Joe KING

In part 1 of, BX-13: The Blood Game. When unsuspecting student Dylan goes on a study course to Russia, little did he realise that he would become part of an experiment so powerful, it would change him into a superhuman. After Dylan manages to escape from the secure testing facility, he suddenly wakes up with no memories of his past, then soon realises that something is wrong, very wrong. It doesn’t take long before he realises he is being hunted. For now, he has no idea why, and must rely on his wits to keep himself safe, because whatever these people are after, he knows his life is at stake. With the help of a surprising new friend, his only hope is that he can hold on long enough to remember what has been done to him, and figure a way out of this nightmare he has woken up in! Behind the scenes, an experiment has been playing out and unknowing to Dylan, he is the star pupil. Will he survive long enough to figure out what has been done to him, or will his life ebb away as quickly as he was given his superhuman powers? In part 2 of, BX-13: The Blood Game. Just when Frank and Sharon think their lives are now complete with the arrival of their new-born child, Shannon. All hell breaks loose when Shannon is taken. They are now left with trying to find who, and why, their baby has been kidnapped. As they investigate further into their daughter’s disappearance, they soon realise that those responsible will stop at nothing to keep what Shannon has locked inside her blood. With the help of Billy, a computer whiz kid, and Liev Malik once again finding himself caught up in something big, time is running out to find Shannon before she lets loose into a world full of people she will not stop killing. Not until all those responsible for taking something so precious from her are dead! With her abilities growing, the surprises keep coming, but no one had envisaged there could be more than just Shannon to wreak chaos on anyone foolish enough to get too close! Will she finally be free, or will she realise that her life was never going to be her own once her true potential is realised? In part 3 of, BX-13: The Blood Game. Liev discovers he is being watched once more, and when Frank and Sharon get back in touch, they set out on a journey that will change everything they have come to believe. Liev has a little help on the way from a usual source, because his memories are vital to his survival, and with enemies all around them, and no one they can trust but each other. Their time is running out to save the people they think need their help, but all the time they are being dragged into a game they have no idea they are playing! With time against everyone involved in the BX-13 project, the outcome was always going to not be the one you expected! In part 4 of, BX-13: The Blood Game. In the final part of, BX-13: The Blood Game, a deadly virus outbreak becomes more than just a flu epidemic reminiscent of an engineered virus, as it is targeting the elderly. Beverly Knight, a prominent Doctor in the field of tropical disease, soon discovers that this is way more than just a few people dying. As she starts to uncover the truth, a whole web of deceit has been blanketing the entire world from the truth. A secret sect, The Guardianship, has been trying to cull the world’s population and bring in a new era of super-humans. Can she stop the virus before it spreads, or will Liev Malik be left once more to save not just Shannon's life, but everyone else's on the planet? With BX-13 being at the heart of so many projects planned by The Guardianship, it is never more vital; it is destroyed by the only man capable, Liev Malik.

BX-13: The Blood Game. Part 1-4.

When Toby Macintyre gets a new job exhuming an ancient gravesite for a new housing development, never would he have thought in the 21st century that the spirit world existed and has now targeted his family in a unique way. In this traditional haunting tale of a curse put upon those that burned a special witch alive, she has now come back to take revenge on those who wronged her. When Toby begins to discover the truth, never would he have believed that such few words could do so much harm. Tig, you’re it. An innocent game, or an ancient curse? The next time you dig up an old grave and have those words whispered in your ear, do as I do, pass it on before it is too late!

Tig, you're it!

