The Incident at Tony's Burgeria: A Shady Hollow Short Story

The Incident at Tony's Burgeria: A Shady Hollow Short Story

Chauncey Rogers

Horror / Science Fiction / Fiction

It seems like another slow, depressing day at Tony's Burgeria. But as awful as a normal workday is at the greasy fast-food joint, this one is about to become far worse—and more dangerous.The town of Shady Hollow admits to having only one fast food restaurant: the run-down run-of-the-mill small-town diner, Tony's Burgeria. And Johnny Bologna has accidentally donated the eight best years of his life to the joint, making them the eight worst, trading his youth and opportunity for a paltry paycheck, lousy companionship, and a boss who's never smiled.But some of those things are about to change—and perhaps not for the better—when there's a startling incident at Tony's Burgeria.
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The Walkers of Ford Road

The Walkers of Ford Road

K. Massari

Horror / Mystery / Suspense

Tracey DiMarco is homeless. And hungry. And cold. A storm is brewing and a dangerous virus has already claimed many lives. As she stands shivering at the gas station, a goodlooking young man offers her a ride in his new car. Her lucky break? Or a fast ride to hell? Come explore your date with a madman on a haunted road during the apocalypse!Tracey DiMarco is homeless. She is hungry. And cold. She has just spent her last money on food. The weatherman on the radio at the store warned about a storm brewing. This after reports a virus has broken out and already claimed many lives. A young man offers her a ride in his new car at the gas station. Should she take the risk ... he is so goodlooking. How could he be evil? And so she gets in his car and smiles at him, never knowing what she just got herself into ...A haunted road ... as the heavens conspire, and Earth's time is running out.
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He Was A Son Of A Beach

He Was A Son Of A Beach

Jake Jones

Nonfiction / Medical

It was Friday, and when Jim arrived home from his job with the County, he announced that his boss had given him the next week off (with pay) so they (Jim and Karey) could have some quality time before the baby arrived. However, things don't always work out the way we plan!Jim and Karey, who had been married for 4 years, since the year 2000, and needed a vacation in a way they had never felt before. Jim was working a new Job for the county, and Karey was 7 months pregnant with their first child. The pregnancy was something unexpected, but the thought of having a Son or Daughter was over the top when it came to their anticipation about things in their lives changing. Things would be hugely different in 2005.It was Friday, and when Jim arrived home from his job with the County, he announced that his boss had given him the next week off (with pay) so they (Jim and Karey) could have some quality time before the baby arrived.
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Life Wasn't Meant To Be Perfect

Life Wasn't Meant To Be Perfect

Candy Ayala

Candy Ayala

This poetry book has a total of 18 poems. They are all about love and hate whether it is in our everyday life or in the relationship that we are in. Every poem is different with a different meaning behind them.This poetry book has 18 poems about love and hate. In a relationship and in life nothing is perfect. There are always good and bad moments no matter how hard you try to make things perfect life is full of ups and downs. Not every page of this book is about love and not every page is about hate but about both. Every page is different with it's own unique story behind it, and just like life this book isn't perfect either.
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Ability live in London A Lyric Concert

Ability live in London A Lyric Concert

Sam Shooter

Sam Shooter

this is a new style of book it is about a fiction concert staring a band called ability who tell us we all have ability please note this may not be what you expect it has no music and it is short consisting of several songsFour passports are found of girls who vanished in Australia. The girl who found them has disappeared too. Who are these girls? Where have they gone?A diary and search in Australia and across the world give tiny glimpses and fragments, but their stories remain elusive. The police search, friends and families search and grieve in alternate measure, but five girls remain gone, their fate unknown.Anne is wracked by guilt at her failure to save her friend, Susan, who vanished one night soon after her release from jail. The evidence suggests she has returned to the place where she and her lover parted, she chose him and the crocodiles over life. She was in advanced pregnancy with twins and so three people are gone.Anne has her friend's story, her voice on a tape is the last fragment left to her of a vanished existence. She must tell this story so that the world can know of this lovely brave girl who seems forever lost. And the families of the other four girls want their stories told too. She has the man's diary, which tells parts, but there is much that makes no sense. It reveals another shadowy girl who may have gone too. She travels to the places from where they have come and were last seen in search of answers. She faithfully records each story, five or even six lost girls, each girl gone, nobody knows where. As she searches patterns emerge which help to explain the why and some of the how, but not where they are now. Almost certainly some are dead, but could some still survive..She is determined not to surrender all hope that at least one or two may yet be found alive. After a year nothing has been found. She must put it behind her and try to get on with her own life, but guilt and hope keep driving her on, searching still.
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Magic Transfusion

