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Critically acclaimed science fiction and fantasy author Matthew Hughes started out as crime writer Matt Hughes. He churned out fast-paced stories about burglars, psychopaths, con men, cops, and killers, well leavened with the deep sense of irony that permeates his speculative fiction. This collection’s dozen stories includes “One More Kill,” judged by the Crime Writers of Canada as the best short crime yarn of 1999.

He calls himself Farouche, after a character from legend, but his reality is that his memories and identity were stolen from him by a secret enemy. In a far-future world of wizards and walled cities, he finds himself trailing a wealthy merchant’s caravan across a dusty plain. Possessed of a soldier’s skills, he hires on with the merchant and begins to build a life. But his efforts to discover his past reveal a dark prospect: was he a participant in a notorious massacre of innocents? Will Farouche come to know the truth? Will he survive the journey across a lawless land to the remote ...

From the award-winning author of Majestrum, Template, and The Other, this collection of short stories ranges from the thoughtful to the whimsical. Most of them appeared first in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and Asimov’s. Others were written for the bespoke anthologies: Songs of the Dying Earth, Old Mars, and Welcome to the Greenhouse; one is published here for the first time.

Mixed Bag: A Miscellany of Stories brings together eleven stories, from flash to novelette length. As the title indicates, there’s considerable variety: Dying Earth fantasy, space opera, contemporary fantasy, near-future dystopia. Some of the stories bring back some of my favorite characters: Henghis Hapthorn, Erm Kaslo, and Luff Imbry. And one of them is my unabashed Wodehouse pastiche that saw Jeeves and Wooster (with names changed to protect the sueable) rocketing off to Venus. All of the tales have been previously published in reputable venues, except for the Imbry novelette, which is...

Finding love can be hard. Being single can feel even harder. In Love Life, world-renowned coach and New York Times bestselling author Matthew Hussey provides a practical roadmap for letting go of past relationships, overcoming the fear of getting left behind, and finding the love we want.

In a world of wizards and walled cities, Galabras Nachecko is a necromancer in the seaport metropolis of Golathreon, connecting the living with deceased relatives and associates to answer questions left unresolved at the time of death. Then he is tasked by Duke Simisson’s conniving seneschal to capture the ghost of a notorious land pirate scheduled for execution. He snags the spirit but finds that the assignment has made him a man who knows too much. Nachecko is propelled into a new career—secret agent segueing into diplomat—that leads him far from home, plunges him into perilous ...

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Bringing you engaging conversations on Bible and theology (hosted by biblical scholars and theologians).

Commercial burglar Stan Winkelman encounters the ghost of a Jane Manchester, wrongly confined for life in a 1940s insane asylum by a powerful family. She wants to know what happened to Harmon, the baby boy that was stolen from her. Aided by Jeannie, his ghost-obsessed autistic daughter, Stan and Jane begin a quest to find Harmon, or his descendants. But their search will run them afoul of Andrew Bigelow, reclusive heir to the fortune Jane was robbed of. And Bigelow is in cahoots with a murderous crew who deal in guns and blood diamonds and will stop at nothing to keep their crimes hidden. ...

Join two amateur Grimmologists round the fire to read and discuss the tales of the Brothers Grimm.

After accidentally summoning a demon while playing poker, the normally mild-mannered Chesney Anstruther refuses to sell his soul…which leads through various confusions to, well, Hell going on strike. Which means that nothing bad ever happens in the world – and that actually turns out to be a really bad thing. There’s only one thing for it. Satan offers Chesney the ultimate deal – sign the damned contract, and he can have his heart’s desire.

Ezra Hayes has always felt like a background character compared to BFFs Lucas and Finley. He would do anything to be seen as a romantic lead, even if it means keeping his boyfriend, Presley, a secret. But when he discovers that Presley is a lying cheater, and his best friends are having boy problems of their own, they want revenge. Their plans to get even involve sabotaging the largest party of the year, entering a drag competition, and even having Ezra run against his ex for Winter Formal King.

These stories are a little bit of madness, brought to you by some of the best horror authors working in the industry, today, that wanted to show off their love for splatterpunk.

A cab ride to an infamous cemetery takes a sinister turn when the passengers discover they may be the graveyard’s next residents. Fun and games unleash evil beyond imagination when a young couple rolls the dice of a board game from hell. And a treasure hunt turns deadly when a pair of explorers discover what’s really hiding deep in the woods....

Eden Series: Volume #2: Winterwood A Sound marketing strategy: Important: “Always read the fine print when you contract with the Devil.” The people of Benton should have heeded this advice! When the highway bypasses the town, the good people are prepared to do anything to get back on the map. What they do is make the biggest mistake in the history of mistakes, and soon the town is littered with the bodies of angels and the war for humanity's soul rages in the dark forest... The heroes? The Flare: A chubby sheriff and his wife, a street cleaner and a slutty waitress. They are ...

Requiem for Eden (Eden Series Volume #3) Lucid returns…with help With Trinity under threat from two mighty armies, the Archangel Michael must once again find a hero to save the triple cities from Lucifer’s hordes and the Norsemen from…err… well, the north. Trinity seems doomed when their enemies discover that Lady Bony Ass is about to give birth to a boy, a direct descendant of the Magnus Caseus, the Senate leader. If he is allowed to grow to maturity, his wisdom will safeguard Eden for eternity. Michael is desperately searching for a champion and can barely believe his luck when he...

Chesney’s efforts to 'Save the Day' and 'Win the Girl' make slow progress. This superhero lark is a bit more complicated than he thought. But even as Chesney is trying to learn the ropes, Boss Greeley has made a deal with the Devil. A deal that is making Greeley stronger by the minute. Soon he will be untouchable. Meanwhile Reverend Hardacre digs deeper and finds that not everything in reality is quite what it seems… Now Chesney, the one-time actuary-turned superhero must continue the fight.

Exodus 20:1-31 And God spoke all these words, saying,2 “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.3 “You shall have no other gods before me.Matthew 6:19-2419 “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust[a] destroy and where thieves break in and steal, 20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.22 “The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is ...

Freelance speechwriter Sid Rafferty signs on to help a neophyte candidate run for election as an alderman in Cumberland, once a booming coal-mining town on Vancouver Island that's now shrunk down to an out-of-the-way little village. But first another writing job makes Sid a witness to a violent death the Mounties are calling murder, then a pair of marijuana-growing brothers want to know what he's doing poking around near their grow-op. An old colleague from his newspaper offers Sid a job spying on environmental activists, but he finds working undercover is no picnic. And he's about to find ...