"Will you give me your blood to drink, though you die of it?" In an unexpected twist on a fairy tale, an artist goes into the wilderness to fulfill his father's debt and finds himself the prisoner of a dangerous, alienly beautiful monster. Views: 345
The Scum Gentry Alternative Arts and Media E-Zine is a monthly compendium of poetry, prose, journalism, art-works, interviews and other various madness, all with a darkly-comic outsider appeal.The Scum Gentry Alternative Arts and Media E-Zine is a monthly compendium of poetry, prose, journalism, art-works, interviews and other various madness, all with a darkly-comic outsider appeal.Issue two features prose by David Duff and Ross Breslin; poetry by Rachel Coventry, Peter O’Neill, Ephraim Gast, Ian Critchley and Slimz O’Driscoll; political commentary by Zack Breslin; art works by Ol’ Blue Harkin and Slimz O’Driscoll; and an Arts from The Inside interview with London-based Irish artist Rob Whoriskey. Also in this month’s edition are a selection of grotesque and outrageous puzzles and comics, exclusive to the zine and personally crafted by the lunatics at Scum Gentry Manor themselves. Delicious.For more information and up-to-date madness from the rogues and rakes at the Scum Gentry, visit their website: www.thescumgentry.com Views: 345
**A full-length, standalone novel set in the world of the BIG GIRLS DO IT series**
I was finally fulfilling my life-long dream of studying at Oxford University in England. I had a thesis. I had an apartment. The one thing I didn’t have was time for a man. Especially not one as sexy and intriguing and distracting as Ian Stirling. Okay, I mean, maybe I did have a little time for a man. After all, it’s not every day a ripped British sex-god sweeps you off your feet and does dirty, delicious things to you.
Again and again. And again.
For days.
The problem is, Ian was just supposed to be a hunky distraction, but now my heart is craving him like my mouth craves cupcakes.
Full Big Girls/Rock Stars Do It series reading order:
Book 1: Big Girls Do It Better
Book 2: Big Girls Do It Wetter
Book 3: Big Girls Do It Wilder
Book 4: Big Girls Do It On Top
Book 5: Big Girls Do It Married
Book 6: Big Girls Do It On Christmas
Book 7: Rock Stars Do It Harder
Book 8: Rock Stars Do It Dirty
Book 9 Rock Stars Do It Forever
Book 10: Big Girls Do It Pregnant
Book 11: Big Love Abroad Views: 344
Its a cold night, the children warm themselves by the crackling bonfire. Reluctant to allow the night to end the day, they beg for a story. The Story Teller happily obliges.The Story Teller is tired of telling stories to those that no longer care about the legends of old. He finds himself sitting next to the Nights Guard that just wants him to leave as the children play nearby. The nights are longer, the wind freezing. The children cuddle close to the bonfire, not wanting to surrender to sleep. Begging and pleading, the children get the Story Teller to tell them about the howling they hear in the distance. Views: 344
Trained from birth to be the world's deadliest assassin, Michiko "Lotus" Akiyama works with the clandestine organization SANCTUM to dispatch high-value targets of the lowest order. When tasked to eliminate rogue operative Shane Drake, she learns her agency may not be as noble as they appear. Will Miko complete the job, or will SANCTUM's most dangerous asset become their worst nightmare?The story begins when a young man, Adam, runs away from home because he believes his impoverished parents do not love him. He is taken in by an elderly couple whose own son, Robin, has run away to seek his fortune. Adam decides that he must try to locate their lost son and convince him to come home. In his quest, he is joined by another young man, David, who has left his own dysfunctional family. Along the way, Adam and David are given guidance in two magical encounters in forests and from a magic mirror. As the quest continues and is eventually resolved, all involved learn much about themselves, society, and, most of all, the meaning of love. Views: 344
Ayenathurim, a world poised on the edge of change. Chaos beckons as people fractured apart by ancient rivalries strive to hold on. The sounds of war echo on the wind, but who yet is able to stand in the gap for those who are blind to the signs of the times…………………the end, if so it must be, heralds the rise of heroes, even as monsters roar, and kings rise and fall.The sands blow hollowly across the plains of time. Unseen by man an army was on the move, an army of darkness……. Slowly over the course of centuries the truth has been eroded away within the courts of men, until few yet stand for the ways of El Elyon, the Creator of the beginning and He who foreknew that one day the end would come……. Ayenathurim, a world poised on the edge of change. Chaos beckons as people fractured apart by ancient rivalries strive to hold on. The sounds of war echo on the wind, but who yet is able to stand in the gap for those who are blind to the signs of the times…………………the end, if so it must be, heralds the rise of heroes, even as monsters roar, and kings rise and fall. As Evil triumphs over the nations, even so it was foretold to come to pass and yet the end of darkness’s reign has already begun……. Views: 344
In this fifth New York Times bestseller in the Walk series, Richard Paul Evans’s hero Alan Christoffersen must say some painful goodbyes and learn some important lessons as he comes to the end of his cross-country walk to Key West.