Magic Transfusion

Sean Eddings

Sean Eddings

How hard is it for a witch to transfuse magic into werewolves who despise him? Would the werewolf who likes, perhaps loves him, let him?Four passports are found of girls who vanished in Australia. The girl who found them has disappeared too. Who are these girls? Where have they gone?A diary and search in Australia and across the world give tiny glimpses and fragments, but their stories remain elusive. The police search, friends and families search and grieve in alternate measure, but five girls remain gone, their fate unknown.Anne is wracked by guilt at her failure to save her friend, Susan, who vanished one night soon after her release from jail. The evidence suggests she has returned to the place where she and her lover parted, she chose him and the crocodiles over life. She was in advanced pregnancy with twins and so three people are gone.Anne has her friend's story, her voice on a tape is the last fragment left to her of a vanished existence. She must tell this story so that the world can know of this lovely brave girl who seems forever lost. And the families of the other four girls want their stories told too. She has the man's diary, which tells parts, but there is much that makes no sense. It reveals another shadowy girl who may have gone too. She travels to the places from where they have come and were last seen in search of answers. She faithfully records each story, five or even six lost girls, each girl gone, nobody knows where. As she searches patterns emerge which help to explain the why and some of the how, but not where they are now. Almost certainly some are dead, but could some still survive..She is determined not to surrender all hope that at least one or two may yet be found alive. After a year nothing has been found. She must put it behind her and try to get on with her own life, but guilt and hope keep driving her on, searching still.
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Dunsel

Dunsel

William Haloupek

Science / Science Fiction & Fantasy / Religion & Spirituality

This is a dystopian short story about a future in which machines do all the work.Four passports are found of girls who vanished in Australia. The girl who found them has disappeared too. Who are these girls? Where have they gone?A diary and search in Australia and across the world give tiny glimpses and fragments, but their stories remain elusive. The police search, friends and families search and grieve in alternate measure, but five girls remain gone, their fate unknown.Anne is wracked by guilt at her failure to save her friend, Susan, who vanished one night soon after her release from jail. The evidence suggests she has returned to the place where she and her lover parted, she chose him and the crocodiles over life. She was in advanced pregnancy with twins and so three people are gone.Anne has her friend's story, her voice on a tape is the last fragment left to her of a vanished existence. She must tell this story so that the world can know of this lovely brave girl who seems forever lost. And the families of the other four girls want their stories told too. She has the man's diary, which tells parts, but there is much that makes no sense. It reveals another shadowy girl who may have gone too. She travels to the places from where they have come and were last seen in search of answers. She faithfully records each story, five or even six lost girls, each girl gone, nobody knows where. As she searches patterns emerge which help to explain the why and some of the how, but not where they are now. Almost certainly some are dead, but could some still survive..She is determined not to surrender all hope that at least one or two may yet be found alive. After a year nothing has been found. She must put it behind her and try to get on with her own life, but guilt and hope keep driving her on, searching still.
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Lost Girl Diary

Lost Girl Diary

Graham Wilson

Suspense / Historical Fiction / Memoir

Four passports of four vanished girls. The one who found them is missing too.A dead man's diary may contain the vital key. A search begins in Australia and across the worldFour passports are found of girls who vanished in Australia. The girl who found them has disappeared too. Who are these girls? Where have they gone?A diary and search in Australia and across the world give tiny glimpses and fragments, but their stories remain elusive. The police search, friends and families search and grieve in alternate measure, but five girls remain gone, their fate unknown.Anne is wracked by guilt at her failure to save her friend, Susan, who vanished one night soon after her release from jail. The evidence suggests she has returned to the place where she and her lover parted, she chose him and the crocodiles over life. She was in advanced pregnancy with twins and so three people are gone.Anne has her friend's story, her voice on a tape is the last fragment left to her of a vanished existence. She must tell this story so that the world can know of this lovely brave girl who seems forever lost. And the families of the other four girls want their stories told too. She has the man's diary, which tells parts, but there is much that makes no sense. It reveals another shadowy girl who may have gone too. She travels to the places from where they have come and were last seen in search of answers. She faithfully records each story, five or even six lost girls, each girl gone, nobody knows where. As she searches patterns emerge which help to explain the why and some of the how, but not where they are now. Almost certainly some are dead, but could some still survive..She is determined not to surrender all hope that at least one or two may yet be found alive. After a year nothing has been found. She must put it behind her and try to get on with her own life, but guilt and hope keep driving her on, searching still.
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Insider Threat: The Mogadishu Diaries 1992-1993

