Frightening things are happening to the town's star athlete, Amber. Something spooky is terrifying her. Her bedroom lights come on and go off on their own. A dark, horrible voice in her closet demands things. Slime oozes out of the walls. She seeks the help of the Creep Club. But the three paranormal-investigating kids find that they may have met their match. The thing begins to haunt them and traps them in the abandoned cemetery with its ferocious demon dogs. Is it the ghost of little Sally they had encountered or something more sinister? Are the Creep Club's investigating skills and devices enough to crack this terrifying case? Can they even handle the bone-chilling haunting? The town's history may provide some answers. Find out on your own, if you dare.
"A deep, weird and uncanny tale" —Sheila Heti "A book to devour"—Iain Reid "Sinister good fun" —Lee Henderson "Gripping and unassumingly smart" —Lauren Oyler A journalist with a history of bending the facts uncovers a story about a medical breakthrough so astonishing it needs no embellishment--but behind the game-changing science lies a gruesome secret. A respected byline in the culture pages of the venerable New York magazine The Bystander, journalist Whitney Chase grapples with a mysterious compulsion to enhance her coverage with intriguing untruths and undetectable white lies. She calls it "the creep"--an overpowering need to improve the story in the telling. And she has a particular genius for getting away with it. In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, Whitney yearns to transition from profiling rock stars and novelists to covering the stories that "really matter." When a chance encounter brings her face-to-face with a potentially massive story about a game-changing medical discovery, Whitney believes she's finally found a story that doesn't need any enhancement. The brilliant and charismatic doctor behind the breakthrough claims she's found "the Holy Grail of medical science": a synthetic blood substitute that, if viable, promises to save millions of lives, and make her corporate backers rich beyond measure. But when Whitney's investigation of this apparent medical miracle puts her on the trail of a string of grisly fatalities across the country, she becomes inexorably tied to a much darker and more nefarious story than even she could imagine. Set against the ramp-up to the US invasion of Iraq and the decline of print journalism, Michael LaPointe's panoramic, ingeniously plotted debut paints an affecting portrait of an increasingly unequal twenty-first century, exploring how deceitfulness, self-enhancement, and confidently delivered lies can be transfused into fact and constitute a broader violence against the social fabric and public trust.
When a psycho-killer craves revenge, everyone is in danger … When he was a kid, they called him a creep..now he’s going to make you pay. He’s sick. He’s dangerous. And he’s ready to murder—again and again …
The following six pieces are just but a few of the events that have been witnessed while on the river fishing. The Netting of a Trout was an experience my cousin Ed and I enjoyed together in our early attempts at trout fishing. It is a short piece that connects to trout behavior. Ausable River Monster is a piece that has not been forgotten. The trout behavior in this was surprising and lasted only seconds. And left the writer stunned that he was able to witness the event - plus, having a fellow fly fisher actually catch the monster a few days later. The Exceptional Take is about adequate food, a feeding trout, cautious casting and line handling, precise fly presentation, the trouts take of the fly, setting the hook and playing the trout. Rain Drop Rises is about mistaking a rise of a trout to a mayfly for drops of water making a watery disturbance on the river surface. It is a lesion on observation, studding the water, recognizing the hatching of mayflies and the patient waiting to be sure of the feeding trouts location and placement of the correct fly pattern to the trouts feeding lane. The piece Break-Off, ------ the Final Jump is another piece about trouts behavior. While many fishermen may have encountered the same experience, not all of the have connected to the reason why the final jump happened. The Pacific Salmon Altercation is about piece experienced on the Salmon River that was totally unbelievable to the writer when it occurred. While the event has been told to many friends, it is not sure how many really believed that it happened.
Showcasing a robust conceptual model primed for use in future studies, this work offers a close analysis of the culture of the fast-moving football club ownership world, football fandom and consumption, and what it might mean for the future of the sport.
Established in 1911, The Rotarian is the official magazine of Rotary International and is circulated worldwide. Each issue contains feature articles, columns, and departments about, or of interest to, Rotarians. Seventeen Nobel Prize winners and 19 Pulitzer Prize winners – from Mahatma Ghandi to Kurt Vonnegut Jr. – have written for the magazine.
