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Our last night on Earth was a quiet one: dinner, champagne, a movie. I had gotten the kids souvenirs from my last trip, toy blocks that glowed in the darkness surrounding the 46-inch plasma playing WALL-E. The kids' favorite. "Why champagne?" my wife asked, sipping from her glass. "Big promotion again?" I wanted to tell her everything, make her understand why I had done what I had done. I had to protect my family. My stomach twisted when the toy blocks began to float. I looked to the bay windows as the kids scrambled to reclaim their gifts. My wife went to help them, champagne abandoned as she chased the children chasing their toys. None of them noticed the spaceship arriving on the balcony. I opened the balcony doors, wind and noise disrupting the pursuit momentarily before the blocks zoomed aboard the awaiting craft. My wife wasn't quick enough; the kids ran inside after them. She followed, standing in the mouth of the ship calling for our children. I pushed her inside. They

The final transmission from Earth's failed Martian Colony, 2088. INT. MARTERRAN SPACE STATION - NIGHT Sounds of screaming and station destruction beneath a black screen. A klaxon alarm drowns out the chaos. A thump. Heavy breathing. Female groaning. HERNANDEZ (breathless): Activate digital panel. A digital screen blinks to life. Various symbols indicate officer name, time and date, location, and station vitals. Everything's in overload. An explosion rocks the image. The image of Hernandez collapses from view, then returns. HERNANDEZ: Shit. Okay. Sounds of station destruction continue in the background. HERNANDEZ: This is Dr. Hernandez. All comm systems are down. There's been an explosion in the lower levels and we can't reach Earth. Another explosion. HERNANDEZ: Oxygen is leaking out from the station. We're breaking apart. One more tear and we'll fall into the planet. Hurried footsteps. Hernandez looks off-screen to address newcomer. COMMANDER: Dr. Hernandez, the life boat's

SCENE 1. INTRO MUSIC SNIPPET INTERVIEWER: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to our coverage on what is rapidly becoming known as the Carrie Case. We are pleased to announce that the four individuals involved in the police questioning have elected to come to us to tell us their story, a story they believe is not appropriately understood by the press. So sit back, turn up your radios, and let’s try to figure this one out before the police can. SHUFFLING OF PAPERS INTERVIEWER (CONT): For anyone listening who isn’t up to speed, the hot topic is a recently uncovered murder case. Two weeks ago, police were notified by a local landlord—who has kept his name off the record—that an apartment he let was found to have human blood underneath the living room wallpaper, enough human blood to suggest the person in question did not survive the blood drain. He is placing blame on four former tenants who put up the wallpaper just before they vacated the property. The unsolved murder case from

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"The story of Harry Potter will live forever. You've likely heard his tale. But you probably didn't know that, in order for him to rise up and defeat Lord Voldemort, I had to fall. And on the other side of the war, you don't make it out with your soul intact." In Harry's fourth year, a transfer student arrives at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and she has the same startling green eyes as the Boy Who Lived. His mother's second cousin, Samantha Evans, has seen great tragedy with those eyes: her father was murdered by a Death Eater at the Quidditch World Cup. But her entanglement with the Dark side is far from over. A family secret sucks her into the war and pits her unwillingly against Harry Potter. This tale poured from my pen after the last movie came out in theatres. About ten years later, I've re-crafted the story into something far more potent than its original take. This complete, 140,000-word retelling of Harry Potter 4-7 takes the reader through the darker side of

A true ghost story. An apparition of a teenage girl startles four college roommates during their first days in their new campus apartment. She attaches herself and slowly drains one of the students into a kind of madness. September 3rd, 2010 It was a classic horror film situation: a late-night pizza feast filled with conversation about weird shit that happens in life. Two of the girls are roommates, the boy is dating one of them, and the other girl lives in the next room. The roommates start talking about the figure of a girl they keep seeing in their closet at night. They both see her. She's pale and hunched with light-colored hair that's falling in her eyes, and her hands are hidden in her lap. One night she was looking at one of the girls, the next night she was looking at the other girl. The second night, one of them got up, approached the closet, and removed everything from the closet. Her hands went straight through the girl, and the girl remained after the closet had been