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Phreak Show

John Lucas Hargis

rank 2314

Phreak Show

John Lucas Hargis

Being a freak isn't about looks. It's a frame of mind.

When Tera sees through the 600 pounds of fat smothering Twiggy the Blubber Girl, and finds a hurting, size 16 girl beneath, she knows something’s crazy-twisted with The Last American Phreak Show. Tera peels back the skin of the carnie's world of Victorian costumes and illusion, and discovers that the wicked, jerkhole Phineas enslaves teens in his sideshow by wielding their warped self-images against them.

While Tera has enough freaky crap of her own to deal with, there's no flippin way she's going to bite her fiery tongue and walk away.

Sacrificing her own questionable normality, Tera becomes one of Phineas's phreaks to set the others free from the inside out. But the teens believe the crappy lies about themselves too strongly. Tera is trapped in the Phreak Show with the jacked-up phreaks, powerless to help them, unless they can all embrace the messy, dangerous truth: being a phreak isn’t about looks; it’s a frame of mind.

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FREEBORN

John Lucas Hargis

rank 851

FREEBORN

John Lucas Hargis

After 200 years of sterilization & cloning, the masses are becoming pregnant again--spontaneously--regardless of gender or age.

When the parasite begins squirming in Katia’s gut, the sixteen-year-old clone should submit to the so-called treatment of the militant Doctors. But obedient little clones who enter quarantine never come out. Chasing a rumor about a rebel safehouse, Katia meets a charming infected boy.

Adam reveals the truth: their parasites are actually human babies. Like Katia, nature is fighting against man’s effort to control her. The rebels devise an insane plan to accelerate the process. They intend to infect every man, woman, and child on Earth with the Freeborn babies the Doctors are seeking to destroy.

With Adam by her side and a gun in her hand, Katia slowly learns what it's like for a clone to feel real. But her newfound capacity for fear, love, courage, and hate only complicates her critical role in the mission. What initially felt like the right thing to do, begins to feel like another form of control. With the deadline and her due date imminent, Katia must weigh her own desires against the fate of ten billion strangers.

The key to humanity's freedom has been growing inside her all along.

But it wants out.

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CAPRITARE: Discovery

John Lucas Hargis

rank 318

CAPRITARE: Discovery

John Lucas Hargis

Starting over can be a good thing--unless you've already lived a thousand lifetimes, and still can't get it right.

Oblivion. Rebirth. Failure. Oblivion.

Capritare has no idea how many times he has repeated this sequence, but he knows it is time to end it. He is summoned from the pain and darkness of oblivion, and thrust into a lush world with others seeking the same freedom.

Seven cycles spread out before them. Through each one, Capritare and his friends must fight, explore, solve puzzles, and find love. Just when they master one cycle, the next follows quickly behind it. Every reset brings a transformation of their bodies: the addition of wings, antlers, tentacles, and other mysterious embellishments.

As the final cycle approaches, Capritare discovers the secret to the freedom he longs for. He is faced with one last decision that will determine his fate. If he chooses correctly, he will be set free to journey onward to a new, thriving land. If he makes the wrong choice, he will return—yet again—to oblivion.

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