Editorial: Short Stories
4 drunken, incestuous tales! They’ve had too much to drink, and now they’ll have family! Taking My Drunk, Slutty, Passed Out Daughter/Taking My Drunk Sisters At A Party/Got So Drunk I Did A Gangbang With My Sons/Got Drunk On My Wedding Night…Then Gangbanged By My Brothers
A childless couple. A perfect adoption. A silent curse that never dies. For eight years, Claire and Carter Brennan have endured miscarriages and failed fertility treatments. Adoption feels like their last hope—until six-year-old Emma enters their lives. Quiet, withdrawn… and strangely familiar, as if grief itself had taken human form. But Emma is not alone. Her twin sister Lily was murdered by their deranged biological mother during a psychotic break—and Lily’s spirit never left. She clings to Emma like a shadow, demanding life. Four previous adoptive families are dead. The adoption agency covered it up, pushing the girl from home to home like a ticking supernatural time bomb. The Brennans are next. Doors slam. Whispering fills the house at night. Emma’s room is covered in drawings of a black house with windows like eyes. Claire’s attempt to bond with her turns into a descent into madness as she uncovers the truth: Emma isn’t possessed—she’s complicit. Each family feeds Lily, and Emma knows it. Now Claire must make an impossible choice:Send Emma away, condemning another innocent family…Or break the bond between the sisters at the price of her own soul. What follows is a ritual fueled by love—and corruption. Because sometimes, the darkest evil is born from the purest desire to be a mother. In the end, Claire becomes part of the curse. Emma moves on to her next family, carrying with her the devouring nightmare—where every hope of parenthood is twisted into horror.Ver libro
He came to Earth to hunt fugitives… not claim a mate who sets his blood on fire. Dragon Lord Rook is a warrior. He's deadly, disciplined, and done with the royal matchmaking games back home. To escape the meddling, he takes a mission on a backwater planet called Earth. Track the fugitives. Serve justice. Return to the stars. Easy. Until she crashes into his path. Sasha thought the worst part of her week was running into her cheating ex. Wrong. Now she's on the run after witnessing a deal gone very, very wrong… and the only thing standing between her and death is a massive, muscled alien with eyes like fire and a growl that promises danger… and desire. She's human. He's a dragon. It's an impossible match. But Rook wants her beneath him, bonded for life. Claiming Sasha means breaking every rule. And losing her? Unthinkable. Fated mates. Scorching heat. A possessive alien dragon who'll burn the universe down to protect what's his. The Dragon Brides series brings all the steam, action, and heart you love—with a growly warrior who just met his match.Ver libro
Book 21: SEALs of HonorNothing is what it seems … ever …Nelson’s early morning meeting at the docks with Elizabeth Etchings offers only bad news. Her brother—and Nelson’s old friend—has gone missing on his days off while his ship was docked in Ensenada. A trip to where he’d last been seen shows the local color … and reveals Nelson’s friend has gotten into bigger trouble than anyone could imagine.Elizabeth might have had a hand in now sending two men to Baja to look for her brother, but she will not stay behind. Her brother is in danger … and he’s the only family she has left.It doesn’t take long for Nelson to realize that Elizabeth has caught the eye of someone who rules that corner of the world. She’s now in jeopardy too—possibly more than her brother. Keeping her safe moves up Nelson’s priority list.Until both issues merge, and everything goes south …Ver libro
The Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes Track List Act 1 - Adventure Of The Engineer's Thumb - Part 1 Act 2 - Adventure Of The Engineer's Thumb - Part 2 Act 3 - Adventure of the Noble Bachelor - Part 1 Act 4 - Adventure of the Noble Bachelor - Part 2 The Adventure of the Engineer’s Thumb The story, set in the summer of 1889, mainly consists of a young London consultant hydraulic engineer, Mr. Victor Hatherley, recounting strange happenings of the night before, first to Dr. Watson. Hatherley had been visited in his office by a man who identified himself as Colonel Lysander Stark. He offered Hatherley a commission at a country house, in Eyford, Berkshire to examine a hydraulic press used, as Stark explains, to compress fuller's earth into bricks. Stark warned Hatherley to keep the job confidential, offering him 50 guineas (£52.50, equivalent to £6,173 in 2021[1]). Hatherley felt compelled to take this work, despite his misgivings, as his business was newly established and he had very little work. The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor The story entails the disappearance of Hatty, Lord St. Simon's bride on the day of their marriage. She participates in the wedding, but disappears from the reception. The events of the wedding day are most perplexing to Lord St. Simon as it seemed to him that his bride, Miss Hatty Doran of San Francisco, was full of enthusiasm about their impending marriage. St. Simon tells Holmes that he noticed a change in the young lady's mood just after the wedding ceremony. She was uncharacteristically sharp with him. The only thing out of the ordinary at the church where the wedding took place was Hatty's little accident: she dropped her wedding bouquet and a gentleman in the front pew picked it up and handed it back to her.Ver libro
Title: The Premature Burial Author: Edgar Allan Poe Narrator: Jonathan Dunne Original Publication: 1844 Public Domain: Yes Series Placement: Number 37 in the Timeless Terrors series Description: The Premature Burial by Edgar Allan Poe is one of the author’s most chilling meditations on fear — not of the supernatural, but of the terrible possibilities of life and death themselves. Blending meticulous realism with mounting horror, Poe explores the paralyzing dread of being buried alive, a fate all too plausible in an age before medical certainty. As the narrator recounts true tales of premature interment and his own spiraling obsession with the grave, the story becomes both a psychological study and a reflection on humanity’s darkest anxieties. Poe’s prose traps the listener in a space between reason and terror — where the heart still beats beneath the coffin lid, and imagination becomes a tomb. Narrated by Amazon bestselling horror author Jonathan Dunne, this performance captures the suffocating tension and morbid fascination that make The Premature Burial one of Poe’s most enduring works of gothic dread. While the text itself is in the public domain, this narration is an original performance and copyright © 2025 Jonathan Dunne. Part of Timeless Terrors, a series devoted to resurrecting the masters of the macabre, The Premature Burial stands as a timeless reminder that the truest horror lies not in monsters, but in the fragile boundary between consciousness and the grave.Ver libro
The American Revolution is finally over, and Sophie Menzies is starved for good news. When her nearest neighbor, General Seamus Ogilvy, finally comes home to Tall Acre, she hopes it is a sign of better days to come. But the general is now a widower with a small daughter in desperate need of a mother. Nearly destitute, Sophie agrees to marry Seamus and become the mistress of Tall Acre in what seems a safe, sensible arrangement. But when a woman from the general's past returns without warning, the ties that bind this fledgling family together will be strained to the utmost. When all is said and done, who will be the rightful mistress of Tall Acre? Triumph and tragedy, loyalty and betrayal--readers find it all in the rich pages of this newest historical novel from the talented pen of Laura Frantz. Her careful historical details immerse the reader in the story world, and her emotional writing and finely tuned characters never cease to enchant fans both old and new.Ver libro
