Mike and his team of super-agents must stop an evil sewage overlord from unleashing a deadly plague.In this fourth story in the Puppeteer series, Mike and his band of dangerously incompetent secret agents uncover a plot to introduce a new "plague" on the Earth. The first plague was unleashed during the Puppeteer invasion and resulted in millions of deaths. If the new version hits the streets it will make the first one look like a bad case of the sniffles.Can Mike and his "team" stop the new plague? How is Alice adjusting to life back among the living? Who is the new exchange student that Mike's team has been saddled with?Find out in Puppet: Agent! Views: 502
USSS Special Agent Raven Somers is finally returning after a frightening incident & the coinciding death of her father. Her father inspired her on her path with Jesus, but she is now struggling in the dark because her light has died. With help from the CAT guys, President Hawk delves into her life at every opportunity. But Raven's mind screams for her to run, while her heart aches for his comfort.Special Agent Raven Somers, of the United States Secret Service, is finally returning back to duty after having been gone for over ten months because of a frightening incident. Only she isn't the same strong, always smiling and laughing, joyful woman that left. Raven is still reeling from the sudden death of her father, which coincided with her leaving. Her father was the one that inspired her on her path with Jesus, and she is now struggling in the dark because her light has died.Raven strives to get back into a routine with the only familiar thing she has left, her career, but she is in grave danger of losing that as well, and is plagued by a fear that is paramount to her livelihood. However, at every turn she encounters an elusive group of men, and one powerful man that is always right there in the center of them with his broad shoulders and comforting arms open to her. Her mind screams for her to run away, but her heart begs her to run towards him. Circumstances force her to do the unthinkable every time.In this first novel of the Protection Series, the United States Secret Service’s Counter Assault Team (CAT) go a step beyond just merely protecting their President and aide him when he delves into Raven’s life at every opportunity. However, President Drake Hawk is forced to cling to his confidence in Jesus while he struggles to wait for her, and humbly finds out that as always only God’s timing is perfect. Views: 502
A collection of the essential works by William Faulkner, the American novelist and short story writer.
“I’m a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can’t and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing that, only then does he take up novel writing.” —William Faulkner Views: 502
New York Times bestselling author Sherryl Woods reveals that the most delightful surprises may await right in your own backyard! Falling for a handsome stranger on the very morning they meet is hardly what recently divorced Abby Miller planned for her return to Seaview Key. Hoping to mend an old friendship and to give back to the community she loves, Abby's definitely not looking for love. For ex-soldier Seth Landry, Seaview Key seems like the perfect place to heal a broken heart...eventually. And when he rescues a beautiful woman on the beach, his nightmares about the past are eclipsed by daydreams about the future. Neither Abby nor Seth are looking for forever, but powerful love has its own timetable. And taking a chance on the future will test their courage in ways neither of them could possibly have anticipated. Views: 502
It is the summer of 1969—the year mankind first set foot on the moon. "The Red Fox Bible" chronicles twelve year old Bobbie's journey into the baptismal waters of a Southern Baptist Church as he struggles with his own beliefs about evolution."The Red Fox Bible" explores the internal conflict within a boy as he comes to grips with his conservative Southern Baptist upbringing and his growing awareness of science and evolution.Raised in an all female household by his mother, aunt, and older sister, Bobby deeply yearns for direction and companionship from a father figure, but is forced to make life-changing decisions on his own at an early age.This endearing story follows Bobby's challenge to satisfy his mother's religious beliefs while remaining true to himself. Views: 502
They were illicit, outrageous, obscene. They were the films that were supposed to deprave and corrupt the minds of those who watched them. They were the Video Nasties....and everything you've heard is true.Short story in which YOU are the monster, as you roam your lair killing and eating all who enter. That is until he shows up.Inspired by the sword and sorcery fantasy gaming books by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone. A story told as if YOU are the monster.If you read this story then why not leave me a review to tell me what you thought. Any feedback (be it good or bad) is always most helpful. Views: 502
Everything strange always centers around Amy Saunders. She hears voices in the air, saying things that only she can hear.But she has no one to turn to.Then she meets Zane. His twin brother is evil, and Zane must do everything he can to protect her.Come on. Come on, I thought to myself. I'd just lost him. I'd gotten so close, but then he vanished!I rushed over to the school. I knew Amelia Saunders was attending class today, and I had to make sure she was safe.That was when I saw him in the classroom.He was sitting in the seat next to her. His human form had been perfected, so I knew he would be able to be around her for hours, like at school.I saw red with fury.Well, not literally, but close enough.Andrew looked right at me and smirked, mouthing, "I've got her now."I knew I couldn't do anything with him in a room full of witnesses, but I had to think of something.Then I realized something. I only had permission to speak with Amy if Andrew did something first. I couldn't appear to her unless he did, and I couldn't communicate with her unless Andrew had done something threatening.That was when the bell rang, and I saw Amy slowly gather her stuff so she would be out last and not be crushed in the crowd of leaving students.I wasted no time. I had to warn her. Views: 502