Laying strapped to the bed, Sam stares up at the ceiling listening to the distant thunder approaching. Her shaven head shows the scars she had endured. Two days have passed since anyone had come to her. Unable to hold on, Sam lays in her filth. The stench of time is within the room. Her mind has clung on to a hope for decades. Soon, Sam tells herself. Soon I will be free from this hell. He is coming for me soon and I will be free, Sam thinks to herself as the thunder approaches outside. Another hour flashes by and the thunder is close now. Soon, Sam thinks, praying for this time to end. Aches and pains in her restrained body have become unbearable but soon this will end and I will be free. Noises can be heard in the distance as the thunder wreaks its wrath on Earth. Earth's salvation is not in saving humanity. Sam understands that now. Earth has lived for four and half billion years and has come through many disastrous events. Humanity is not Salvation for the Earth Sam thinks, as the thunder is nearly at her side. Earth's salvation lies not within a person or an action of good, it is the ability to accept the path. The path is one we all choose and we have some control over but the future, there is no termination as it presides beyond our reach. We have no more control of that event than the choice we make today, Sam muses, as the thunder is upon her. Soon, Sam thinks. Soon the darkness will come for me and I will be free once more. I could live a million lifetimes more and live forever, Sam chuckles to herself. Do as you will to me but I will be free. I will live beyond…the flash of light kills those thoughts. Where is my salvation, Sam thinks, as light sears her flesh? A millisecond of time now feels like a lifetime, but there is no salvation. Sam’s final thought is the words Liev had left her. [be careful what you wish for.]

Shadow Figure: Part 2. Earth Salvation

The Fat Bird is a compelling short story from Joe KING, that depicts the lives of a working-class family, and how it can all fall apart when given the right set of circumstances. A story of trust, hope, despair and how relationships within the family unit are interdependent, yet independent of each other. When Josie's failed relationship leads her on a journey of overeating and tremendous weight gain, she finds solace in an unlikely friend. A Robin, she names The Fat Bird. After a one-night stand with her ex-boyfriend, she not only realises she is pregnant, but now faces the prospect of raising her child alone. Her parent’s relationship is falling apart, and they too must try to come to terms with the prospect of divorce. Josie's abusive father has also been overindulging for many years, and he too faces a bleak future with his weight-gain now putting his job at risk. All three must now try to find a path in life which can bring them back from the brink of a complete family meltdown, or face a destiny only reserved for those on a path of self-destruction, and ultimately... death. With Josie's fathers drinking spiralling out of control, and her mother ready to walk out, can they bring their lives back to the place it once used to be! Or has it all gone too far?

The Fat Bird

Magnetifico: Tales for the Funny(dark)side. When brothers Tommy and Mick Stone go on a reconciliation weekend to the Welsh valleys, little did they realise that they were going to get caught in the middle of something so out of this World, it is going to change their lives forever. Since childhood, both had gone their separate ways in life. Mike, an academic with a family, children, and a bright future. Tommy, living life on the edge. Going from scam to scam to make ends meet without a care in the world. Neither of them would believe what they would find on that weekend of bonding, and neither would forget the tragic set of circumstances they have now found themselves in the middle of. But what they do not realise is that this mysterious event they have now witnessed, has drawn them into a deadly game of life and death. With changes happening to them, and events happening in the background they have no concept of, they return to their lives thinking they are the only ones who know the truth. How wrong could they have been as this alien contact story leads the brothers on an adventure they will never forget!

Magnetifico

When Gavin Granger relocates to Tameworth to sell his brand of sausage, little did he realise that things were going to take a turn for the worse, and the better, in this short tale of humour and a mild dose of horror. For years, Gavin had been selling his exotic sausage from his pitch up North, but as things got a little hairy and trade took a tumble, Tameworth was his choice of relocation. With a newfound zeal to sell his special brand of sausage from his van and his new pitch, things were going well until the locals began to suspect there was more to his sausage than just the porky variety. As things escalate out of his control, and the police sniff round his sausage, Gavin must come up with a plan to get out of this mess that is mounting up and fast. With his livelihood in jeopardy once more, rumours soon begin to take on a life of their own as two local business he has had dealings with mysteriously disappear, causing Gavin to rethink his exotic brand of sausage with his secret ingredient in and come up with a plan that keeps his dream of selling his sausage alive! With local pets going missing, fingers soon point to one man and his sausage. Will Gavin find a way out of this mess or will his small sausage business get shafted? Determined to survive, there was only one way forward for Gavin the sausage man. More.

