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STOP. Do not read this book. I need to do a lot of reworking of the first half in order to align it with where it's going. Please wait until it is done . . . should be good to go late August.I am the warthog . . . I am the pig . . . With the arrival of a mysterious invitation, Delia Riley is offered an opportunity to break free of her myopic world and microscopic prospects. She may not have heard of the prestigious Svíndalurinn Academy, a summer program for the most prestigious subset of incoming freshmen at Whitehaven University, but the staff have most certainly begun preparing for her arrival. *This will absolutely change as I develop a better understanding of where this book will go.…

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It was an auspicious vision that told Elena Flores to move with her two sons to Surette, Louisiana, a small town that promised them a better life, but dreams aren't always to be trusted. Surette is bound by its dark history, cursed to stand idle while it loses its children, and when Elena's youngest joins the missing, her older son, Tomas, vows to seek answers. Generations of tragedy, secrecy and cover-ups, tales of dark creatures haunting the bayou, sin and confessions and penance converge across three timelines as the ghosts of the town's black past seek their vengeance.…

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This is a collection of some of my more curious and macabre poems.Many of my poems play with words, the sounds and shapes of them. However, I often attempt to delineate emotion and sensation I cannot otherwise word, or I take inspiration from legend or myth or fairytale. If you have interest in an explanation for any of these, don't hesitate to comment, and I can offer the meaning behind *most* of them.…

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This is a second anthology of my more whimsical and curious poems. They aren't so much for children, though anyone can read them!…

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This is a third compilation of my poetry, to which I will add poems as I complete them. Once I get to 100, I will publish.…

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A vacation spent as a family in a charming seaside town seemed exactly what the Curry family needed, even if it had been a freak of nature that brought them there. Arthur would aid an old friend in research while Lilia painted beaches and meadows, the boys would swim and socialize, and eleven-year-old Ramona would collect curiosities. But something else is due to arrive at Blackswallow Beach that summer, something heralded by an increasingly bizarre menagerie of circus folk, and that something has its sights set on more than entertainment. For the ocean vast is dark and deep . . . to know, we'd never sleep . . .…

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A high school taken hostage, a man who claims to be a god, and a darkly obsessive teen . . . When Vanessa Tan is tasked with delving into the background of a likely maniac in order to stop him from mutilating teenagers, she's prepared for a hopeless task and potential violence. What she isn't prepared for are the circumstances surrounding his rise to terror, mounting gruesome murders, and the increasing likelihood that someone, somewhere, is manipulating the very chronology of her life.…

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Knock, knock, knock, one, two, three! Kitty come and play with me! . . . It was supposed to be one of those harmless sleepover games girls play, and yet the morning after, one of them was gone. Twenty-three years later, the four who remained have built their complicated lives, but they've not forgotten the missing, and the missing has not forgotten them. When their own children begin experiencing disturbances, four estranged friends must face the secrets they've kept, because anyone who plays dark games should be prepared to accept dark consequences.…

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One summer, four teens discover something they'd forever after wish they hadn't about the wealthy resort that is the heart of their otherwise sleepy community. The horror of what happened has stayed with each as they've gone their own ways and attempted to make lives for themselves, but fifteen years later, they're called back to their home, to one another, each as broken as the next. Because the darkness they unearthed is loath to let them know its secrets, and when darkheart wakes, it can't be put to rest without being satiated. *This novel is told in chapters that alternate the past with the present.🖤First Place for Horror in the Punk Rock Awards 2023…

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When Minn Bellamy and her teenaged son decide to spend their spring hiking the Blue Ridge Mountains, the last thing they expect is to stumble across a town so isolated it seems as if the supernatural has taken them back in time. Warm welcomes quickly turn ominous as mysterious circumstances force them to stay and the strangers' traditions become increasingly sinister. The townsfolk have ulterior motives, Minn's past is about to catch up with her, and the aims of the forces in the surrounding forest are far from friendly.…

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Hilltop House always remembered its first, how closely it watched them, how much they meant to it . . . and what it did to them. But Hilltop House has yet to find another like its first, until 𝘴𝘩𝘦 moves in. Cora is angry, and weird, and entirely unsuspecting. Her mother hides secrets, just as her grandmother did, and just as every neighbor seems to be doing. But the biggest secret is held by her sentient house, which enjoys rhymes, wants to enjoy Cora, and may or may not have done something to a baby . . . Hilltop House is here to play, and Hilltop House will get its way.…