From the second collection of 17 stories in My Other Shorts & Formal Tales. A Sunday country market is livened up by a gate-crashing, old lady. A fiercely independent migrant, Polish WW2 survivor from out of town. She wants to set up to sell a range of memorabilia, home cooking and sweets. Immediately charming the regular stall-holders with stories and skills. She has other skills; unrevealed.A story from the second collection of 17 stories in My Other Shorts & Formal Tales. The Sunday country market stalls are livened up by the gate crashing of an out-of-towner. The aged old lady, a Polish migrant and surviving veteran of WW2, wants to set up her own stall to sell a wide range of Polish memorabilia, bric-a-brac, home cooking and home made sweets. She immediately charms the other regular stall holders with her wonderful cooking, skills and many stories. She has other skills, unrevealed. Views: 501
Southern Exposure is a spinoff of the Twilight series with new characters and a new story. There are some surprising twists along the way. If you liked Twilight, you won't be disappointed. This is Book I of the exciting Southern Exposure Saga.Southern Exposure is the first book in the exciting Southern Exposure Saga, a spinoff of the Twilight series.Void of human memory, Izzy loathes the monster she has become. Her sole purpose is to find and destroy the vampire that created her. She is a reluctant member of the Faulkner family, a coven that observes an alternative way of existence. Unfortunately for Izzy, the Faulkners also abide by strict rules forbidding contact with humans. In her mid teens, by human years, Izzy wants to attend classes at the local high school in hopes of secretly rekindling her human memory and the truth behind her sadistic demise.Jason Whitaker and his mother recently moved East to her hometown of Boonsboro. Gone are Jason's sun filled days surfing and cruising the beach with his friends. Now, in this small, rural community he is an outsider. Even on the football field he is second-string, and the nickname 'Hollywood' seems likely to keep him on the social sidelines as well.Izzy's thirst for the handsome, tanned outsider with irresistible eyes combined with Jason's attraction to the mysterious, pale Emo girl will trigger events that neither could possibly foresee. Star crossed lovers? Not even close. Views: 501
16-year-old Judas Stoker III loses his mother to a car accident, and he is sent to live with his estranged great grandfather in his manor. He hopes of forging a bond with him, only to realize he's stepped into a dark labyrinth of hell. Judas frantically documents his desperate attempt to unlock the mysteries of the manor before he’s consumed by the fractured nightmare that’s swallowed him whole.From the Publisher that brought you popular short story series Witching Call, Hostile Hearts, Earthbound Angels, The January Morrison Files Psychic Series, Ralph's Gift, Song of Teeth, Children of Time, Chains of Darkness, Tropical Storms, Friend Zone, The Magaram Legends, The Night Sculptor Series, and now, Requiem for a Dream..."I am going mad. Even as I speak the words are twisting away from me, writhing like living creatures to whisper horrible things."THE DARKNESS IS COMINGOn the day sixteen year old Judas Stoker III loses his mother to a car accident he finds his reality splintered to the core. Sickly and isolated from a young age, he has no immediate family and no prospects for salvation. He is committed to a psychiatric hospital until a mysterious stranger arrives with news that he is to be signed over to the care of a distant but concerned relative.A perfect opportunity for a brand new beginning for the troubled boy. Haunted by his mother’s disembodied spirit, Judas is sent to live with his estranged great grandfather in upstate New York. Judas arrives at the manor with hopes of forging a bond with his eccentric relative only to realize that he has just stepped into a dark labyrinth designed to make him question his very existence.There, he begins to discover that there is such a thing as true evil in the world.Ushered in by the mansion's questionable servants, Blu the butler and Bast the maid, he explores the manor in search of his great grandfather who is inexplicably and continuously absent. As his time ticks by, Judas realizes that his reality and the reality of the house are blurring to create a hell that he could never have imagined.With his mind slipping faster and faster, Judas frantically documents his decent into madness and his desperate attempt to unlock the mysteries of his great grandfather's manor before he is consumed by the fractured nightmare that has swallowed him whole.If you wish to read more, download now!BONUS PREVIEW IF YOU BUY THIS BOOK!EXCERPT“No fears,” she repeated, smiling up at me. Slowly, nervously, I reached out to brush back some of the silky hairs that clung to her cheek, but a rustling from the darkness distracted me. From within the black shadows on the tree, a tall figure unfolded itself seemingly from the ground and the towering frame of the butler loomed over us both. A warning scream trembled and died in my throat as I saw him lurch forward jerkily like some gangling puppet. His face was deathly white and his eyes were bloodshot. Blue veins crisscrossed over his face and he seemed to swallow Bast’s white form into his own, spreading his arms wider and wider until they folded her up.“Bast!” I made a grab for her but my fingers clutched only air. The white dress vanished into the folds of black and the butler or demon or whatever he was thrust his distorted face into mine, paralyzing me with terror. His breath coiled with mine and I breathed in the rank scent of death and decay. His white skin bubbled and burst with maggots and flies as they chewed their way through the rotting flesh. I stared into the inhuman eyes of the devil and he cackled at me, a shrieking, howling laugh that turned my blood to ice....”Next in the Series: The Dark Crow SmilesDiscover why readers are raving about GJ Winters.Scroll up and get the book now! Views: 501
