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Spread: The Hill

The Beginning of the End Author: Iain Rob Wright Ryan wants to evoke the past, to go back to the glory days one last time. He’s rented a remote cabin in the Scottish Highlands for his bachelor party. There will be no strippers, no strangers. Just him, the close buddies from his teenage years, and his younger brother. It’s not the party his friends expected – or wanted – but it’s Ryan’s last chance to say goodbye to a part of his life. A part he is not so secretly terrified to lose. The bachelor party blues soon get worse as [...]

2023-09-19T13:54:47-07:00August 5th, 2023|Tags: , , , , , , |

Witchlings

The Trauma of Growing Up and Fighting Monsters Author: Claribel A. Ortega Twelve-year-old Seven Salazar is on the path to all her dreams. Tonight, at the Black Moon Ceremony, in front of the entire town and by the side of her best friend, she will become a full-fledged witch and be sorted into House Hyacinth with her friend. At least, that’s what she hopes. There is a nagging feeling of doubt, but she pushes that down, smiles, dons her best dress, and prepares for the magical moment. Only, it doesn’t come. Seven isn’t sorted into a coven with her best friend. [...]

2023-07-14T12:47:25-07:00July 9th, 2023|Tags: , , , , , , |

What Never Happened

Murder in Paradise Author: Rachel Howzell Hall One-night teenage Colette “Coco” Weber escaped her parent’s stifling home for a little forbidden fun; when she stumbled home, drunk, hoping to find her family blissfully asleep and unaware, she instead finds a scene of carnage. Blood everywhere, everyone dead. Fast-forward twenty years. The man Colette’s fractured testimony condemned has spent two decades in prison for the murder of her entire family. DNA evidence has now proved what he stated all along: he was innocent. He’s out now and Colette has finally returned to Catalina Island, the allegedly crime-free paradise where her family was [...]

2023-07-09T11:01:58-07:00July 8th, 2023|Tags: , , |
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