Born on the mean streets of the Bronx and raised in the rustic wilds of Texas, Olivia Pantoja presents a collection of short stories and poetry inspired by her adventures as an adolescent girl in two very different worlds.

THE STORIES: MEMORIAL DAY shows us an unhappy couple bickering over the miseries of their marriage. They vie for the loyalties of the son they have consigned to the backyard well. When they haul him up, his is a final, uniting sadness--a straw dummy

Weirdbook #32 presents a selection of great fantasy and horror tales by current and upcoming masters of the genre. Included are: Childhood's Dread, by Taye Carrol The Other Neighbors, by Daniel Davis Rare Air, by Mark Slade The Children, by J.E. Álamo The Radiant Boy, by Kevin Wetmore The Whisperer in the Woods, by Peter Schranz Sweet Oblivion, by Andrew Darlington An Unsolicited Lucidity, by Lee Clark Zumpe Black Carnival, by Bobby Cranestone The Howard Family Tradition, by P. R. O'Leary Hell in a Boxcar, by Scott A. Cupp Jorōgumo, by Kelda Crich Clay Baby, by Jack Lee Taylor The Corpse and the Rat: A Story of Friendship, by Joshua L. Hood Getting Thin, by DJ Tyrer Maybe Next Door, by Richard LaPore Containment Protocol, by Leeman Kessler Under a Rock, by Lori R. Lopez The Children Must Be Hungry, by L.F. Falconer The Road to Hell, by Kevin L. O'Brien Maggot Coffee, by Roy C. Booth and Axel Kohagenv Baby Mine, by Marilyn "Mattie" Brahen In Blackwalk Wood, by Adrian Cole My Longing to See Tamar, by Jessica Amanda Salmonson Gust of Wind Made by Swinging a Blade, by Molly N. Moss Necromancer's Lair, by Chad Hensley The Helm, by Chad Hensley Ex Arca Sepulcrali, by Wade German The Laughter of Ghouls, by K.A. Opperman Ode to Ashtoreth, by K.A. Opperman The Necro-Conjuring Sorceress, by Ashley Dioses What Dark Gods Are Friends to Me? by Chad Hensley Scarlet Succubus Shrine, by Frederick J. Mayer Penelope, Sleepless, by Darrell Schweitzer

How much life has changed the place that is referred to as “My Piseco”. The place he knew as a kid through those years growing up that we all go through, where life just happened to begin in a small upstate New York town in the least populated county of Hamilton in the heart of the Adirondacks. On that dead end road where so many other kids did the same. Then to be led away from “My Piseco” as an adult and responsibilities that took him to various construction projects that were farther and farther away from this great place, but finally returning and then getting involved with various groups in the town and yes, even the town politics. Time flies by and the town goes through the motions of being “My Piseco,” but the change has happened to this hometown like so many others throughout the Adirondacks and this great nation. Gone was the self-reliant feeling of those days from the 1940s through the 1960s that saw our towns and communities grow up.

Brenda James, Rachel Tims, and Lee Jordan are three very unlikely best friends who produce the perfect formula for trouble as they fight for the love of a married man, a single man, and a man who must R.I.P., all while they struggled to finish their last year of college at Peaton University, located just 120 miles away from Atlanta, Georgia. The East Coast -Visitor Brenda James, whose first love Greg left her with a broken heart instead of a marriage proposal on a hot summer night after finding out about his new lover, and unborn baby on the way with her best friends’ sister. Rediscovering love was not lost for long; she would meet Theo Shell a stranger who would explore her precious temple; which allowed her to embrace her womanhood. Before graduation she would need to choose between a life alone, and an unexpected marriage proposal. The West Coast - Native Rachel Tims, a woman with quiet strength and startling beauty, whose ambition to become a lawyer led her to quench her thirst for success in the arms of a man who was torn between her and his home. Her millionaire lover Phillip Daniels placed the world at her feet, yet she must decide to step forward or step away from what her heart was leading her into. The Southern - Peach Lee Jordan used lustful married men as she roared like a lioness in pursuit of her prey. Yet, her “manizing” ways made her fall for a much older married lover Sergeant Ethan Robinson, whose death would cause her to abruptly change the way she embraced love. Making wrong and right decisions would predict these women’s futures. JUST GOING THRU SOME THANGS together is what they must do to get to the next “journey” in their lives.