This story follows Anakin Skywalker & Captain Rex through the perils of war and through the loss of one of their own.Here is a short excerpt of the book, the second one in the Terra Two series, published in June 2014. Sister Roberta didn't want to look too impressed because she had rightfully earned the reputation of a genius for whom nothing was impossible, but she had to admit that Purple's capabilities went so far beyond human limitations it would have been stupid to turn down the already processed knowledge for the dubious glory of reinventing the wheel.Sys stood next to her, smiling and acting as if it had offered the sister a stick of gum, completely unmoved by the complexity and advanced technical knowledge required to generate this science presentation. Roberta wondered how come the um didn't act superior, any human certainly would have. It was not that Sys didn't have internal processes that acted very similar to human emotions, it loved its mother, was very protective of its school friends and could get happy or sad on occasion, but it had a seemingly infinite patience, an avid thirst for knowledge and a complete lack of ego which Roberta suspected had more to do with its Purple kinship than its human upbringing."I see the energy field is definitely strong enough to push us to hyperspace, what else can it do?" she asked Sys.Sys didn't answer but picked up a tin beaker between its cupped palms and slowly turned it into a plastic flower, a broccoli spear and finally a bubble of milk. Sys and Roberta stared at the milk ball for a while, the liquid acted as if floating in imponderability with the surface tension as its only container, a gooey ellipsoid spinning slowly around its slanted axis."Holy mercy!" Seth exclaimed, staring open mouthed at the willful transformation of matter. The leader seemed to be everywhere at the same time and never missed the important breakthroughs of their community. Her comments startled um, who lost its focus and allowed the milk to splash on the floor, subject to gravity again."How come it didn't turn back into tin?" Seth asked. Um looked puzzled at the question, not understanding the logic."How are you doing this?" Sarah whispered from behind Seth."They're the same sub-atomic components, I'm just reorganizing them," um said simply, a bit bothered by the all the attention.Roberta had regained her confidence and recognized some of the equations from way back when she fused materials together and pulled Jimmy from the beach. The theoretical model made perfect sense to her, of course, but all the other sisters who had gathered in the lab in the meantime were more befuddled by the equations themselves than the miraculous transformation of matter."Well, I guess we can all stop cultivating the fields now," sister Joseph commented, for once not protesting but a little unsure of her footing. "We can make cat-brain's toy here turn dirt into potatoes and we won't ever have to worry for nothing.Sarah smiled at the fine irony; they have been praying twice a day for almost two hundred years to a God who told them nothing was impossible and now everyone was confused by the fact that this promise was in fact true."I like cultivating the fields, it's good exercise and something to look forward to every morning," Sarah answered, still smiling. "Why waste a perfectly good miracle on something you can do for yourself?" she continued."At least we know there will be no more emergencies," sister Mary-Francis commented."Unless something happens to the sugar toy," sister Joseph replied. "We should make more of them, you know, to be on the safe side," she said and the corner of her eye caught a glimpse of a very flushed Sarah who looked petrified with outrage."Yeah, yeah, it's your child, blah, blah, insensitive, I know. Get over it!" sister Joseph said unfazed. "Seriously, shouldn't we have more ums?" she turned to Seth. Views: 501
Tail of the Dragon is the first book in the Fallen Trilogy, a fictional account of the fall of Satan and his demons from heaven, their work on Earth, and the ultimate battle that will decide the fate of the universe.Book 1 of the Fallen Angel Trilogy (www.fallenangeltrilogy.com) tells the story of revolution in the Celestial City. A new class of angels in inducted into the Angelic Academy as a pair of renegades leads an uprising against the rule of the Three Kings. Students must choose sides as the conflict reaches a crisis and two best friends find themselves on opposite sides of the struggle. Views: 501
(Applause Books). In Performance is intended for young people who are auditioning for both undergraduate and graduate programs, as well as professional productions and industry meetings. Featured are dynamic monologues from contemporary stage plays of the past 15 years, chosen from the point of view of a professional acting teacher, director, and casting director. Along with covering the basics of how to match the best monologue to the actor and how to approach the rehearsal and performance of the piece, the book provides a synopsis of each play, a character description, and a list of questions specific to each monologue that will direct the actor toward shaping a complex, honest, and thoughtful performance that has a strong emotional connection, a clear arc, and playable actions. Views: 501
Do you sometimes wonder why a sure sale falls through the cracks? Don't you feel powerless every time that happens? You know that your product or service is really good for your customer. You've done everything to get the customer interested. They obviously like what you're selling, but they shift, they fidget and then inexplicably walk away to the competition. Being pushy is unnecessary... That's because pushiness creates an unnatural situation. The Brain Audit doesn't teach you how to use mind tricks. It's not a system of coercion. It doesn't psyche the customer into buying against his or her will. Instead it shows you how to attract the attention of a customer. It shows you how to keep that attention. It shows you where the attention wavers. And it takes you through a series of steps that we all take on a day-to-day basis when buying products or services. And not only does it show you a step-by-step method, but it gives you a checklist... Views: 501
