A young boy, pushed beyond the limits of his fragile psyche.A washed-out detective, obsessed with finding the cannibal who is mutilating more and more innocent victims.An achingly sad soul, living in the shadow of his former self, becoming increasingly frantic in his search for salvation and, finally, peace as he leaves a trail of bodies in his wake.And in the final hour, a man, held captive by his past, faced with a decision he does not yet know he needs to make.

The world you see isn't the only one that exists.These stories are drawn from real, documented psychological conditions – then followed, unflinching, into the territory of horror and the supernatural. They don't just unsettle. They take you inside private realities so consuming that you'll question what you thought you understood about the mind.To the outside world, it's a panic attack. To the sufferer, it's a suffocating entity with fingers like ice. To yo...

Shelterbelts are those long rows of trees one sees on North America’s prairies and plains. Farmstead shelterbelts are those that encompass farmers’ residences and workyards. This book focuses on Manitoba farmstead shelterbelts and the people who live with them. Today’s farmstead shelterbelts are the result of large-scale governmental policies and agencies as well as local vernacular expressions. Taken together, their presence, absence, and/or character indicate larger social, economic and ...

Lou Crasher is a black Canadian rock drummer chasing the rock-star dream in present-day Los Angeles. He works at the L.A. Practice Joint, a rehearsal space for musicians. When Angela, the most beautiful African American woman he's ever seen walks into the office Lou tumbles hard for her.Her band ends up booking time and as the days go by Lou does his best to impress Angela…but it's going as smoothly as lumpy oatmeal. It gets worse when the "Joint" gets burglarized and Angela's band...

A busy, unmarried salon owner finds herself unexpectedly pregnant in this poignant novel about love and its complications . . .Kat has a busy life. She runs her own beauty salon and has an alcoholic father to worry about. To make matters worse, she has just discovered she is pregnant.Kat and Max have only been together for six months, and she has a turbulent relationship with his mother—and with his ex-girlfriend, who refuses to go away. As the pressure build...

What if the baby is not OK? Out of nearly four million who get newborn screening each year, about 12,000 babies are diagnosed with a "rare disease" in the US alone. Jennifer J. Brown's daughters were two of them. It was in their genes. As a student who thought about being a scientist first, and becoming a mother second, the news changed her life forever. This intimate memoir of pregnancy, childbirth and raising special kids revises the story of what to expect with hope. By...

Two disparate souls, a young Iranian woman with a promising nursing career, and an American collegiate athlete seeking a career in the intelligence field, meet by happenstance. Realizing their mutual passion to serve others, the two connect intellectually and romantically, not knowing they are both connected to secrets that will force their worlds to collide and reveal truths unknown to not only both of them, but also the world.No Borders for Truth explores love and loss w...

James is a trans boy who goes to a Catholic boarding school. He is hoping for a calm year, but other people have different plans...Soon, he finds himself entangled in a murder investigation. Now he has to find the killer while staying true to himself. The police are useless, and his classmate deserves justice.One question remains: who killed Daniel Smith, and why?

If you've spent any time in Texas in spring, you know the bluebonnets. Now imagine a pair of glasses that shows you what you had been missing — every ultraviolet the flower had been wearing all along, a field suddenly purple, a world you had been standing inside without seeing.That is love, for Richard Smith. That is Zin.Richard has spent his life making himself small. He writes poetry in secret. With Zin, he learns to see. He builds a technology that puts a kind of sight on...

Hush now, dear reader—prepare to cry,This book was never meant to please.Here mothers fail, and babies die;Turn back if you're unready for unease.— Dakria, EditorEerie Lullaby is a dark horror anthology that dares to disturb and unsettle.Published by WATG Press, this collection gathers bold voices in contemporary horror fiction, psychological horror, and disturbing dark lit...

Sinead is an exceptionally talented U of T music student facing a frightening problem. She has been asked to enter an international two-piano music competition with a concert pianist friend, just as she is experiencing unexplained memory lapses during performances.She sees a psychologist specializing in performance anxiety, on the advice of her boyfriend. The resulting theory for the cause of the lapses comes as a shock to her parents. She has seven months to work on her problem in...

Noa by Dave J. BrownWhat if your soulmate wasn't who the system chose? What if love itself became a form of rebellion?In the city of Auravelle, everything is designed for harmony. Every choice—your career, your meals, even your relationships—is guided by NOA, the omnipresent AI that optimizes every citizen's life. Conflict is minimized. Emotions are managed. Love, after all, is just another equation to solve.Selene Whitmore is a ...