Mad Tales

Chavez is a survivor. He survived the zombie apocalypse. He survived watching his new girlfriend die when the camp they lived in was overrun. But can he survive Grossman?

"The Wounded, The Sick, & The Dead" is the sequel to "The Neighborhood Is Really Going to the Dead," which was aired May 28, 2019. Here's the link!

"The Neighborhood is Really Going to the Dead" is one of the short stories in my first collection, A Knife in the Back: Seven Tales of Murder and Madness and Raleigh's Prep, a novel.

AND  A Knife in the Back: Seven Tales of Murder and Madness, and Raleigh's Prep, a novel is the first book in the Mad Tales trilogy. Book two is You Will Be Safe Here, Four Tales of Monsters and Mayhem and Tracker's Travail, a novel, and book three is Burn All The Bodies, Five Tales of Violence and Vengeance and Topher's Ton, a novel. 

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Milo hates school. He hates everything about it. The stupid work. The stupid teachers. The stupid students. All he wants to do is draw. Jennifer Reed, specifically, the smartest, most popular, most beautiful girl he'd ever seen. He loves her so much he makes her the main character in his comic book series: Holly Huntress, Warrior Woman of the Galaxy, which features a scantily clad Holly running around in space losing items of clothing, sometimes one piece at a time, sometimes all at once, while fighting aliens. He is currently on volume three. 

One day, while skipping class to work on his latest volume of Holly Huntress, Warrior Woman of the galaxy, a cat bites Milo, transporting him to a horrifying desert realm. There are terrors everywhere he turns, and each time he dies, he wakes up in the same place and faces the same terrors, over and over again.

Milo decides that he must find a way back to his own universe or spend eternity dying one terrible death after another.

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An apartment building in a city deluged by the rising oceans becomes a battle zone between the last people on Earth.

Ramon Tomas: son of the Monster. Weary of the constant struggle to live, he must now contend with rebellion lead by his sister, Marijke, leader of the mid-level Generators who are sick of Ramon’s iron-fisted rule.

Michal: Ramon’s son. Tired of a life dictated by the restraints of the building and his family name, Michal seeks escape. To do so, he must join forces with Abrafo, next in line for the chief of the Barquemen.

Gazini: Chief of the Barquemen, he is looking for any excuse to attack and take the entire building for his own.

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The enemy came from Salvation. They came in the fall. “The Knights of the Book”. They told us we were sinners, that we had to be punished. They set fires and raised ladders, but our walls, the walls of Gabriel, were too high, and we rained down a reckoning so fierce that they were forced to pull back. 

But they weren’t the only enemies we had to worry about. 

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A fireball streaks through the heaves above the peaceful valley where the White One, the Brother of Rhoem, has lived for years with his cousins, the Unan. The chief of the Unan thinks it may be a message from the gods, but the White One knows it is a different kind of visitor. In order to reach it, however, they must climb the mountain, through the territory of the flesh-eating Turons.

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On a distant plant, Scientific Compound B sits forgotten in the middle of a barren desert. It’s been lifetimes since the Federation has made contact, yet the men and women of the compound soldier on. When a deadly disease wipes nearly everyone out, Bear, Lily, and the old man escape to the jungle, where, if the old stories are to be believed, the native Unan dwell, waiting to kill, and witches hunt for human flesh.

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Jefferson’s doctors thought he was well enough to be let out of the asylum. They were wrong.

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Milly-Anne doesn’t let autism get in her way. She’s smart. Smarter than her mother, smarter than her classmates, and definitely smarter than Mr. Tull, her principal. But something horrific is spawning in the air ducts of her school, and she can’t make anybody understand just how much danger they are in. 

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Ben hasn't seen his cousin, Mike, since they were children. But after Mike sends him a  letter begging for his help, Ben returns home to try and help as best he can. But Mike is not well. Not well at all.

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Dan didn't want to interview the old man about his stupid plant. He was tired and hung over, and the old man's house was creepy and dark. He wanted to smoke a cigarette, but the old man wouldn't let him. Dan tried to get him to talk about the plant, but all he'd discuss was fertilizer, all the different blends and how he discovered them. And he kept pushing him to drink that nasty tea.

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