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About Coven (A Soulmark Series Book 1)
Zoelle imagined life post-grad living out her dreams of starting her own cafe—What she got instead? Magical abilities and an alpha who thinks they’re “fated”. After forcing her hand to bind them together, they must both face the consequences. Including the power to ignite a war… or end one.
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About Gone, A Jourey Through Loss by Carmen Alexis Gray
Through Loss”, her personal process of grieving after multiple traumas, including the murder of her only son and getting to the other side. The Gone Book includes a workbook to aid the reader in finding inner peace and healing after loss. You will find this book of memoirs is raw at times taking the reader through an unveiled look at trauma and how to manage the realities of depression, anxiety, thoughts of self-harm, PTSD, hopelessness, and confronting real truths in the face of death. It’s time to heal, so let your journey begin.
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About Wicked River (Black Souls MC 20) by Mira Ahonen
Wicked. Enforcer in Black Souls MC.
Maddie. Lawyer, freshly graduated and ready for her first client.
His life won’t feel complete if he doesn’t get his revenge.
She’s just about to finally start living.
He’d do anything for revenge, sacrifice anyone.
Maddie was never a good choice for a victim.
Wicked never expected he’ll care so much.
They’re both gonna learn the hard way that redeeming your past isn’t worth ruining your present.
Standalone within the series, no cliffhangers.
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About Effortless Mediterranean Delights: A 150-Recipe 30-Minute Cookbook for Quick and Flavorful Meals – Your Path to Lifelong Health
Embark on a Culinary Journey with “Effortless Mediterranean Delights
Unlock the secrets of the Mediterranean diet with our comprehensive 30-Minute Cookbook, featuring 150 easy, flavorful recipes designed for quick and delightful meals. Elevate your culinary experience and embrace a lifestyle of lifelong health with the delicious simplicity of Mediterranean cooking.
Discover Effortless Elegance:
Explore the art of quick and healthy Mediterranean cuisine with recipes tailored for busy lives. From vibrant salads to succulent seafood and hearty grains, each dish is crafted for both taste and ease, ensuring that the joy of cooking remains effortless.
Smart Meal Plans for a Healthier You:
Our cookbook includes smart meal plans designed to guide you on a journey to long-term well-being. Effortlessly integrate the Mediterranean diet into your routine with curated plans that make shopping and cooking a breeze. Unleash the benefits of this heart-healthy diet with flavors that will leave your taste buds dancing.
Variety to Suit Every Palate:
Featuring a diverse selection of recipes, our cookbook caters to all tastes and preferences. Whether you’re a seasoned chef or a kitchen novice, these recipes offer a delectable fusion of simplicity and sophistication, making every meal an enjoyable experience.
What’s Inside:
150 easy-to-follow recipes
Quick 30-minute meals
Smart meal plans for lifelong health
Effortless kitchen-to-table creations
Tips and tricks for Mediterranean culinary mastery
Why Choose “Effortless Mediterranean Delights
Our cookbook stands out with its emphasis on simplicity, variety, and health. With a focus on delivering quick, flavorful meals and fostering a love for Mediterranean cooking, it’s your go-to guide for a delicious and nourishing lifestyle.
From Our Kitchen to Yours:
Authored by [Your Name], a culinary enthusiast passionate about sharing the joys of Mediterranean cooking. Let the aroma of the Mediterranean fill your kitchen and the flavors enrich your daily meals.
Start Your Culinary Adventure Today!
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About False Accusations of Child Abuse: A Survival Guide
The False Accusations of Child Abuse: A Survival Guide eBook will help teach you about child abuse and how to take legal action against false accusations. These actions include initial steps after being falsely accused, the litigation process, common results, how to hire an attorney and more. Visit our website to order your free eBook today!
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About Dear Wellbeing: 100 Days on My Path to More Joy
*** .99 Cents *** 12-28 through 01/03/24 – How much more wonderful can your life be? Weren’t you born to be in the joy of who you are?
It’s time for a life-changing journey that guides you on a path to your greatest joy and wellbeing. And if you found yourself here, you’re ready!
Putting yourself in charge of your own wellbeing and happiness empowers you and sets you free. You’re invincible in your new mindset and become a magnet for all your life’s wishes.
