The idea was simple: tell the scariest story you can, in less than 1,000 words. It sounds easy, but it isn’t. A thousand words sounds like a lot until you start writing. In this collection, a wide variety of writers—some professional, many previously unpublished—try their hand at the tricky balance of suspense and brevity. Including stories by: Patricia Abbott • Joel Allegretti • Anthony Ambrogio • Chuck Augello • A.J. Barry • Jenny Bulmanski • Beth Lynn Clegg • Michael R. Colangelo • Alyssa Cooper ...

The natural world comes alive in Charles Burack's luminous collection of poems. The poet meets trees, flowers, birds, spiders, cats, seals, and other wondrous and endangered creatures as equals. They share their wisdom and beauty, love and fear, humor and suffering and inspire in him profound ponderings, playful antics, and startling realizations. Other poems scintillate with the mysteries of human love, loss, death, and celebration. The poem entitled “I Am” won first prize in the international Songs of the Soul Poetry Contest.  'Walt ...

An evil magician is planning to take over the world. He thinks his enemies are among the living… When Lester Furnival and her friend Evelyn die in a plane crash, they find themselves walking through a ghostly, surreal, twilight London. Lester’s fiancé is an artist, who is obsessed with images of a city so bright and true that he can’t paint anything else. The scandalous magician Simon Leclerc has sacrificed his own child to gain control over this world…and the next. As Lester and Evelyn discover what has happened to ...

ST. IRENAEUS was one of the Christian Fathers of the Greek Church, probably born near Smyrna. A priest of the Graeco-Gaulish Church of Lyon, he became bishop there in 177. A successful missionary bishop, he is chiefly known for his opposition to Gnosticism, his theological writing, and his attempts to prevent a rupture between Eastern and Western Churches over the computing of Easter. Curiosity is baffled, but faith and love are fed by these scanty relics of primitive antiquity. Yet may we well be grateful for what we have. These writings come down to us ...

God is the author of joy. Read the opening words of either of the Genesis stories (wait there's more than one?) and you'll meet a being who creates everything with love and happiness. It's easy to imagine God dancing through creation flinging a paintbrush dipped in light. When did God become the judge? When did God become the angry, somber, pinch-faced deity looking down from on high with a bucket of lighting bolts at the ready? This book, like it's predecessor, celebrates the God who laughs, the God who plays hide-and-seek with Moses, the God who plays ...

THE MYSTERIOUS RIDER is the story of a man's return to a place from which he had once been exiled. A return that is an opportunity for redemption-or revenge. It is also a tale of secrets, in the present, and in a past that will not stay dead.

This book is meant as an introduction to the works of certain contemporary poets, for those readers who do not know them, while not being, it is hoped, entirely without interest for those who do. Charles Williams was one of the finest-not to mention one of the most unusual-theologians of the twentieth century. His mysticism is palpable-the unseen world interpenetrates ours at every point, and spiritual exchange occurs all the time, unseen and largely unlooked for. His novels are legend, his poetry profound, and as a member of the Inklings, he contributed ...

Get a glimpse inside the daily life of one of the pioneers of the Independent Catholic movement. This book collects the personal and professional letters, sermons, and other written materials by Rene Villate, one of the most important and celebrated figures in the history of Independent Catholicism.

Two decades before the Second Vatican Council, a section of the Catholic Church decided to enact sweeping reforms of its own. The Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church, or I.C.A.B., abolished latin, celibacy and confession, embraced religious freedom, and redefined the pope as just another bishop. I.C.A.B. became the renegade church within a church. With over half a million members in Brazil, and up to four million in a complex worldwide network, I.C.A.B.’s offshoots are at the center of the hottest and most controversial clashes between Catholics and ...

Are you about to start spiritual direction? Would you like to know how to get the most out of your sessions? In Spiritual direction, two or more seekers enter sacred space to dream, explore, and discern a path toward personal wholeness and deeper intimacy with the Divine. This book is written specifically for new clients—sometimes called directees. In it you will find everything you need to know before stepping into a spiritual direction session for the first time. By the time you finish it, you will have a good grasp on what this ministry is about ...