The Sausage Man

This compilation of short stories of comedy has everything to brighten the dullest of days and are written with pure humour/humor in mind. If you are looking for something to pass the lunch hour and want something strange, but funny to read which is completely off the beaten track, OMG might just hit the spot! The Tales from the Funny(dark)side, are a series of books that are written for the sole purpose of humour, but not just any old humour. This series of books are aimed at readers with a warped and twisted sense of humour/humor. You have been warned.

FLATLAND: The Four Eighteens, is a YA science fiction thriller with a possible future world of cyber technology at its core. Enter the Flatland at your peril. When four students on their eighteenth birthdays suddenly find themselves transported to a strange new world, they have no idea how to escape from, or how they got there. They soon realise that the world they once knew is now a thing of the past. As they put the links together why they have been chosen, they must now figure a way out of this world so fanatically unreal before this game of life and death is unplugged. AI, is out there, and closer than you might think, but when Tony, Jess, Lance, and Chris realises the truth, nothing is ever going to be the same. Will they survive? Or will they now be a part of the next generation of things to come. With the next recruit's already underway, The Four Nineteens will soon be joining them on a quest so out of this world, nothing could prepare them for the battle they must all face!

Flatland: The Four Eighteens

I Nearly Shit Myself 3, is a dark tale from Joe KING that will show you how sometimes it is better to stick with what you have, rather than risk it all. With profanity from the beginning, your sense of humour/humor will be pushed to its limits! When alcoholic scientist Joel discovers a new serum, he soon discovers it not only has the power to make him a monster in bed, but it also has a side effort so horrific, it makes his life a living nightmare! As Joel’s drinking gets out of control, so does his life and unknowing to him, he is killing people. With his time running out, will he live long enough to find a way out of this horror story he has created for himself? Or will he just have to accept, the serum he has taken was never going to have a happy ending! I Nearly Shit Myself 3 is now being published as, The PLONKER with an alternative ending.

I Nearly Shit Myself 3

At a young age, twin brother Johnny realised he wanted to be different from his brother Mike. Something had changed Johnny, that now makes him not want the middle-class privileges they have and decides as a teenager that a life of crime, and drugs is what he really wants. Not the well-educated path his brother has taken. As the years go by, Johnny's life spirals into a life that brings him nothing but spells in prison, and ultimately, estranges him from his family. After years of Heroin addiction, and the sudden loss of his parents, it does little to sway Johnny back from a life of addiction as his life spirals out of his control, until one night while being out of his mind on Heroin. A random dream that predicts his own death, suddenly changes everything he once thought he wanted. With only one month left to live, Johnny Cane must now find a way to repair all the damage he has done, but there is one person he must convince he has changed. His brother Mike is doing well, but a phone call from Johnny is about to change his life forever. With time running out, and the dreams Johnny has been having getting worse, convincing his twin brother before the prediction comes true, is to be the hardest thing he has ever had to do for him to truly leave his past behind. Will he succeed, or will Johnny die with the pain he now has inside his heart for what he has put his family through?

The Last Days Of Johnny Cane

When Tom Hansen invents the quantum chip, he is surprised to discover that three years later that the military had taken his technology and built the world’s first quantum computer called Ava, (Advanced Virtual Algorithm). The only thing missing enabling Ava to reach her full potential, is the programming codes Tom has hidden away in his mind, and now they need him, alive, to finish the project. Kidnapped and trapped deep below ground, he soon realises that his life and his families, is in danger and must now find a way to finish what he started. Inspector George Billings is woken early from yet another drinking binge, and with another hangover, is informed of the multiple killings the night before. As the pieces start coming together, and camera footage that reveals something so fantastic, he never thought possible. The real reasons why these seemingly innocent people have been murdered starts coming to light. With the military trying to cover everything up, he is on a mission to try to find the truth, before it all gets lost, buried deep beneath a secret military underground facility where Ava is learning, and ultimately planning what to do with the troubled people of Earth! Will she succeed? Or will we remain oblivious to what is really coming our way! With an alien signal to decode, time is running out, to find a way to save planet Earth and now Ava is born, the human species future hangs in the balance of the world’s first Quantum computer.

