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Guest Quarters 2010

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The phrase "guest quarters" brings to mind the cordial hospitality of gentler times when family and friends would visit not just for a weekend but for weeks on end. Such visits were well prepared for and looked to with great anticipation. Guests were given their own dwelling space within the home. It allowed them both closeness to the host family and the privacy that guests and hosts needed to maintain that cordiality.

Unless, of course, there are hidden peepholes or things lurking within secret passageways.

One can never tell what trouble curious guests will find themselves in if they look too close and see too much. Prying eyes and hands have led more than one person down a not-so-primrose path much to their dismay. Also, the unwary host may invite more than he bargains for when he ushers in someone from the cold. Long lost family or strangers in unfortunate circumstances are occasionally revealed as wolves in sheep's clothing with gleaming eyes trained on the hand that had just fed them. Travelers get lost, people go missing and homes become unnaturally empty.

But, of course, such a thing would never happen here.

Once a month, guests drop by for a brief visit to delight, intrigue and terrify. Then, they are gone. Just as it should be. No one wants a guest to overstay their welcome. Even such honored guests as these.

January - Subway Hunter by Justin Bernstein - Beneath the eyes of the oblivious subway crowds, a hero hunts the beasts that prey upon the innocent. While he hunts, memories of his former life come to him like snowflakes on the wind. The choice is clear but what is the cost?

February - The Fairy Cake Bake Shoppe by April Grey - When a corporate lawyer accidently kills a fairy, her life takes a dramatic plunge into pain and anguish. She chooses to make an equally drastic change to right the wrong she did.

March - Self-Possessed by Erica Hildabrand - Sara is Reggie's biggest fan and Reggie is one of the most popular singers around. Sara can see the magic in Reggie's music and is willing to do anything to become a part of it...even kill.

April - Purgatory by Alma Alexander - A hard man in life born to a hard age but not an evil man. When a man can go to neither heaven nor hell, there is only purgatory and purgatory is not what you think it is.

May - Little Sparrow Girl by Jennifer Rachel Baumer - Sometimes you need to lose it all to find your way home. This is a lesson taught to one down-on-his-luck guy by a little sparrow girl who is more than just a legend.

June - Agatha by Ken Staley - Idyllic summers with old Great Grandmother Agatha were a treat. She was a woman from another age. Though, no one knew just how old she was. Nor did they know the secret she carried with her all those long centuries; a secret known as Old Smoke.

July - Skullduggery at the Junction by Jason S. Ridler - What do you do when you come to test the truth behind the Legend and find that there is more to the legend than first thought? Paul is about to do just that. He enters into a battle with The Strangler to discover there is more to his foe than just fighting.

August - The Last Call by R. A. Keenan - René's perfectly ordered life is interrupted by an early morning phone call that seems to make no sense. However, later in the day when René hears the caller's voice again and they meet, things go from odd to horrible in a matter of seconds. When the early morning calls continue and the bodies pile up, René wonders if he will survive this unwelcome new duty in his life.