Old Fantasy

What happens when you accidentally break a witch bottle, or a witch in a bottle? Meet Sam, Mark, Gina, Clara, and Paul; teens out on Halloween night. When running from a nemesis, that's exactly what happens. They hide in a haunted house in New Bedford and knock over that bottle. That bottle that has contained the spirit of a witch for over two decades. When she marks them with a spell, they start having vivid nightmares.

A vape drug appears on the scene that improves the life of the elderly but when young adults fall for the sex benefits the drug provides, the whole country is impacted. The country learns of the sterility, cancer and other devastating problems drug use causes. Now the young adults can’t or won’t have children and the country is suffering from an epic population decline.

What happens when the God of Thunder dies? You blame his Orisha comrade, of course. Thor of Asgard is dead. And Shango of the Orishas is to blame. A cosmic war has been waged for countless ages between the deities of Earth and a strange force of shadows known as the God Eaters. Many of Earth’s greatest heroes have fallen to this mysterious enemy, but Thor and Shango stood firm where other champions had failed.

Tully thinks he’s ready for anything, but he soon learns that when it comes to weird, Eternity has nothing on Fort Charles. He meets the Old Salts, a closed-mouthed league of seamen who are mightily worried about something called the Sailor’s Curse. The group is led by grumpy physician Lazarus Clay and lighthouse keeper Amos Franklin, who talks to seagulls. The old men are favorites among a bevy of drop-dead beauties who the Salts swear aren't really mermaids.

Mick's life is a lie. He's a menial laborer in Dome City, one of the 15 million lucky people allowed inside the dome amid the extreme climate change of the world. Mick's life takes an unexpected turn when he receives a mysterious communication that puts him on a path to uncover a hidden history, that puts him on the run from Federal Tempest troops. With only his best friend Leland and girlfriend Jolene to turn to, Mick soon finds out that they aren't who they say they are. Eventually finding help in the form of a past love, the one person he may be able to trust.

Immerse yourself in the mysterious shadows as you embark on a thrilling odyssey through the twelve eerie, supernatural, and spine-tingling tales of 'Tales under the Old Oak Tree. Here, the realms of the ordinary and the extraordinary collide, revealing that beyond mere shadows, the unfathomable awaits.

It's December, 1846, and the insane dwarf, Fafnir, has returned and has convinced Colleen and Frederick to help him revive his ancient work that he began five thousand years ago, but which now lies in ruins. They must succeed, or the dragon and the terrible Fomorians in Ireland will rise and sweep across all the worlds.

Nearly everyone she trusted is dead; some by her own hand. Weary and exhausted, her body resembles that of a monster. Without order and the loss of the crown, chaos is the new norm. But Avana has a plan. To the east of her beloved kingdom is the land of Kogresh, home to a mystical healer who may have the answers she needs. Hunted, alone, and broken, Avana is once again thrust into an epic quest to rid herself of her demonic companion, clear her name, and bring her kingdom up from ruin.

The information in this book on various aspects of train sets and related subjects is organized into 15 chapters of about 500-600 words each. I hope that it will interest those who have a young family or who are interested in trains and model train sets.

In Hollywood it's not about what you know, but who you know. Norah Wintry is finding that out. You try running a talent agency full of wizards and shifters. Oh my. Who she knows is starting to pay off when she goes looking for answers about who, or what, is trying to sabotage her clients. But LaLa Land operates on a pecking order. Will anyone tell her what she wants to know, or will they run her in circles? One thing is for sure. No one wants to reveal who UrbanWurm is or where he is. Too risky. And it's more than a juicy role that's on the line.

Penelope gets the chance of a lifetime traveling the world and meeting exotic and amazing animals and birds from all parts of the globe. She might even get to meet a dragon or two! As Sir Willard tells her, "You can't have a castle without dragons."

The bone-chilling reality of missing children, including the mayor's three-year-old daughter, grips the small southern town of Barrow. The only hint of their whereabouts hides in the mind of the mayor's preteen son, who believes an unidentified old woman is inexplicably connected to his sister's disappearance.

The Old Baron and her little crew are in trouble. On the run from Grailknight von Juntzt, the Baron was badly damaged. In order to raise the money for the necessary repairs, the team around Sternenreich deserter Gunther von Richthofen accepts a job that turns out to be much more difficult than initially thought. Governor Talla Ozzynski, who manages the free trading station Pri-C5, operates an ore conveyor station on a moon of Rizon 325 without the knowledge of the Sternenreich, to which the contact has broken off for unknown reasons.

Things look pretty bleak for Gunther von Richthofen and his crew. Although they managed to find the son of governor Talla Ozzynski well and alive and to escape the storm troops of the Star Empire for the time being, although so far nothing but corpses and ekto demons had been found in the huge conveyor station, the contact to the Old Baron and pilot Alyhda has broken off. "I'm stranded" - that's the last message they received. And in addition, there's something wrong with their target person - wrong in a very unsettling way. Captain Gunther von Richthofen is a disillusioned deserter.

Ryder, Hook and Captain von Richthofen fight their way through the station on the third moon of Rizon 325 in search of Brandon Ozzynski. Ammunition is running low, the superiority of the ekto demons is overwhelming. To make matters worse, Alhyda has to flee with the Old Baron from three Sternereich ships under the command of Gunther von Richthofen's vengeful mentor von Juntzt and can no longer be of any help. Left on their own, surrounded by nightmarish psi monsters and in a race against time, the two clones and their captain follow Brandon's tracker signal through the gigantic moon-station.

Middle-aged 17-year-old Malila Chiu has no choice but to escape her homeland. Making common cause with the strange subterranean workers of the beltways, Malila perseveres toward freedom in the scorched fields of America. Nearly naked, with no friends, no resources, and only a scant idea of the route, Malila's only real information comes from time in the outlands. While a captive of the old, harsh-and-tender-by-turns Jesse Johnstone, Malila learned of the lies told her by her homeland and the truths shown her by the arrogant and contradictory Jesse. She thinks she may love him.

The story of a young farmer, a wishing ring, and a fairy named Queen Maab. This is old school fairytale telling at its very finest.

As a snowfall blankets 8th century Mosul, a Persian noblewoman arrives at the home of the scholar Dabir and his friend the swordsman Captain Asim. Najya has escaped from a dangerous cabal that has ensorcelled her to track down ancient magical tools of tremendous power, the bones of the old ones.

Ancient rivals, worst of friends, best of enemies: dragonlord Janx and master vampire Eliseo Daisani are the threads upon which a tapestry of lives and loves are woven across the centuries. From the coldest Russian nights to the heat of Chicago's greatest fire, nothing brings the immortal adversaries together - or tears them apart - like a woman. And there is always a woman....

The traitors hiding under the roof of their family home were found and punished. But where do the threads woven into a sophisticated tangle of conspiracy lead? The young Prince Gorchakov will have to confront rogue guardsmen, outraged rebels, the people sent by the German Kaiser to aid the crisis, and one legendary general who went over to the dark side. Sometimes, all of them at once.