Star hides her pain, like the other girls in the therapy group that's supposed to help them. But she knows how she feels deep in her heart. Even though her mother and father are still alive, they are dead to her. Today, it is her turn to reveal her secrets. Star will tell her story to doctor Marlowe and the others, and she will finally face the dark nightmares of her past....
Was it an accident...or an attempted murder? Dr. Phyl Forster watched the TV news horrified at the sight of the broken body in the ravine. Then she raced to the hospital to see the victim. Miraculously the girl was alive but without name or memory. An irresistible challenge to Dr. Phyl the psychiatrist who had buried her own past...
A modern-looking girl on the way to her grandmother meets an old-fashioned wolf in the woods. But there’s a happy ending. The girl, her grandmother and a wood-cutter all have tea together, while the wolf runs away, scared but still alive!
In one of the most stunning debuts to come along in years, reminiscent of Philip K. Dick’s best work and P. D. James’ classic The Children of Men, David Oppegaard gives us a world whose near future presents some terrifying realities.
The Despair has plagued the earth for five years. Most of the world’s population has inexplicably died by its own hand, and the few survivors struggle to remain alive. A mysterious, shadowy group called the Collectors has emerged, inevitably appearing to remove the bodies of the dead.