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Leave the lights on tonight. So you'll see them coming. 27 New Zealand and American authors delve into the strange, the unexpected, and the downright terrifying things that kids say in this collection of all new flash fiction. From the mouths of babes come 37 stories, from the haunting to the hilarious to the horrific.
With the theme of unlikely survivors of the apocalypse, the stories in Fat Zombie will enthrall you and have you rooting for the little guy. Featuring tales of the elderly, the disabled, the developmentally challenged as well as losers, geeks, and social outcasts, all trying to survive in a world where the rules have changed. With an introduction by Bram Stoker Award winner and bestselling zombie author, Joe McKinney, Fat Zombie includes stories by award winning authors of the weird and the horrific such as Martin Livings and Dan Rabarts. This is a unique collection that steps away from the usual conventions and tropes of apocalypse fiction.
GP Sally Lawson’s not sure what’s more shocking: that her ex, Dr Jack McLennan, has prised himself away from Australia’s sun, sea and surf, or that he still makes her pulse race… But Jack is a changed man, and he’s fighting for a second chance. It might take a miracle, but he wants Sally as his bride!
This is the first fully documented account, produced in modern times, of the migration of Scots to Lower Canada. Scots were in the forefront of the early influx of British settlers, which began in the late eighteenth century. John Nairne and Malcolm Fraser were two of the first Highlanders to make their mark on the province, arriving at La Malbaie soon after the Treaty of Paris in 1763. By the early 1800s many Scottish settlements had been formed along the north side of the Ottawa River, in the Chateauguay Valley to the southwest of Montreal, and in the Gaspe region. Then, as economic conditions in the Highlands and Islands deteriorated by the late 1820s, large numbers of Hebridean crofters ...
Duncan Gillies (ca. 1760-1822/1828) married Nancy McCaskill and immi- grated from Scotland to North Carolina or Kershaw District, South Carolina; his widow later lived in Walton County, Florida. John Gillis (b.ca. 1760) immigrated from scotland to Cumberland (now Hoke) County, North Carolina. Descendants of these and other Gilli(e)s immigrants lived in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, California and elsewhere.
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