Showing results for "Gone" in Anthologies & Short Stories

Jem and Tean: Guys Gone Wild is a collection of short stories.

In part one of Gone: Sending a half-naked picture to a stranger she met online seems innocent and fun to Lilly Randall. After spending the past four years working toward an honors degree, she needs a distraction, and flirting with a man she doesn't know can't hurt, right? Clive Parker is the one man who holds all of Lilly's dreams in the palm of his hand. He's the CEO of one of the world's largest technology firms. When her picture ends up in his pocket, her future will never be the same again.

If you love your romance heroes with a soft spot for animals, and a little southern drawl in their dirty talk, this is the series for you!

Vampires Gone Wild brings together four paranormal romance novellas by Kerrelyn Sparks, Pamela Palmer, Amanda Arista, and Kim Falconer, authors and bloggers at Supernatural Underground. Kerrelyn Sparks’s demure Pamela and sexy vampire sidekick battle the Malcontents in “V is for Vampwoman...

A desperate scientist's radical attempt to cure his dying daughter unleashes an ancient, predatory potential within humanity, forcing him to confront a shadowy conspiracy and the monstrous consequences of playing God before his creation reshapes the world. Dr. Marcel Johnston, a brilliant scientist driven by the imminent loss of his terminally ill daughter, Calista, stakes everything on Project Fledge—a revolutionary serum designed to unlock humanity's ultimate potential and conquer disease.

"You should be here; he's simply magnificent." These are the final words a biologist hears before his Margaret Mead-like wife dies at the hands of Godzilla. The words haunt him as he studies the kaiju (Japan's giant monsters) on an island reserve, attempting to understand the beauty his wife saw. Every story in the collection turns to the fantastic, the mysticism of the past, and the absurdities of the future to illuminate the spaces we occupy when we are at our most vulnerable."

The world's wealthiest people don't get rich by accident. Whether by smart investment, sharp business intuition, or a combination of talent, grit and circumstance, billionaires have done something right. Or they had a whole lot of luck - a crap-load of it. Tag is the son of a billionaire, who's never had to work a day in his life. He has everything he's ever wanted, that is, until one night during a party at his lake house when a chance encounter with a stunning beauty makes him realize that he wants more. There's something about Melanie that he can't get out of his mind, or his heart.

I was out of money and options when this mysterious woman offered me five thousand dollars to get a tattoo. That seemed like a no-brainer. When I got tired of the tattoo, I figured I would just magically transfer it onto something else. No big deal. One missing person, one mutated kitten, one local crime lord, and a dozen cockroaches later, it turns out it was kind of a big deal.

Tales of the Out & the Gone reflects the astounding evolution of America's most provocative literary anti-hero. The first section of the audiobook, War Stories, offers six stories enmeshed in the vola-tile politics of the 1970s and 1980s. The second section, Tales of the Out & the Gone, reveals Amiri Baraka's increasing literary adventurousness, combining an unpredictable language play with a passion for abstraction and psychological exploration.

Listeners know that few authors are able to create an atmosphere of unease and terror as well as Oates, a fact confirmed by the four novellas presented here. All the novellas in this collection revolve around the theme of love gone wrong - horribly, shockingly wrong.

Wie weit darf Hardcorehorror gehen? Du denkst, du fürchtest dich vor nichts mehr? Gone Mad bricht Tabus. Die Protagonisten: Kannibalen, Dämonen, Psychopathen und einige mehr. Eine grenzüberschreitende Anthologie für extreme Leser. Doch Achtung: Der Abstieg in die Abgründe des menschlichen Verstandes erfolgt auf eigene Gefahr. Bonus: Eine Kurzgeschichte von Jutta Wölk, "Böses Erwachen", und eine Kurzgeschichte von Simone Trojahn, "Hexensaft".

What starts as a night of celebration ends up in a battle for survival when Carol and her husband, Phil, see a strange creature on the road and wreck their truck.

We follow the family as Phil begins his private practice, as Velma opens her antiques shop, and as they buy new homes, collect art, go skiing, and have overseas adventures. It seems they've made it in the white world. However, young Maddie, one of the only Black children in town, bears the brunt of the racism and the invisible barriers her family's money, education, and determination can't free her from.

Milly Dupont is recovering from an attack that nearly took her life and is settling back into the new normal. Her secret crush, Callum Davidson, has moved in next door and has brought his nephew Jake with him. Milly soon becomes aware that people have started to lose items from their homes and suspects it may be Jake but isn't sure. Then a local family from Wirkster is found murdered in what cops are calling a ritualistic fashion, and Milly is almost certain it's Jake when she finds a rather unique shirt covered in blood.

Between These Walls tells the story of Alana, who thought renting out rooms in her grandparent’s home was a good idea. Until she learns secrets about her new roommates. Secrets that lead her in a dangerous direction. One she’ll have to fight her way out of to survive. In What I Deserved, a young woman finds herself torn after discovering her new boyfriend has a dangerous wife that wants nothing more than for him to have a fatal accident.

I was out of money and options when this mysterious woman offered me 5,000 dollars to get a tattoo. That seemed like a no-brainer. When I got tired of the tattoo, I figured I would just magically transfer it onto something else. No big deal. One missing person, one mutated kitten, one local crime lord, and a dozen cockroaches later, it turns out it was kind of a big deal. This hilarious urban fantasy is the kind of comedy that might happen if Kafka and Wodehouse got together for drinks.

Ray Kindred is a fugitive. Most of Kindred's remembered life has involved ignoring danger or fleeing from it. When he jumps off the freight train on which he has been hiding to enter a town at night, he feels he is only ignoring danger, no longer fleeing it.

Miranda’s husband doesn’t want another baby. That’s fine. She knows she’ll need more than him to make the baby she wants anyway. She wants a super baby.

With a childhood of bitter regret, Clarissa Carter didn't stand much chance in the world. Looking back on her life, she sees her only way forward as being independent and finding a life away from her hometown. Finding solace in an imaginary friend as a child, Clarissa found that she could escape the difficulties of her reality by believing in a friend that accepted her without question. This friend was able to listen to her, while other children may have judged her.

Can’t Take Me: The dreams have come to warn her. Now Violet must not let the men take her away from beloved husband and beautiful home. The only way to stop them is to take the evil from their bodies. Going Bananas: Andrea prefers to eat only bananas. Her therapist has a theory why and encourages Andrea to test the theory. She does. Her diet is about to change, drastically, and nothing will ever be the same. Itchy: Lilly has an itch that just won’t go away. The voice in her head has some ideas, though. Will she listen to that voice, and how far is she willing to go to stop the terrible itch?