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The 25% solution… Author:  Linda K. Olson Adversity stories are pretty common, but it’s hard to top the life story of Dr. Linda K. Olson.  Following an accident in 1979 while traveling in Germany with her husband, the 29 year-old radiology resident was injured so severely that both her legs and her right arm required amputation.  Gone is the incredible story of how she got her life back.  It’s one uniquely powerful story. What stands out so impressively in the beginning is how quickly Olson and her husband Dave – who was also injured in the accident – managed to [...]

Supernatural Mystery Meets Legendary Horror Author: Stephen King On the night of the big game, Terri Maitland, beloved couch, is arrested in front of everyone for the murder and rape of an eleven-year-old boy. Terri says he’s innocent, but the DNA, fingerprints, and eye-witness accounts say otherwise. Only – there is also irrefutable evidence (video and more) that Terri Maitland was elsewhere at the time. Detective Ralph Anderson, whose own young son was once taught by Maitland, was sure when he publicly arrested the couch. But now, something in his gut gives him doubt. How could this man everyone has loved and [...]

Classic Gothic Meets Surreal Horror Author: Silvia Moreno-Garcia Noemí Taboada expects new dresses, shimmering red lipsticks, suave suitors, elegant parties, and clever conversation. As a glamorous debutante in 1950s Mexico, she would have it no other way, although her frivolities belie her one serious intention – to get her father to send her to college. And her chance does come, but it means a temporary end to the parties and a strange trip to the desolate Mexican countryside to rescue her newlywed cousin, Catalina. Catalina was always as vivacious as Noemí, although in a more dreamy, Grimm's Fairytales kind of [...]