This workbook offers a complete immersion into self-reflection and personal transformation in every area of your life including your:
Health – Mind -Body – Home – Family – Relationships – Career – Happiness –
and your Wishes & Dreams…
It is specifically designed to help you:
— Practice feeling how you wish to feel until it becomes natural to you
— Be in the qualities and energy that attract your true desires
— Create an atmosphere of success to achieve your goals
— Focus on positive solutions that allow any problems to fall away
— Use visualization for the purpose of healing and manifesting your dreams
— Noticeably improve your relationships
— Achieve a higher level of wellbeing
This is more than a self-help book. It’s a way to create a daily habit of thinking and feeling and acting like the person you truly wish to be.
If you’re feeling ready to devote time to yourself, why not use that time to purposely create your life so it turns out the way you designed it? That’s what this workbook can help you do.
All you need to do is take charge of your life and how you feel, and you can achieve the personal transformation you may be hoping for.
In her first motivational self-help book, 100 Days of Actions & Intentions to Create the Life You Wish For, certified happiness coach Susan Balogh provides you with a step-by-step blueprint to emotional success. This workbook offers a more personal self-development journey by allowing you to do the work for a firsthand experience that’s necessary for real positive changes to occur in your life.
If you love the idea of being guided, coached, empowered, loved, accepted, and appreciated, you will love this workbook!
By the time you’re done with this workbook, you will treasure yourself and your mind and body more, and attract your true desires more easily. You will also have a little tool box of powerful self-healing and visualization techniques for continued success.
As you navigate through this workbook, it’s also going to help with practicing mindfulness, gaining clarity on goals, and developing joyful thoughts. You may even find that you’re better at handling emotions and seeing potential problems as an opportunity for personal growth.
Upon completing this workbook, you can use the questions over again to do your own self-reflection journal. Making it a daily ritual is a great way to practice goal setting and improve decision making and communication skills. You may even find that it gives you more freedom and confidence to be yourself and recognize your worth.
It all leads to empowering yourself to be the best version of yourself and live your life to its fullest. That’s the goal, and that’s why this book is 100 days long. It’s meant to help you get in the consistent habit of setting daily intentions that help you continue to move forward and upward on your amazing life’s journey!
It’s time to give yourself the attention you deserve and make your life the way you want it to be.
Are you ready to practice thinking and feeling how you truly wish to feel and align with a higher level of wellbeing?
Take 100 days to guide yourself there. You will be so glad you did!
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About There’s MAGIC in this MANIFESTING JOURNAL: It’s Your Imagination
.99 Cents from 12/28 – 01/03/24 – If you had everything you wanted right now, how would you be acting? What would you be thinking about? More importantly, how would you be feeling? How limitless and free would you feel?
Imagine playing the part. You’re already there. You’re feeling it. You’re living and breathing it. You’re being it. And doing it easily and effortlessly, and having the time of your life the whole way through.
In playing this magical game of make believe you align with the energy that is manifesting your dreams…
You’re playing the role of the person who has received everything you asked for. You might even say it’s like taking your life’s vision or even your vision board and acting it out until it becomes who you are. It’s instilled in the forefront of your mind and you become so aligned with it that it has no choice but to materialize.
You are destined to be a more active participant in creating your reality, and more so than ever before.
In the words of the author:
Like an inventor, you’re going to put all the components of your desired reality together in your mind first. When you frequently imagine a new story for yourself, it’s impressed upon the mind, which then automatically goes to work to find ways to bring your dream to life.
Do your desires feel like a part of you? Do you feel that you’re attracting them now? That’s what this law of attraction journal is meant to help you do.
Being in the energy of what’s to come has the power to magnetize your biggest dreams, or something even better.
This is the kind of journal that you start out doing for the fun of it, and it quickly draws you in and puts you under the spell of your own captivating story that’s inevitably unfolding and coming to life in the most magical way.
You soon find yourself mesmerized by your own fascinating imagination, and all the while your true desires are being instilled in you like never before. And in your spirit of playfulness and childlike abandon you allow your naturally abundant life to flow. You feel there’s nothing you can’t do. This can only lead to more good things in your life.
