Twenty Goodreads Authors

EBook Description: Life, death, demons, and doughnuts. The perils of love; the perils of hell. Ghosts, TV, and human sacrifice. What do they all share? A group of writers, published and unpublished, with no other goal than to make you gasp in shock. Thirty stories, twenty writers. Prepare to get hooked. The moderators of Goodreads.com writing group, On Fiction Writing, lead by Carlos J. Cortes, author of Perfect Circle and The Prisoner, created this anthology to promote the extraordinary talents of its members.

Dr. Jim Sagacity is a marriage and family therapist that has the special ability to see deep inside other people. Throughout his life, he celebrates his ability in secret, focusing on the sheer elation of these transitions, until one day he is shown that not all souls are willing or able to take that all important step to the next realm. Weaker souls, small and dim to Jim�s eyes, face a darker fate.

The Butcher Shop

The Butcher Shop is a mobile, invitation only rave operating out of abandoned warehouses and unrented commercial properties in and around downtown Denver. Claire St.Claire is a bartender and DJ for the Butcher Shop until her exboyfriend is murdered, and she becomes the DPD�s prime suspect. Only the intervention of a mysterious benefactor, who may himself be the killer, allows Claire the opportunity to clear her name and solve the case before she winds up a victim herself.

Rainbow Gliding Hawk and the Last Stand of the Patriarch

Allison Hassenpfeffer-Thayer is a dreamer, a wide-eyed rainbow chaser whose fertile mind forever spews forth wildly impractical new ideas. Her husband Larry is the opposite-an ultra-anal, organize-your-sock-drawer kind of guy. But they�re young and in love, and when Allison cons Larry into moving to a little northwest mountain town to raise emus, he can�t say no. But rural paradise sours when Allison becomes a true believer in radical environmentalism and ends up tree-sitting with the ultimate enviro-stud, a swashbuckling alpha-male who calls himself Michael Wolfcaller. RAINBOW GLIDING HAWK AND THE LAST STAND OF THE PATRIARCH is a timely story about saving the world and losing your marriage. It�s a contemporary trip with well-meaning folks who inadvertently screw up their lives and learn that true love-and just causes-don�t always mix.

Arabella�s Secrets

It was suppose to be their honeymoon. Nick Stone � renowned pothead, trouble-maker, and all around Good Guy � accompanied by his mentally unstable and very pregnant wife Laurie, take a trip to Nick�s birthplace � a tiny and forgotten little island called Arabella. Home to Spanish natives and retired Naval officers, Arabella is a hidden paradise to those who know of its existence.

It�s In The Music

Have you ever really listened to music? Sometimes it�s not what we hear that can harm us, but what we can�t. When a college science professor harnesses the ability to read and control human thoughts through radio transmissions, he�s kidnapped and not heard from again. Meanwhile, a string of grotesque murders are popping up all over southeast Michigan, starting with 19-year-old Amanda Grace being methodically tortured and murdered in her apartment. No witnesses, no clues. Nick Stone teams up with laid-back Detective Jack Noble of the Detroit Police on the streets of Detroit and in the skies over Michigan to find the source of these murders, and their only clue: It�s in the music.

Itchy Donner

Itchy Donner doesn�t have much going for him. A rashy eleven-year-old growing up fatherless in a dying backwoods Idaho timber town, Itchy is obsessed with the past-specifically, his family�s past. Itchy�s the great-great-great grandson of Tamsen Donner, the Donner Party�s famous matriarch, and Itchy studies his ancestor�s history with the relentlessness that only a true nerd can muster. He and his mother Irene live poor but happy in a ramshackle singlewide, and Irene encourages Itchy�s interest and pride in his illustrious ancestors. But their predictable lives are forever turned upside-down when the wandering gyppo logger Red Donner-Itchy�s blustery, larger-than-life father-blows back into town looking to make amends for his past and put his family back together again. ITCHY DONNER is a tragi-comic tale of liars and dreamers, of the distant Donner ghosts who haunt Itchy�s present, and of Itchy�s quest to understand the past, know his father, and make his family whole again.

Lynda�s Lie

The slender framed boy stood and watched the beetle crawl across the rotted body of a dead cat. The wind gently ruffled his short black hair. He picked up a stick and poked at it. More beetles swarmed out of its body cavity. The English summer sun gently shined down on him causing a small bead of sweat to appear on his lip. Edan sat down beside the dead animal. Fascinated, he pushed one of its eyelids up and tried to pop out the cat�s glazed over eye.

Just Passing Through

I believe there comes a time in every man�s life when he needs to stop what he�s doing and take a good look at the choices he�s made and the direction in life those choices take him. Ultimately, bad choices will lead you down the wrong path in life � nearly every time. Though sometimes, no matter how hard you try to make the right choices, fate still finds a way to somehow make you regret it. I discovered this as I lay bound by wrists and ankles in the trunk of a cherry red 1963 Corvette convertible, somewhere on Route 322 in Pennsylvania.

Runaways

Jimmy Biffman�s life has just cratered. His wife dumps him for Dr. Dwayne the periodontist, he�s downsized out of a job, and he�s living in a trailer in his best friend Erica�s backyard. So, when Erica hatches a wild scheme to recapture Jimmy�s lost youth, he�s powerless to resist. RUNAWAYS is the journey of two 40 somethings looking for a life they�re convinced has passed them by. With a naive belief in what�s possible and a foolish misunderstanding of the risks they end up completely out of their element and in way over their heads. The unsavory predators who suck them into their world know exactly what they�re doing unlike Erica and Jimmy, who, like two giddy high schoolers cutting class, have no idea what they�re in for. Their new lives won�t turn out remotely as they�ve planned�

The Variant Effect

The old furrier building in a rundown part of Metro was the perfect place to find a body, and Joe Borland knew they wouldn�t have dragged him out of retirement to see it if something hadn�t eaten its skin. It�s been twenty years since Borland battled the Variant Effect, and twenty since he let his partner get skinned alive. Now both of them are ordered back into action to meet the new threat.

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