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Emery's an entirely normal seventeen-year-old with an entirely normal life, until a stranger shows up just to stare at her . . . and stare . . . and stare. Then the really weird things start happening: a friend vanishes into thin air, warriors and antlered monsters battle in the woods, and a druid takes up residence in Emery's mother's she-shed. When the staring stranger begins making outrageous claims about a relationship they couldn't possibly share, the girl is forced to figure out whether her life is more myth and magic than she'd ever realized. *This is a trilogy. The second and third installments are also available on Wattpad! This trilogy pulls heavily from the Ulster Cycle of Celtic myth. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it!…

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In this second installment of the trilogy, Emery finds herself trapped in an ancient world to which she feels little connection. With no notion of who she once was, no memory of the relationship she shared with the man who claims to be her husband, she struggles to understand her place as well as her heart. As if those tasks weren't enough, an ominous entity known as the Dark Man seeks her, haunting her dreams, biding his time before he asks a question to which she must give the right answer, whatever that answer might be. The aid of friends from two very different worlds, the continuation of mysteries begun but unsolved, and the threat of enemies both visible and invisible combine in a tale both fantastical and romantic.** This is part of a trilogy. The first and third installments are available on Wattpad as well!…

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In this final installment of the trilogy, Emery is torn from a world she's just begun to understand and thrown back to one she no longer wants. She is desperate to find her way home, but her captor has work for her, and he is loath to let her go. Why does the Darkness wish to claim her? What vengeance do the Gods mean to exact on her? Strange and tragic reunions with friends and siblings, dangerous secrets new and old, emergent memories of past selves--the mysterious web Emery and Cullen wove when they defied fate must unravel at last, and whether or not they can free themselves from its tangle depends on their discovering who they are truly meant to be.*** This is the third novel in a trilogy; the first and second are also available on Wattpad!…

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High school freshman Zach Farmer disappeared on October 31st, the day everyone forgot he existed. No clues were left behind, and nobody can find him. Now, the two friends who forgot Zach when he needed them most are attempting to remake their lives in the aftermath of his bizarre disappearance. Ada, who gets into some trouble with a bad-news upperclassman, and Evan, a sophomore who turns to disturbing means of relief when his passion for theater is stifled, regret forgetting to meet Zach on the last night of October, when he insisted their coming was a matter of life and death. Their hesitant decision to figure out what actually happened to their friend leads them to the brink of madness and, at last, to the incredulous truth.…

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It appeared one day without anyone noticing, opening a corridor into the earth, and even the drowned could not say where it led.* I don't often write short stories (I'm rather terrible at them), but I've always been terrified of sinkholes, so there you go.…

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When she wakes up in a juvenile detention facility with no memory of who she is or what she's done, so-called Nadia resigns herself to a confusing existence amongst strange roommates in an inhospitable environment, but when she's contacted by the mysterious Henry, known for trying to help girls escape, she jumps at the chance to get out. After realizing that Henry, too, has no memory, the two embark on a quest to discover why their minds have been wiped, and their journey takes them into the heart of a corrupt city, where they find they're connected to a literally underground crime organization. What have they done, and, more importantly, what has been done to them? Their questions breed few clues, and when they're separated, Nadia must decide whether or not to go after Henry, with whom she believes she has a more complicated history than her own mind allows her to remember. Murder and secrets and betrayal . . . book one in this trilogy hints that far more sinister masters hide behind the curtains of the nefarious Circuit, and Nadia and Henry are part of something deeper and darker than they could ever guess.…

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In this second installment of the No Name trilogy, Nadia attempts to assume some sort of normal life after the whirlwind of her encounter with the Circuit. Still lacking most of her memory, she soon realizes that without Henry, she has no purpose. When a mysterious message hinting at his location arrives, she knows she must leave behind any hopes of normalcy and attempt to track him down. Able to trust no one, Nadia struggles with the affection of a new acquaintance, understanding what's happened to Henry once she's found him, and the disorienting bits of memory surfacing from her mind that seem to center on a mirror image of herself. As she runs from the city to the mountains to the coast, pursued every step of the way, she encounters at last her mysterious, malevolent manipulators when forced to make a terrible, ultimate choice.…

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In this third and final installment of the No Name trilogy, Nadia understands that until she discovers and destroys the entities controlling her dangerous and confusing world, she and Henry will have no future. Forgotten by the only person she cares for, vengeful toward all who continue to separate them, determined to the point of self-destruction, she sets out to find the mysterious Xanadu, which holds the keys not only to her lost memories but to her very existence. Enemies return from the dead, friends and adversaries blur, love kindles in unlikely places--and the future itself resides in the stars.…