Joshua Dyer – författare

PARANORMAL EXCURSION IN FOUR ACTS.  It should be a simple field experiment. Go in, prove I can do what I claim, and walk out with the cash. As my talents kick in, the McAllister manor devises other plans. If Dr. Benson and the others could see what I see. If the paranormal investigators  could feel what I do when an entity forces its way forward. Proof of my abilities mounts. The others are convinced. Now to get off this property before it takes us all.

Herb Halbert doesn't like taking high-profile cases. When the Gale examination request came across his desk, he had to take it. With two young kids of his own, this one hit too close to home.Young Dorothy Gale has committed one of the most gruesome mass killings in Kansas history, and now resides in an asylum. The state, however, isn't convinced of her diagnosis and wants a re-investigation of the facts. The farther Halbert gets into her elaborate journey through Oz, the deeper the web goes. Herb attempts to uncover the truth behind this bizarre case before Gale goes to trial for an inevitable trip to the electric chair.

Our galaxy will never be the same! Duck Biscuit and his feathery crew are the best cargo shippers in the galaxy, but it's not for his abundance of professionalism. When Biscuit's current freight is stolen, he and the crew of the Platypus must track the thieves into the darkest regions of the Milky Way. Little does Duck realize that the fate of the galaxy depends on his success.

Rhone McLean can only watch his entire world burn as his wife's lifeless body disappears into the raging inferno. A mysterious cowboy in black emerges from the ashes of Rhone's home with a message of hope. His words push McLean into a quest to free Clara, but how much of himself is he ready to sacrifice?As the nation heals from the deep wounds of a bloody Civil War, McLean ventures into the underbelly of the Western frontier. Here, Rhone must confront his worst fear if he is to lower the veil and cross the fog in to the macabre world where Clara is imprisoned.The Forces of Creation and Destruction position their pieces as their eternal conflict nears its boiling point. With the help of the Pegasus, Bellerophon, Rhone attempts to liberate the seven Towers of Light from the Baron and his legions of the damned and restore balance to Everdark. He will soon learn that the path to Clara passes through the Stones of Power and the collapse of the Dark Territories.

No one wants to be fooled, but that's what Frankenstein did to you all. Victor's words were the mere ravings of a coward and madman. The truth is a fickle mistress.I was the one that raided the graveyards and robbed the dead of their terrestrial remains. It was I who pursued your creation across continents when you hadn't the spine to see to it yourself. It was I who held my begotten son in my hands that day. Frankenstein took the glory, took the fame, and horded the money from our misfortunes. The time for my retribution has come.

The sun. Once the giver of light and life. Now, controlled by the Superiors and their Dyson sphere world of Euphoria. Humanity's social dregs and violent undesireables remain relegated to their dying world, while their new masters live a harmonious existence in their engineered paradise. Euphoria's attenuation fields control the light, dictating life on Earth. Adhere to the rules, they supply just enough sunlight to keep Earth in squalor. Disobey and they impose an artificial eclipse. The human military complex has discovered a weakness in the Superiors' grand creation. For reasons unknown, the Superiors race to reconstruct Euphoria's collection core with a rare ore being mined from a clandestine base somewhere in the solar system. Freedom for Earth is but one successful covert operation away. Its fate rests in the hands of ruined starship pilot, Nelson Jornak -- the sole person living on Earth with combat experience against the Superiors. With the help of Lt. Gracie "e;Grace Ace"e; Vellors, this unlikely duo must infiltrarte Euphoria and discover the Superior's secret. Time wanes. Whoever controls the ore controls the destiny of the entire solar system.

A Thriller Anthology by Kevin A Davis, A. Balsamo with stories by Mike Rusetsky, Bret Jones, L.A. Selby, Jim Wasserman, Norbert Góra, Rob Nisbet, v.f. thompson, Alan Zaremba, Ben Woodard, Sarah Hozumi, Kai Lovelace, Lara henneman, Joshua Dyer, David Horn, Ian M. Ryan, Jordan Kocevski, Diana Parrilla, Diane Arrelle, and Paige Vest

From the sands of the southern reaches of the Septentrion Empire comes the Nomad. Land of the Five Suns. An oasis of towns in a barren and unforgiving wasteland held under the thumb of the autocratic Rav Teneshag and his royal guard. The Teneshag searches high and low for a fabled ancient weapon of power that would guarantee his dominion over all. But he lacks the medallion -- the map to the weapon.  The Nomad possesses the medallion. He wants peace for the people of the desert, and from the darkness within himself he cannot control. This quest for freedom leads him back into the Land oc the Five Suns to unearth the weapon before it falls into the hands of a madman. The Nomad's success rests in the hands of a young thief and rescuing the boy's sister from the Rav Teneshag's harem.  Sinister plans unravel around every turn, threatening to level everything and everyone. Between the Wrath of the Horde and the sorrows of High Winter, there was an age unfathomed. Wealth and power were amassed. Empires were built and toppled. This was the era of the world of Pangora, and these are the legends from that age!

Eight neighbors. Two strangers. One traitor. Near death, young mercenary, Kannen, stumbles toward the lone oasis in an alpine snowstorm. The villagers in this mountain hamlet uncover her secret on a makeshift gurney: an unconscious man with a peculiar jewel in his chest. A darkness pursues her into the mountains, and one among them may have invited it here.  As the sun goes down, a fight for survival commences. Kannen learns that the village and its inhabitants harbor terrors of their own. Some of these threaten to sabotage. Others may prove useful. They will have to put their differences aside and work as one if they are to uncover the traitor and live through the night.

A young thief's future is locked in a past he can't remember. Without it, the freedom of his world from the tyrannical cyborgs will remain like his youth – a dream. Knights of the Constellations and criminal enterprises. Sorcerers and techromancers. Shapeshifting Morpheons. The cyber-fairy Sprytans. All live on the surface in subjugation under the ever-watchful eyes of the tyrannous cyborg Gensys Tron ruling from their cities in the clouds.But change is coming.When the fledgling thief, Brayden, steals a relic of the Avitron, the fabric of his reality unravels. The ancient machine holds the power to free the world from cyborg rule, but the secrets of the Avitron and its location lie in a past he can't remember.Now those living on the surface declare war on the Gensys Tron and battle for control of the gravity wells holding the cities of their masters off the ground. While rebellion rages in the skies and streets, Brayden and his new miscreant friends must gather the components to the Avitron and activate it before the Gensys Tron destroy it for good.

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