The Water in Her Wounds is an exploration of the self and the nature of sorrow. Written as a collection of thirteen poems coupled with eye-catching photography that relates to each, it expresses the self through the eyes of a widow as she reflects on her life and the scars that have made her who she is. As it begins, The Water in Her Wounds traces her steps from bitter recollections of the funeral that is still taking place inside her to a later time, when she gazes out the door to find nightshade, a poisonous flower and a manifestation of her inner demons, glaring back at her. This sight beckons a rush of traumatic memories. As she sifts through them, she realizes the beauty and poetry of her pain for the first time. The collection then follows her into the present, when she begins to discover God in her anguish and experience a resonating purity in her sorrow. The rain, which has poured within her in lament since the time of her loss, gradually becomes a pristine hand guiding her toward God and self-realization.

Talented authors, Amanda M. Lyons and Mark Woods, team up for an unprecedented collector's editions of their debut works, with never before seen bonus stories. Wendy Won't Go Billy and Sara are living a life of fear. Every day and every night since Sara was small they have been haunted by a terrible apparition. She is cold and she is cruel, strange and frightening. Her name is Wendy, and no matter where they go and no matter what they do, Wendy Won't Go. Time of Tides What if Global Warming wasn't just down to Climate Change? What if it was down to something else? As the worst storm of all time hits the entire globe and as all across the world rivers burst their banks and the oceans start to rise, one family take to the Norfolk Broads to try and escape the floods. Little do they know their nightmare is just beginning...because as they are about to find out, nowhere is safe! Love Like Blood What would you do to save the life of your child? Anything? This short about a woman's life turned juxtaposed horror explores just what anything means when your child's fate is held by an insidious creature. Here we learn that love flows like blood.

Listen to the wind blow, feel the cold of the night after the heat of the day, gather round the fire and sit close to keep out the things that lurk in the shadows. Do you feel it? The weight of a thousand tales waiting in the dark to be uncovered, wild stories about how the west was not always won, may never be. There are ghosts here, demons, monsters, broken hearts and rendered souls thick with dust and blood- nothing is ever certain. Have you seen the way the shadows quake and shiver outside the fire? Do you sense them waiting for you in the night? Do you dare to know their strange dominion, to hear their siren call?

Six young people from different walks of life embark on a singles' tour in Derosso, Italy, only to encounter a strip club in town that preys upon the men. Warned to stay away by their guide, two of the tourists give in to their curiosity and encounter the undead exotic dancers within. Lured by promises of untold carnal pleasures, these lonely hearts invite disaster on their group and the rest of the town. Wild and erotic, manipulative and vicious, these feral vampires are not at all romantic...they're predators. Six different characters and six different endings, this tale is not for the faint of heart. It is only for Feral Hearts.

What do the fates hold in store for us all? What will the cards offer us as they are all laid out and the chances for risk, danger, truth, and change begin to unfold? Hope? Death? New beginnings? Misfortune? Join us for an anthology which dares to tackle each of the major arcana and tell the story of people facing what their hand has dealt them, for good or ill. Contributors include: Sebastian Crow, Susan Simone, Essel Pratt, T. S. Woolard, Charie D. LA Marr, Magenta Nero, Justin Hunter, Roger Corwin, Michele Garza, Toneye Eyenot, Brian Barr, Deb Hoag, John Ledger, Michael Kanuckel, Michael Noe, Mark Woods, Amanda M. Lyons, Dona Fox, Tammy Gelhert, Alice J. Black, Jason Gehlert, Lisa Dabrowski

After the events of Eyes Like Blue Fire and Water Like Crimson Sorrow Katja finds herself tackling a very damaged and conflicted Raven. Hoping to heal that damage on her own, she sends Zero and Michael to find the only other vampire she knows still lives after learning about Anton's past and destroying the monsters she uncovered there. Divided, the two groups find themselves tackling more that they could have expected as Katja faces an unknown threat from a faceless monster, while Zero and Michael must face Mateo, and with him, their own dark secrets. Not all is as it seems and the past is far from buried.

While Sacrum Umbra showed us the darkness of our own shadow, and In Ventre Tuo the guts of our inner monster, The Lesser Apocrypha is still another beast altogether. Meant to gather together the stranger stories, it contains some of the more surreal and ephemeral stories, the ones that just are without much rhyme or reason. Stories like an odd moment in the park, the strange child who won't stop haunting you, an alien invasion that gets very personal, an AI born of a lolcat, monsters in the woods, and a spell gone terribly wrong.

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The doorway stands beyond man, at the end of a long hallway filled with sights beyond reason. It is a place where the universe begins and ends, where we begin and end, and deep down within our hearts, where we keep our secrets and imagine our stories, it lives there too. Come, join us at the Doorway to Death, enter and claim your end! From the fears of Essel Pratt, Toneye Eyenot, Roy C. Booth, Axel Kohagan, Kent Hill, Michael Fisher, Coralie Rowe, Brian Barr, Lemmy Rushmore, Michael Noe, D.S. Scott, Kevin Candela, Jeff O'Brien, Magenta Nero, Howard Carlyle, Ts Woolard, Dani Brown, Magan Rodreguez, Jim Goforth, Alice J. Black, Dona Fox, and Brian Glossup

REJECTED FOR CONTENT 5: SANITARIUM Where do you go after you've been to hell? Quite simple, really. You go insane. If you thought hell was the worst place you would ever find yourself, you're wrong. Dead wrong. Now, all the horror, the sordid sights and scenes, the bloodshed, the depravity, the perversion experienced before are going to culminate in only one thing. Sheer lunacy. Welcome to a place where madness dwells, insanity rules supreme and nothing is ever quite as it seems. With tales of asylums, twisted, disturbed souls who either belong here, or certainly should, heinous deeds and unhinged mental states, Rejected For Content 5: Sanitarium is here to plumb the darkest depths yet. These stories have all been rejected for content and the scribes responsible for them should all be institutionalised. Featuring Toneye Eyenot, David Sgalambro, Evan Romero, Howard Carlyle, Mark Leney, David Owain Hughes, RD Cervo, J.L. Lane, G. Zimmerman, Thomas M. Malafarina, Matthew Weber, Michael Fisher, Amanda M. Lyons, Andrew Bell, Mark Nye, Brent Lorentson, Tamara Fey Turner, James Cavahl, Zachary Smith, C. A. Viruet, Christopher Ridge, Essel Pratt and K. Trap Jones. Warning: Strong violence, explicit sex, coarse language, blood and gore.