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A man, a woman, and a road trip through the sun-blasted highways of West Texas that descends into chaos, blood, and screams. Bleak, cinematic, and unrelenting, Scratch is a fever dream of American horror. A collision of Nick Cutter’s raw realism, Edward Lee’s extremity, and Cormac McCarthy’s apocalyptic poetry, Scratch delivers a quick, brutal, and bloody fix that lingers long after the final tick.

Salford, 1983. Lorraine Quick is a single mum, a member of a band going nowhere fast and Personnel Officer at Salford's grim Memorial Hospital. A new General Manager position is being introduced, someone to steer the institution towards Margaret Thatcher's lofty vision for the NHS. Lorraine will be pivotal in selecting the successful candidate, thanks to her recent training in psychometric testing.

A devastating, five-timeline tale centred on a community first invigorated, then devastated by the coal mining industry in the most original folk horror novel of the year.

A mother and son with a strained relationship inherit a house following the sudden death of a family member with a violent past. When the son moves his bedroom into the basement, he starts to experience unexplainable and terrifying phenomena. After he uncovers a dark secret concealed within the house, they quickly learn that some truths are better left a mystery. Can they overcome their differences in order to survive, or will the darkness overcome them both?

What happens when your life takes an unexpected turn? What happens when you need to protect the one you love from the one you want to love? What happens when you lose something you never knew you wanted? Lambda and Golden Crown Literary Award-winning author Georgia Beers brings to you her long-awaited seventh novel, Starting from Scratch, a story where learning, laughing, loving, and baked goods are just a few of life’s basic ingredients.

Kat misses her solitary assassin life. Instead of doing one cold-hearted kill after another, she has to deal with two-and-a-half men all vying for her attention. But with a new crisis emerging, she needs to keep her cool and focus on what really counts. Kittens are being taken, including Ryker’s son. Is there a killer on the loose or is someone trying to get Kat’s attention?

The young woman and kid I find sleeping outside my club’s chop shop make me feel things I shouldn’t. Hell, she’s younger than my damn daughter, but it’s obvious she’s been to hell and back, and she’s still fighting. There’s fire in her soul, but the gentle way she treats her son leaves me wanting things I shouldn’t. Like a new chance at a family. What the hell would she want with a man 30 years older than her? When I took her home with me, I never counted on wanting to keep her. I’ll slay her demons, bury the monsters from her past, and then I’ll do the one thing I thought I’d never do.

Starting over isn't easy, but Ben is ready to live his life as the man he was always meant to be. Ben is transgender and is back at the university after hormone treatment and chest surgery. His new housemates have no idea about his history, and Ben would prefer to keep it that way. He's starting from scratch, and his life is finally on track, except in the romance department. The idea of dating guys as a guy is exhilarating but terrifying, because if Ben wants a boyfriend he'll have to disclose his secret.

Adam Newcommer is missing. In the idealistic town of Marshport, Ohio, the eleven-year-old has seemingly vanished from his friend's house in the deep of the night. While his parents question who they can trust and struggle to remain hopeful, the town's sheriff and a young private investigator look into the mysterious disappearance. The deeper they dig, the more they fight against small-town secrets and local superstitions as they search for Adam to bring him back home.

Marcy Corbin has been hearing stories about Old Scratch ever since she was a little girl. A devil, a demon, and sometimes, he was something even worse who made deals that cost more than you could ever repay. Now, as an adult, Marcy desperately needs those tales her grandmother filled her head with so many years ago to be true. And she needs Old Scratch’s help more than she could ever imagine.

The Scratch Podcast is a new series in which we break down and pick apart our songs, dive into the music and lyrics, and explain the overall buzz of what the tune is and how and why it came to be. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Father Noah Godfrey is no stranger to turmoil. A former soldier turned priest and son of an acclaimed exorcist; he struggles to find work. Living life under his father’s shadow is taking its toll on him. He needs money to survive, but with few viable prospects, his chances aren’t looking good. Father Zachariah, a religious zealot, separated St. Agatha’s Church from the church body and reestablished a new physical church in the middle of Texas. His return from a mission trip in Brazil raises questions.

Lieutenant Sully Jax saved his unit during an IED attack, but he couldn't save his marriage. He can't even remember it. Recovered from his injuries, he's come home to the family and friends he knows-and an ex-wife who's a stranger to him. Lucy Crabtree was heartbroken last Christmas when Sully announced his plan to go on one last tour of duty, and devastated when he asked for a divorce after he awoke in the hospital with no memory of her.

En Alt Maedel - an old maid. At age 29, that's what Eva Lapp considers herself. Finding a good Amish husband at her age will be next to impossible. Plus, Eva's unwarranted bad reputation in Lancaster County precedes her. Maybe living the Englisch life would be better. Squeezed out of her childhood home by her brother's boisterous family, Eva finds lodging and a new job managing a small cafe at a local plant nursery. Then to her surprise, her first love, Jake Miller, suddenly returns to Lancaster County.

Cookie is about to lose her job at the local bakery. She dreams of owning her own bakery but doesn't think she has the skills or money to do it. Most of all, she doesn't have the self-confidence. When she takes a course at the local college, she finds she has much more going for her than she imagined. With the help of her community, she figures out how to make sure no one has to go without her famous doily cookies for long!

Winner of the 2021 Platinum dotCOMM award, Scratch & Sniff is a show where each story is inspired by a memory which is sparked by a specific smell. Note: The episodes are super short! (Usually under 10 minutes or less.) Oh and get your smell-o-vision ready, each story begins with a spark triggered by a specific smell.

A man recounts and explains how he became obsessed in studying scratches on walls, so much so that he became an expert at identifying the very people who did the scratches.

Writing is one of those activities that makes you feel like you are alone on an island. So, I am sending out a message in a bottle to all the writers out there. I want to talk about writing (the good and the bad), share some stories, and build a community.

When something unexpected happens in our lives, just like in the movies, everyone and everything seems to freeze, and the soundtrack playing in the background stops abruptly with the sound of a needle across vinyl. A record scratch. It is inevitable that we will all experience “record scratch” moments in our lives. These big, disruptive moments require resiliency to move forward with our lives, for we are never the same. My record scratch moment was when my son Jake died in a car accident on February 19, 2022. He was 16. That fateful day completely disrupted my life and only recently I ...

The angels and devils of our nature are always trying to sway us down the right or wrong path—but what if they not only are real but overworked and overbooked and barely competent?And what if the humans they are assigned are just flat out weird? Welcome to the world of Gabby and Scratch. Gabby & Scratch is an audio fiction series for the whole family!