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Born into a wealthy family, Mercy Worth will enjoy every privilege that unimaginable riches can provide, but she will never know love. No baby was more beautiful than Mercy, in pink. No toddler was more darling than Mercy, in yellow. No bride more brilliant than Mercy, in white. And humankind has never known anything as terrible as Mercy, in black.

A marauding legion of starving aliens arrive on Earth for a brief but terrifying raid on the planet. For a few unbelievably deadly days they will hunt humankind to fill their larder before they can continue on their indeterminate journey. They are many and they are hungry. Human beings are defenseless. You never needed a cat so badly!

She has come to his office to give birth, but she is accursed and he knows it. Fortunately, she has chosen wisely and she can afford the best phy-magician in the country. He will safely deliver the demon inside her, and then he'll help her to determine who would cast such a spell on her in the first place. This is an age of science in magic. A phy-magician must master both trades with equal alacrity.

Dire questions inevitably linger when someone disappears from a troubled marriage… from a troubled life… from the entire world. When Efren Sinclair’s wife takes a permanent vacation from their comfortable existence, all eyes turn to him, accusatory and condemning. His family and friends suspect her husband has alibied himself with an industrial grade Live-Jack, an artificially intelligent system capable of passing the forensic Turing Test for Sentience. Perhaps we all should ask… Which is real? Which is Live-Jack?

Football is big business in the United States, but it plays largest in Texas. In Texas, football money is BIG money, and the best players start young. During high school, college scouts come calling, but they're only seeking winners. Nobody likes to lose. Due to past scandals, the local high school plays under court-ordered supervision. How far will they go to recruit the king of youth football?

Often, the most popular modern poetry demonstrates a determined morbidity, and many of our most beloved poets perished by their own hands. Doing so, they left behind countless keepsakes of grief, but I will not label their passage as ‘tragic’. Rather, a martyr’s suffering demands happy witness. Otherwise, why hang upon a cross?

Jermy Borden's seven short years on Planet Earth have been filled with hardship, deprivation, and heartache. When his drunken mother leaves him orphaned after a terrible car accident, his fate lands in the hands of his only living relative, Gandy Ross, a hard-living ex-Marine with no children of his own. This is either the worst thing to ever happen to him, or the best. Has fate left this young boy in the devil's hands?

As two adolescent boys struggle to survive the interior spaces of the American Midwest, they endure the inevitable rites of passage associated with the angst of puberty. Though their suburban surroundings present a façade of normalcy, the bullies who torment them are particularly craven and vicious. When they author the “Modus Moronicon: A Functional Adolescent Guide for Surviving the Interior Spaces of America”, everything changes.

It's Halloween in Pecan Groves, Texas and much mischief is afoot. In the midst of the morbid celebration manifests an otherworldly invasion. When the smoke clears, few will be able to explain resultant mass disappearances among the population. Fewer still will believe.

To be certain, there are bad men in the world, but for every fistful of male villains there exists a shrewd woman to corrupt and torment them. He's as loving and caring as a Gabon viper. She’s as gracious and hospitable as a bristling spider.

When they come to cut her out of her third-floor apartment bedroom, a crowd gathers to point and laugh. Yet a twelve-hundred-pound woman is not without recourse. Although she was born with the patient, loving disposition of a child, years of merciless, relentless torment have purged all semblance of compassion from her heart. She has grown weary of the laughter. Be warned. Beware!

They live among us today. They watch us every moment of our lives with one intensely unwavering focus: to maintain the secrecy of their presence. Their surveillance technology is unimaginable. Their control is absolute. Yet, nothing is perfect. A handful of inquisitive men and women have discovered the extraterrestrial presence among us. Those smart enough to keep the secret survive it.

In the not-so-distant future, professional life is reduced to help-desk duty, the workweek is eight hours long, and the average citizen lives a leisurely lifestyle. Ed steps out onto the web, naked as pure energy, a surreal revolution begins. It's a better way of life... and death.

Corporate lobotomies. Psychotically amorous semi-sentient bots. Endless corridors. Countless unlabeled doors, all viciously locked. A lethally dysfunctional social infrastructure rife with corruption, inefficiency, and crime. Spiraling homicide rates… Welcome to your corpulent, overpopulated future! Good luck, and have a nice day!

Upon hearing of a lost fortune in pure, refined opium, western adventurers stationed in Afghanistan decide to retrieve it despite repeated warnings about the dangers that confront them. When a local guide leads them through the desert into the mountains to a dark and foreboding crack in a towering precipice, they again shrug off the man's dire insistence that they return home. They will live just long enough to regret their entrance into the defile.

Love is a powerful human emotion. The apex of its ideal uplifts the human condition and is called ‘inspiration’. Its nadir degrades the soul and is called ‘fanaticism’. When the devil walks the Earth in patent leather pumps, a short skirt and all the lacy things a simple man craves, countless lives go awry and evil prospers. One man will do anything for her. Ever for her.

Corporal Terrance “Tare” McGee, retired, was the prodigal princeling of his Texas trailer park until the United States Army decided to incarcerate his former partner, a military working dog named ‘Perquisite’. Collecting an endangered chimp named “Bobo” along the way, they flee into the vast, epic potential of an early Texas evening. This lyrical American fable will ultimately provide one startling insight into the nature of humankind… a primate with a machinegun is not always an entirely undesirable happenstance.

Somebody has to do it, and his mind is sufficiently perverse to qualify for the job. It's the age-old conundrum of time travel. It's the ultimate experiment. He packs a handgun before he steps into the time machine. Hello, father. Hello, mother. Good-bye, Thaddeus.

Human populations have ballooned to seventy billion. The world teems to capacity with complacent human beings, and only strict adherence to crushing routine maintains order. Despite harsh discipline, the planet's prisons swell with rebels and reprobates. Prisoner player Jer Dan dominates society's most deadly game. Unlike his teammates, Jer doesn't fight for freedom when he plays Die-Ball.

Raised in an automated environment maintained within a mysterious spacecraft, they know their unseen caretaker as Dangy, which manifests itself before them as an ethereal pair of hands. They are the last hope of a doomed world. Dangy's hands will keep them comfortable and safe during their long voyage to sanctuary.