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Deep within the guts of this world, men and women struggle daily to deliver fuel to feed ravenous industry. It is dangerous work. Indeed, this is a story about fire catching in a coal seam buried deep underground, where a dozen lives hang, choking, in the balance. Regardless of color, creed or religion, hard-rock miners work together as one to avoid perishing individually and alone down in the dark where the devil dwells.

If the trials of childhood form the adult, then Stanley Newberry is growing into a grotesquely misshapen lump of a thing. All the popular people tell him so. Since he first met his classmates in grade school, Fat Stanley has singly borne the brunt of their endless insults, taunts, and abuses. This school year, his dedicated torturers have fabricated their most elaborate ruse to date. Fat Stanley will not survive it and in the aftermath a guilty few will envy the dead.

To earn extra money, he volunteers for service in Afghanistan as a civilian technologist. After his capture by bloodthirsty jihadists, he confronts his worst nightmare with eyes wide open. Once he manages to escape, he will learn a terrible truth while hitching a ride on the poppy express.

A compendium of three original novellas, this is the true-to-life horror story of a boy born without a name into a lifetime of loss, suffering, and sorrow. Bestially abused throughout his formative years, the boy has the appearance of a patchwork monster by the time he arrives at a notorious desert orphanage in Pecan County, Texas. There, the boy will travel new realms of torment in the company of his sadistic keepers, Momma and Eugene Parker, who will teach him every low art and mean skill with belt, strap, and whip. Stoic and untouched by the damage done to him, the boy named Manga will ...

She’s a castaway fourteen-year-old orphan, all alone in the world, but she knows where she’s going, because she knows where she’s been! Nobody can tell her anything she hasn’t already heard! Except... this guy... this older guy... he makes such sweet promises! He tells her only what she wants to hear and nothing that bugs her... until one night... the night of Halloween and her fifteenth birthday......something terrible happens!

Darling Girl's Halloween Carol tells the tale of Halloween and her fifteenth birthday, when something terrible happens! Darling Girl's Memorial Day Fireworks sets her in the company of a hippy ghost and a homeless Vietnam veteran - the stage is set for sundown at the National Cemetery, and the fireworks are sure to be bloody. Darling Girl's Christmas Egg is about Christmas Eve, which means all-you-can-eat pancakes with real maple syrup at her boarding school. Of course, Darling Girl's holidays are never so easy and a ghost with a serious problem is certain to spoil her fun!

Denizens of Watami are more human than human. When a deviant dictator determines to exploit the deep-seated animosities that inevitably follow, he finds the peace-loving Nascosi ‘morphs’ to be easy targets and convenient scapegoats. Genocide ensues. Rising in their place Anzian-kind will easily dominate their unmodified enemy. Afterward, humankind will be unknown.

Quickly and easily learn to create vibrant, believable, durable and reproduceable images, videos, music, and voice tracks using textual prompts for artificially intelligent generative systems! This brief guide includes a list of basic rules of composition accompanied by an illustrated instruction manual that will teach the curious reader how to create outstanding multimedia content using any generative AI system (such as Aitubo, MS Designer, etc...). This quick study includes everything the novice needs to know to get started and then progress to the creation of award-winning images, videos...

An ordinary traveler. A typical business trip. Nothing unusual or out of place. If the inhabitants of Spittsville, Texas seem a bit odd, blame overbearing sunshine and endless horizons of arid wastes. Since a rational mind will neither conceive nor believe the startling truth. As gradual as the growth of a creeping vine, deep within the wilds of West Texas an unholy invasion begins. One changeling at a time.

Black eyeliner. Black lashes. Black lips. Black hair. Through it all, peers the white cake face of Darling Girl Jones, orphan. From time to time, she awakens in her academy dorm room to find an ethereal spirit haunting her bed. Today, in the company of a hippy ghost and a homeless Vietnam veteran, Darling will play a vital role in the city’s Memorial Day ceremony. The stage is set for sundown at the National Cemetery, and the fireworks are sure to be bloody.

The last frontier is not a destination of space, but of mind. Above the constraints and laws of human civilization, freedom is the rule and confinement the exception. Social authorities detest the ideal and all who voyage there, because therein lies the ultimate unknown, the ultimate fear. Human laws and state control are unknown in Far-World.

A special agent with a special job, he's the janitor of all the unhappy, unpleasant, bleeding places of the world. He'll clean up your messes and leave nary a living witness in the muck that remains. Man, woman, or child. His conscience is absent, his drive is relentless, and his soul is a ravenous void.

If you listen long enough, you may be convinced of anything. Provided the voice you heed is sufficiently provocative... provided you are prepared to ponder its lies or truths... provided it gets to you early enough. What are the origins of human evil? Is it guaranteed from birth, or is it visited upon us via infantile nightmares?

Tarn is a water world, covered from pole to pole by an incredibly deep ocean. Humankind built only one city there. Situated directly on its equator, terraformers strategically emplaced this massive port to continuously exploit the planet's boundless fisheries. Unfortunately for the common sailor, adult fish are many times larger than the tiny boats that hunt them, and so the death toll climbs relentlessly.

They visit night after night, decades on end. The countless anonymous people that populate our dreams and plague our nightmares. Who are they? What becomes of them when we lay violent hands upon them in lividity of dreams?

Every ten years, a lottery draws them from all over the country. Four boys and three girls, each with an exceptional mind and each mired in a neglectful or abusive life, which is sure to eventually destroy them. Neglected by his addicted mother, this mysterious lottery is the one chance a misfit boy has for a future. Trembling with a strange mixture of terror and excitement with all his hopes in hand he reports to 472 Malign Terrace.

During the final years of the Soviet Union, its government started building an ultra-secret airbase in the center of a vast wilderness. Its secrecy outstripped its management such that construction continued despite its abandonment. At the end of a late night international flight from India to Russia, a weary traveler finds himself deposited in a lonely ramp of an empty terminal. As he navigates its endless gates and corridors, this hapless traveler begins to realize he has landed in no ordinary airport.

During the summer of 1823, fortune called from the frontier of North America’s Great Plains. Alternately rowing or tromping along the Missouri River from Saint Louis through Fort Mandan and then beyond to Fort Henry and the Upper Missouri Breaks, countless traders gambled their lives to exploit the bounty of an untamed wilderness. All dreamed of easy profits. Herds of buffalo perished to feed them. Whole populations uprooted to serve them. Virulent diseases followed. Inevitably, a disturbed balance of nature collapsed. Then compensated. By fang and claw.

Follow five odd characters through benighted crevasses of the nation on a quest to recruit their sinister counterparts from the ranks of underworld outcasts, vagabonds, and felons. A career burglar, doomed prostitute, football player rapist, psychotic teen, and precognitive child. An unholy alliance of evil.

While we collectively fear wild animals and muggers, most contemporary plagues come in the guise of unavoidable corporate logos and unforgettable commercial jingles. This new and most modern form of disease presents symptoms that include unhealthy obsessions, unwise compulsions, and preprogrammed responses. Visualize anything except the latest fad slogan while engrossing yourself in a moment of hysteric interest, and then pause to think - if you can. Such twisted threads weave life’s strange tapestry. Of fascinating grotesqueries, here study endless cases, and of afflictions, fourteen.