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Love is one of those four-letter words that people like to throw around, but sometimes love can be one of the meanest and nastiest games in town. If you have ever had your heart broken - then this audiobook is for you. If you enjoy the taste of strong meat - then this audiobook is for you. If you've got a sense of weird that is honed as sharp as a cutthroat's knife - then this audiobook is for you. Here are three of the strangest love stories you have ever read.

Burt was certain that if he hadn't hit King Kong with Darth Vader's head, he would not have fallen into that Citadel Hill time-traveling toilet. He wouldn't have met and been shot by the one-armed ghost, and he would not have found himself in the wrong place at the wrong freaking time. A Blurt in Time is a YA time-travel horror story that grown-ups will want to hear when the kids aren't looking.

It happened just yesterday or perhaps the day before. The bombs were dropped. No one knew why. Whatever the reason, due diligence was undoubtedly done and all aspects were carefully considered. Certainly the motion was passed around the Senate a time or two. After all, an election was coming. Every vestige of civilization was blown away, save for a few stubborn traces barnacled along the grim fringes of existence. Like say, maybe the Maritimes....

Water is a liar. If you tell a story with water it cannot be trusted and it will wash away in the first hard rain or in the tears of a long good cry. And stories told in blood and stone stick longer by far. Listen. Finbar Tanner is telling a story to his son, Isaac. It is a story of love, desire, and sacrifice. It is a story of blood and water and stones. It is a story of the deeper currents that flow within a man's heart. It is a story of the sea.

A short and eerie true ghost story that tells of the love a maritime father had for his only daughter, set in the halls of Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

This is a story set in war-torn Okinawa - back in the final days of the Pacific Campaign of World War II. The story is told from the point of view of a young Kamikaze pilot preparing to fly his fighter plane into the side of an American battleship. It is a story of guilt, loneliness, memory, and the taste of the sea. Oh, and there's a sea monster as well. I expect I ought to mention that...

King Hardheart and Queen Goldenhair were deep into a time of their lives that was supposed to be their happily-ever-after years, only Death walked in and cast his wicked shadow. Torn up with grief, the old King made some terrible decisions involving his daughter, Princess Honeybraid, who decided that the only sensible thing for her to do was to run away from home which didn't help her situation by one little bit. Sometimes, the journey towards happy ever after begins with something as simple as a bowl full of soup... THE QUEEN OF BREAD SOUP is a a light and breezy hilarious fairy tale spun ...

The end of the world - as seen by a teenager. Episode Six marks a new season and a WHOLE new direction for the Flash Virus series. This first episode of the new season is told ENTIRELY from Bigfoot Hanson's point of view - and you're going to see this character in a way that you have NEVER seen him before. Fans of this series are DEFINITELY going to want to pick up this brand new episode. Somebody you like is going to die...

The end of the world - as told by a teenager. How much would you give for a jelly sandwich? That is just one of the questions that Briar Gamble must answer before he finds out just what Captain Albino is up to - in the third thrilling episode of this six episode serial. This is the tale of a bad day, getting worse by the minute. Flash Virus: Episode Three - The Freak Army Don't miss a single episode of what some folks are calling the next big thrill!

This the story of the end of the world - as told by a teenager. And this is the episode that you all have been waiting for. This is the story that brings the first four episodes together into a COMPLETE stand-alone novel. Find out just WHO Horton Lake. Find out just WHAT Captain Albino is. Enjoy Etch-a-Sketch logic, dinosaur extinction, a tank - and battles galore! At double the length - this episode is a REAL BARGAIN!

This the story of the end of the world - as told by a teenager. Things are really beginning to heat up in Briar's school. Captain Albino's kid-programming sessions are underway. Under the blue light Briar and his friends are transformed physically. Under the yellow light Briar and his friends are transformed mentally. But it isn't until Captain Albino takes Briar to the burning barrel that Briar finds out just how bad things can really get. You won't want to miss this episode.

