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  A Cold Christmas and the Darkest...

  Rasta Musick (Editor)

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  A Cinnabar Moth Publishing anthology, A Cold Christmas and the Darkest of Winters is a collection of short stories with themes that range from sad to dark to horrifying. Each story is set during Christmas or in Winter. Many talented authors worked to create these short stories, and we are proud to present them to you in this anthology. 
  The full list of contributing authors is included below: 
  Angelo Lorenzo 
  Vashelle Nino 
  Kisstopher Musick 
  T. War Powers Tilden 
  A.M. Weald 
  Chad Musick 
  Cynthia McDonald 
  Archita Mittra 
  Alexis Hansen 
  Ashe Thurman 
  Katie Groom 
  Elyse Russell 
  Joe Haward 
  Hector Duarte, Jr. 
  Suraya 
  Kasimma 
  Zoë Markham 
  Gwen C. Katz 
  André Santana 
  Roy Christopher 
  Frances Ogamba 
  Phoenix Blackwood

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  Bullet to the Heart - Sam...

  Terry R Barca

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  Mystery and adventure won't leave Sam alone. He tried to retire — his Scarlett needs him, but we don't always get what we want — sometimes we get what we need, but with a bit of luck, we never get what we deserve: less. From the author of The Long Weekend and Keeper of Secrets comes Bullet to the Heart - Sam Bennett's Case Files. Before Sam met Scarlett, he was a private investigator and a mystery writer. He was supposed to retire to help Scarlett run her father's empire, but mystery won't leave Sam alone. Some of these stories are from the time before Scarlett, and some are after Scarlett; either way, Sam's adventurous life is never dull. Sam and Scarlett's love story continues, with danger and adventure around every corner.

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  Unlikely Stories Mostly

  Alasdair Gray

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  In this volume of stories and illustrations, the author of Poor Things “perfected the blend of visual and verbal elements [that] characterized his work” (Financial Times).   In “The Crank that Made the Revolution,” an enterprising inventor presents the world with his contribution to the Industrial Revolution: an “improved duck.” When a man splits in two, it isn’t long before his two selves come to blows in “The Spread of Ian Nicol.” And a young boy witnesses a shooting star land in his back garden in “The Star.” In these and other short stories of the strange and fascinating, Alasdair Gray reaffirms his reputation as one of Scotland’s most original and important contemporary writers.   In Unlikely Stories, Mostly, Alasdair Gray combines his surreal and darkly funny stories with original artwork to create a truly unique reading experience. This edition includes a postscript by the author and Douglas Gifford.  “The book is a wonder of ingenuity, a varied and rich collection in which Gray's abilities as a visual artist and illustrator are placed not only beside but within the products of his fertile imagination as a writer.” —The Washington Post  “Not since William Blake has a British artist wed pictorial and literary talent to such powerful effect.” —Financial Times

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  Untitled Train Story

  Teo Kai Xiang

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  A journalist investigates the stalled construction of a new MRT station, where a subterranean secret has been uncovered by workers. When she finds traces of unexplained disappearances however, what began as a strange article becomes an investigation with dangerous urgency.

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  Blind Reef

  Peter Tonkin

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  A couple’s quest to rescue a kidnapped girl leads them into the perilous heart of the Sinai desert: “A sure bet for adventure fans” (Booklist).   Nautical entrepreneurs Richard and Robin Mariner are relaxing off the coast of Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt when their boat flounders on Shaab Ruhr Siyoul—known as the Blind Reef—and they suddenly find themselves saving the lives of several refugees.   One of the survivors, Nahom, tells them that his twin sister Tsibekti has been kidnapped and is being held for ransom by smugglers. Shocked by Nahom’s story, Richard and Robin travel into the heart of the Sinai in a quest to find the lost girl. Now they must evade Egyptian police, Bedouin smugglers and militant Islamists in order to rescue Tsibekti and get out of the desert alive . . .  Blind Reef is a ripped-from-the-headlines installment in a seafaring thriller series that “resembles a mixture of Ian Fleming and Hammond Innes” (Publishers Weekly).

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  Hard Times

  Charles Dickens

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  Hard Times is unusual in several respects. It is by far the shortest of Dickens' novels, barely a quarter of the length of those written immediately before and after it. Also, unlike all but one of his other novels, Hard Times has neither a preface nor illustrations. Moreover, it is his only novel not to have scenes set in London. Instead the story is set in the fictitious Victorian industrial Coketown, a generic Northern English mill-town, in some ways similar to Manchester, though smaller. Coketown may be partially based upon 19th-century Preston. One of Dickens's reasons for writing Hard Times was that sales of his weekly periodical, Household Words, were low, and it was hoped its publication in instalments would boost circulation - as indeed proved to be the case. Since publication it has received a mixed response from critics. Critics such as F. R. Leavis, George Bernard Shaw, and Thomas Macaulay have mainly focused on Dickens's treatment of trade unions and his post-Industrial Revolution pessimism regarding the divide between capitalist mill owners and undervalued workers during the Victorian era.

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