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Gone to See The River Man

The Cost of Love Author: Kristopher Triana Obsession is a dark thing. What squirms out of its fetid corpse in the night is not love, but violence, desperation, depravity. This, then, is a story of obsession. One tainted by the twins of envy and jealousy, of one woman’s descent into darkness for meaning. Lori has been talking to serial killer Edmund Cox for years. It started with letters, but she has also visited him in prison a few times. The darkness in Edmund that led him to target and torture women, an evil that remains un-repented, corresponds to something in Lori’s [...]

2024-11-17T19:11:16-07:00November 17th, 2024|Tags: , , , |

Immunity

Space Zombies of Bordom Author: Erin Bowman After barely escaping from space-zombies on the inhospitable planet of Achlys, Thea, Coen, and Nova have left behind a burning station and what remained of their reanimated crewmates. They did the right thing, the save-the-world thing, but each is haunted in their own way. Oh, and Thea and Coen are infected, having turned super-human instead of being zombified, thanks to their youth. They are still carriers though, and if they accidentally infect someone else, they could start the entire cycle of violence and killing again. This time, it might not stay contained either. When [...]

2024-11-17T19:07:33-07:00November 12th, 2024|Tags: , , , , , |

Good Earth, The

Life, Land, Love Author: Pearl S. Buck Wang Lung has never wanted anything more than land. He loves the soil he tills, and his one ambition in life is to get more land. To him, this is wealth, this is status. He starts out a simple man with simple hopes and ambitions, but as his situation improves, his greed grows. As Wang Lung builds his own personal empire, the world around him crumbles, and the China he knows changes. But no famines, wars, outside forces, or distractions, can keep him away from the land for long. When he comes to die, [...]

2024-11-11T14:01:24-07:00November 11th, 2024|Tags: , , , |
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