William Dufris

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A Dog on His Own

A Dog on His Own

K-10 likes to tell himself that he’s a free and independent dog. But as his adventures bring him into contact with tiny but big-hearted (and hilarious) Peppy, wise old Tucker, and tart-tongued Pearl, he begins to wonder if he might want to have a home...

A Fractured Mind

A Fractured Mind

In 1989, Robert B. Oxnam, the successful China scholar and president of the Asia Society, faced up to what he thought was his biggest personal challenge: alcoholism. But this dependency masked a problem far more serious: Multiple Personality...

A Rhyme A Dozen - 12 Poets, 12 Poems, 1 Topic ― Art

A Rhyme A Dozen - 12 Poets, 12 Poems, 1 Topic ― Art

‘A dime a dozen’ as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English ‘cheap as chips’ but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series we hereby submit ‘A Rhyme a Dozen’ as 12 poems on many given subjects that are a well-rounded...

Buried Alive Stories

Buried Alive Stories

Deep within us is the dread of dying of moving on from life to another state of being. We assume it comes about through accident, perhaps even murder or disease that can be sudden or can take years to pull us into oblivion. But perhaps trumping all of...

A crashed wedding. A scorned vampire. A necromancer's fury...Damian Vesik is no hero. At least, not according to the magical community that turns a blind eye to his battles against evil. So he chalks it up as one more thankless mission when he’s...

Destroyer Rising

Destroyer Rising

A child lost. A destiny sealed. A necromancer unleashed.It's been three years since Damian failed Vicky. Three years she's clung to existence as something not quite alive, but far from dead. While the path before her darkens, Vicky battles to spread...

Doctor Proctor's Fart Powder

Doctor Proctor's Fart Powder

Nilly is new to the neighborhood, but he is quick to make friends: Doctor Proctor, an eccentric professor; and Lisa, who is teased by the twin terrors Truls and Trym. Nilly and Lisa help Doctor Proctor develop his latest invention, a powder that makes...

Edgar Allan Poe - Chapter & Verse

Edgar Allan Poe - Chapter & Verse

Literature is a world of words and wonder, able to take us on almost unimaginable journeys from the wild and fantastic to the grind and minutiae of life.An author’s ideas are his building blocks, his architecture of the mind, building a structure on...

Edgar Allan Poe - Four Tales Of Terror

Edgar Allan Poe - Four Tales Of Terror

Edgar Allan Poe. We’re pleased to bring you here four tales of terror from the master himself – Edgar Allan Poe. Beautifully written theirs plots, characters and descriptions sometimes suffocate such is the atmosphere they build up. Of course Poe is...

Edgar Allan Poe - Six of the Best

Edgar Allan Poe - Six of the Best

Six has always been a number we group things around – Six of the best, six of one half a dozen of another, six feet under, six pack, six degrees of separation and a sixth sense are but a few of the ways we use this number.Such is its popularity that...

Forgotten Ghosts

Forgotten Ghosts

A necromancer's fear. A family's fate. An ancient spirit with a new alliance.Damian shouldn't have told himself things couldn't get any worse. They did. As Nixie struggles to unite the water witches, the Fae king discovers a spy in his ranks. Damian...

Rare is the opportunity to chat with a legendary financial figure and hear the unvarnished truth about what really goes on behind the scenes. Hedgehogging represents just such an opportunity, allowing you to step inside the world of Wall Street with...

Human Connection

Human Connection

Sixth US president John Quincy Adams, a man who knew a lot about effective leadership, maintained that the most successful people were those whose actions inspired others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more. These people were the ones...

Jack London - Six of the Best

Jack London - Six of the Best

Six has always been a number we group things around – Six of the best, six of one half a dozen of another, six feet under, six pack, six degrees of separation and a sixth sense are but a few of the ways we use this number.Such is its popularity that...

Jack London: The Short Stories

Jack London: The Short Stories

Jack London's tales of man's struggle against the forces of nature are universally popular. Best known for his novels The Call Of The Wild and White Fang, London was also a prolific writer of short stories. This collection brings together four of his...

Lessons from Literature - Stories Exploring the Relationship Between Human and Animal

Lessons from Literature - Stories Exploring the Relationship Between Human and Animal

Being curious, learning from all of our experiences, is one of our most pleasing traits as human beings.In this series we examine particular facets of ourselves and, with the aid of many classic authors, delve into characters and stories that not only...

Rattle the Bones

Rattle the Bones

An ancient horde. An enemy freed. A harbinger emerges.Much has been lost in the conflict with the Fae king and his allies. The most painful being the death of one of their own at the Mad King’s hand. A great Seal between realms may have been rebuilt,...

Short Stories About Abuse

Short Stories About Abuse

Equality is one of the great and lauded aims of a just society. It is rarely achieved. The system is there to be exploited by those with too much money and too many resources. Or maybe just a grudge. Our classic authors including Anton Chekhov, O...

Short Stories about Isolation & Loneliness

Short Stories about Isolation & Loneliness

Time seems to move to a slower beat. Everything becomes more circumspect when you have no one to share the big things of life or even the everyday little things. The worry of being alone, to be apart from others. The solitary feeling for a short time...

Stories About Animals

Stories About Animals

Many say that some of their greatest friends, and their greatest joys and feelings, are about animals. Rather than find those same joys and feelings from amongst friends, family and the rest of humanity it can be far easier, some say wiser, to find...

Stories About Fear

Stories About Fear

It is commonly said that we have nothing to fear but fear itself. That may be a way to fortify our reason and rationality but all too often it merely escalates the panic and irrationality so that every sentence we read or hear has the ability to shred...

Stories About Siblings

Stories About Siblings

Those closest to us, especially in our early years, are the immediate members of our family. We look to them for love, guidance, care and attention.But as the years pass things change. Siblings may become closer, they may become rivals. But things...

Stories Involving Animal Cruelty

Stories Involving Animal Cruelty

Our best loved friends may not even be human but animals of the moggy and mutt variety. Many of us wax lyrical about our friends in the animal world no matter the distractions available in the real and rather more demanding world of partners,...

The Fall of the House of Usher

The Fall of the House of Usher

Edgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe) was born in Boston Massachusetts on January 19th 1809 and was orphaned at an early age. Taken in by the Allan family his education was cut short by lack of money and he went to the military academy, West Point where he...

The Top 10 Short Stories - Haunted House

The Top 10 Short Stories - Haunted House

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult...