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Automate complex tasks and processes with PowerShell scripts. This amazing book teaches you how to write, test, and organize high-quality, reusable scripts for Windows, Linux, and cloud-based systems.Learn PowerShell Scripting in a Month of Lunches, Second Edition takes you beyond command-line PowerShell and opens up the amazing world of scripting and automation. In just 27 bite-sized lessons, you’ll learn to write scripts that can eliminate repetitive man...

Each of us has our own definition of "escape."In this horror short, a young social worker delivers a tiny gift to an elderly agoraphobic without realizing its world-changing consequences. "Making the Cut" was a finalist in Fangoria's Weird Words 2 fiction contest.

The year is 1841 and Grayson Sherbrooke, a popular author of gothic paranormal mysteries, lives on the coast of Northern England with his 4-year-old-son, Pip. He's asked by a neighboring little girl, P.C., to come to Wolffe Hall because something terrible is threatening her and her mother. She's come to Grayson because she's confused him with his fictional hero, Thomas Straithmore, who overcomes all obstacles and always triumphs over otherworldly evil. Thus, to her mind, Thomas is the only...

A young girl lives in fear of her abusive father....A powerful short tale. Based on a true story.

SECOND in a new paranormal mystery series!When Tess Callahan, new owner of Dead End Pawn, meets her grandmother the banshee, life is about to get complicated. When Tess’s partner Jack Shepherd, tiger shapeshifter and P.I., gets involved to help them investigate a banshee-kidnapping spree, life is about to get deadly. Because nothing is ever simple in Dead End, Florida, and sometimes it takes a tiger’s eye to see the truth.This novel is a paranormal mystery ...

When a boy is given a box by an angel who asks him to care for it, the task shapes his entire life.Originally published in DRAGONS AND DREAMS (edited by Jane Yolen) this is one of Bruce Coville's personal favorites among all his stories.

What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, which is why it makes good vampire sense to prey on tourists and leave the locals alone. This Channeling Morpheus short takes place after story #10, Elixir, and contains series spoilers. (short story)

The most accurate and honest retelling of my mom's headache that turned into the most impossible situation and the tough choices that had to be made as a result.

When one door closes, another opens, or so they say. So why am I sitting behind a locked door in the laundry room, wondering how I got here? When is that other door going to open? And what will I find behind it?

A missing son. A 1950s retirement home. And a mechanical nightmare that thins the wall between realities.When Thomas Alan Davies purchased the sun-bleached ranch house at 3489 West Crest Way in Youngtown, Arizona, he expected nothing more than an engineering project. The property—priced forty percent below market value, carried a strange history and a long record of brief, unsettled owners. It was also the very house from which his maternal grandmother, Evelyn Bloc...

A young woman finds herself is a precarious situation after a night that is sure to haunt her. During a silent, tear filled ride home with her friend, she finds that the earlier events of the night are nothing compared to what she is about to encounter.