This manifesting journal is specifically designed to help you:
— Routinely use the power of imagination and creative visualization
— Cultivate an abundance mindset that will attract your desires
— Work with the law of attraction and raise your vibration
— Practice the art of allowing and fully trust and surrender to it
— Gain clarity on what your true desires are and prepare to receive them
— Practice visualization techniques for attracting money
— Manifest a soulmate or improve relationships
— Manifest success or a career
— Practice daily intentions to attract positive outcomes
— Retrain your mind to release limiting beliefs and live a successful life
— Practice asking for, believing and expecting, and holding faith and trust in your desires
— Have the courage and inspiration to take the next step to achieve your dreams
In short, this journal offers 100 pages of thought-provoking intentions, questions, and affirmations that are all designed to get you thinking, feeling, and acting like your desires are already a part of who you are. The idea is to align your energy with them, and they must become yours.
This is not your everyday law of attraction journal. You might even say it’s a little “out there,” or just plain fun and funky. Let’s just say you won’t get bored with the daily prompts. And it will give you the tools and practice to daydream your life into a reality.
So, how does it feel to be in the energy that will manifest your desires? How much more are you able to attract your wishes and dreams? It’s time for you to find out. Let it be now.
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About 100 Days of Actions & Intentions to Create the Life You Wish For
From beginning to the end, every word of this book helps you practice the feeling-place of anything you wish to be or have or do. Imagine the daily struggles fading away and having a renewed mindset that allows you to achieve your goals and dreams.
You’re invincible in your new mindset and become a magnet for all your life’s wishes!
You’re meant to be feeling happy and free and in charge of your own destiny and wellbeing.
This may just be the handbook of life that you’ve always wanted but didn’t know you needed until you found it…
The book is specifically designed to help you:
— Practice how it feels to be aligned with your natural state of blissful wellbeing, happiness, and abundance until your desires become a part of who you are and must become your reality
—- Free your mind and have a feeling of ease and confidence as you go through your day
—- Have a good-feeling body that’s thriving with energy
—- Get a clear vision of how you want the rest of your life to go and have the inspiration and courage to make it happen
—- Purposely create your life by learning to work with the universal law of attraction
—- Raise your vibrational energy to attain the highest level of wellbeing and prosperity you ever thought possible
Each chapter of this book offers daily inspiration and provides a treasury of questions and positive affirmations that are mind-altering.
In this motivational book, 100 Days of Actions & Intentions to Create the Life You Wish For, certified Qi Gong instructor and happiness coach Susan Balogh provides you with a step-by-step blueprint to emotional success, and so much more! It’s like having a cheerleader or coach alongside you that makes you feel as though you’re being guided, encouraged, inspired, empowered, loved, accepted, and appreciated.
As you read this book, you will begin to believe more strongly in your ability to create a happier and healthier life, and have a little tool box of simple, yet powerful, self-healing and visualization techniques for continued success.
Are you ready to restore the balance of your mind, body, and spirit and master your inherent ability to attract anything you desire? It’s time for you to live a joyful life and achieve your dreams! All day, every day!
Set Yourself Free & Be Happy! You can have a fresh start right now…
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About STEP BACK YOU WON’T FALL
Conflict resolutions needs to be intentional.
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About Fluffy by Kimolisa Mings
Lativia doesn’t think she belongs at the exclusive Eros Bacchanale only to discover that she is the very one they’ve been waiting for.
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About Little Girls Love Big
This Valentine’s Day, show your loved ones how much you care!
Join Hannah Banana and Mary Berry on a heartwarming adventure that teaches little ones how to show their family and friends they care without breaking the bank. Hannah makes a card for her cousin, gives a kiss to Dad, has a long conversation with Grandma on the phone, and more. Mary is watching and learning from her big sister and decides to do something special for Hannah!
Get your copy of this uplifting story that will inspire creativity in everyone! This book will be free 12/27-12/28!
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About Mobius Blvd: Stories from the Byway between Reality and Dream No. 2 | December 2023
There is a byway between reality and dream. A transit we call Möbius Blvd …
Inspired by the enigmatic Möbius strip, a mathematical construct that defies conventional notions of linearity and infinity, Möbius Blvd has no beginning or end but exists in a place where reality and dream have fused … coalesced … merged. With each turn of the page, you’ll encounter a unique blend of horror, fantasy, and science-fiction—fiction that will challenge your perceptions and leave you in awe of the infinite possibilities that exist within the written word.
