“A Forest, or a Tree” is a nightmarish horror story from author Tegan Moore, a Tor.com Original.

Four friends, May, Piper, Ailey, and Elizabeth, go on a camping trip. Things slowly begin to go wrong.

It was just the four of them, four girls alone in the forest.About the Author

Tegan Moore spends a lot of time thinking about animals, the inherent weirdness of being, the future, and the end of the world so she tends to read and write fiction about those things as well. She lives in Seattle and is a graduate of Clarion West, class of 2015.

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When four guys are after one thing, and one guy plays God with their ambitions, watch out!

This collection of short fiction, selected by the author, spans a writing career of more than 40 years and illuminates the heart and soul of the antihero. A lone castaway on a desert island commits a murder for which he is the sole suspect. A genealogist learns just how far rotten apples fall from the family tree. A con man, impersonating a minister, finds religion. A tabloid journalist must solve a murder to complete his story on the death of a major television star, who happens to be a dog. A self-made widower discovers how hard it is to get rid of a wife, especially when she’s dead.

What would you do about a beloved pet who had lived too long? This family faced a crisis which could happen in any household...

He faced the harshest accusation that any husband can face. And no one in town believed he could be innocent — except his wife, who would have to prove it.

First on time his financial caper — NOT A PENNY MORE, NOT A PENNY LESS. Then a political thriller — SHALL WE TELL THE PRESIDENT? Then, in the autumn of 1979, KANE AND ABEL, the saga of two men from totally different backgrounds that topped the bestseller charts all round the world.

Now Jeffrey Archer has taken up a new challenge with this first collection of short stories. The locations move from New York and London to Mexico and Nigeria, while the subjects are equally varied. In “One Night Stand” two friends fall under the spell of a New York beauty and decide between themselves which one will try to seduce her — with unexpected results. In “The Chinese Statue” a high-ranking British diplomat visits the workplace of a leading Chinese sculptor and finds that an off-hand remark is taken with total seriousness, and that he becomes the possessor of a priceless work of art. Different again in tone and subject, “Broken Routine” traces the journey home of an insurance claims advisor, one Septimus Horatio Cornwallace, and his encounter with a punk rocker on the 5.27 to Sevenoaks. In the final Story, “Old Love”, Jeffrey Archer gives us probably his finest piece of writing to date, with an account of two young undergraduates at Oxford in the thirties, whose biller rivalry turns to intense love, with an ending that will haunt you.

Each of these tales shows Jeffrey Archer’s talents as a short story teller, and, as befits the form, Archer uses the stories to build up a small cast of characters and then shock the reader with an unexpected final twist. Few people will guess the endings to any of the tales, and everyone will have his own favourite; while one may safely prophecy that with this archer each story unerringly hits its mark.

In the years since she’d rejected him he’d achieved everything else a man could want. Now in this sudden meeting, he saw his chance to get even.

To see through a murderous criminal’s mask of deceit and cunning takes a detective — or the instinct of an old-maid schoolteacher.

A man decides to visit his mistress. But on arrival, he sees her embracing another man. He waits for the interloper to leave, then goes in, starts an argument with the woman, strikes her and it results in her death. Having left the flat without being seen, he tips off the police about the interloper, who is charged. Has he achieved The perfect Murder?This is just the first of the tantalising to be asked in twelve superb works of fiction by the greatest of modern storytellers, Jeffrey Archer.A game of chess with a sexy stranger; a violent argument in a golf club bar; a wine expert challenged to a tasting with a bizarre difference are some of the other intriguing starting-points for a set of cunningly constructed and marvellously entertaining stories from the author of such classic novels as A MATTER OF HONOUR, KANE AND ABEL and NOT PENNY MORE, NOT A PENNY LESS.Told with wit and sophistication, nerve-tingling suspense and champagne style, here are a dozen mysterious adventures that keep the pages turning at breakneck speed.

Among the universe’s civilizations, some conceive of the journey between stars as the sailing of bright ships, and others as tunneling through the crevices of night. Some look upon their far-voyaging as a migratory imperative, and name their vessels after birds or butterflies….

From America’s greatest chronicler of life lived at its extremes and the bestselling author of “The Perfect Storm,” “War,” and “A Death in Belmont” comes a rare work of fiction, an intimate, brutal account of a young American journalist trying to survive his latest assignment.Daniel wanted to escape the Midwest and its small-town newspapers, but he didn’t sign up for this: a war-torn West African city strung in barbed wire, its embassies abandoned, child soldiers brandishing guns in the streets. Andre, the veteran photographer Daniel is paired with, is conversant in all of it—the jungle, the locals, and especially the attendant risks of covering war—and pushes them to go deeper into the conflict, to get to the front lines. Yet in a battle like this, there are no reliable lines of safety. Western rules do not apply, and atrocity is color-blind. Just when Daniel thinks he’s convinced his fearless partner to retreat, they arrive at what could be the end of the road for both of them.This powerful short story, at once modern and timeless, combines the best elements of classic war literature and psychological horror. Junger’s unforgettable journey into the heart of darkness confronts man’s unrelenting savagery and his unpredictable capacity for cowardice—and courage.PRAISE FOR SEBASTIAN JUNGER“Junger’s great eye and honesty about the gamut of emotions that come into play in combat leave one swerving between highs, lows and the surreal.”—Chicago Tribune“Those seeking insight into war’s innards will appreciate the details Mr. Junger so sharply and respectfully delivers.”—Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Last Sunday’s bull had been bad, but it was the thought of the coining Sunday which made jelly of Pablo’s knees.

Eighteen years in organized baseball. How much longer could he be the perennial hot shot? How much longer could he kid them into thinking he was great?

Two-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author Elizabeth Massie’s “Abed” – called one of the most disturbing horror stories ever written – was first published in the anthology STILL DEAD, edited by John Skipp & Craig Spector. You’ve seen plenty of stories of zombies, decapitation, “double-tapping” and gore… but if you’ve never experienced this story (now a film by Ryan Lieske… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxE7lAFxAqI

«…у меня поселилась тетка. Она старая-престарая, нос у ней длинный и большой, походка мелкая и колеблющаяся… Но у ней большое горе, и она вечно вздыхает. Какое горе? – Я не признаю это горем: у ней есть сын, очень молодой человек, и этот молодой человек на далеком севере. Мало ли молодых людей на далеком севере!.. А между тем она мне надрывает душу своими стенаниями и тем рассеянным и тяжелым взглядом своим, который не сводит по целым часам с его писем, с его фотографии, с его наивных игрушек, уцелевших от мирного детства…»

«От вида довольной физиономии Сашки Сазонова, моего соседа по комнате в общаге, мне хотелось заскрежетать зубами. Разумеется, он-то уже „отстрелялся“ и теперь со свободной совестью пакует чемодан в Турцию, где будет беззаботно наслаждаться всеми прелестями умеренно-бюджетного „все включено“…»