William, the Damned

EBook Description: Short Story. The square-rigger, weighing ninety tons, glides across the still waters, towed along with the tides. The waves lap at its sides lazily, while seagulls swoop languidly onto its deck. The sun beats down upon it relentlessly. Should another boat pass it, it would look like a ghost ship, with not a soul upon its deck. However, should the innocent passerby, happen to board the ship and proceed down to its lower levels, a sight of great horror would await such a wretched person. For below the deck there is a sight beyond believe, fifty men and woman dead upon their backs. Their eyes are closed and their hands twined together upon their chest. Here in the lowest deck, where not an inch of light manages to intrude, they lie dead.

Treasury Agent Annabelle Duniway and her �cat� are undercover, on the trail of a brilliant, twisted spellcaster in a 19th century mining town full of demons, ghosts and werecritters � and one particularly attractive sheriff.

The Chronicles of A Lost Soul

This ebook by Michael LaRocca is a short story collection which was 30 years in the making. It mixes humor, horror, and American existentialism.

White Witch Pond

Mid-grade ghost story Shaya Solen�s walk home from school takes her past an eerie pond, where one day she finds an old bracelet made of raven feathers. Soon, strange events begin to unfold: a shadowy figure glimpsed across the water, ominous nightmares haunting Shaya, and rumours of a witch who once drowned in the pond. With the discovery of a strange family connection to the witch, Shaya is drawn into a mystery that must be solved before the approaching Halloween, which is the thirteenth anniversary of the witch�s death, and Shaya�s birthday.

The Pigeon

As late as 1960 there were still groups of Australian Aborigines, colloquially called Myalls, living through the interior of Australia in the traditional life style of nomadic hunter-gatherers. Some of their children had never seen a European and were unaware that a different world existed beyond the confines of their own existence.

A Gentleman of Weight

This is a short mystery novel set in the maelstrom that was Berlin in the 1920′s.

The war to end all wars left no one untouched. Every man who fought the mud and the horror that was trench warfare became a casualty and a stranger to those that knew him before, The peace in Germany was marred with riots, assassinations and civil unrest. Berlin of the 1920′s was not a good time to be a German but it was an interesting time to be a foreign correspondent. The beleaguered Weimar Republic reeled under the constraints of the Treaty of Versailles and old scores were settled.

The Sunflower that Roared

Sarah has a very sunny nature. That is why her mother calls her her little sunflower. But even sunflowers get grumpy when no one listens to them. A picture book to read with your 3-5 year old, especially if you like sunflowers-like Van Gogh and William Blake did! It will also make a delightful addition to the learning experience about growing a plant from seed, as done in kindergarten, and can be read on line or on your phone/ipad with Stanza too.

The Leaching of Ian Burns

In The Leaching of IAN BURNS, a cantankerous, no-nonsense old man arrives in heaven after dying in a fire. Ian manages to cope with the death of a saintly acquaintance (a death for which he feels partly responsible), by tolerating the least amount of introspection possible. The arrival and rapid departure of his estranged son is too painful for him to accept, however, and his headstrong personality takes over as he resolves to find out where his son has gone.

Walk In The Light

Long hailed as one of the western world�s greatest writers, Leo Tolstoy is best known for his epic War and Peace and his novel Anna Karenina. Yet the undiminished popularity of his shorter works � including the two dozen collected here � attests to his equal prowess as a master of the short story. Uncluttered by the complexities of plot and character that daunt so many readers of the longer Russian masterpieces, Tolstoy�s tales illumine eternal truths with forceful brevity. While inspired by a sense of spiritual certainty, their narrative quality, subtle humor, and visionary power lift them far above the common run of religious� literature. Moralists purport to tell us what our lives should mean, and how we should live them. Tolstoy, on the other hand, has an uncanny gift for simply conveying what it means to be truly alive.

The Blood-stained Belt

From poverty and lives as shepherd boys, hating the way that their country is ransacked by enemies, Jina and Sharma become soldiers, learn their trades, progress up the ranks, defeat the enemies and rise to power. However, what seems to be a triumph slides in to tragedy.

The Fourth Lost Tale of Mercia: Athelward the Historian

Lord Athelward, an ealdorman who also wants to write history, finds his peace of mind disturbed when a strange woman named Golde and her young son Eadric show up on his doorstep with a ridiculous proposal.

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