Insider Threat: The Mogadishu Diaries 1992-1993

E. Clay

Fantasy / Paranormal

This story is a fictional account of the mission and execution of the neutralization of a sensitive intelligence collaborator that potentially endangered the lives and welfare of the men and women who supported Operation Restore Hope, a UN Humanitarian mission that erupted into violence in 1993. The US Marine Corps sent the 6th Counterintelligence Team to disrupt the threat.Somali Warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid ruled the streets of Mogadishu with an uncanny elusiveness that frustrated US/UN coalition strategists. Our mission was to quell intra-Clan violence and secure major supply routes for aid. It was assessed that Aidid might be the beneficiary of an intelligence leak. Joint Task Force Headquarters responded with a clandestine Counterintelligence operation designed to identify and neutralize this “Insider Threat.” This classified operation was known as Operation Looking Glass. The Counterintelligence community pinned the success of this sensitive operation on the shoulders of one man. Political infighting would complicate the mission’s agenda, but not after a relentless pursuit to expose a collaborator., This novel was subjected to a Department of Defense pre-publication review on 8 January 2013.
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Daisy Weal and the Grelflin

Daisy Weal and the Grelflin

Robert A.V. Jacobs

Children's / Science Fiction & Fantasy / Young Adult

It was just a normal night, after a normal day when the Grelflin appeared. His head in a cupboard and his enormous backside stuck up in the air, he was not a pretty sight.His excuse was that he was trying to find his way home, but with his backside still expanding and obviously far too big for a bedside cupboard, what three and a half year old, even one with superpowers, is going to believe that?This is a short story, based upon the Daisy Weal series, and if you wanted to insert it chronologically, it would go somewhere between chapters three and Four of book one.If you are anywhere over ten years of age, and like superhero fantasy then you are going to enjoy this.There are five books in the series, with the first also being available from Audible and iTunes as an audiobook.It was just a normal night, after a normal day when the Grelflin appeared. His head in a cupboard and his enormous backside stuck up in the air, he was not a pretty sight.His excuse was that he was trying to find his way home, but with his backside still expanding and obviously far too big for a bedside cupboard, what three and a half year old, even one with superpowers, is going to believe that?Fearing that he might explode at any minute, Daisy has to race against time to find out where he comes from, and get him back there before he does.
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The Road Back to Effulgia Box Set

The Road Back to Effulgia Box Set

Justin Kauer

Fantasy / Religion / Romance

Beyond consideration — two books in one! In The Legend of the Slave King, an amnesic slave tries to find out who sold him into slavery. Romance blooms with the slave trader's daughter, complicating things more. In The Hope of Eternal Springs, the action resumes where it left off and explodes! Enemy troops are closing in & the water supply is dwindling. Can Alban & Joan survive the desert dangers?As we each begin our individual quests in life and try to figure out who we really are in our heart of hearts — who it is that God knows we may become — most of us are given a name by which we will be known throughout our lives. So, what is in a name, what happens when it is lost, and what dangers occur in such a situation?Don't let the light-hearted humor distract you; there is deep meaning far beyond that which is apparent to be found in this book and series! Be prepared for a life-changing experience, for, you are about to enter into the fireside chat of the old king as he begins to tell the age-old Legend of the Slave King.Far beyond belief, witness as close friends and family of the old king gather after sharing a meal. The king shares a story whose characters come alive, to the extent that they dance in the flames of the campfire. Tales of then and now, bravery and treachery, good and evil, and romance and disenchantment become emblazoned on the minds and hearts of those who watch and listen.The old king teaches his people of Alban, a young prince who was only sold into slavery. Without so much more than only a name given to him by his captors, he struggles to gain any memory of who he is (or was). Because of his memory loss, more and more rumors begin to fly in the camp that he may actually be the Slave King of whom it was foretold generations ago. Aside from his own curiosity, Alban toys with the idea only in order to figure out whom he may trust. Especially when the daughter of the slaver company's owner crosses his path and sparks begin to fly! Still, there are the visions that he's having and the inexplicable but deeply seeded longing to do God's will. Will he be able to remember who he is or at least to find out who betrayed and sold him? Will he figure out how to escape from the slaver's caravan? Is he actually the Slave King from the legend?Begin your adventure now!As you fully consider the state of the action at the end of the first book of the series, "The Legend of the Slave King”, Joan and Alban must continue to face the scorching sands of the desert known as the Verdis GranSecas and the misery's sorrow that grows there. In the process of trying to get free of the desert, Alban has uncovered a plot by Decebal to use his slaver caravan as a front to smuggle odd weaponry to the Darvanian Empire. Now, above all that, Darvanian soldiers are closing in more and more and the water supply is waning as the newly formed caravan's goal to stop the war between two kingdoms. Easy task? Not even close! Now Alban and Joan need help from above more than ever as each will be respectively tested beyond their strength in their own grueling trial by faith! Will they understand the things God wants them to learn? Telling you the answers now would be a mistake. The more you completely contemplate it, that’s only something for you to realize in your next adventure. Besides, that's naturally only your decision now!Begin your adventure now times 2!This series is best read from book one and continued in succession:Book One: The Legend of the Slave King Book Two: The Hope of Eternal SpringsBook Three: The Road Back to Effulgia
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Freud Found Me

