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Inspiration is a living thing and it is hungry...Terra Desmarais's success as the next big artist in NYC is absolutely inevitable. Her patrons, the associates, Mr. Black, Mr. Silver, and Mr. Green, can practically taste the raw talent dripping from the enigmatic trailer park prodigy's dollar store paints.Up and coming pastel artist Cedric Fleck is a lucky discovery of the associates. Rescued from oblivion by Mr Green, put up in a studio by Mr. Silver and paraded around on the arm of Mr. Black should be the dream. But within the steady stream of great press and even better parties, Cedric can't shake the sense that something is very wrong. He wants to hate Terra for her overnight success, but he's taken by her earnest love of art.As the artists around them crash and burn, and Cedric struggles to break free from the toxic seduction of Mr. Black, Terra is only concerned with her strange and compelling paintings. She seems to want nothing of the fame, the money, the sex or the drugs. As greed exposes the true colors of the associates, and Terra is too lost in her art to notice the danger, Cedric discovers that inspiration is a living thing, and it is hungry.

Life's a Beach. A rivalry that turns romantic, a flippant flirtation, an eternal love rediscovered within the sandy pines.Beach Shorts is a unique collection of stories filled with love, laughter and promises made by the water's edge.Find a great reading spot and escape to Sparta, follow the poetic reunion of two souls, or ride the waves with a surfer who finds her great love.With Thirteen great stories of love, longing, and living up those summer vibes, your perfect beach read awaits.

During the cold winter months, we mirror the Earth as she lies quiet, waiting for the return of warm days. We gather around yule fires and perform rituals to lure back the sun. Drinking wassail, singing songs and exchanging gifts, some of us tell stories of the longest night.Stories of new love and old magick.Stories of the Holly King and his fight for the season.Of death and lives well lived.Of succumbing to the most feral parts of ourselves.Of the Wild Hunt, and the wrath of Perchta.And of fey magicks and sacrifices made for love.Light a candle and bundle up. Within these pages you will find what you need for a hale and hearty Yule, a reconciliation with the shadows and a joyful return to the light.

In 1518, a woman started dancing on the streets of Strasbourg and could not stop. No priests, physics or leaders could help as more and more people joined her, jaunting as their feet bled and their bodies broke. Centuries later the mystery endures, explained as mass hysteria, mob mentality but suspected to be something much more sinister. In this fourth collection of Utter Speculation, nine authors offer stories of witches and wishes, love and longing, of music and mastery and the deepest secrets of restless hearts."Real-life medieval madness and chaos that was utterly frightening becomes utterly fascinating in The Dancing Plague collection from Speculation Publishing. From Brother Frix's monastery infirmary horrors ("This Way Lies Madness"/Wenzel) to Frau Troffea's cockroach stomp ("Shake, Rattle and Roll"/Updike), this is recommended reading."- Chris Bauer, author of crime thrillers about Philadelphia including 2 STREET, (where the city's most sacred group of dancers, the Philly Mummers, also die in bunches) "I'm always tickled when I hear a new Speculation is imminent because I know I'm in for a ride through unfamiliar, if not unsettling, terrain. The Dancing Plague collection is no exception. Some stories horrify, others ignite the spark of introspection, but all make me eager to keep turning the page."- William J. Donahue, author of BURN, BEAUTIFUL SOUL and CRAWL ON YOUR BELLY ALL THE DAYS OF YOUR LIFE "LCW Allingham and her two cohorts have come up with another thematic anthology in their Collection of Utter Speculation series. The Dancing Plague relates to a contagious 16th Century malady in what is now France leading to the victims convulsively dancing in the streets. This clever collection offers nine original takes on the affliction from a variety of authors dealing with time travel to scientific investigation to a modern re-occurrence. Much fun."- Don Swaim, author of THE ASSASSINATION OF AMBROSE BIERCE: A LOVE STORY