We all look up at the moon and wonder. And maybe dream. For centuries, the moon filled our imaginations. Eleven professional writers took those dreams and set original stories on moons scattered all over the galaxy. Yet, as the dreams of centuries, every story holds a human touch. From a mythical man fulfilling a childhood wish to a fantastic addition to Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s bestselling Retrieval Artist series, this volume of Fiction River allows you to travel to eleven different moons...

Midnight strikes like an invocation, clock hands joining in prayer to the darkness. After the twelfth chime, there's no escaping the nightmare.Fear reigns supreme.In Darkness, Delight is an original anthology series revealing the many faces of modern horror- shocking and quiet, pulp and literary, cold-hearted and heart-felt, weird tales of spiraling madness alongside full-throttle thrillers. Open these pages and unleash all-new terr...

World War III is three months old. After attacking and sinking the Destroyer USS Stacy Heath, the Chinese took possession of Nepal, Bhutan, and Bangladesh. The U.S. sends 20,000 soldiers and marines in to support India. The Russians use the opportunity to invade Ukraine, which leaves NATO with no choice but to counterattack. A full-fledged European ground war begins.The so-called Axis consists of Russia, China, Pakistan, Syria, and Iran—including the Shia paramilitary organization ...

World War III is a month old. After attacking and sinking the Destroyer USS Stacy Heath, the Chinese invade Tibet, and India counterattacks. Rather than allow the Chinese to seize control of the subcontinent the U.S. sends 20,000 U.S. soldiers and marines in to join the fight. The Russians invade Ukraine, which leaves NATO with no choice but to respond. A full fledged ground war begins.American forces are spread thin, and the decision is made to evacuate all personnel from Afghanis...

Injury recidivism is a continuing health problem in the modern clinical setting and has been part of medical literature for some time. However, it has been largely absent from forensic and bioarchaeological scholarship, despite the fact that practitioners work closely with skeletal remains and, in many cases, skeletal trauma. The contributors to this edited collection seek to close this gap by exploring the role that injury recidivism and accumulative trauma plays in bioarchaeological and ...

Not Just What You See The Super Power in Me encourages children battling cancer, embracing deformity and experiencing life challenges with inspiring poetry and affirmations Childhood cancer survivor, Ryan Williams wrote this book as an interactive teaching tool for youth deformity awareness and discussions at home, in the classroom, and in the community."Don't lose Hope, Don't lose Courage and Never Give Up!" - Ryan Williams, Author, Poet and Childhood Cancer Survivor

In a career that has spanned decades, Stefan has seen many dead things. And the people with abilities—witches—responsible for waking dead things. His trilogy of documentary films form the crown jewels of his career.Now he's received a tip of something strange happening close to home, at the Willow Lane trailer park. It's enough to get his crew back together and out there to discover the truth before the Inquisition gets wind of it.If dead things rise again,...

When bodies turn up in the Reed Moore Library's book drops, the library cat, C. Auguste Dupin, goes to work to help librarian Penny Copper solve the mystery.As a library cat, Dupin receives the attention and admiration of the public, as one would expect. He allows his human, librarian Penny Copper, to take care of the mundane business of running the library while he reaps the benefits.Until a body turns up in the large green metal book return in front of th...

Hauntings aren't always what you expect in this chilling tale by the author of the Dead Things series.Nick paints gothic and spooky cover art, drawing on fears and secrets that haunt him every day. His girlfriend, Kyla, runs a successful YouTube channel investigating paranormal incidents and reporting on her discoveries. Nick knows that sometimes...things get out of hand.Ryan M. Williams' The Persistent Dark is part of the Super Great Challenge (SGC), ...

What if your moment never comes? This fantastic tale by the author of the Dead Things series looks at what happens when you least expect it.Life rarely, in Nora's experience, ends up as expected. An accidental fossil discovery might rewrite the text books on dinosaurs. Like the fossils that showed feather imprints for avian and non-avian dinosaurs. Suddenly the narrative shifts from BDR (Big Dumb Reptiles) to agile, fast, cunning, warm-blooded animals.The ...

Hauntings aren’t always what you expect in this chilling tale by the author of the Dead Things series.Nick paints gothic and spooky cover art, drawing on fears and secrets that haunt him every day. His girlfriend, Kyla, runs a successful YouTube channel investigating paranormal incidents and reporting on her discoveries. Nick knows that sometimes…things get out of hand.Ryan M. Williams’ The Persistent Dark is part of the Super Great Challenge (SGC), one story written each w...

The haunting of Wolcroft House leads to difficult decisions in this story by the author of the Dead Things series.Anthony “Ant” Baker didn’t think much about death—until after he broke his neck. As a ghost at Wolcroft House he watched generations of the family go through their lives. Now, as a ghost possessing a bat, he find himself in a precarious position.Caught between the world of the living and the dead—trapped as a bat—Ant faces challenges he never expected. ...