Freud Found Me

C. Carraway-Caulfield

C. Carraway-Caulfield

A boyfriend is having difficulty sleeping, thanks to the dreams that come to him about his girlfriend. He's worried something may happen to him, or worse, to her. A short story exploring nothing and everythingIn this fun children's book, The Gypsy Curse, we meet Tinka, the Gypsy Cat, who sets a curse on Astro and the gang. She evens tricks the cunning evil genius, Speed Bump Charlie. Tinka is able to predict where the dogs are going to stage their next rescue mission. She then sends the dog catcher to capture them and he takes them to the Check Out! The one place all dogs fear! But how does she know? Does she really have special powers or is it some kind of trick? Will our team realise that there is a spy amongst them? Will they be able to rescue Dingo and the other dogs from the Check Out before it’s too late? Will they be able to find the gypsy camp and stop Tinka before all the dogs are captured?! In Astro’s Adventures, The Gypsy Curse, we meet again a tunnel digging terrier who carries a diamond encrusted nail file. A large dog for which the complexities of door handles are a complete mystery and who, instead, opens everything with his head. As well as, a commando, khaki wearing Blue heeler who is armed with a hunting bone and a smell grenade. All are part of a team of dogs who work for a mysterious organisation. This organisation exists without detection and operates right under our very noses. Its sole purpose is to save dogs from neglect and to save each other too! Spy links Included!! These are special web addresses where you can find puzzles and games that are not available anywhere else in the universe!!If you and your family love dogs you are going to love this fun children’s story. The characters are all based on real dogs and cats and, just like your pet at home, they will warm your heart. They are unique and a bit flawed but you’ll love them all the same.This is the fifth book in the Astro Adventure’s series and it will delight and entertain your family with its fast moving plots and funny storylines.Reviews:“If you love dogs, you will love Astro and his fifth adventure. Author Susan Day is a dog lover and you know when you read Astro that Susan is sharing that love of dogs through his tales and adventures. This is a nice easy read that delivers as each of the other Astro stories did. And never mind the Check Out, take this one straight to the checkout. Highly recommended....” D. Mason“Irresistibly charming. Do yourself a favour and don’t miss the opportunity to read the 5th book in the Astro’s Adventures series. Author Susan Day has nailed it again!” Georgia B
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The King of the Dumps

The King of the Dumps

Jonathan Antony Strickland

Jonathan Antony Strickland

The King of Skull Island lies dying after his legendary fall from the great skyscraper. But as he begins to feel death creep into his enormous limbs, something small and nasty begins to annoy him.As the hairs rise and the goosebumps quiver, who do YOU see in the mirror?Soon after Damon moved into his house, a beautiful woman began appearing in his dreams. Unbeknownst to his fiancee, Damon and the woman carried on a year-long affair. Halloween night was to be their joyous and climactic reunion, but their celebration will far exceed Damon's expectations.
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Loving Reflections

Loving Reflections

LC Cooper

LC Cooper

What if those things that go bump in the night are real? How do you feel as you stand before your bathroom mirror at midnight? For Damon, the experience was far too real to be dismissed. The love of his life was not his fiancee, but a mysterious woman he couldn't touch until Halloween.As the hairs rise and the goosebumps quiver, who do YOU see in the mirror?Soon after Damon moved into his house, a beautiful woman began appearing in his dreams. Unbeknownst to his fiancee, Damon and the woman carried on a year-long affair. Halloween night was to be their joyous and climactic reunion, but their celebration will far exceed Damon's expectations.
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Transformation in Coral

Transformation in Coral

Jillian Jones

Jillian Jones

Sarah Wright, a 39-year-old Australian woman on the verge of a marriage break-up, finds herself in a parallel universe in which she connects with the members of her favourite Norwegian band. It's a twenty-four hour experience that changes the course of her life.This story is a work of fiction.
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