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Poetry in one form or another has been around almost as long as language. We have used it to communicate our joys and heartbreaks, our victories and our losses. But fear has also been a constant companion, and our ghost stories and monsters stretch their claws back into history as far as the eyes can see. The Configuration Discordant is an exploration of not only that fear, but of our global journey through poetry. One hundred poems exploring 75+ forms of poetic expression from the humble haiku to the mysterious Qasida.

In a troubled society, a lone police investigator takes on the case and starts to the collect the various pieces of the puzzle. Will they fit together?

Comet Cove is a city where everyone gets their own special powers when they come of age. Everyone, that is, except for Samael Judd. Ordinary in a world of extraordinaries, Sam faces the possibility of exile should his powerlessness be discovered. When a Fragment doesn’t accept themselves, their Aura doesn’t give them the powers they’re promised, making them a Blank. But a solution exists: If Sam can confront the part of himself that he would rather stay buried, he just might be in the clear. That is, until he finds out he’s revealed his secret to the wrong person.

Gloria Rank has lived her entire life in the dark. Blind since birth, she has made a name for herself as a respected talk radio show host in New Jersey. When her younger sister, Anna, has her identity stolen and a man is murdered outside her apartment, Anna becomes the prime suspect in an FBI investigation. But when bodies begin piling up around her, the FBI has to admit that she is being stalked by a murderer.

Joe Miles must save a family from the killing torrents of a flash flood - while under fire from thieves after a railroad payroll. Once fired for being old, he's still young enough to be a hero.

Something tan and cylindrical struck the roof and rolled off. The men inside didn't wait for the dynamite to blow; they lurched into the sunlight, firing as they ran. A brutal war began when two bold men left Kane's mine to work their own strike. This was the final battle.

A traveling prospector wandering around California looking for gold spends a few peaceful days with a man hiding a sad story.

Superstition, mystery, and murder also have a niche in western writing with this story by Cynthia Haselhoff.

In the bush country of South Texas, Captain Richard King built a sprawling ranch called Santa Gertrudis. But at the end of the Civil War, while King was in Mexico, his ranch was raided by Union troops led by a sadistic killer who burned Santa Gertrudis to the ground - and slaughtered everyone on it. Thirty years later, King's land is about to run with blood once more. Former Union Captain Jack Brant has gotten out of prison and is raring to pick up his rampage where he left off.

Two years after Wild Bill Hickok made his mark on Deadwood, Scratch Morton and Bo Creel make theirs. Their job is guarding gold shipments from the mining camps — shipments that keep getting hijacked by a gang called the Devils of Deadwood who plunge pitchforks into their victims’ bodies. With Thanksgiving approaching, Scratch just wants to carve a turkey with a handsome widow woman at his side. Course, when the US Army comes to the rescue, all hell breaks loose. The widow gets taken hostage. So do a bunch of soldiers. Now, Scratch and Bo are going after missing gold.

They came from the sea: a former ship captain named Owen Bird who inherited a Texas ranch from his brother.... A former pirate named “Black Terrance” Malone, who has arrived in the once peaceful Rattlesnake Valley with a crew of sea dogs to do his dirty work. And dirty work it would be, as Black Terrance begins a campaign of thieving and threatening, even targeting Bird’s beautiful young niece. Into this storm rides the Loner — Conrad Morgan, son of the legendary gunfighter Frank Morgan.

Lukas und der Schlunz nehmen mit der ganzen Familie an der Gemeindefreizeit teil, die auf einer geheimnisvollen Burg stattfindet. Da gibt es natürlich jede Menge zu erleben: Es soll einen verschollenen Geheimgang geben und in der Kirche wurden neulich etliche der goldenen Geräte gestohlen. Ob die Kinder dem "unsichtbaren Wächter" auf die Spur kommen, der nachts durch die Flure spuken soll? Lukas ist bei all den Abenteuern nicht ganz wohl. Ein Detektiv hat ihm erzählt, ein neuer Killer sei beauftragt worden, den Schlunz ums Leben zu bringen.

