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The serial killer Gregg Thorton was introduced to you in my short story "Serial Family Man", giving you an insight to the man who spent 44 years murdering over 20 people. In this new story, Gregg Thorton will confess like he never has before.

Clara thought surviving meant escape. She was wrong. Beneath everything she thought she understood, there is another world. One that does not shout, does not chase, does not need to be seen to exist. A world built on silence so complete it begins to erase the people trapped inside it. 

Something is quietly removing people from this town. Brackenridge is the kind of place people pass through without noticing. Quiet street. Old woods at the edge of town. Nothing that should make it memorable. But people have always gone missing there. No bodies. No witnesses. No explanations. When Jesse Calder arrives in Brackenridge, he begins noticing something no one else seems able to see, subtle distortions in the air surrounding certain people. Moments later, those people disappear. At first Jesse believes it’s coincidence. Then the pattern begins to emerge.

Some grief arrives like a storm. Some heartbreak stays like weather. Yes, I Cry. is a deeply intimate poetry collection about grief in all its forms: heartbreak, loss, sorrow, longing, emotional exhaustion, and the quiet pain that lingers long after the world expects healing to have already begun. Tender, raw, and unflinchingly honest, these poems explore what it means to carry ache in the body, memory in the chest, and survival in trembling hands. They are for the ones mourning people, versions of themselves, broken hopes, and the softness they never got to keep.

Clara Roberts has always known how to behave. In her home, silence is expected, obedience is normal, and everything exists exactly as it should. Nothing is out of place. Nothing is questioned. Her older sister, Rosalie, has already learned the rules. Clara is still trying. But lately, something feels… wrong. It starts with small things; sounds that don’t belong, rooms that feel unfamiliar, the quiet, persistent sense that she is not alone. No one else seems to notice. Not her family. Not her teachers. Not even the church that prides itself on certainty and control. Everything remains calm.

In every heartbeat, there is a story. In every glance, a memory. When Love Remembers is a collection of short stories that explore the infinite shapes of the human heart: its desire, its longing, its ache, and its quiet triumphs. These tales are not of perfect love. They are of love that burns and fades, love that wounds and heals, love that clings and lets go.

The Anatomy of a Falling Star is a journey through the fragile, aching spaces of the human heart and spirit. In this book, desire and doubt intertwine, faith trembles under the weight of longing, and the body remembers what the soul sometimes forgets. Each poem is a quiet reckoning, a dissection of life’s light and shadow, of temptation and devotion, of identity and the relentless ache of existence. Here, stars fall slowly, carrying stories of loss, spiritual questioning, and the seductive pull of what we cannot resist. Some sparks fade, others linger, stubbornly refusing to die.

Gregg Thorton was born with a dark mind and a disorder that would slowly take control over him as the years went on. His dark mind produced anger, he used that anger to inflict pain onto those who he felt weren't up to his standards. At just 6 years old Gregg took a life for the first time, his baby sister and for the next 35 years, Gregg claimed the lives of almost a dozen innocent people. Decades later Gregg is ready to completely confess and finally give families the closure they've been begging for...

This short story is about Gabrielle Henderson and her pursuit of a luxurious, responsibility free lifestyle that led her to leave everything important behind. Her selfish pursuit left her with six failed marriages and 13 children, all of which she abandoned without a second thought. Gabrielle is ready to come clean about her countless lies and lives, while hoping to one day be lucky enough to find true love through truth. This story is the fourth book in the "through tainted eyes" series and as interesting, if not more than the previous short stories.

This murder mystery involves five friends that decide to go out for a long night of club hopping. But when the night comes to an end, only four friends make it home and a terrible fate was left for the fifth friend. The next morning a gruesome discovery is made and the police have a twisted case on their hands. The friends pin the blame on one another and it's left up to detective Neverson to uncover what truly happened that night. The story follows each friend's experience that night and many obstacles are awaiting the police.

Step into Burrington, a town where time twists, shadows linger, and Halloween never truly ends. In The Hollowed Hours: Five Mind-Bending Tales of Horror and Suspense from Burrington, five chilling short stories plunge you into a night unlike any other. October 31, 1826, when children vanish, restless spirits roam, and the dead reclaim the streets they once called home.

Why Hearts Remember is a poetic journey through the raw, beautiful, and often unbearable ways the human heart loves and survives. From the first spark of infatuation to the ashes of loss, each poem captures the echoes of connection that refuse to fade.

Before Burrington existed, there was Silas Glaston; a man of ambition, wealth, and unshakable certainty. Born into privilege, raised to command, and destined to leave his mark upon the land, Silas sees the world not as it is, but as it should be under his direction. From the gilded halls of his family estate to the polished deck of his ship, he charts a course for greatness, blind to the shadows gathering just beyond the horizon.

But it never stays still. The Shapeshifting Heart, Makitia Thompson traces love through every incarnation: from the spark of first attraction to the slow burn of passion, from the ashes of heartbreak to the quiet reflections that follow. Told through vivid, lyrical poetry and grounded in emotional truth, this collection explores the way love transforms us, consumes us, and refuses to stay one thing for long.

Some books promise healing. This one promises honesty. Because I’m Still Breathing is a poetry collection about survival, about what it means to keep going when the world seems intent on breaking you. From the author of Because I Felt Everything comes over 100 poems that peel back the silence around pain, vulnerability, and the invisible battles we fight alone. These are verses for the nights when breathing feels like an act of defiance, for the mornings when simply existing is a victory.

Some towns vanish from maps. Burrington vanished from time itself. Beck Escarra, an ambitious young filmmaker searching for her breakthrough, stumbles across the story of a forgotten town—a town that doesn’t appear on any GPS, that nobody remembers visiting, and that seems frozen in another century. Determined to uncover the truth, Beck ventures into Burrington and finds herself trapped in a nightmare she cannot escape. The town is alive at night, its residents cursed to relive the same day from 1827.

In this unforgettable and raw collection, It Ended By Beginning unearths the buried emotions we try to forget and confronts the truths we often run from. Across 32 hauntingly honest stories, readers are invited into intimate, visceral worlds shaped by grief, betrayal, envy, pride, justice, and silence. Told through the voice of a lone journalist, a man who prints not just the news but the souls of the people he meets, this collection becomes more than fiction. It becomes memory. A printed hell. A closing door. A mirror.

What does it mean to feel everything and survive it? All the Things I’ve Felt, poet Makitia Thompson explores the full spectrum of human emotion with raw honesty and lyrical beauty. These poems move through love and wonder, heartbreak and grief, resilience and hope. Capturing the quiet truths we often carry in silence. This collection is for anyone who has loved deeply, lost fiercely, broken apart, and found the strength to rise again. Each minute is a reflection of the heart’s hidden language: tender, unflinching, and deeply human.

Joddelyn Anderson used to spend everyday hiding from her childhood and living under a false identity to escape her painful life. She suffered tremendous loss as a young girl, then allowed herself to be catapulted into fame at only 18 and lost what remained of who she once was. Using that false identity she achieved the fame she had desired and managed to be the star she once never saw herself as.

Criminal Plague deeply dives into who Michelle Hartmann is, what she's done, how it all happened and why she became the woman she is today. The story of an unapologetic, merciless, privileged and now disgraced lawyer.