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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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Visions of A Skylark Dressed in Black
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The Hanging Man Dreams
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 David Hightower’s lyrically expansive meditation on the whims of fate and the unpredictability of the human condition fill the pages of THE HANGING MAN DREAMS with thrilling music and mesmerizing imagery. Hightower’s richly infused voice echoes the e |
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