Briar Gamble's bad day is about to get worse. The end of the world is progressing at an alarming rate. Bullets are being fired. People are being killed. A LOT of people are being killed. Who is Captain Albino? Why is he invading Briar's school? I could you tell you about the mind-reading - but you probably already knew that I would say that. SAVE OVER 50% AND BUY FLASH VIRUS OMNIBUS – ALL FIVE EPISODES IN ONE E-BOOK FOR THE AMAZING AMAZON LOW LOW PRICE OF $2.99! http://www.amazon.com/dp/ B00CZCYS2M

So...this vampire walks into a palm reading shop... That might sound kind of funny to you, but MOVING LINES is a very touching tale of love, vampirism and saying goodbye. WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT STEVE VERNON "If Harlan Ellison, Richard Matheson and Robert Bloch had a three-way sex romp in a hot tub, and then a team of scientists came in and filtered out the water and mixed the leftover DNA into a test tube, the resulting genetic experiment would most likely grow up into Steve Vernon." - Bookgasm "Steve Vernon is something of an anomaly in the world of horror literature. He's one of the...

Here are six new stories to SERIOUSLY creep you out! The Hunter's Heart - a dark retelling of the Snow White legend, told from the hunter's point of view. The Other Side Of The Moon Is A Lonely Midnight Shadow - an eerie werewolf tale, set in a strange steampunk kind of wilderness. The Bridge - in a post-apocalyptic wasteland the last motorcyclist meets a very strange obstacle. Something In The Pine Resin - she was only a ship's figurehead, wasn't she? A Wriggle of Maggot - he brought something home from the war, something to be passed down. A Hole Full of Nothing - the hard and brutal tale...

It was Billy McTavish's first sea voyage. He had signed on to the serve as convoy escort on the THISTLE a Royal Canadian Navy corvette. Through U-Boat attack and Luftwaffe bombing runs, Billy had thought he had seen all of the horror that the Atlantic could offer a young Canadian sailor. But Big Jimmy Noonan had other ideas... ]*** WHAT FOLKS ARE SAYING ABOUT STEVE VERNON'S WRITING! "If Harlan Ellison, Richard Matheson and Robert Bloch had a three-way sex romp in a hot tub, and then a team of scientists came in and filtered out the water and mixed the leftover DNA into a test tube, the ...

If you really want to know what happened on the day Noah built that big old floating zoo you REALLY ought to talk to Uncle Bob. While you are at it get him to fill you in on all of the inside information on what REALLY went on in the Garden of Eden - because he knows that too. This is the story of the Old Testament as retold by the red flannel storyteller his-own-self - namely, Uncle Bob. "I laughed until I cried." - Veronica Dorval "One of the most refreshing interpretations of the Book of Genesis that I have read in a long while." - S.D. Hintz "Jeff Foxworthy REALLY should have written ...

This is the story of the end of the world - as told by a teenager. "So as near as I could tell the end of the world began roughly about the time that Billy Carver’s butt rang - about halfway through the War of 1812." Sixteen year old Briar Gamble is having a bad day. It started with the cell phones singing for Santa Claus. Then came the tanks and the storm troopers. The Black Masks, in their black fish bowl sunglasses. And then along came Captain Albino. That's how it all started back in October 2012 when I released the FIRST episode of FLASH VIRUS. What you are looking at now is the ...

So you think you know all about superheroes? Those guys in the capes and the lightly starched spandex speedoes. Leaping tall buildings and always getting the girl. You don't know nothing. Join Steve Vernon, Nova Scotia's hardest working horror writer, as he takes you into the world of Captain Nothing. It's a world without hope, a world that is as cold and dark as a landlord's heart, three days after the rent is due. It's a world that could give the Batman a case of the squirming night fears. NOTHING DOWN is a collection of stories that will show you the darker side of courage. It will show ...

"So as near as I could tell the end of the world began roughly about the time that Billy Carver’s butt rang for Santa Claus about halfway through the War of 1812." Sixteen year old Briar Gamble is having a bad day. It started with the cell phones singing for Santa Claus. Then came the tanks and the storm troopers. The Black Masks, in their black fish bowl sunglasses. And then along came Captain Albino. The shooting started shortly after that. Like I said - Briar Gamble is having a REALLY bad day. And it's about to get worse.

A long plus a long plus about three more long times a hundred more longs squared to the hippopotamus long time ago, a boy sat all by himself just outside of his family’s woodshed, drawing cats. The boy was waiting to be punished for drawing cats and he knew deep down inside of himself that he probably ought not to be drawing even more cats, but he honestly could not think of a better way to spend his time. He drew happy cats. He drew sad cats. He drew cats that couldn’t make up their mind just how they felt. He drew cats that were polka dot and cats that were striped and cats that were ...