Southern Fantasy

This collection has something for everyone and everything for any short story enthusiast. The variety of humor, irony, darkness, and pathos provides the reader with the motivation to keep moving on to the next story, confident that he will find still more surprises. Dan touches in the universals of human experience over and over again. You’ll wonder about every decision you’ll ever make after reading Flip. - Duke Southard, award winner author of The Fallacy of Closure and Cracks in the Wall

In this book you will find a selection of 16 well known legends, each of which relates to a particular place in South-eastern Wales. Wales is a land rich in folklore and legend. The beauty and mystery of the land enchants us with tales from the past.

Her family was to be her legacy, until an angry mob murdered her only son.

Zinzi has a Sloth on her back, a dirty 419 scam habit and a talent for finding lost things. But when a little old lady turns up dead and the cops confiscate her last paycheck, she’s forced to take on her least favourite kind of job – missing persons. Being hired by reclusive music producer Odi Huron to find a teenybop pop star should be her ticket out of Zoo City, the festering slum where the criminal underclass and their animal companions live in the shadow of hell’s undertow.

"Мир измененных" навсегда изменил Землю. Человечество поделилось на игроков, старающихся выжить, и монстров, жаждущих убивать. Все былые распри остались позади - в новом мире им нет места. Если ты хочешь дожить до завтрашнего дня, должен работать со всеми - как с игроками, так и с функциями игры.

Odesa Freewoman has haunted this valley in southwestern Virginia for the past 100 years. Burnt alive in her wedding bed for being an accused witch, killed on her wedding night by her jealous mother-in-law, who would never understand the special powers Odesa possesses are not of this world. Lodi Bell thusly puts a curse on all of her descendants that cannot be appeased, except for the offering of the first-born daughter.

It was the Depression, and very few areas were as economically depressed as the rural South. The road in front of our house was dirt (mud when it rained), and with no electric lights and no plumbing, we lived a bare and stark existence.

Remember the stories your grandfather used to tell you about way back when? Remember laughing out loud as the stories got deeper? If you like to LOL, then this really is a book for you. Here you'll find some observations on life in general and people in particular, as seen through a collection of newspaper columns, presenting skewed, offbeat, semiserious, and sometimes amusing views of the world.

What happens when all the stars above are wrong and the Earth below is out of place? For Miguel, a young boy from a poor village in Mexico, he dreams of being an astronomer someday. That dream seems as distant as the moon is from the Earth, yet opportunity can come in ways never expected. Miguel knows that as long as he keeps a good idea of where he is, the truth of life will reveal itself.

Corinne LaMer defeated the wicked Jumbie Severine months ago, but things haven't exactly gone back to normal in her Caribbean island home. Everyone knows Corinne is half Jumbie, and when local children begin to go missing, suspicious eyes turn to Corinne. To rescue the missing children and clear her own name, Corinne goes deep into the ocean to find Mama D'Leau, the dangerous Jumbie who rules the sea. But Mama D'Leau's help comes with a price....