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Kennedy","A dark, passionate story centers on a conflicted relationship between a heavenly angel and a corrupted creature from the “Dark Carnival.” The narrative opens with violent exchanges—spite, temptation, and injury—then reframes the bond through the characters’ motives: redemption, lust, and the desire to control one another. The plot unfolds between the City of Light, the Grey Lands, and the Between, where desire collides with innocence and each side attempts to define “right” conduct.","Kevin J. Kennedy’s Gods and Monsters  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nGods and Monsters © 2026 Kevin J. Kennedy Edited by Ann Keeran & Kevin J. Kennedy Cover design by Michael Bray  \nAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law.  \nFirst Printing, 2026  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nDedication  \nThis book is dedicated to Carlito Kennedy  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nTable of Contents  \nThe Beginning Was The End  \nBy  \nJohn Everson  \nTear Me Down  \nBy  \nMark Towse  \nDark Guardians  \nBy  \nTheresa Jacobs  \nIn Pursuit  \nBy  \nBenjamin Kurt Unsworth  \nThe Secret Gallery  \nBy  \nJeffrey Thomas  \nWashed Up  \nBy  \nAxl Malton  \nLykon’s Odyssey  \nBy  \nIan Gielen  \nThe Chamber of Tiamat  \nBy  \nWilliam Meikle  \nHorns In The Dark  \nBy  \nRyan Colley  \nMedusa  \nBy  \nJack Graham  \nCroatoan  \nBy  \nThomas Smith  \nDiabhal’s Timepiece By  \nRonald Kelly  \nMare  \nBy  \nC. W. Stevenson  \nNo Diamond is Worth This  \nBy  \nVeronica Smith  \nLamia  \nBy  \nCatriona Mowat  \nSlobbering Sevillano  \nBy  \nCaleb Jones  \nCalanthe and Euleon  \nBy  \nAndreas Hort  \nThe Goat's Trail  \nBy  \nMilan Kovačević [OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nThe Beginning Was The End  \nBy  \nJohn Everson  \nThe beginning was…  \nThe end.  \nAngel spit in my face. Holy water sizzled on my skin, ice to flame. I didn’t brush it away. I lived for the pain she gave.  \n“Don’t you get it?” she screamed. The blue of her frenzied eyes was chilling.“We have nothing in common. Nothing! We never did. All we do is hurt each other. I won’t listen to you tear me down for doing the right thing anymore.”  \n“And I won’t listen to you calling me a liar, a demon and an asshole,”I whispered. I never raised my voice at her, even in anger. If I let those fires loose   who knew what hell a creature from heaven could withstand?  \n“But you are,” she insisted.  \n“Come here,” I soothed, arms outstretched to enfold her. She batted me away with wings of gossamer white.  \n“Don’t touch me.” She hissed.“Ever again.”  \n“Have you looked at yourself in the mirror lately?” I challenged.“It’snot seemly for a child of grace to spit and screech so. You might find your privilege in the City of Light revoked.”  \n“I’m only like this when I’m around you. Can’t you see? You do this to me. You turn me into this, this   witch!”  \n“If I’m not mistaken, we are all responsible for our own actions.”“You bring out the worst in me.”  \n“Opposites attract.”  \n“Well you repel me.”  \nI bent forward to kiss those pale pink cupid lips and felt a knee in my groin.  \n“I warned you,” she said, and slapped a creamy palm across my face. I felt her cottony flesh catch and scrape against the blackened barbs of my stubble. I hadn’t shaved today.  \n“I love you,” I countered.  \n“You are incapable of love.”  \nAngel turned and fled. Probably to her mother ’s, the Saint of all Solace. No matter what good deeds that mother ’s tongue supposedly suggested, I found her an intolerable gossip.  \n***  \nIt had all come down to the simplest truth. No creature of gentle heart and heavenly virtue should dally with a beast of blackened lust and perverse pursuits. She knew that going in, and so did I. But when I’d first met Angel, she was just a lonely spirit, yearning for something to brighten her nightsand darken her days. Life in the City of Light was too constant for her, too predictable. She relished the shadows I cast on her path and the flames of temptation I wore like a robe. She adored me. She yearned to strip my temptations from me and explore my evil. She probably thought she could save me. A lot of City of Light girls are like that – always wanting to redeem someone.  \nMy excuse? Lust. Of course. 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