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With A Demon's Eye: A Short Story Audiobook

How far would you go to see again?Conflict photographer, Sara Miles, loves being embedded with the military out in the desert. Her pictures pay tribute to those who fight, suffer, and die for freedom and the images she captures can turn public perception in the never-ending war. Her photography matters. But when Sara is caught in an explosion out on patrol, her eyes are damaged by a face full of shrapnel. She may never be able to see through a lens again. The military offers her a cutting-edge operation to restore her sight, but it comes with a price … A short story with a supernatural edge from award-nominated, USA Today bestselling thriller author, J.F. Penn.

J.F. Penn (Author), J.F. Penn (Narrator)

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Let the stars burn like fireflies: Fall

'Let the Stars Burn Like Fireflies' is a captivating and thought-provoking short story that explores the themes of love, loss, and the human condition. Through its haunting and lyrical prose, the story transports readers to a world where memories, both good and bad, can be as vivid as fireflies lighting up the night sky. With its powerful emotional impact and thought-provoking themes, this story is a must-read for anyone who loves literature that stays with them long after they've finished reading. Follow David as he confronts unimaginable evils, fights for survival, and ultimately discovers his true destiny.

~mora (Author), ~mora (Narrator)

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I’d Really Prefer Not to Be Here with You, and Other Stories

Bestselling author Julianna Baggott delivers her mind-bending debut short-story collection, featuring an array of genres populated by deeply human characters, and with film rights to the stories already having been sold to Netflix, Paramount, Amblin, Lionsgate, and others! In the title story, set five minutes in the future where you not only have a credit score but also a dating score, a woman who’s been banished from all dating apps attends a weekly help group with others who have been “banned for life,” and finds herself falling in love. In “Backwards,” a twist on Benjamin Button, a woman reconnects with her estranged father as he de-ages ten years each day they spend together. In “Welcome to Oxhead,” all the parents in a gated community “shut off” when the power goes out. In “Portals,” a small town deals with hope and loss when dozens of portals suddenly open. In “How They Got In,” a grieving family starts to see a murdered girl in all of their old home videos. This fantastical collection from a unique voice contains a myriad of stories of the weird and wonderful. Julianna Baggott is a talented and clever guide, and I’d Really Prefer Not to Be Here with You will take the reader on a journey unlike anything they’ve experienced.

Julianna Baggott (Author), Andi Arndt, Cassandra Campbell, Em Grosland, Emily Lawrence, Emily Woo Zeller, Erin Bennett, January Lavoy, Kelli Tager, Kimberly M. Wetherell, Lisa Flanagan, Natasha Soudek, Rachel Jacobs, Sarah Beth Pfeifer, Tavia Gilbert, Xe Sands (Narrator)

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Sweetlust: Stories

In a dystopian world with no men, women are “rehabilitated” at an erotic amusement park. Climate change has caused massive flooding and warming in the Balkans, where one programmer builds a time machine. And a devious reimagining of The Sorrows of Young Werther refocuses to center a sexually adventurous Charlotte. Asja Baki? deploys the speculative and weird to playfully interrogate conversations around artificial intelligence, gender fluidity, and environmental degradation. As she did in her acclaimed debut Mars, Baki? once again upends her characters’ convictions and identities—and infuses each disorienting universe with sly humor and off-kilter eroticism. Visceral and otherworldly, Sweetlust takes apart human desire and fragility, repeatedly framing pleasure as both inviting and perilous.

Asja Bakić (Author), Katherine Littrell (Narrator)

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The Country of the Blind and Other Stories

This 1911 collection of thirty-three stories, selected and revised by the author from amongst his huge output of short fiction, includes tales of comedy, horror, monsters, and strange worlds. In his Introduction, Wells writes that the book brings together, “All the short stories by me that I care for any one to read again,” and that, “No short story of mine of the slightest merit is excluded from this volume.”

