A centuries-old spirit of vengeance, born from the brutal suffering of enslaved Africans on a Grenadian plantation, awakens in the modern day. Sadia Baptiste, a historian, inherits her grandfather's estate and uncovers a horrific truth: a ledger detailing atrocities and an ancient slave collar that serves as a key to controlling the entity known as the Jab—a shadowy force with lips of blood that drinks the life of the wicked.As the Jab begins its bloody harvest, Sadia is forced int...

"That's ten years of hard work back on that table!" Laurel yelled. "That little innocent smile of hers didn't fool me.""You can't say she didn't know how to play!" Clinton yelled beside the door, "She clipped us in less than twenty minutes!""She just learned how to play yesterday," Colonel Gatewood said. "We never taught her how to play five-card draw. She's only twelve.”Clinton shook his head and stomped out the door. Going past Rose's cabin, he yelled, "We're not ...

Rose could feel the person looking at them. Immediately she knew who it was. She felt the small dark eyes penetrating the wood. It was Mrs. Peterson!Rose concentrated and pushed the eyes back out with her mind. The eyes were becoming weaker. She kept concentrating and pushing hard."Stop!" Yelled Mrs. Peterson. "Please stop!"They heard Mrs. Peterson run from the boat screaming, "No more! No More! If you want them, you have to go get them!

Ana, Captain of a spaceship, is lost in what appears to be a black hole, but she soon discovers it is an energy field full of life bent on taking over her ship. Later, she and her crew are forced to enter a real Black Hole. She is forced her from her body as the ship passes through, and runs from another energy entity set loose in the ship. On the other side the crew finds another live energy force that attacks their ship. They barely manage to escape and return back through the Black Hole...

Slowly she placed her left hand over the cooked fish protecting them. She heard the animal move on down the branch until he was partway in the boat beside her. She felt the boat tip sharply to her left. Yes, it was very large.Suddenly she felt pain in her left arm. Sharp claws moved across her hand. It sent her screaming. Her fear came out in full force. She raised her hand quickly and struck something hard that had teeth in it. She kept screaming and swinging hard into the mass of...

George dropped the dress sending her into the water face first. She dropped the lantern trying to catch herself, but she hung onto the dress. She felt her hands go through the mud and strike the hard dirt below. Her nose and mouth filled with the soft mud. She came up spitting mud and water.She started to wipe her face with the dress but changed her mind. The stench coming from it overpowered her nose. She remained sitting in the water searching for the lantern. It was dark. The wa...

Wounded, her arms shaking, she held her colt forty-five against the wall, and moved down the hall. A dark shadow appeared, a flash, she pulled the trigger, and felt pain in her side. The assassin fell back in the room. Screaming, she sent bullets into the wall until the Assassin threw his gun out. The monitor instructed her to put her revolver down. The assassin wounded, disappeared out the partition. Against the wall, she slid to the floor unconscious with her side and arm bleedin...

Rose looked back at her cards and began turning them over slowly. A red ace came up followed by a red King, red queen, red jack, and a red ten in the same suit. She had a 'royal flush.'Captain Morgan smiled, "I think the pot belongs to Mr. Donovan, Gentlemen."John Deer, stunned, stared at the pot in front of him.Jed Smith reached into his coat pocket and withdrew a small pistol, and screamed, "No one's taking my stake! That's our money she's got!"He started ...

Ana, Captain of a spaceship, is lost in what appears to be a black hole, but she soon discovers it is an energy field full of life bent on taking over her ship. Later, she and her crew are forced to enter a real Black Hole. She is forced her from her body as the ship passes through, and runs from another energy entity set loose in the ship. On the other side the crew finds another live energy force that attacks their ship. They barely manage to escape and return back through the Black Hole...

A young man of thirteen is cast away from his village when he fails to become a warrior and brings the wrath of the Great Spirit to his village. Trying to survive he is forced to live with the buffalo. His family now hunts him like the buffalo.Excerpt:He felt himself slipping. "Ayanah!" He screamed. "I'm falling! Slow down! Slow down! I'm falling off!"The big buffalo did not seem to hear him. Instead, he ran...

Blinding headlights behind, now beside her. Curve ahead, she slams the brakes. It misses, smashes through the rail. She hears it strike the rocks below. Silence, only the darkness. Her arms shake. In the city, headlights again. The ship, the Marines will be there. She skids to a stop at the gangplank, no one. The black car pulls up behind her, doors open. She accelerates, as bullets take out the windows. She stops at the edge of the pier. It’s quiet, she hears footsteps. Raul why, I love y...

There exist, in the heart of every garden, an unspoken law. It is a law written not in soil or stone, but in the gaze of those who pass by. It decrees that the vibrant shall be cherished, the delicate shall be protected, and the radiant shall be celebrated. It is a law, in other words, that confuses ornamentation with virtue. But, what if the opposite were true? What if our most cherished standards of worth were not only arbitrary but actively harmful? What if the creature we pedestalize i...