title: A Big Book of Strange, Weird, and Wonderful: The Best Horror, Fantasy, and Science Fiction from the pages of "An Unforgettable E-Fiction Quarterly""
author: D. L. Russell
description: Editor Sharon Black is an award winning author for her story, The Little Tornado, second place at Winfield Arts and Humanities writing competition, 'Kansas Voices'. Also, a poem 'Spring Giggled' won in the Heartland Herald Echo Spring poetry contest. Her first short story was sold to Hadrosaur Tales for 'Deeply Rooted'. The magazine is now Tales of the Talisman, based in New Mexico. Sharon had a short story, 'Fur' published in Midnight Carnival. She found her name in The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror for that publication. Mentioned was the unsettling tales Midnight Carnival published. Sharon will have a story in A Book Book of Strange Weird and Wonderful Vol 2, out in December. Sharon has completed a novel, tentatively titled 'The Lady in the Ladybug.' Editor DL Russell is an African American horror writer and Wildcat Books published his tales of horror, science fiction, and fantasy titled, 'Hell is an Awfully Big City.'
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  **Mike Russell**
  
  
  
    
  
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  Copyright (C) 2019 Mike Russell. All Rights Reserved.
  
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  (Note from the publisher: Mike Russell’s The Exploding Book was written to be
  read in paperback form. Therefore, to fully experience The Exploding Book in
  e-book form, please imagine you are reading a paperback.)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  Contents
  
  **_Chapter 1_**
  
  **_Chapter 2_**
  
  **_Chapter 3_**
  
  **_Chapter 4_**
  
  **_Chapter 5_**
  
  **_Chapter 6_**
  
  **_Chapter 7_**
  
  **_Chapter 8_**
  
  **_Chapter 9_**
  
  **_Chapter 10_**
  
  **_Chapter 11_**
  
  **_Chapter 12_**
  
  **_Chapter 13_**
  
  **_Chapter 14_**
  
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