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Duncan: Where do you two come from?

Doctor: From? Well, I suppose the best way to find out where you come from is to find out where you are going and then work backwards.

Duncan: Where are you going?

Doctor: I don't know.

- Douglas Adams, Doctor Who S17E02: City of Death


Because my Pazuzu Trilogy , and every other bleeding thing I've written, has been rejected by publishers and agents – by way of no %$#@-ing reply, ever – I went the self-publishing route. You know, they were right and my writing needed all kinds of major operations. For example, there has been Nine revisions of this three-headed dog. Hell, when this thing was born, it refused to die and demande... read more »
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Published on May 26, 2012 17:37
Average rating: 3.04 · 48 ratings · 1 review · 28 distinct works
Ghoulish
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Abandoned
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Pazuzu - Manifestation
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The Best Halloween, Ever
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Pagan Exorcist
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Babies Kill the Unborn
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Horrid Tales of Wister Town
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Pazuzu -  Abeyance
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Pazuzu - Emergence
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Damnable Diaspora (Horror)
1 chapters   —   updated Jan 19, 2011 11:41am
Description: The topic of April's ecumenical meeting, between the local churches of Wister Town, is the supposed manifestation of the Egyptian goddess Hathor. Cult members have bred a mutated calf for the body of the goddess.
Pointless Deprogramming (Horror)
1 chapters   —   updated Jan 16, 2011 09:34am
Description: Terry Bringer had returned to his hometown to pick up a W2 form from an old employer, only to be chased out of town by a cult trying to kill him. In his flight, Terry remembers he left his mother behind. He now returns, in the snow and cold of a brewing winter storm, to take her to his brother's house.
The Bestial Cult of Hathor (Horror)
1 chapters   —   updated Jan 14, 2011 01:35pm
Description: Terry Bringer, an angry, unemployed man, returns to Wister Town to fulfill a vow; to spit on the graves of the committee members that fired him from the Rathskeller, a historic, Swiss restaurant. At the request of Terry's elderly mother, Terry visits the Rathskeller and uncovers clues for the reason he had been anonymously fired.
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"I'm writing "Diligence," another story birthed from my Pazuzu Trilogy. I began "Unction" last year, a modern Los Angeles fantasy-horror story about sc...more "
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