Verses for the Damned by James Ridner is a transgressive poetry collection that dismantles societal hypocrisy through a lens of rebellion and existential defiance. The poems begin with a call for proletariat revolution, condemning oppressive institutions. As the work progresses, it glorifies hedonism and crime as natural antidotes to artificial virtue, personifying Nature as both a muse and tyrant. The latter poems delve into nihilistic introspection, rejecting divine morality and...

In the Southern town of Canterbrook, the four troubled teens Maxwell, Darius, Weston and Paisley banded together to form the Grizzly Riders gang with one aim in mind: get revenge on the Black Paragon, a faction who governs the town and allegedly terrorizes the families. They sketch their plan around a bonfire, smoking methamphetamine until their veins fill with rage sharper than any knife. But something’s watching them, something ravenous, omnipotent, coiled in the shadows: the crow perche...

Dr. Cochran, a renowned geophysicist, is recruited by the secretive Radiant Branch of the US Federal Geological Division to investigate anamolous sounds originating from deep within Earth's mantle. Under the shifty Director Barron Moreland, he's taken to an excavation site and assigned to record graphical data of the noises in the Mantle. Unfortunately, the team encounters a system crash in which all data is lost, but Cochran is sent home with compensation. Several days later, he receives ...