After the death of his beloved wife, after the loss of his advertising business to his once-trusted partner, after bankruptcy forced him from his home, Alan Christoffersen’s daring cross-country journey—a walk across America, from Seattle to Key West, with only the pack on his back—has taught him lessons about love, forgiveness and, most of all, hope.
Now Alan must again return west to face yet another crisis, one that threatens to upend his world just as he had begun to heal from so much loss, leaving him unsure of whether he can reach the end his journey. It will take the love of a new friend, and the wisdom of an old friend, to help him to finally leave the past behind and find the strength and hope to live again. Views: 344
Lore of the Underlings continues. In this episode: As folk prepare for both feast and trial, the mighty John Cap is paraded out and put on display by his captors, the Guard. But despite being bound up awaiting his fate, the traveler makes a surprising ally -- a prophetic and seemingly holy man by the name of Minyon Myne. A thin ray of hope in the morning sun as his hour of judgment approaches...Welcome back to Lore of the Underlings, a trail of tales to the end of things, and maybe a bit beyond.The lore continues. In this episode: As folk prepare for both feast and trial, the mighty John Cap is paraded out and put on display by his captors, the Guard. But despite being bound up awaiting his fate, the traveler makes a surprising ally -- a prophetic and seemingly holy man by the name of Minyon Myne. A thin ray of hope in the morning sun as his hour of judgment approaches...Can this godsend save the young man's neck from the brother Treasuror's steely justice? Could he be the savior the strangers have sought?Lore of the Underlings is an epic poetry series from John Klobucher's lands of Lore. It's a bittersweet saga of gold and shadow told in classic style -- with old-world words but new-world wit. Fun for fans of puns and lyrical tongues! Views: 344
Meet Sean Andrews, a United States Marine and son of Ares, as he tells his story to the "young college student" that wants to know about his heritage. Born in the 1960s in Texas, Sean grew up thinking his father dead in the Vietnam War. Except.... Ares is still alive, and has a plan for his son.In My Lady Olives, book one of the Olisbeth Mason Chronicles, Olisbeth/Athena discovers the existence of an entire world of gods and half-gods "demigods" in human form. Each demigod is born for a purpose, and their experiences as the child of a god varies as much as the gods themselves. In this, the first of the Demigod Interviews, Olisbeth Mason interviews Sean Andrews, the son of Ares and a United States Marine. Sean Andrews grew up thinking his father died in the Vietnam War.... except..... his father Ares still lives. Views: 344
Alicia's research decimated the world's population and now it has come back for her.Three hard-boiled stories that hark back to the days of Black Mask and Astounding Science Fiction. The first tale is a novella that introduces private dick Jay Dafoe. He’s in a dirty business, and cold hard cash has always made up for twinges his conscience might occasionally feel, or so he thought until he’s hired to find a missing daughter. How does the amoral Dafoe handle the horror he unwittingly becomes entwined with? The second story finds Dafoe doing what he thought was routine work for a lawyer. What he doesn’t know is that he is the final pawn in a tragedy that was thirty years in the making. Some sins, Dafoe finds out, can’t be forgiven.The third story is a study of a thug with a badge. Ben Andropov is a cop. The bosses are management, and the beat is the moon. Management wants order and doesn’t care how it’s kept. Andropov is a low-level enforcer of the status quo, having used his natural brutality to escape the drudgery and poverty of the everyday citizen. Seventeen years he’s been a cop, and it’s starting to take its toll. Solving a simple murder winds up inflicting more damage to what’s left of his crippled soul and there’s no way out.Cold Pulp Trio is hard-boiled noir. American as hollow point bullets. Views: 344
A story of love between a dragon and a human.After struggling with the death of her mate of over a century, Tara sees a dragon intruder attack a shepherd. She intervenes and saves the young man from certain death. Breaking a two hundred year old pact between man and dragon forbidding contact, a powerful bond grows between the dragon and her boy.A short story. Stories two and three out soon!A story of love between a dragon and a human.After struggling with the death of her lifemate of over a century, Tara spends what the leaders of her clan considers an unreasonable amount of time in finding another. The clan needs offspring, they insist.While soaring over a meadow, Tara sees a dragon intruder attack a shepherd. Outraged, she intervenes and saves the young man from certain death. Breaking a two hundred year old pact between man and dragon forbidding any contact between the two, a powerful yet dangerous bond slowly grows between the dragon and her boy.A short story/episode. Stories two and three of Dragon and Her Boy will be available shortly! Views: 344
