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  That Time of the Night

  Ian Gordon

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  Scallop-like sea creatures… 
  Supermarket pickling malfunctions… 
  The dreadful effects of mass poisoning… 
  The truth about darkness… 
  A visitor from the waking world… 
  THAT TIME OF THE NIGHT is the second collection of Ian’s short stories, including Night of the Nuckelavee, Cleanup on Aisle 22, Pockets, and It’s Your Turn, Joey. 
  There’s no better time to tell a horror story, than at that time of the night, long after darkness has fallen, and the hidden things have come out to play…

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  Daddy Bod

  Margot Scott

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  Jonathan: Wherever I am, I'm the biggest guy in the room. People don't just gawk when they see me. They keep their distance, which is fine by me. Why do you think I bought a fixer-upper in the country? 
   
   
   
  I don't mind the manual labor, just like I don't mind the solitude. I've got my own business and projects, and no room for anything—or anyone—else. That is, until an angel shows up on my doorstep, clutching a month-old advert touting a room for rent in my house. 
   
   
   
  A girl her age doesn't move to the middle of nowhere without good reason. I've made it my mission to unearth April's reasons, but the more I learn, the more I need to learn. 
   
   
   
  April: I knew the ad was a long shot, and I wasn't prepared for a giant to answer the door. 
   
   
   
  I expect him to send me packing, but he lets me rent a room. It's not my first choice, but my stepmom threw me out when she discovered how I've been saving for college: working as a cam girl. 
   
   
   
  As soon as I'm online, I meet a customer who buys all my private sessions. Something about this man feels familiar. He wants me to tell him my dirtiest fantasies, things I've never told anyone, about wanting to be sheltered by a man I call Daddy. 
   
   
   
  Contains mature themes.

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  Top 10 Short Stories The - The...

  George Eliot

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  Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart.  A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. 
   
  In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?  
   
  The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme.  Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature. 
   
  Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made.  If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something. 
   
  In this Century England assembles more of the world’s territories, people and materials for her own Empire.  The arts also flourish with names in this volume that are bywords for talent beyond the reach of almost all other writers.  An ever hungry audience demands yet more and more. 
   
  1 - The Top 10 - The 19th Century - The English - An Introduction 
  2 - The Lifted Veil - Part 1 by George Eliot 
  3 - The Lifted Veil - Part 2 by George Eliot 
  4 - The Signalman by Charles Dickens 
  5 - The Man Who Would Be King - Part 1 by Rudyard Kipling 
  6 - The Man Who Would Be King - Part 2 by Rudyard Kipling 
  7 - The Magic Shop by H G Wells 
  8 - The Withered Arm by Thomas Hardy 
  9 - The Old Nurse's Story by Elizabeth Gaskell 
  10 - A Little Dinner At Timmin's by William Makepeace Thackeray 
  11 - Father Giles of Ballymoy by Anthony Trollope 
  12 - Lost Hearts by M R James 
  13 - A Terribly Strange Bed by Wilkie Collins

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  Requiem For An Athlete

  Alfred C. Martino

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  Requiem For An Athlete is a somber tale of the unfulfilled expectations of a once-great athlete, seeing through tear-clouded eyes the trophies and medals of a life long gone. 
   
  Alfred C. Martino is the author of three highly-acclaimed young adult novels, "Perfected By Girls, "Over The End Line," and the Jr. Library Guild Selection and 'Best Books For Young Adults' nominee, "Pinned." Amateur wrestling and soccer have been a part of Alfred‘s life for over thirty-five years. In wrestling, he has competed on the midget, junior high, high school and collegiate levels, as well as coached Millburn’s youth program for nearly a decade. Mr. Martino was born and raised in Short Hills, NJ, and graduated from Millburn High School, where he was captain of school’s 1982 wrestling team. He is a graduate of Duke University and The Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California. He currently lives in Jersey City.

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  Dr Death - He is more than he seems

  Rachel Lawson

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  Anthology of The Magician stories with Dr Blake Alexander known as Dr Death a Coroner with a dark side. 
  Good Quotes from : The People From The Center of the Earth a story in audio book 
  "Glad you are open-minded most people just say I'm mad to believe in the star people!" said the Chicken. 
  "I believe in aliens!" said Blake. "You do?" said the Chicken his eyes widening. 
  "Of course we are aliens how could I not believe in us?" said the not-so-human Blake. 
  "I am not a Flat Earther or a hollow Earther. Nobody lives in the center of any planet," said Blake. 
  "Blake the Star People are real!" said the Masked Chicken. "No they aren't real still!" said Blake. 
  The Chicken pushed a News Paper at Blake."Aliens from the center of the Earth take the Human race to court for ownership of the planet!" Blake read. "Did you get this made as a joke?" asked Blake. "I never thought I'd say this to anyone!" Blake said, "Take me to your leader?" 
  "Who are you human I don't bother my leader with the rabble," said the star person.. 
  "I am Alexandrite Argent the Chief Justice of Sapphirus Argent," said Blake. 
  "Whose that?" asked the star person. "He's my Grandfather he's only the Emperor of the Universe!" 
  said Blake getting impatient with the star person. "I will judge your case," said Blake. 
  "You are biased," said the supreme leader."Yes but without me, your case cannot be legally judged I am the only one who can judge Planetary cases," said Blake. "What's wrong with him," said the supreme leader seeing Lance's Emo son. 
  "Oh him he's just the Prince of Darkness," said Lance off-handedly. "Hey!" snapped the offended Emo. "Why are everyone happy these strangers want to evict humans from the Earth?" Jnr asked. 
  "It's our planet!" said the Supreme Leader.Narrators: Rachel Lawson as main narrator, Addison Fell as Alexa in Bad Omens,

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  A Sting In The Ale

  Colin Devine

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  Love, Cruelty, Power: the three cornered stool on which the world squats. A Sting in the Ale is not a novel, it is not even an anti-novel but rather an extended meditation in short story and poetic form over the events reimagined of an otherwise uneventful life; the life of every human animal in which plot and plans fall prey to one darn thing after another. Most things were never meant to be - as the poet of lower middle class misery once observed. The modern cult of power has replaced the ancient notion of the Good as the credible measure of a fulfilled and meaningful life. To what pass is the cult of the self and the cult of power and its holyfool handmaidens leading us? Power, Cruelty and Love; the power of love, the love of power and the universal apologia of partners, jilting lovers, politicians and pimps of various persuasions insisting that one has to be cruel in order to be kind. Very often the kindness in the human animal is cruelty in waiting. A Sting in the Ale is a work of art or pornography - only the individual reader can decide.

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