The SIGNAL: Part One. John

Some books you read with impunity; other books should never be read. When a book offers life from a certain death, do you read it? Follow all the instructions for the gift of a prolonged life? Many people would? But if the instructions were for you to kill someone, a loved one. What then? This dark tale shows you how far some people would go for the gift of life. After his father's funeral, William goes back home to his parent’s cottage in a small sleepy village where he grew up to sort out the business and abode, he once thought he would never leave. His legacy of a cottage and car garage left to him by his parents soon becomes a living nightmare when things keep happening that make no logical sense in this age of realism and not witchcraft. William's partner Kate soon realises there is more than just his father’s death going in this sleepy village, and their lives are soon turned upside down with what she discovers. What was supposed to be a few days sorting out the mess left behind by William's father, soon turns into a ghost tale that has them both fighting for their very lives. The BOOK is a modern-day classic ghost horror story. Joe King's twisted mind leads you on a guessing game, and just when you think you have figured it all out, you would be wrong!

The BOOK: Part One. Seeding

Back in the eighties, things were way different than today. There was no such thing as mobile phones for one and certainly not the internet we know today. If you were a teenager today, you would probably be thinking how did we manage? To be honest, technology has passed my adult life by and tied me down to this life. I like my privacy and enjoyed my teenage years because I remember them like they were yesterday. They were unfettered by this need to always be found or are active on social media. My name is Danny Shaw and I have lived and breathed in my life in Tameworth. It is a small town a little fucked-up and one weekend, me and bros had the biggest laugh you will ever come across. Me and Freddie Green were known locally as Bong ‘Edz because we smoked way too much weed back then and we sold a bit too. We had dreams of making it big back then and be two geezers who no one messed with and we would make sheds loads of dollar and both have big fat Beamers (A pimped out BMW) so when a little oink called Murray gave us the head-ups on a field full of weed he found, we thought those dreams were just around the corner in the craziest weekend we ever had. A weekend I will never forget. Growing up on a council estate may not be the best start in life but for me, it was reality. It was the mid-eighties. A time of dreams of what we could be and more importantly, how we survived day-to-day with just our wits and a little luck that had so far been good for me and my mate Freddie. My future was bright, back then, I think! How old am I now? Honestly, I do not know. My head is in a bad place right now and ironically it was not through smoking weed. It would seem choices in my life were down to my so-called friend Freddie as I unwittingly find out during our weekend as cowardly teenagers unfold as we discover the field of dreams.

Bong 'Edz & The Field Of Dreams

DRIVE: Tales from the Funny(dark)side. When Josh and his best mate Matt begin their journey home after the fun themed cowboy weekend, a more sinister plan begins to unravel and Josh finds himself in the middle of something so huge, he has no idea what is coming. With a car chase, and his medication fuelling this crazy idea Josh is after a maniac who is out to hurt people. He must now decide if the medication he is taking is causing him to think this is all in his imagination, or is this really happening, or maybe something else is happening he is yet to discover. Expect the usual Joe KING twist that you might struggle to see coming, in this psychological tale of murder and deception!

Drive

BX-13: The blood Game. Part 4. In the final part of, BX-13: The Blood Game, a deadly virus outbreak becomes more than just a flu epidemic reminiscent of an engineered virus, as it is targeting the elderly. Beverly Knight, a prominent Doctor in the field of tropical disease, soon discovers that this is way more than just a few people dying. As she starts to uncover the truth, a whole web of deceit has been blanketing the entire world from the truth. A secret sect, The Guardianship, has been trying to cull the world’s population and bring in a new era of super-humans. Can she stop the virus before it spreads, or will Liev Malik be left once more to save not just Shannon's life, but everyone else's on the planet? With BX-13 being at the heart of so many projects planned by The Guardianship, it is never more vital; it is destroyed by the only man capable, Liev Malik. With Blake hardwired to avenge all that have harmed him and sister, the future of the entire human race now looks set to be changed, if Palmer industries finally perfect the BX-13 project. With time running out, everyone is now under pressure to kill off this project, once and for all.

