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wrong hell can always get worse excalibur by tom barczak when dealing with the harsh reality of the afterlife hell can be hard but rasputin has something even harder and lafayette ronald hubbard desperately needs it if he is going to pull off the greatest magic trick hell has ever known on the run by michael h hanson tells of sufi mystic rumi zen buddhist dōgen and charlatan spiritualist mina crandon using their new found magics on the grandest of all quests to find powerful talismans that will allow them to escape hell itself the sorcerous apprentice by andrew p weston daemon grim learns new tricks from an old dog and just as well there s a fallen saint to bring to heel and she s not known for playing ball crystal or otherwise the colossus of hell by joe bonadonna doctor victor frankenstein and computer scientist alan turing want to build a cyborg quasimodo wants to win the hand of the french fortune teller marie anne lenormand rasputin and cagliostro want to open an exclusive private club and a mysterious damned soul known only as the orange ogre wants revenge against anyone in hell who ever cheated or betrayed him laughed at and humiliated him or even ignored him especially his satanic majesty himself strange arts by janet morris and chris morris in a tower cell marlowe s head struggles to regain consciousness and rejoin his body here he finds his elizabethan spymaster walsingham waiting with j the merciful and three mysterious sisters after painfully stitching together his body and soul the five entreat him to join their most secret conspiracy amazon bookbub goodreads from the abode of woe by a l butcher paradise s dim light grew ever dimmer as the hell lights began to glare with the blue glow of sulfur it was an unforgiving light for the unforgiven word had got around and crowds had begun to gather for the evening s entertainment calchas had started a book on the outcome of the battle and the diablos were rolling in two to one for the pig man yelled a grifter clad in the sharpest suit of the evening seven to four for the prince bellowed another voice shrill in the crowd kevin the fiend grinned he was having the time of his unlife he d read the small print are they ready calchas asked eying the large and sinister cloth covered mounds on opposing sides of the temple yep ready for mayhem master a smiling fiend is not something to stir the heart with confidence or joy and calchas sobered he wondered if he should feel guilty but he had enough of that to last a thousand lifetimes and these new dead had brought it on themselves at least that is what he told himself and cassandra ego fighting ego will bring no good for either a temple built in haste to honor mere vanity and lies will surely fall to dust cassandra stared at the mounds hoping these fire spiting death machines would not bring them all to the undertaker s door were they too close she closed her eyes and let her mind wander will we be punished for this venture he d asked thinking too late they may have erred and voicing both their fears he hoped nothing would backfire plans in hell oft went awry and he knew that sooner or later he d pay the price for this deceit this is hades punishment is inherent but i think not at least not on this day rue thy former life and revel in thy afterlife for thou art damned is that not the advice you once gave me we are the damned we must survive as we may but those infernal and wicked weapons of the new dead surely the walls of ilium would have fallen on the first day she paused would we have fought with such demon weapons of war calchas gazed over to the two looming cloth bound shapes probably priam and agamemnon would have found some means to destroy one another no doubt man s capacity for war outweighs his capacity for reason and this place is full of the testimonials to that they will fall in dust as vain men are wont to do cassandra told him they won t go through with it it would be suicide that building will fall down in the next hell storm calchas replied doubtful they d watched the crowd assemble from a reasonable distance pack up in case and i will try to steer the mayhem from our door to be on the safe side should the range of those war weapons be enough to hit us make sure you are careful where you stand look there s old assisi out for the entertainment along with everyone else by the looks let s see drinks are half price calchas would not let this opportunity pass cassandra nodded where did you get the fire spitters che guevara owes me a favor it might be useful to keep one just in case how hard can they be to use look come there are our two brave heroes calchas separated himself from cassandra still in the guise of the department man and wandered over to the two prophets so gentlemen are we ready to settle this remember the winner gets control of that site should it still be standing the loser or losers will have more immediate issues to deal with calchas motioned to the nearer of the covered shapes who would like big bertha the reverend henry prince stared doubtfully at the shape that s not a sword or a firearm give that make a heck cookie kevin chortled he d been milling and warming up the onlookers with a flourish he tugged the cloth away to reveal a howitzer pointing towards the temple of woe it was an evil looking device as were many man made machines of death humans they do like to kill one another in all sorts of inventive ways welcome big bertha she s a friendly girl and the other smyth pigott asked his voice tremulous they walked across to a lower slung shape gentlemen meet roaring meg the deadly maiden of the english roundheads kevin chuckled not your era i suppose but they do the job they are primed for combat meg has helpers she fires but one ball at a time yet she s a fiery lass and one of the more knowledgeable operatives of hell has evened the odds calchas held his palm out containing dice whoever rolls snake eyes gets first choice but meg is a little slower and older and thus she fires first what happens if we refuse this ridiculous plan henry prince could not take his eyes from the cannon refuse i wasn t aware that was an option calchas feigned surprise kevin murmured something in calchas ear my associate says it is an option but if a refusal is forthcoming then all rights are revoked to build now and for infernity sentence will be the six hundred and sixty five years of cleaning perish sewers and you must publicly affirm your rival as the true chosen one the true heir and the ultimate seer and as both are equally guilty you will have to work together and your women too forever if both refuse then it must be done at exactly the same time whomever speaks first is deemed the greater coward british born a l butcher is an avid reader and creator of worlds a poet and a dreamer a lover of science natural history history and monkeys her prose has been described as dark and gritty and her poetry as evocative she writes with a sure and sometimes erotic sensibility