Indeed, Möbius Blvd is far more than a magazine; it’s an experience. It’s an exploration of the infinite, a passage through dimensions where the only constant is storytelling at its most daring, a kaleidoscope of wonder and terror. Join us on this winding, never-ending journey of speculative fiction that will keep you entranced from the first twist to the last loop. Open your mind to the limitless worlds of Möbius Blvd … and discover that the boundary between fiction and reality is as thin as a strip of paper with a twist.
In this issue:
DRIVING ALL NIGHT
Brad Goldberg
EXPIRATION DATE
Trish Renee
HOUSE MADE OF GINGER
Justin Fellows
HUNGER
Joseph Flynn
THE ELEPHANT SLAYER
Wayne Kyle Spitzer
OPTOPHOBIA
Ken Goldman
PERIOD.
Ginger Keller Gannaway
THAT FORGOTTEN MONDAY
Mark Connelly
THE DREAM THEATER
Joe Prosit
TYSON’S CORNER
Griffith Pound
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About Mobius Blvd: Stories from the Byway between Reality and Dream No. 3 | January 2024
There is a byway between reality and dream. A transit we call Möbius Blvd …
Inspired by the enigmatic Möbius strip, a mathematical construct that defies conventional notions of linearity and infinity, Möbius Blvd has no beginning or end but exists in a place where reality and dream have fused … coalesced … merged. With each turn of the page, you’ll encounter a unique blend of horror, fantasy, and science-fiction—fiction that will challenge your perceptions and leave you in awe of the infinite possibilities that exist within the written word.
Indeed, Möbius Blvd is far more than a magazine; it’s an experience. It’s an exploration of the infinite, a passage through dimensions where the only constant is storytelling at its most daring, a kaleidoscope of wonder and terror. Join us on this winding, never-ending journey of speculative fiction that will keep you entranced from the first twist to the last loop. Open your mind to the limitless worlds of Möbius Blvd … and discover that the boundary between fiction and reality is as thin as a strip of paper with a twist.
In this issue:
THE NEXT STOP IS GRAND CENTRAL
Judith Pancoast
ARNOU THE PAINTER
Lawrence Buentello
IN THE DARK THERE IS A HAND
Michael Paul Kozlowsky
TOMATO KING
Nick Marsan
EPIPHANY FOR A FERRYMAN
Wayne Kyle Spitzer
ROAD STORY
Mike A. Rhodes
DECEMBER’S CAT
Michael Schulman
TALES FROM BEYOND THE MIRROR
Simina Lungu
THE MELLIFIED MAN
Dante Bilec
THE WINDOW
Gerald A. Jennings
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About Shards of the Past
Enter the remarkable journey of Emma Martin, a committed nurse who suffers from crippling headaches and a tornado of hectic tasks. In an attempt to overcome her chronic pain and escape the norm, Emma ventures into the world of psychic treatments, pushing the limits of science in the process.
Emma struggles with the contradiction between her personal, profound feelings and the empirical data as she reveals the transforming potential of unconventional activities. As a skilled nurse, doubts begin to surface, challenging her deeply held convictions, yet the unquestionable advancement draws her farther into the enigmatic realm of mental energy.
The story of Emma is a powerful illustration of the unrealized potential that comes with accepting uncertainty. In a world where medical science often rules, her journey acts as a beacon, inspiring us to seek alternative paths to feeling well. Come along with Emma as she goes into unknown waters, demonstrating that sometimes the deepest healing is found beyond what is known.
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About Black Sheep: Unique Tales of Terror and Wonder No. 7 | January 2024
Welcome to Black Sheep: Unique Tales of Terror and Wonder, an extraordinary anthology magazine that transcends the boundaries of science-fiction, fantasy, and horror. Prepare to embark on a thrilling journey through the darkest corners of the human imagination, where the ordinary becomes extraordinary, and the mundane transforms into a realm of unspeakable terror and awe-inspiring wonder.
Within these pages, you’ll discover a collection of captivating stories carefully curated to transport you to realms beyond the mundane. Each issue presents an array of unique tales crafted by talented visionaries, both established and emerging, who dare to defy conventions and push the boundaries of speculative fiction.
Whether you’re a seasoned lover of the fantastic or just curious to explore new frontiers, Black Sheep: Unique Tales of Terror and Wonder will be your guide through the realms of the extraordinary. Prepare to be enthralled, enchanted, haunted. So put on your dark sunglasses … and unleash your inner Black Sheep.