San Cristobal, Galapagos-Inseln. Montag, 3. August, 12.00 Uhr. Niemand der zweihundertfünfzig Passagiere der SARDONIA achtete auf die drei Männer, die in letzter Minute an Bord gingen. Auch die Besatzung war ahnungslos, wer den Luxuskreuzer betrat. Nur der Kapitän war eingeweiht. Unbehaglich blickte er den Neuankömmlingen entgegen. Schließlich war einer von ihnen ein gefährlicher Mörder. Der Kapitän übernahm es persönlich, gemeinsam mit seinem Zahlmeister den ungebetenen Fahrgästen ihre Kabine zu zeigen. Noch lag die SARDONIA im Hafen von San Cristobal.

What if Red Riding Hood was a boy? Ryder is an average guy stuck in a country hunting town. He spends his days counting down to his high school graduation, all while fending off bullies. When hunters and townsfolk alike start going missing, broken traps are discovered with fur and… clothing scraps. Ryder wonders if it’s connected to the new girl, Cana, who’s been stuck to him like a puppy since her first day of school.

Es ist Silvester. Pumuckl kann es kaum erwarten, bis Mitternacht ist. Eder dagegen freut sich auf einen gemütlichen Abend mit dem Kobold. Doch er hat die Rechnung ohne seine Freunde gemacht. Aus Sorge, Eder könne vereinsamen, laden sie ihn zum Essen ein. Als sie dann auch noch die Existenz von Pumuckl in Frage stellen, mischen beide den Silvesterabend ordentlich auf. Zufrieden stoßen Pumuckl und Eder auf das neue Jahr an. Ein Jahr voller Schabernack und Pumuckl-Spaß.

Eine Wandertour führt die zwei Freunde Jochen und Peter in die Grafschaft Arnstein. Dort wurde vor 200 Jahren der gefürchtete Hexenmeister Mordian Treskow hingerichtet, von dem ein seltsamer Fluch überliefert ist: "Wenn zwei Monde am Himmel stehen, kehre ich zurück!" Als sich ein Komet der Erde nähert, erfüllt sich dieser Fluch: Mordians Seele wird zu neuem Leben erweckt und ergreift Besitz von Jochen, der ein Nachfahre des Hexenmeisters ist.

Every Superhero League needs an origin story, but who would have thought it would have been about a barkeep named Frank? When Frank finds corruption within the Police Department, everything he thought was true starts to unravel.

FBI BAU Special Agent Lily Dawn, half Dutch, half Hispanic, raised in the Caribbean, knows the isles like the back of her hand. When a surge in serial killers in the region prods the FBI to assemble a task force, Lily is the natural choice. But Lily is reluctant to face the demons of her past, including her missing sister, and when a serial killer leaves a trail of victims in marinas, Lily must race to enter the killer’s mind and decode the riddle. Who will he claim next?

When a surge in serial killers in the region prods the FBI to assemble a task force, Lily is the natural choice. But Lily is reluctant to face the demons of her past, including her missing sister. When a serial killer strikes in the midst of a hurricane, it may only be Lily who can stop him in time.

Im ländlichen England wird eine Gruppe friedliebender Mönche auf bestialische Weise ermordet. Zunächst fehlt jegliches Motiv für die abscheuliche Bluttat. Lediglich ein altes Tagebuch scheint entwendet worden zu sein. Noch ahnt niemand, welche Bedrohung für das Empire und die gesamte Menschheit heraufzieht. Als ein bekannter Kryptologe ebenfalls auf brutale Art ermordet wird, ruft dies Mycroft Holmes und die Sonderermittler auf den Plan. Eine erste heiße Spur scheint in die Vereinigten Staaten zu führen. Offenbar muss ein weiterer Gelehrter um sein Leben fürchten.