Showing results for "A Child of the Dales" in Literature & Fiction

Abandoned as a baby on the steps of a remote inn, Ruby Blake has been raised by the innkeeper’s wife, Martha Metcalfe, unknowing of the family searching for her. One wild stormy night, Ruby is reunited with her long-lost father, who wants to whisk her away to Banksgill Farm for a happy life with her true family. Feeling betrayed by Martha, Ruby follows her father for the chance of a new life. However, Ruby is quickly outcast from her real family for being born of Romani blood by everyone but the charming stable hand, Tom Adams.

This is the story about a 35-year-old man that was initially abducted in Fairbanks, Alaska only to wind up in the middle of a cornfield. After removing an implant from his body, he attempted to relocate to a small town in northern Michigan known as Alpena to escape further interaction with aliens. Unfortunately once the aliens choose someone it is more than difficult to start over somewhere new.

This is a collection of strange and horrifying short stories.

This is about a vicious killer in Chicago. She was no ordinary killer. She killed with vicious piranha breasts.

This short story is about the dead spirit of a little girl. Maggie was six years old when she died, and she attached herself to another six-year-old little girl by the name of Linda. This is both Maggie and Linda's story.

This is the violent and bloody story about a lonely, ugly woman. She brought a bottle of fine scotch, 200 dollars cash, and a deep dish Chicago pizza to her local homeless shelter in the attempt to seduce a homeless man for a night of romance. Unfortunately, not even the homeless can be bribed, due to her ugliness.

This gory tale is set in the early 1800s. Doctor Pain was a traveling physician handling the needs of whoever he ran into. His patients were anything but lucky. Doctor Pain specialized in one thing and it happened to be pain.

This is a short story about a grandmother that has red-headed bunions that eat raw steak and terrorize the home of a teenager and his family.

Where do we find security? What happens when, even though we’re surrounded by that security, our worst nightmare comes to life? What if we were raised differently from everybody else? What if we lived our lives like everybody else, but when we went home it was too different? Would we stray from the confines of what we know, just to be normal? Just so we could be like everybody else? Or would we stay within what we knew, no matter how strange it was? From one weirdo to another, stay weird and enjoy the ride!