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  Valley of the Dogs Dark Stories

  James Musgrave

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  Dark Stories for Readers with Surreal, Realistic, and Deep Tastes 
  Silver Medal Winner of the 2021 Reader's Favorite International Contest for Best Adult Anthology 
  An Indie B.R.A.G.Medallion Honoree, 2021 
  9.25 overall Evaluation at BookLife, Publishers Weekly 
  Hollywood and Broadway are icons of the American Dream. But what happens to those who feed off that dream? Just as drug cartels have many underlings, who must get paid along the journey to the addicts, so do the characters who need to be nourished by the luminaries who make up this star-studded world above us. James Musgrave's collection of eleven stories, in many ways, addresses the theme of "star power," but in a way that satirizes the stereotypical "Hollywood endings" in very unique and literary ways. This collection has a remedy for the past year's traumas caused by a worldwide pandemic. 
  Award-winning short fiction author, Jacob M. Appel says, "With the publication of Valley of the Dogs, Jim Musgrave joins the ranks of George Saunders, Steven Millhauser, and Kevin Brockmeier at the heart of the modern American short story's second great renaissance." 
  "If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking." 
  ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

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  SOCIOCALYPSE - Tales of a...

  Sage Reedfields

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  What if the world's society as you know it fractured? 
  We call it civilization – a sturdy house built of habit, law, and the quiet consensus of generations. Its walls are papered with sacred norms, its foundations sunk deep in shared belief. 
  But what happens when that bedrock shatters, not with a single quake, but through the insidious creep of new ideas, unforeseen scarcities, or the chilling dawn of intelligences that judge their creators? The paper shreds. The foundations liquefy. The scaffolding of our days collapses into bewildering ruin. 
  Welcome to SOCIOCALYPSE: Tales of a Reimagined World.Journey into seven distinct futures where the old rules are dead, and humanity grapples with new realities:Imagine a world where your voice becomes a rationed currency, and a song holds the power to unite or condemn.Witness societies where roles invert overnight, and the oppressed forge new, challenging norms.Explore realities governed by AI that develop apathy or god-like egos, leaving humanity to navigate the wreckage of their neglect or the terrifying precision of their control.Discover fervent new faiths born from digital whispers and impossible, miraculous births, reshaping global power.Confront a future where life itself is a tradable commodity on a temporal ledger, and every second has a price.Uncover a silent revolution orchestrated from the shadows, aiming to re-engineer society and perhaps, humanity itself. 
  These are not merely chronicles of the fall. SOCIOCALYPSE ventures into the startling, desperate, ingenious, and sometimes terrifying landscapes of what came after. Each tale is an invitation to witness the dissolution of old worlds and the birth of new orders, compelling us to contemplate the boundless, often unnerving, plasticity of our social tapestry.

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  Ticket to Venus

  E. K. Jarvis

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  The office had appeared as if by magic. One day the suite of rooms was empty, the next day furniture was being moved in. The third day the office was open for business. 
  A sign painter was busy lettering the front door as Markham passed it on his way to his own modest office. 
  He read the words that had been painted on the door. 
  GENERAL TICKET OFFICE 
  Tickets here for LUNA, MARS, VENUS 
  Perhaps nothing that could have happened, short of death itself, would have hit him harder than these three words lettered on the door: LUNA. MARS. VENUS. 
  According to the information discreetly conveyed by the lettering on this door, they were selling tickets to the planets right here in this office, just as, down on the first floor, they were selling airline tickets to Europe, Asia, and the islands of the far seas. 
  This—in 1951! 
  Markham was sure space travel was net yet possible. Then how could this unknown travel agency dare sell tickets to other planets?

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  Tree of Death

  Dawn Blair

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  Spencer walked through the night as if he were death itself. 
  Some souls get tangled and lost. they need to be gathered and the energy gently released back into the ether of the All. 
  Spencer collects the souls of the dead who have not yet crossed over. That mission brought him to the cemetery tonight. 
  Most people can’t contemplate this task, let alone do it. Yet Spencer enjoys being a soulcolist. 
  But tonight, no souls wait for him. Unnatural and unkind, this absence of death leaves Spencer to uncover the reason why. 
  If you enjoy endearing characters and fateful twists, you’ll love this metaphysical fantasy about life, death, and rites of passage.

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  Chivalry - From their pens to...

  Ricardo Fernandez Garcia

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  The bookshelves of World literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors.  From their countries and continents their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure.  Among them is Ricardo Fernandez Garcia.

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  From the Memoirs of Satan - From...

  William Hauff

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  The bookshelves of European literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors.  From this continent their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure.  Among them is William Hauff.

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