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In this short story from the author of Cruelty and The Sound of Broken Ribs, our narrator finds themselves no longer alone in the barren wood they've called home since time out of mind. A specter from their past has come to visit. Might the visitor be a ghost, a time traveler, or something more sinister? For not everyone is who (or what) they seem to be.

Lei Duncan has it all: the ideal life, the perfect career, and a loving husband. What more could someone ask for? Belinda Walsh has lost it all: her home, her husband, and her mind. She thought she knew Dan, but one phone call changed all that. Now, everything she’s known to be true is a lie. When the lives of two strangers intersect, something will be born of the connection. For one of these two souls, the truth of the world will shift and morph into something powerful and dangerous - a darkness of the mind, a tear in sanity.

Pointvilla...A quiet town, the kind of place old folk go to watch the sea roll in and the years roll out. The kind of place guys like the man in the pig mask can make an easy dime, or an easy killing. An inhuman intelligence crawls up the shore and sprawls over Pointvilla. A thing capable of stealing bodies, and drawing minds into one, into it - the MIND. An intelligence pulling Pig Mask inward as others swirl around Pig himself, like he's a planet, a force, and the rest are drawn by gravity.

What does it take to ruin a perfectly good summer? Four cherry bombs. When twelve-year-old Trey and his best friend Eddy play a prank on Officer Mack, the resulting chain of events rocks the small town of Bay's End. Today, Trey Franklin is a man haunted by his past. Tormented by that one tragic, fateful summer, Trey searches for catharsis the only way he knows how - by writing. A tale of love and loss, bittersweet memories, and the depths of human evil. Welcome to Bay's End.

On a lonely stretch of deserted Texas highway, Will Longmire breaks down. But he's not alone. In the dead of night, Innis Blake hits someone - or something - with her car. The figure should not be getting up. But it is. An unstoppable force is after Will and Innis. And before the night is over, both strangers will know the face of Cruelty. Forgiveness is only a few miles down the road, but safety is nowhere in sight. Every monster has its origins.

You're out in the middle of nowhere. You've been crippled and left for dead. There's something in the woods. It's coming. There's only one thing you can do… Crawl

What the Dark Brings is a collection of 19 short stories, beginning with "Literary Sweets," a tender jaunt into Christmastime that proves all is not lost for one jaded gentleman. But by the time you reach the final tale, "Come to Jesus Meeting," the darkness is all encompassing.

All monsters have their origins.... On a lonely stretch of deserted Texas highway, Will Longmire breaks down. But he's not alone. In the dead of night, Innis Blake hits someone, or something, with her car. The figure shouldn't be getting up. But it is. An unstoppable force is after Will and Innis. And before the night is over, both strangers will know the face of cruelty.

Cruelty is a serial novel in 10 parts. This is the end.

Cruelty is a serial novel with 10 parts. This is episode nine.

When a mysterious, Halloween-themed attraction comes to the town of Bay's End, everyone is dying to pay a visit in Edward Lorn's The Scare Rows, a short-story selection from Bad Apples: Five Slices of Halloween Horror.

Cruelty is a serial novel in 10 parts. This is Episode Eight.

On a lonely stretch of deserted Texas highway, Will Longmire breaks down. But he's not alone. In the dead of night, Innis Blake hits someone, or something, with her car. The figure shouldn't be getting up. But it is.

Emergency Room Physician Brent Cummings is harboring secrets he'd rather leave in the shadows of his past. But, when he finds a dead woman in a foggy park, all his skeletons come tumbling out of the closet.

Sheriff Randy Miser and Trooper Natalie Holden's seemingly everlasting night continues as they are called to yet another crime scene. What they find in Monlezun Estates will send them careening into the unknown. All the while, Nell Morgan is making a deal with a devil.

Cruelty is a serial novel in ten parts.

Nell Morgan, Trooper Natalie Holden, and State Investigator Frank Markum find the fragile thread of reality unspooling. Things go real bad, real quick as it becomes painfully obvious to Twon and Ollie that escaping Kerr County Medical Center unscathed will be a task far more difficult than they could have imagined. Still reeling from his run-in with Forgiveness, Sheriff Randy Miser is called to a situation in progress. Can this day get any worse?

When geneticist Johan Schmidt seeks funding for a new project, elusive scientist Eliot Von Lennon agrees to cover the cost of Johan's experiments. Together, the two men will discover whether or not the human soul exists, or if there truly is… No Such Thing.

Cruelty is a serial novel in ten parts. Tom Morgan is out of surgery, but far from out of the woods. With Kirk for bait, Twon and Ollie go fishing. State Investigator Markum seeks clues concerning the murder of John Landover. Merlo the Cowardly Dog and Sheriff Randy Miser meet for the first time in a desperate struggle to save each other's lives. Momma's not happy.

The corpse in the cooler of Bob's Bait and Fuel might not be the innocent victim everyone first assumed. William Longmire is released from police custody only to find out his buddy Kirk is in the hospital. Innis Blake is stuck between two worlds. Will she find her way out before Cruelty has his way?