High and Dry

Available only in e-book format, Backteria and Other Improbable Tales is a brand new collection of short tales of terror and the unknown from master storyteller Richard Matheson. In the title story, published here for the first time, a researcher encounters an exotic new strain of virus that causes the infected person to disappear. Curiosity leads the doctor on a path of discovery which takes him deep into his own personal history and suggests the age-old warning: Be careful what you wish for.In "Getting Together", a case of mistaken identity leads to a darkly farcical story of marriage, murder, and a love that knows no bounds. The quietly threatening "Haircut" shows how a routine trim becomes a dark and terrifying experience when a barber is confronted with a sick customer who seems to him otherworldly.

This title comes with an introduction by John Mullen. Dean Jocelin has a vision: that God has chosen him to erect a great spire on his cathedral. His mason anxiously advises against it, for the old cathedral was built without foundations. Nevertheless, the spire rises octagon upon octagon, pinnacle by pinnacle, until the stone pillars shriek and the ground beneath it swims. Its shadow falls ever darker on the world below, and on Dean Jocelin in particular. From the author of Lord of the Flies, The Spire is a dark and powerful portrait of one man's will, and the folly that he creates. "e;Quite simply, a marvel"e;. (Frank Kermode, New York Review of Books). "e;Superb…The book should become a classic"e;. (Sunday Telegraph). "e;An engrossing story"e;. (New York Times Book Review).

Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens, published in monthly parts from 1 October 1846 to 1 April 1848 and in one volume in 1848. Its full title is Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son: Wholesale, Retail and for Exportation. The story concerns of a powerful man whose callous neglect of his family triggers his professional and personal downfall, showcases the author's gift for vivid characterization and unfailingly realistic description. As Jonathan Lethem contends in his Introduction, Dickens's "genius … is at one with the genius of the form of the novel itself: Dickens willed into existence the most capacious and elastic and versatile kind of novel that could be, one big enough for his vast sentimental yearnings and for every impulse and fear and hesitation in him that countervailed those yearnings too. Never parsimonious and frequently contradictory, he always gives us everything he can, everything he's planned to give, and then more."

黑暗白芒云色，皎洁落月之下黎明万望之期，尘埃终入万物。夜幕下的落月为每个人都铺好了一条充满荆棘的生死之路，而这些路，只有勇气智慧并存的人才能看到尽头的曙光。

金盏菊的种子迎来了它所等待的主人，“洛里斯的甜点”在有主的土地上开放。新邻居，老房子，《安灵言》在路上缓缓飘荡。真实的梦境，迷失的过去，堕落的旅人，战争的阴影……即便是法师，也逃不过自我愧疚下的无奈与遗憾。

当世界还是一片混沌的时候，天和地还没有分开，混沌的天地孕育了一位伟大的盘顾大神，当盘古牺牲自己创造天地后，就预料到人间会出现智能生物，当他们的种群强大时，就会自相残杀，甚至能摧毁自己创造的天地，为了防止天与地之间的大难，盘古为地界创造了三种精神能量：命运奇迹和机会，这三股能量在地界呆久以后逐渐演化为天书地书和人书......（注：本人第一次写文章，请大家多做支持，如有得罪请谅解）

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即使我天生是嗜血的凶徒，即使我注定了这一生十恶不赦，即使整个世界已沦为罪恶的废墟，我仍然会用我全部的生命来拯救你，助你逃脱牢笼，寻找你梦中的自由。我的生命终结在此，只能期盼你替我活着，能够自由的呼吸和歌唱。他们本是兄弟，却走上完全相反的人生道路，一个维持社会正义当了警察，另一个却是天才般的犯罪者。他们不知彼此的血缘关系，却能惺惺相惜走到一起，感受着彼此的呼吸，甚至爱上了同样的爱人。一场跨度长达二十八年的荒谬基因实验，两个无辜的实验品，无论警察还是犯罪者，都不过是牢笼中无力挣扎的实验者，为了追求梦中的自由，他宁愿万劫不复，用自己的死来换来哥哥的自由。天才般的犯罪计划，无人能超越的犯罪天赋，他的横空出世让整个城市为之恐慌，所有警察都对他束手无策，只有一个人能读懂他的心思，那就是他的哥哥。他们是兄弟，是情敌，是警察和犯罪者，是你死我活的对手，他甚至放言，一定要让他为爱人的死付出代价，可为了他的自由，他仍然飞蛾扑火的奉献自己的生命。当他自以为打破了禁锢的牢笼，没想到却滑入更加黑暗的无底深渊，已经死去二十八年的父亲站在他们面前的时候，他才知道，这荒谬的一切，竟然源于数十年前一场生离死别的跨国虐恋……

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大梦初醒，姬铭穿越成为秦国八皇子。原本以为能够逍遥的度过一生，却发现自己正在敌国做质子。而且两国开战在即，能不能保住性命还得两说。幸好有系统在手，姬铭表示先定个小目标，全身而退回到秦国。看华夏猛将驰骋异界，历朝谋士冠绝今世。锋芒所起之处，吾当君临天下！

青涩蜕变，如今她是能独当一面的女boss，爱了冷泽聿七年，也同样花了七年时间去忘记他。以为是陌路，他突然向他表白，扬言要娶她，她只当他是脑子抽风，他的殷勤她也全都无视。他帮她查她父母的死因，赶走身边情敌，解释当初拒绝她的告别，和故意对她冷漠都是无奈之举。突然爆出她父母的死居然和冷家有丝毫联系，还莫名跳出个公爵未婚夫，扬言要与她履行婚约。峰回路转，破镜还能重圆吗？ PS:我又开新文了，每逢假期必书荒，新文《有你的世界遇到爱》，喜欢我的文的朋友可以来看看，这是重生类现言，对这个题材感兴趣的一定要收藏起来。

万物运行的气运生机，与天道一体，轮回更替。天道简单而和谐，其中好坏是非，不可感，虽有万物，依然了无生趣。女娲大神创造出类似于神，而又不站在天道立场的生灵，这世间的缤纷多彩便不再只是道，同时有了名。