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The first book in a new series of mini-anthologies brought to you by KJK Publishing. Featuring stories by Amy Cross, Mike Duke, Matthew Brockmeyer, Lex H. Jones, J.C. Michael, and Kevin J. Kennedy.

Burdizzo Book's Matty-Bob and Em invited some of their favourite indie authors to write stories inspired by their most beloved songs. The result is The Burdizzo Mix-Tape Vol.1, their most diverse anthology yet. These are tunes that resonate from the beach to the mountains, from rain dogs to spirits in the sky, from Old Ones to cold ones. Be it multi-dimensional romance across space and time, Cold War sexual paranoia, campfire cowboys, gypsy caravans, or demented disco balls, there is a song for everyone within these stories.

Sixteen-year-old Jonah looks for someone important, someone he lost. Jonah tries to connect with someone important, someone divine. Jonah fights someone terrible, someone who can enslave gods. He lives in an inescapable hotel with only two years of reliable memory. He lives in an irradiated future where mankind is rare and being surpassed by a new species. He lives in a world wherein bad men murder and rape to prove the point: You can’t escape, you can’t win, and even the gods belong to us. Jonah must prove them wrong or let everyone he loves suffer.

Everywhere, you'll find two things: Incredible stories of people loving hard and epically in spite of all the things making love impossible, and lonely people who can't make love work. Books, music, movies, society, everything makes it seem like love is a natural thing that just happens between two people. Life and the stories inside this collection suggest that love is hard as hell. Loneliness, and not love, is natural. We live alone. We'll die alone. Grab a beer. Kick back and wallow in that fact.

Such Terrible Things is a collection of stories to be told at night. Within includes, I Hit A Monster With Your Car, which is mostly self-explanatory. There is Ghosts Don't Scream - when a preacher's wife is killed, something darker is reborn. There is Little Holly and Mr. Thomas - a magic man who shares his magic with someone he ought not to have.

Luke Peters wakes one morning, feeling under the weather. After staying home from school, he is confronted, first, by an old man with a shaggy German Shepherd, and then by a young man with a scuffed, metal baseball bat. The old man tells him that there was an attempt on his life while he slept and that another was coming soon. Luke, naturally, is skeptical until a young man arrives, seeking to steal Luke’s life. Luke finds himself ensnared in a war between two unseen forces and a relentless being willing to do anything and kill everyone to get to Luke.

In this book, you'll find several thoughtful essays examining such stories and poems as "The LoveSong of J. Alfred Prufrock", "Young Goodman Brown", "The Goblin Market", "A Light in August", and Shakespeare's sonnets. This tome could be useful for anyone who’d like to make a deeper connection to great works of literature. And, of course, if you wanted to cheat off me, I couldn’t stop you.

The drug Holy Fire is the best high around, ignoring the cat-piss smell, the violent episodes, and the complete organ failure. North City’s hero is gone. His sidekick must stop the emergence of this new drug alone. Fifteen-year-old Maxwell has served the crime fighter Harry for years. Well-trained with guns and his fists, Maxwell is a very effective sidekick. Now, an old enemy has returned, pushing Holy Fire like candy.

Ryder, Alvir, and Beriadan are three adventurers who used to be four. After an encounter with a dragon, they are sent reeling and now, they're in Lone Mountain - a mining town that's better described as a powder keg. The dwarves hate humans. The humans hate dwarves. And, a dead heir to a mining fortune serves as the match to tear this town apart.

What do you do when it's raining cats and dogs...and pigs and whales? Take refuge in 15 stories of wild and wicked weather. They will freeze you to the core, they will soak you to the bone. You will find no pot of gold at the end of this rainbow, no sunshine after the rain. Just thunder and lightning that's very, very frightening. There's a storm coming....