the richest family in town. He lives in a beautiful, loving home. He even has a fairy godmother. Chris Anderson also has nothing. He was born with a deformed arm, and when he gets angry he sees visions that terrify him. At the turn of the Twentieth Century, in a nation wrestling with faith and science, tradition and change, Chris will be forced to confront his own nature, and learn the meanings of freedom, love, and the grace of God.

The tales collected in Julie Rogers's Seven Shorts can be compared to a wintry landscape: what lurks beneath is cloaked by deceptive beauty. They hold literary garments elegant and genteel, belying curves and forms patiently waiting at any moment to shock, or even enlighten. Cover your eyes, spin you a few times, and shove you into a room with . . . never mind.

A shipping container just changed the world… For seventeen years, Russia hid a secret in plain sight—lethal Club-K missile systems disguised as ordinary freight containers, smuggled into ports and rail yards across every NATO nation. Now, they’re waking up. In Club K: Hidden Sword – Operation Perun, bestselling author Michael J. Melton unleashes a riveting geopolitical thriller where the next world war begins not with a bang, but with a signal.

When Marco Rodriguez disappears without a trace, his wife Sarah is left to raise their young son alone while facing escalating hate and suspicion in her small Oklahoma town. As Sarah searches for truth and justice, four teenagers—Carlos, Sofia, Daniel, and Isabel—grapple with an ICE raid that shakes their school and community, awakening their own voices in a fight against injustice. Meanwhile, Deputy Mark Miller, weary but dogged, begins to uncover disturbing ties between Marco’s disappearance, a corrupt construction company, and a growing white supremacist movement.

Jason Thomas was a man everyone called when something needed fixing—except his own soul. A former Marine, a broken father, and a man fading into silence, Jason’s life has become a runaway train headed for collapse. Haunted by abandonment, marred by failed relationships, and surrounded by the wreckage of choices he can’t outrun, he’s reached the end of the line… with a bullet marked “Peace” and a note that says “I’m sorry.” But just before the final act, an unexpected phone call from a long-lost friend sparks a conversation that begins to unravel decades of pain.

Left alone for the weekend while her husband and two children are visiting her in-laws, the narrator of KILLING STELLA recounts the addition of her friend’s daughter, Stella, into their already tense and tumultuous household. Staring out the window at her garden, she worries about the baby bird in the linden tree, about her husband, Richard, who flits from one adulterous affair to another, about her son’s gloomy demeanor and her daughter’s obliviousness to everything, and, most of all, she worries about Stella, a confused teenager who has just met a sudden and disastrous end.

I was tired of watching one child abuser after another get little to no consequence for destroying the futures of so many innocent victims. I felt more and more infuriated after learning a case investigated with solid evidence had charges negotiated and pled down to little or no jail time.

Last Call is a story of redemption. It follows the life of Tommy Boyle, an addict whose life has spiralled to a low bottom and seems to have lost all meaning. The story is told by a third party unrelated to the events within the novel. He is a man named Joe who receives what is to be the last in a series of calls Tommy Boyle is making from a pay phone to members of his family. Joe was never meant to be the recipient of the call but the call would impact him forever.

What begins as a routine fishing trip on the remote Albany River turns into a harrowing fight for survival when five lifelong friends are pushed to their limits by violent weather, treacherous terrain, and the haunting silence of the forest. As external challenges escalate, old memories surface, hidden secrets unravel, and unspoken tensions crack their long-standing bonds.

An ancient feathered spirit who lived in a remote desert for a long time, where it was consumed repeatedly by fires a muse would set, only to rise from the ashes of each…remade, renewed, and more evolved, and however much before the muses arrive, it may dive, tumble, fall…or occasionally land and to something cling, but never at the expense of losing its wings.

Недалекое будущее. Земля объята арктической чумой, вырвавшейся из заточения ледников. Центры по разработке вакцины, полеты к новым планетам, отели смерти и парки аттракционов, провожающие детей в последний путь, – каждому аспекту этого нового человечества посвящена отдельная новелла, тесно связанная с другими историями, из которых сплетена эта книга. В центре этого романа мир, изменившийся как будто до неузнаваемости, но на самом деле – едва уловимо.

У пятнадцатилетней Кэлли нет друзей, ее брат болен, связь с матерью очень непрочна, а отца она уже не видела много недель — и у них есть общий секрет. Сейчас Кэлли в «Море и пихты» — реабилитационном центре, где полно других девчонок со своими «затруднениями». Кэлли не желает иметь с ними ничего общего. Она ни с кем не желает иметь ничего общего. Она не разговаривает. Совсем не разговаривает. Не может вымолвить ни слова.

On New Year’s Eve of 1961, while visiting family in England, sisters Sophie and Olivia’s lives are forever changed with the ill-fated discovery of a sapphire and diamond bracelet gifted to their mother, Elizabeth Grace Bennett Bannister. Their mother, a Baron’s daughter within the English aristocracy, grew up roaming the vast and beautiful estate of Harrington Hall. After the events of that fateful evening, Elizabeth Grace all but disappears from their lives, and the sisters are left to discover why their mother never returned home to Toronto, Canada.

This collection of standalone stories follows an unnamed female protagonist as she navigates a wasteland where civilization's collapse has stripped away everything but the brutal necessities of existence. Each story delivers visceral combat sequences rendered with technical precision—from silent takedowns to the strategic management of limited resources. Listeners will witness survival craft at its most authentic: improvised medical procedures, tactical shelter assessment, and the unflinching arithmetic of risk versus reward that defines life in this gritty apocalyptic fiction.

In Hitler’s Germany, loyalty is demanded and dissent is deadly. But for young Waltraud, nothing is more devastating than the day the Nazis steal away her father to fight in a war he didn't believe in. Even as their reign of terror spreads, she’s convinced war will never touch her quiet village. But when bombs start falling and innocent people disappear, she’s confronted with a stark reality…she might be next.

As war consumes Syria, Shamil, a doctor living in London, must return to his homeland to ensure his family's safety. Estranged from his wife Laila and son Zain, he finds himself navigating both a fractured family and a country in turmoil. With every step, Shamil is forced to confront his own guilt, the ghosts of his past, and the painful reality of a homeland he barely recognizes.

A delightful new short story by Liz Mingo, author of Between Green and Orange. From poetry to my first short story, hoping this is just one of many so watch this space....