Bruce has lost everyone he ever cared about—even his cat.Now he thinks he’s finally alone in the house, but something is about to come clawing its way out of the plumbing to prove him wrong.What they’re saying about Down the Drain:“Pyle’s tight little monster tale packs a nasty wallop.”—Michael Louis Calvillo, author of I Will Rise and As Fate Would Have It“Horror should be fun. Scary, of course...but above...

The Chronicles of Pirates gathers nine landmark accounts of maritime outlawry into a capacious history of piracy, balancing documentary narrative, biography, adventure writing, and later historical reconstruction. Moving from the buccaneering Caribbean to the wider Atlantic and Mediterranean worlds, it tests the distance between popular legend and archival reality. Narratives of sea raids, mutiny, colonial conflict, and notorious captains illuminate piracy not merely as romance, but as a v...

A tasty tale from the world of the A.M. Dellamonica's Blue Magic series, featuring Astrid Lethewood, to tickle a reader's fancy.Ah, love. A many splendored thing. Here is a rather unusual love story, sweet and strange as could only happen in the post-magical reality of the Indigo Springs "event."At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

In the wake of a zombie apocalypse, Charlotte finds the family cabin to be the perfect place to make life work. With the use of aging equipment she used to think of simply as antiques, as well as the lessons on gardening, fishing, harvesting, cooking, and canning that she'd simply thought to be amusing stories imparted to her by her grandparents when she was a child, she falls into a steady daily routine of working toward not only surviving her current existence, but being fully prepared f...

Winter 2012: The harvest of humans reaches its peak. Out of the galactic equator comes a race intent on harvesting ever last human on Earth. Now on the longest night, one man and one woman will find the key to prevent mankind's extinction.This is a short story and contains graphic imagery that some may find disturbing.

As the bull ran, his huge pink testicles swung from side to side like the clapper of a bell. The year was 1952 and eleven year old Michael was standing in the dirt yard in front of the house with the milk barn off to his left, looking across the corral into Mr Olson's field where the Holstein bull followed a heifer in a half run, his nose at her tail. Michael's father had called his attention to the bull and heifer and had then disappeared into the barn where he was working on the milking ...

Jake is a rattlesnake with a grave disability- born without a rattle! After all, the name rattlesnake says it all! Poor Jake has to endure teasing from his friends when he attends "Rattlesnake School" to learn the ways of being a rattlesnake. Upon arrival, poor Jake is even more depressed to find out that the mean old Rattlesnake School Drill Sergeant has kicked him out for not having a rattle!Despondent, he slithers home where his mother comforts him. She even opens up and shows hi...