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  Frail Little Embers

  Fija Callaghan

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  A collection of 21 short stories illustrated by Becky Purton
  A masquerade mask reveals a young woman's innermost secrets. A grieving woman uses cocoa beans to open a door between worlds. Leaving her thesis behind, a graduate student crosses into fairyland. An aging grandmother recounts her post-war encounter with a shapeshifter who brought out new desires.
  Myth, folklore, and magic come together as characters in this heartwarming collection to conquer everyday challenges with strength and resilience.

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  Hop-Frog

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  More classic horror narrations on Jonathan's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@JonathanDunneHorrorAudiobooks 
  Title: Hop-Frog 
  Author: Edgar Allan Poe 
  Narrator: Jonathan Dunne 
  Original Publication: 1849 
  Public Domain: Yes 
  Series Placement: Timeless Terrors No. 85 
  Description: 
  Hop-Frog is one of Edgar Allan Poe’s most viciously ironic tales of psychological and moral horror—a dark exploration of cruelty, humiliation, and the devastating power of revenge. Set within the grotesque decadence of a royal court, the story follows Hop-Frog, a physically disabled jester whose sharp intellect stands in stark contrast to the barbarity of those who rule over him. 
  Central to the narrative is the sustained abuse inflicted upon Hop-Frog by a sadistic king and his courtiers, whose mockery and violence are disguised as amusement. Poe slowly builds tension through repeated acts of degradation, revealing how cruelty, when normalized, becomes a catalyst for catastrophic consequences. Beneath the trappings of comedy and festivity, an atmosphere of moral rot festers, awaiting ignition. 
  Rather than relying solely on supernatural elements, Poe crafts horror through psychological inevitability and grim poetic justice, culminating in a masquerade that transforms spectacle into terror. The story’s final act is both shocking and disturbingly earned, forcing the reader to confront the true cost of unchecked power and dehumanization. 
  Narrated by Amazon-bestselling horror author Jonathan Dunne, this performance captures the story’s escalating malice, bitter irony, and explosive conclusion. Hop-Frog endures as one of Poe’s most unsettling revenge tales—a reminder that those treated as monsters may one day decide to become them.

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  Times of Harvest - Christian End...

  Cliff Ball

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  Times of Harvest is a Christian End Times short story collection based off of four characters in the End Times Saga series of novels. 
  Jonathan Tsosie – an Arizona Navajo, who becomes a Christian as a youth while spending a summer with a Christian family in Phoenix. Becomes a law enforcement officer for the Nation as an adult. Helps other Christians as they run from the corrupt federal government. 
  Laura Hall – A high school student who is the senior class treasurer for her school. Is a dedicated Christian. Ends up at Camp 13 when the government rounds up all the Christians. 
  Jon Ryan – The family doctor for the Atwood’s in Nebraska. Starts his career around the time the United States Health Service comes into being. Skips around government regulations for many years before the government finds out. 
  Xavier Doolittle – The head of the Secret Service at the White House. Is a back-sliding Christian and we read about the back story of what led him in that direction.

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  Confessions of a City Girl: Los...

  Juliette Sobanet

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  From the Amazon bestselling author of Sleeping with Paris comes a spicy novella that will take you on a decadent and touching journey into the land of palm trees and sunshine… 
  When talented DC photographer Natasha Taylor meets alluring investor Nicholas Reyes at her first exhibit, a harmless invitation to join him for a weekend in Los Angeles turns into a passionate love affair that awakens Natasha in ways she never could have imagined.

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  Places Like These

  Lauren Carter

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  Finalist for the 2023 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards
  A widow visits a spiritualist community to attempt to contact her late husband. A grieving teenager confronts the unfairness of his small-town world and the oncoming ecological disaster. A sexual assault survivor navigates her boyfriend's tricky family and her own confusing desires. A mother examines unresolved guilt while seeking her missing daughter in a city slum. A lover exploits his girlfriend's secrets for his own purposes. Whether in Ecuador or San Francisco, rural Ontario or northern Manitoba, the landscape in each of Carter's poignant short stories reflects each character's journey.
  Psychologically complex and astute, Places Like These plumbs the vast range of human reactions to those things which make us human—love, grief, friendship, betrayal, and the intertwined yet contrasting longing for connection and independence.

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  The Tar Baby and Other Rhymes of...

  Joel Chandler Harris

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  26 of Uncle Remus's stories put into verse and song. With the exception of the Tar Baby story, they were all new to this publication of 1904 and cover a variety of humorous subjects from Adan and Eve (De Appile Tree) to Brer Rabbit's Gigglin' Place. There are also genuine Camp Meeting Songs and a Corn Shuckin' Song. (Summary by Phil Chenevert)

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