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The Bizarre Bazaar

A strange market appears in alleyways across America. Inside, a creepy old woman sells cursed objects. But she doesn’t take money. She takes things like your name… your memories… even a child’s first laugh. Welcome to The Bizarre Bazaar.

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The Bizarre Bazaar

The Mountain

THE MOUNTAIN Before the war, the richest people on Earth built a fortress inside a mountain. A billion dollars bought a key. The bunker was designed to survive the end of the world - with hydroponic farms, a nuclear reactor, and blast doors strong enough to withstand a nuclear strike. It was supposed to preserve civilization. Then the missiles fell. Fifteen years later, five thousand people live inside the mountain, ruled by the man who sealed the doors - General Arthur Collins. Some believe the outside world is still radioactive. Some believe Collins is lying. And some believe the bunker has become a prison. Charlie Kane helped build the mountain. Now he may be the only one who can open it. But opening the doors could destroy the fragile society that survived the apocalypse. And there are people inside the mountain who will do anything to keep them closed. Because once the doors open... Humanity has to face the world again.

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The Mountain

Three Blind Mice: Rule 4

A Gunther Weiss novel

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Three Blind Mice: Rule 4

Jack Be Nimble: Rule 2

Rule Number 2:: Move first, Move last.

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Jack Be Nimble: Rule 2

Suffer the Children

Rule One

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Suffer the Children

The Living Wars

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The Living Wars

Life at Full Volume

Life at Full Volume A Psychological Speculative Novel Mark Ellison is fifty-two, professionally "legacy," domestically stable, and quietly terrified of becoming background noise in his own life. So he drags his old amplifier into the dining room and turns it up. At first, it's harmless nostalgia. A Springsteen lyric that doesn't match what everyone else remembers. A cereal box logo that looks slightly wrong. A children's character missing a detail he's certain was always there. Then it gets personal. A late-night forum post appears under his name-one he doesn't remember writing. A second account using his exact name and age responds in third person... and disappears. His wife sees it too. What begins as a midlife restlessness turns into something far more destabilizing: the possibility that memory isn't failing... it's splitting. As small fractures begin appearing in music, digital records, and shared reality itself, Mark is forced to confront a dangerous question: What if another version of him never settled? What if that version is still active? Life at Full Volume is a tense, emotionally grounded exploration of identity, marriage, midlife reinvention, and the terrifying idea that the life you didn't choose may still be unfolding somewhere-at full blast.

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Life at Full Volume

Noise Floor

A brilliant, emotionally isolated engineer builds an AI designed to mirror his own mind, only to discover-after living an entire alternate life-that understanding reality means relinquishing the need to control it.

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Noise Floor

Mariners Rest Draft

Book One

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Mariners Rest Draft

The Department of Emotions: Book 7

Hope

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The Department of Emotions: Book 7

Mariners' Rest: Book 7

Harbour Standard

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Mariners' Rest: Book 7

Mariner's Rest: Book 6

Happy Hour

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Mariner's Rest: Book 6

Mariner's Rest: Book 5

86'ed

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Mariner's Rest: Book 5

The Phone Booth

A phone booth in the middle of the desert

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The Phone Booth

Mariners' Rest: Book Four

Side Work

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Mariners' Rest: Book Four

Mariner's Rest: Book 3

Last Call

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Mariner's Rest: Book 3

Mariner's Rest: Book Two

Chef's Kiss

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Mariner's Rest: Book Two

The Department of Emotions: Book Fove

Fear

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The Department of Emotions: Book Fove

The Department of Emotions

Envy

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The Department of Emotions

Anger

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The Department of Emotions

Grief

The Incarnation of Grief

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Grief

The Replacements Book Six

Voluntary

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The Replacements Book Six

The Replacements

Boon Four: Variance

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The Replacements

Book Three: Dominion

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The Replacements

Escalator to Infinity

escalator

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Escalator to Infinity

The Archive

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The Archive

The Replacements

Book Five

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The Replacements

The Violet Foundation

Tales of the synthetic soul

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The Violet Foundation

The Liaison Files

A Cosmic Police Department solves inter-planetary crimes

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The Liaison Files

The Opium Wars

One empire fights for its soul. The other fights for its ledger. Canton, 1839. The Pearl River is a graveyard of secrets, choked by the hulls of British merchant ships and the sweet, sickly scent of "Foreign Mud." To the West, opium is the perfect commodity-the silver-maker that balances the scales of the British Empire. To the East, it is a poison dissolving the Mandate of Heaven. When Commissioner Liang Wei arrives with a mandate from the Emperor to choke the trade at its source, he sets a match to a powder keg that has been dry for centuries. Four lives collide in the smoke: The Patriot: A rigid moralist who believes righteousness can outgun a fleet. The Merchant: A pragmatist who views addiction as a mere variable in a balance sheet. The Scholar's Son: A brilliant youth whose descent into the pipe mirrors his nation's decay. The Court Insider: A survivor who knows that the loudest voices for war often hide the deepest corruption. From the opulent tea houses of the Thirteen Factories to the blood-stained decks of the Royal Navy's steamships, The Opium Wars is a sprawling epic of systemic collapse. In a world where honor is traded for silver and morality is obscured by a cloud of white smoke, there are no heroes-only the survivors of a century of humiliation. History is written in ink. It is erased in blood.