In this issue:
THE BATHTUB
Olivia Wolfe
ARACHNE
Jason Huls
ASHMEDAI AND THE HAIRDRESSER
Allister Nelson
BURKE’S REBOOT
Alyssa Willeford
GET IT OUT OF ME
Wayne Kyle Spitzer
PERSUATION
Mary Jo Rabe
SWIMMING HOLE
Kathy Lanzarotti
THE STRANGE CASE OF BARTHOLOMEW HEMBREE
Paul Cesarini
MONSTERS
Fred Cheney
HELLION
Jason Frederick Myers
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About Black Sheep: Unique Tales of Terror and Wonder No. 6
Welcome to Black Sheep: Unique Tales of Terror and Wonder, an extraordinary anthology magazine that transcends the boundaries of science-fiction, fantasy, and horror. Prepare to embark on a thrilling journey through the darkest corners of the human imagination, where the ordinary becomes extraordinary, and the mundane transforms into a realm of unspeakable terror and awe-inspiring wonder.
Within these pages, you’ll discover a collection of captivating stories carefully curated to transport you to realms beyond the mundane. Each issue presents an array of unique tales crafted by talented visionaries, both established and emerging, who dare to defy conventions and push the boundaries of speculative fiction.
Whether you’re a seasoned lover of the fantastic or just curious to explore new frontiers, Black Sheep: Unique Tales of Terror and Wonder will be your guide through the realms of the extraordinary. Prepare to be enthralled, enchanted, haunted. So put on your dark sunglasses … and unleash your inner Black Sheep.
In this issue:
A FISH STORY
Mark Mitchell
CARNIVORE
Joshua Mertz
CHANGE OF LIGHT
Richard Agemo
CLOSE TO HOME
Henry Simpson
THE LOW RUMBLE OF DISTANT THUNDER
Wayne Kyle Spitzer
HOW TO BIRTH METAPHORS? GUIDE FOR ROBOTS
Ashwin
IN THROUGH THE WINDOW
Alison Morretta
THE SUSURRUS
Ben Larned
THOSE THAT TAKE FROM YOU
Jarred Frederick
WE ARE ALL KEV
Anthony Neil Smith
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About Dark Horses: The Magazine of Weird Fiction No. 23 | December 2023
dark horse
/ˈdärk ˈˌhôrs/
noun
1. a candidate or competitor about whom little is known but who unexpectedly wins or succeeds.
“a dark-horse candidate”
Join us for a monthly tour of writers who give as good as they get. From hard science-fiction to stark, melancholic apocalypses; from Lovecraftian horror to zombies and horror comedy; from whimsical interludes to tales of unlikely compassion–whatever it is, if it’s weird, it’s here. So grab a seat before the starting gun fires, pour yourself a glass of strange wine, and get ready for the running of the dark horses.
In this issue:
NANTUCKET 2045
Anastasios Mihalopoulos
MY DREAMHOUSE IS MADE OF MATCHSTICKS
Sabina Malik
CALVING SEASON
Shana Waldman
CONNUBIAL BLISS
Joseph Hirsch
COFFIN ROAD
Wayne Kyle Spitzer
THE EXHIBITION
James Austin McCormick
WHAT IS GINGER?
David Blitch
FAMILY TREE
Argus Z. Burton
TERRORIZER
Paul Lee
WHAT NOW?
Matt Dennis
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About Dark Horses: The Magazine of Weird Fiction No. 24 | January 2024
dark horse
/ˈdärk ˈˌhôrs/
noun
1. a candidate or competitor about whom little is known but who unexpectedly wins or succeeds.
“a dark-horse candidate”
Join us for a monthly tour of writers who give as good as they get. From hard science-fiction to stark, melancholic apocalypses; from Lovecraftian horror to zombies and horror comedy; from whimsical interludes to tales of unlikely compassion–whatever it is, if it’s weird, it’s here. So grab a seat before the starting gun fires, pour yourself a glass of strange wine, and get ready for the running of the dark horses.
