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When fourteen-year-old Brad Wilson's little sister, Becky, is abducted by a strange, white, ape-like creature, he's afraid to chase it into the darkness, even though he has a gun. She's never seen again and he must live with not only his guilt, but the cops think he did something to Becky and then covered it up with a bogus story.
Twenty-odd years later, he returns to his hometown for the funeral of his parents and another young girl goes missing. Brad again becomes a suspect, this time for a series of disappearances. Not to worry, he'll just prove his alibis and he'll be clear, right? Wrong.
His new ladyfriend and her eleven-year-old daughter are taken by a group of those same, strange beings. To save them, he'll have to go into the deepest darkness of all.
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Brad slipped the flashlight out of his back pocket, pointed it in the direction of the noise and thumbed the switch.
A naked, man-like creature crouched in the space between two boulders, its eyes glowing red in the flashlight’s beam. Brad didn’t get a good look at the eyes, though, for it quickly threw up its arm against the light. It stood too tall to be a monkey, even though its huge ears suggested a chimpanzee. It had no facial hair, but a thin coat of long, white body-hair stuck out, sort of like those cartoons where the cat gets an electric shock. Its hair was | |  | | What's Under the Bed?
Fantasy poems for children by MonkeyJohn
What kind of chores would you have to do if you lived in a castle with dragons and bats and unicorns? How can burping help save lives? Why does a dragon get lonely? What's the best part about a scary ride at the amusement park? All these questions and more are answered in "What's Under The Bed?" It's a collection of fantasy, science fiction, and verrrry mild horror poetry composed by three-time James Award winner MonkeyJohn [aka John Bushore] and illustrated by Teri Santitoro, Erin Donahoe, Sandy DeLuca, Marcia Borell, and Jennifer Cawthorne. It's for younger readers of ages 8 to 80. No bad la |
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World As Refuge
by Chiemi
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 The songs and art in this book are about our collective emergence after the pandemic and trauma of the last few years - comprised of 5 collections: World as Refuge, Where We Live, In Our Hands, Rhythms of Change and What We See & Sow. |
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In the Whirlwind
by Tichaona Chinyelu
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 In the Whirlwind is a poetic storm that frees history from the cages of corruption and puts it in the hands of everyday people. Words are weaved into a new fashion statement that has nothing to do with runways but everything to do with projects! |
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