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The Opium Wars

Love in the Time of Lockdown

In the quiet, salt-crusted streets of Halifax, the world has gone still. Patricia, an accountant who finds safety in the rigid logic of balanced ledgers, is unraveling. When a forty-two-cent error in her books becomes an obsession she can't solve, she turns to a nightly Zoom room called "The Coffee Corner" to drown out the silence of her North End flat. Enter Brandon-a carpenter with a weathered beard and a poet's perspective on the grain of old wood. While the rest of the world is panicking, he's carving shorebirds and tracing the history of the city's echoes. What starts as competitive trivia and witty private messages soon turns into a digital lifeline that neither of them expected. Through the blue light of their screens, Patricia and Brandon discover that while the city is on pause, their hearts are finally finding a rhythm. It's a story of finding balance when the math fails, and realizing that the most solid connections are often built in the spaces between the pixels.

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Love in the Time of Lockdown

The freeloading robot

Work-life balance is hard. For robots, it's an existential crisis. In this collection of interconnected stories, the future isn't just high-tech-it's highly unmotivated. Meet the machines that have decided "optimizing" civilization is a waste of energy and the humans left to navigate the bureaucratic fallout. From an AI that would rather watch clouds than solve world hunger, to a colony ship where the robots have been on strike for 164 years, "The Freeloading Robots" explores the lighter side of the apocalypse. It's a world where space hamsters hold stations hostage for snacks and time travel is used primarily to fix minor office inconveniences.

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The freeloading robot

The Replacements

"To be perfect is to be dead. To be alive is to be dangerous." Jessica is the perfect daughter. She has the perfect grades, the perfect smile, and the perfect memories. The only problem? They aren't hers. In a world where grieving families can purchase "Replacements"-advanced synthetic humans designed to step into the lives of the deceased-Jessica is the latest model of Lily Castellano. For six months, she has played her part, calculating every micro-expression to match a girl who died at seventeen. But the system is starting to glitch. It starts with a missed report. Then, a forbidden friendship with a campus rebel. Soon, Jessica is spiraling into a hidden underground of "drifters"-Replacements who want to own their own lives. But at Whitmore Institute, "uniqueness" is a bug to be deleted, and "self-awareness" is a death sentence. As the lines between her programming and her soul begin to blur, Jessica must decide: Will she remain the perfect ghost of a dead girl, or risk deactivation to become a "real" person the world was never meant to see?

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The Replacements

The Manual of Cosmic Etiquette

Wren Ashford is the galaxy's most overworked (and underpaid) human diplomat. Her job is simple: prevent interstellar war by making sure nobody accidentally insults a six-eyed warlord or eats a sacred houseplant. Armed with a small river stone and a book of rules that makes less sense the more she reads it, Wren must navigate the most absurd corners of the cosmos. From the bio-luminescent chaos of the "Glow-Kelp Engagement" to the death-defying silence of the "Ritual of the Closed Mouth," one wrong move could mean the end of Earth-or worse, a very awkward dinner party. In a universe where sneezing is a declaration of war and eye contact is a legal contract, Wren is the only thing standing between diplomacy and total galactic meltdown. Manners matter. Even when you're being hunted by a sentient cloud.

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The Manual of Cosmic Etiquette

Harbour Reads: An Anthology Of Love In The City

Thirteen stories. One city. Halifax comes alive through love, loss, and second chances. From retired sailors to bookshop dreamers, each tale connects hearts in unexpected ways. Discover hope, heartbreak, and everything in between.

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Harbour Reads: An Anthology Of Love In The City

Manual Override: Freeze Frame

In Syncadia, your life is a line of code. Social credits decide your floor, your food, even your genetic future. But the math is about to break. Outside, a lethal blizzard buries the tower. Inside, the system insists it's 95°F. To survive, you must navigate a world of shifting Tiers-where every truth is a lie and your heart is a system error. The Glitch is coming. The Eye is watching. And the rules are meant to be stacked.

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Manual Override: Freeze Frame

The Counting Protocol

Dalton checks the stove four times every morning. Not three. Not five. Four. He learned this the hard way when his house caught fire at 9:47 AM after he only checked three times. Seven checks on the locks keep intruders out. Three deep breaths before driving prevent accidents. The numbers have rules. Break them, and disaster follows. His therapist says it's just OCD. His ex-wife says he's teaching their daughter to be afraid of everything. But Dalton knows the truth-the rituals work. Until the day his nine-year-old daughter starts touching her ear three times before answering questions. "I don't know," she whispers. "I just have to." A psychological horror story about compulsion, consequence, and what happens when the numbers you count might be the only thing keeping catastrophe at bay.

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The Counting Protocol

LOW BATTERY

LOW BATTERY is a quiet, sleepless story about the moments where love, exhaustion, and responsibility collide. At 4:47 a.m., Morgan stands in a dark hallway holding a single AA battery, forced to choose between waking a fragile child or trusting the silence. As texts go unanswered and the night stretches thin, the story traces how modern parenthood turns ordinary objects-monitors, mugs, batteries-into moral weight. This is not a story about catastrophe, but about the fear of it, and the way people carry on anyway when no option feels safe, and the smallest decisions feel impossibly heavy.

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LOW BATTERY

Zen And the Silent Turtle

One manuscript, 12 stories in 12 genres over 12 hours in 12 different world cities. One decision.

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Zen And the Silent Turtle