In this issue:
BAD PATIENT
Colton Scott Saylor
WITHOUT SCARS
Jhon Sánchez
NOT A CAT GUY
Cassandra O’Sullivan Sachar
AUTUMNAL EQUINOX REDUX
Will Lennon
A REIGN OF THUNDER
Wayne Kyle Spitzer
TECHNOLUTION
Eleanor Mourante
OF TWO MINDS
Marco Etheridge
EASY ANSWERS
Diana Olney
MECHANICAL DINNER
Nathaniel Barrett
TO THE MEGALITHS OF MONSTROSITY AND BEYOND
D.G. Ironside
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About The Wine Dark Passage: An Apocalyptic Coming of Age Story
Embark on a Haunting Odyssey in The Wine Dark Passage…
In the eerie shadows of a post-apocalyptic world, where time has unraveled into chaos, emerges a tale of survival and awakening as the nuclear submarine Sarpedon follows a private canal to a mysterious destination …
The Silent Protagonist
Meet Pang “The Mouse” In-Su, a 13-year-old Korean deafmute girl, whose silence speaks louder than words. Pang grapples with the weight of a disordered world, haunted by memories of loss and the relentless pursuit of survival.
The Enigmatic Captain and His Companions
Captain O’Neil guides the USS Sarpedon through the wine-dark waters. Alongside him, Enge Puckett, a steadfast companion, adds a touch of humanity to the stark reality of survival. Together, they navigate through the remnants of a world that has succumbed to the whims of time, where primitive people and dinosaurs roam in the shadows.
The Elon Musk-like Enigma
Enter Steve Dannon, an Elon Musk-like figure, whose private compound, Chryse Planitia, beckons like a forbidden sanctuary on Vashon Island. Dannon, reminiscent of Conrad’s Kurtz, hides secrets that echo in the whispers of those who dare to challenge his fractured reality. As the crew embarks on this odyssey, Dannon’s enigma looms large—a force that can reshape destinies or plunge them into deeper darkness.
A Heart of Darkness in the Pacific Northwest
In this Pacific Northwest dystopia, the crew must confront the perils of a distorted time, facing not only the remnants of a lost world but the shadows of their own morality …
From The Wine Dark Passage:
We watched as he gestured to what appeared to be a large hand crank near the edge of the lock.
Do it, O’Neil seemed to indicate.
And he moved toward it—even as something moved with him through the shadows; something sleek and dark and stealthy as a panther. Something which was joined by three other somethings as Jarnel took up the big, iron handle and began to crank it—pausing to take off his coat and roll up his sleeves, completely oblivious to the fact that he was being watched. That he was being stalked.
What happened next happened fast; so fast that I was still shaking Puckett’s shoulder, telling him to fire, fire!—when one of the things leapt onto Jarnel’s back and just held on tight: curling its talons so that they dug into his thin, wet shoulders, seeming to rake his back with its sickle-clawed hindlimbs, closing its jaws about his neck and jugular. Nor did it stop there but only got worse, as the other velociraptors, the other murder birds, descended on him like flies, like jackals—knocking him to the ground, burying him as if in quicksand, making it impossible for anyone to even shoot at them for fear of hitting Jarnel himself.
Not that there would have been any point—he was clearly dead already—as Captain O’Neil spoke into his mic and the sub moved on through the now-open gates. As the raptors snarled and fought over Jarnel’s corpse and I looked toward the sky at the fat, bloody moon (which was partially obscured by the semi-luminescent clouds; the so-called Flashback Borealis, which shown red as Abaddon); noting that the world hadn’t remarked on his death in the least but only continued to look on in perfect silence: impenetrable, inscrutable, having nothing whatsoever to say—nothing to add or take away—like we ourselves, I supposed.
And then it was time to get ready—as we were more than halfway there. Time to go over the plan once more and to steel ourselves, steel our shivering stomachs, for what was yet to come. To get square with our gods and Buddhas so we could go ashore at Camp Burton—where there was a small port tucked into a heavily forested cul-de-sac—and do at last what needed to be done.
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About The Ones We Become
1924, GENOA, ITALY: Emiliano Fournier has nothing to lose—his life has been determined for him since the day of his birth. When he grows older, he will run his family’s bakery till he hands it down to his children. He has always known this. But when his life begins to turn in a different direction, everything begins to change—for the better, or perhaps, for the worst.
1940, PARIS, FRANCE: Years Later, Aurelie Fournier is living in Paris with her father and brother, running their own bakery. But just like her father, she longs for something more. As she begins to delve into self-destruction, life begins to take its toll on her. Will she be able to withstand its hold on her, or will she crumble beneath its weight?
TWO LIVES. Two generations. Everything to win—or to lose.
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