The Monster Factory

by Sharon Shipley

Overview

It is 1989.
The time of Happy Days, Stephen King, small towns, and long lazy summers, when Will-Fred and his family blew into Scottsburg, Indiana.
Their first mistake.
What Will-Fred lacks in size or status, he makes up for with outlandish dreams and loopy expectations, so when they move gypsy-like, to yet another 'Perfect Town', hope renews he will make fast buddies among the school's uber-cool. Eager to explore after another humiliating family put-down, Will-Fred ignores Elmo, the wimpy asthmatic kid next door, as not being cool enough, tearing off alone on his bike to investigate he stumbles onto a decaying lake and disturbing, derelict factory, unaware of horrific happenings involving missing people over past decades—the last two, teens seeking a private hot-spot, out where sidewalks give way ... and no one knows where you are.
His new sole buddy, Elmo has asthma. Peers scorn them. When they stumble on the Monster, they have fat chance of convincing either parents or town elders of the blood-freezing peril. Worse, the two discover the most chilling menace, is much closer and less predictable than their scariest nightmares and they must take out the Monster, on their own … anyway they can …

Product Details

BN ID:	2940164078782
Publisher:	Sharon Shipley
Publication date:	05/13/2020
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	580 KB

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SARY'S GOLD

Shortlisted: Best Western, Chanticleer Book Review

While battling a brutal town and one obsessed man, Sary must change into a ruthless, determined gold miner/outlaw in 1890s California. Upon the untimely death of her husband, Sary is forced into her brother's charge. Neither is pleased with this arrangement. He's an impotent, sadistic dreamer with ideas of striking gold, using his sister as his mule. Sary finds herself in a surreal nightmare living under a tarp, panning for gold, and looked on lustfully by the debauched in the harsh mountain outpost. A brutal attack by Delacorte's son, her brother's accidental death, the discovery of a gold vein as big as Texas, and surviving winter all come together to make Sary a thing of legend and witchery. She is now hunted as fair game, barely escaping with her life. Ultimately, Sary returns, exacting revenge in an ultimate showdown, with a little help from the man she loves. (Love, Lust, and Peril: Sary's Adventure Series)

SARY'S DIAMONDS http://www.amazon.com

Sarabande Swinford has lost her fortune in gold, swindled by an expert con man from whom she gained in return, only a handful of worthless paper and a questionable—and partial—treasure map promising diamonds. Sailing on the Constanzia, to Cape Town with her lover Tommy and her son Jude, she pursues more of the map as well as its treasure, but encounters potential death in many forms, running into Bubonic plague and separated from her family in the melee. Alone, she must wander the ruthless Great Karroo desert with two men, one an enigmatic stranger and the other a stone- cold killer...

SARY AND THE MAHARAJAH'S EMERALDS

Imprisoned by a corrupt maharajah in the torrid climes of 1910 India, Sarabande Swinford battles the maharajah's lust and another man's passions, all while desperately trying to regain her memory. She has forgotten her perilous adventures in both love and fortunes, but her intrepid spirit remains as she encounters jealousy in the harem, man- and woman-eating crocodiles, venomous snakes, all in her attempts at escape. Her defender in every potentially fatal situation is, surprisingly, the rajah, brother to the maharajah. Rami is all the maharajah is not: handsome and muscular, graceful, intelligent, and compassionate, a fitting challenge to Sary's spirit, a man well educated and well-travelled in the world. But the real question is whether he can overcome his brother's hold on power and survive while loving Sary.

DANFORTH THE DRAGON
A young dragon realizes having every wish granted from a beautiful princess, is not nearly as rewarding as working for it and the journey it took.

BEAST IN THE MOON http://www.amazon.com

Beast In The Moon. A World without Men save for a select breeding stock - if they are very, very lucky, after a sex-specific plague decimated most of the female populace. Where men are dumbed-down worker-drones, featured in bizarre fertility rituals and where even the language is scoured of all things male, If Absolute Power Corrupts. Absolute 'Femin' Power Corrupted Absolutely. Governments world-wide, bolstered by a terrified male militia, tumbled after the apocalypse. All-female schools, nunneries, prisons and wherever women were concentrated, became fortresses, where every untainted female was reborn a guerrilla of a most merciless and bloodthirsty RESISTANCE! Beast In The Moon follows the few renegades who dared run from tyranny and the 'femins' who followed, even loved them, the First of the Forbiddens. The 'Hand Maid's Tale' meets the 'Hot Zone', this dystopian saga tracks the terrifying gorgon, Delilah Herodias Magdala, for whom destruction and torture are mother's milk and young Rue, a fresh flame-haired beauty and Maple, Rue's stunning, created FirstDaughter, playing a treacherous game of survival against the merciless Delilah, in what is left of the Safe Zone. This tale follows two male slaves with only numbers as names: 901 and 2077, renegades who fight for a world of their own in a desperate battle for survival, in what was old Palm Springs...

The MONSTER FACTORY
Two 'loser' boys need to grow up fast when a voracious monster born of ecological sludge wallows in the crawlspace of an abandoned factory. http://www.amazon.com

About the Author

I write, a passion both frightening and thrilling in a little house overlooking the California Coastline, with few tools beyond a blood-spattered laptop, a feverish brain and doorstop thesaurus...
The bonus is fascinating research, venturing far from my office chair: Big Bear California, The African Great Karroo Desert , Northern India, Bengali region, the setting for Sary and the Maharajah's Emeralds, a sleepy mid-western town, the frozen Upper Peninsula, and recently, Transylvania....