of things that might have been never were but could be alex is the author of the light beyond the storm chronicles and the tales of erana lyrical fantasy series she also has several short stories in the fantasy fantasy romance genres with occasional forays into gothic style horror including the legacy of the mask series with a background in politics classical studies ancient history and myth her affinities bring an eclectic and unique flavour in her work mixing reality and dream in alchemical proportions that bring her characters and worlds to life she also curates speculative fiction themed book bundles on pubshare for the most part the here be series alex is also proud to be a writer for perseid press where her work features in heroika dragon eaters heroika skirmishers where she was editor and cover designer as well as writer as well as lovers in hell and mystics in hell part of the acclaimed heroes in hell series http www theperseidpress com website website 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about what happens when a well meaning inclination toward salvation goes awry borrowed child a story of parenting across two cultures by marguerite welch genre multicultural contemporary fiction drama for fans of little fires everywhere a novel that explores the ambiguities of motherhood and salvation through the anguished relationship between a troubled undocumented mexican teenager and the grieving upper middle class mother who takes her in after the drug overdose of her teenage son helen a privileged white woman takes in mia a troubled and undocumented mexican teenager although they initially fill each other s voids helen s lofty expectations of mia eventually test that bond and mia tortured by guilt and starved for affection runs off with diego an ms13 gang leader while helen bereft over losing another child tries to reconstruct her life mia s life with diego spirals into a nightmare just after she has his baby he goes to jail for multiple murders as each woman moves forward through her own challenges helen confronts her deep seated prejudices while mia battles her own demons in search of self identity and meaning in her life a haunting and suspenseful cautionary tale borrowed child is about what happens when a well meaning inclination toward salvation goes awry a detailed and occasionally heartbreaking portrait that pays special attention to the physical and emotional struggles of a young undocumented immigrant kirkus with the grace and complexity of the white album by joan didion borrowed child examines how intention and action especially for white people might misinterpret the complexities of race and power in the united states with gorgeous writing welch subverts expectations and gifts us a nuanced view of prejudice melissa scholes young author of flood and the hive amazon b n simon schuster bookbub goodreads chapter 1 helen for more than a week i could not make myself open the door to mia s room when i finally raised the shades light illuminated the space like a stage set the rumpled bed the hot pink lipstick on the dresser the closet door agape revealing the outfit i gave her for church gray wool slacks dangled awkwardly from a plastic hanger the silk blouse discarded in a dusty corner along with one dirty sock all clues remnants of a life lived on this stage but was it the beginning of the play or the end mia had just started her senior year in high school i knew she was intimidated by all the college visits and apprehensive about submitting the applications but i had convinced myself that she was ready to say goodbye to her old life and start anew sure we d experienced difficulties and detours what family doesn t but i believed all was resolved believed that is until one random wednesday in late september when she never came home no one saw her not her teachers the office staff or her counselor no one knew where she was at first i thought mia had gone off with friends and simply forgotten to call she would have called wouldn t she maybe she had gone back to her birth mother s home but that seemed unlikely i pulled out my cell phone every few minutes to see if i had missed a text by 8 00 p m i called her mother maybe she go off with drug dealer boyfriend carmen said in broken english what drug dealer boyfriend i wanted to cry out but knew it was pointless i couldn t understand her rapid fire spanish and our adversarial relationship over the years had made meaningful communication impossible carmen s lack of concern for mia s welfare had always mystified and infuriated me you no call the police okay carmen added it had been my experience that people in the hispanic community often panicked when they saw a uniform it wouldn t do any good to get the police involved and might make it worse okay but please call me if you hear anything i pleaded she never called i cried on my husband s shoulder how could mia do this something must be very wrong don was upset too but couldn t resist giving me that i told you so look patting my hand with a restrained sense of obligation rather than genuine concern or so i read it at the time now i understand how needy and unfair i was he had always been so loving and supportive no matter how crazy my schemes and passionate my interests whether he understood them or not the saying opposites attract could not have been truer in our relationship he was a man of science i was a dreamy artistic type he read naval institute proceedings i read poetry he liked spaghetti i liked sushi he couldn t tell a petunia from a daisy i was a gardener and yet life together was better than apart when our boys came along he was an involved loving father who disciplined with love and loved unrestrainedly but at that moment if i could have gotten beyond my own conflicted feelings of hurt and worry i could have seen by the way his hand shook as he picked up his maker s mark on the rocks and took a couple of quick gulps that he was genuinely concerned about mia s absence it was too hard both of us felt the stab of an old only partially healed wound for which mia had been a temporary anesthetic don banged his drink down on the table half surprised by the noise and hugged me silently afraid to say a word one pain masking another an image swam to the surface sammy s grin and tousled mop of blond hair how could we have been so unaware of the troubled waters beneath that sunny smile the dark anxious place that became his secret home beyond our reach and knowing now clueless again we had let another child slip through the cracks and i was left clutching her abandoned lipstick until my palm bled marguerite welch is a writer artist photographer and sailor whose essays and reviews on fine art photography have been published in the new art examiner washington review of the arts afterimage and other local and national art publications short personal essays and travel pieces have appeared in bay weekly wanderlust and chesapeake bay magazine her travel memoir waterborne a slow trip around a small planet publ...