H.G. Wells (Author), Graham Scott (Narrator)

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By Your Side When the Sun Sets

M.H. Lee (Author), M.H. Lee (Narrator)

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Sliced and Diced: A collection of 17 Dark and Twisted Stories

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice. Embark on a thrilling journey through the dark and twisted imagination of author Joan De La Haye as she presents a captivating collection of tales that will both fascinate and disturb you. Within these pages, Joan De La Haye invites you to explore a sinister world where the line between reality and nightmare blurs. Join a relentless serial killer as he hunts for his next trophy, feeling the chill of his calculated pursuit. Witness the chilling reunion of vengeful ghosts driven by an insatiable hunger for vengeance that transcends death itself. Feel the raw intensity of jealousy as a girlfriend takes a sinister turn, extinguishing her lover's beloved pet. Encounter a ghost bride and a tormenting demon whose presence sends shivers down the spines of even the most resilient. While some of these gripping narratives have been previously celebrated in acclaimed anthologies, others are unveiled here for the very first time. Joan De La Haye's mastery of storytelling guarantees a mesmerizing experience that will thrill, shock, and disturb you. Just remember to keep the lights on as you immerse yourself in these chilling tales that will leave an indelible mark on your psyche.

Joan De La Haye (Author), Digital Voice Anya G (Narrator)

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Love Through the Seasons: 4 Stories from a Beloved Author

Four short contemporary romances from bestselling author Tracie Peterson take listeners to the author’s native state of Kansas. A single mother is braced for spring tornadoes and Stormy Weather when she encounters her son’s scout troop leader. A student finds her King of Hearts while participating in a summer Renaissance festival, but she may lack queenly confidence. Autumn isn’t just about the changing of the trees for a widow living with her mother and aunts on the family farm, it’s all about Falling for Love. A wife faces Silent Nights during winter as her marriage begins to crumble at Christmastime.

Tracie Peterson (Author), Sybil Johnson (Narrator)

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Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe

Two terrifying classics by "the best kept secret in contemporary horror fiction" (The Washington Post) Thomas Ligotti's debut collection, Songs of a Dead Dreamer, and his second, Grimscribe, permanently inscribed a new name in the pantheon of horror fiction. Influenced by the strange terrors of Lovecraft and Poe and by the brutal absurdity of Kafka, Ligotti eschews cheap, gory thrills for his own brand of horror, which shocks at the deepest, existential, levels. Ligotti's stories take on decaying cities and lurid dreamscapes in a style ranging from rich, ornamental prose to cold, clinical detachment. His raw and experimental work lays bare the unimportance of our world and the sickening madness of the human condition. Like the greatest writers of cosmic horror, Ligotti bends reality until it cracks, opening fissures through which he invites us to gaze on the unsettling darkness of the abyss below. For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Thomas Ligotti (Author), Jon Padgett, Linda Jones (Narrator)

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Heifer

H. Rygh-Pedersen (Author), Helen Rygh-Pedersen (Narrator)

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Elderberry Croft: November Awakening: Braving the Trenches

Doc has learned to live with his past showing up in his present in the gruesome form of post-traumatic stress. Waking nightmares, trigger hallucinations, insomnia, and self-loathing are his constant companions. Coming home from war wasn’t coming home at all—he hasn’t been able to leave the battlefield behind. So it isn’t hard for him to recognize the raw edges of the wounds Ms. Goodhope bears, and Doc isn’t about to stand by and let another fellow soldier fall. When he finds her burning letters out under a moonless sky, and the firelight brings to life the jagged shadows they both are trying to hold at bay, they trade war stories… and a promise to not give into the dark night of the soul.

Becky Doughty (Author), Becky Doughty (Narrator)

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Elderberry Croft: September Longing: A Daisy Chain of Clouds

Prudence Merriweather loves animal prints, hot pink high heels, and bigger-than-life hair. She also loves Carney, the bear of man to whom her heart belongs. She’s just not a hundred percent sure that he knows it. Or that he really wants it, at least if they’re talking forever and ever. They’ve been together for so long now, however, and Pru is no longer clear on the status of their status quo. When Carney shows up with his own matters of the heart, Prudence is stunned by the storm clouds gathering on the horizon. Can she open her eyes enough to look around and see the beauty that is part of everything, even an uncertain future?

Becky Doughty (Author), Becky Doughty (Narrator)

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