BX-13: The Blood Game. Part 4

BX-13: The Blood Game. Part 2. Just when Frank and Sharon think their lives are now complete with the arrival of their new-born child, Shannon. All hell breaks loose when Shannon is taken. They are now left with trying to find who, and why, their baby has been kidnapped. As they investigate further into their daughter’s disappearance, they soon realise that those responsible will stop at nothing to keep what Shannon has locked inside her blood. With the help of Billy, a computer whiz kid, and Liev Malik once again finding himself caught up in something big, time is running out to find Shannon before she is let loose into a world full of people she will not stop killing. Not until all those responsible for taking something so precious from her are dead! With her abilities growing, the surprises keep coming, but no one had envisaged there could be more than just Shannon to wreak chaos on anyone foolish enough to get too close! Will she finally be free, or will she realise that her life was never going to be her own once her true potential is realised. Part 3 out now.

BX-13: The Blood Game. Part 2

BX-13: The Blood Game. Part 1. When unsuspecting student Dylan goes on a study course to Russia, little did he realise that he would become part of an experiment so powerful, it would change him into a superhuman. After Dylan manages to escape from the secure testing facility, he suddenly wakes up with no memories of his past, then soon realises that something is wrong, very wrong. It doesn’t take long before he realises he is being hunted. For now, he has no idea why, and must rely on his wits to keep himself safe, because whatever these people are after, he knows his life is at stake. With the help of a surprising new friend, his only hope is that he can hold on long enough to remember what has been done to him and figure a way out of this nightmare he has woken up in! Behind the scenes, an experiment has been playing out and unknowing to Dylan, he is the star pupil. Will he survive long enough to figure out what has been done to him, or will his life ebb away as quickly as he was given his superhuman powers? Part 2 out now.

BX-13: The Blood Game. Part 1

BX-13: The Blood Game: Part 3. Blake discovers his sister is still alive, and sets out to give her a life he feels compelled she should have had, before it was taken from her. He sets himself on a learning curve to discover how far his abilities can be stretched, and begins manipulating his enemies for fun, all the time learning, all the time honing his craft of evil. Liev discovers he is being watched once more, and when Frank and Sharon get back in touch, they set out on a journey that will change everything they have come to believe. Liev has a little help on the way from a usual source, because his memories are vital to his survival, and with enemies all around them, and no one they can trust but each other. Their time is running out to save the people they think need their help, but all the time they are being dragged into a game they have no idea they are playing! With time against everyone involved in the BX-13 project, the outcome was always going to not be the one you expected! Part 4 out now.

BX-13: The Blood Game. Part 3

A fun story packed with comedy/ horror, humour and a hugely different type of ghost, which will leave you looking down the toilet before you commit yourself, that is if your sense of humour is up to it! Do you believe in ghosts? Bill begins to think differently as his first night shift back as a Security Guard gets off to a bumpy start and he soon realises they are real, VERY real. Not only are they out to scare him, but they are also out to take his mind, body and soul. Will he make it through the night, with his sanity and soul intact? Or will he become something else! With randy ghost William Moorcock on his back, ANYTHING is possible during the Night Shift from hell.

Night Shift

Night Shift, is the first book in the, Tales from the Dark(side) series. This series of books by Joe King are written with the sole purpose of comedy and horror. If you are looking for something very strange to read, that will test your sense of humor/humour to the limit, this series of books will certain do that!Night Shift is a ghost story with a very different type of ghost, which will leave you looking down the toilet before you commit yourself, that's if your sense of humour is up it! Do you believe in ghosts? Bill End doesn't, but as his first night shift back as a Security Guard, he soon realises they are real, VERY real. Not only are they out to scare him, they are out to take his mind, body and soul. Will he make it through the night, with his sanity and soul intact? Or will he become something else! With randy ghost William Moorcock on his back, ANYTHING is possible!

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