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Irritating Characters Doing Dumb Things Slowly Author: Thomas Tryon Ned and Beth are the usual, dissatisfied suburbanites with a living-off-the-land fantasy. When chance brings them through the quaint village of Cornwall Comb, they know they have found a new life. One ruled by harvest and the old ways. It is perfect, idyllic, and too good to be true. Enter the Widow Fortune, an agrarian symbol of wisdom. Ned and Beth both form friendships with the superstitious, oddly powerful Widow. She even saves their daughter from her life threatening asthma. Yet there is something sinister in all her knowing, her intimations, and [...]

2022-07-26T08:54:21-07:00March 19th, 2022|Tags: , , , , , |

In the House in the Dark of the Woods

A Dark, Beautiful Fairytale Author: Laird Hunt Once upon a time, long, long ago a woman goes into the dark forest to pick berries for her husband and son only to get lost. Known only by the title of an average old timey wife and mother, “Goody” seeks the road home. Along the way she encounters progressively weirder sights and finally an old woman in a small house who grants her respite, comfort, and bizarre dreams of magic and dark things in the forest.  As Goody works her way through the surreal landscape, puzzling together her quest, an ancient scream at [...]

2022-07-26T08:55:34-07:00March 19th, 2022|Tags: , , , , , , |

Tart of Darkness

The First in a Promising Series Author: Denise Swanson Dani’s life is one disaster after another. Her too-good-to-be-true boyfriend turned out to be engaged to another woman. Her office job forced her to participate in something that still makes her uncomfortable and guilty; something that handy little NDA keeps her from ever talking about. Under this cloud of suspicion and betrayal, a chance windfall starts to turn everything around. Dani has inherited a beautiful old house – a manor really – and enough money to leave the rat race behind and indulge in her true passion: cooking. Despite her father’s rampant [...]

2022-07-26T08:56:52-07:00March 17th, 2022|Tags: , , , , , , , , |
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