Tales From Gulinger High Tale Twenty Six

Things would not have gotten so out of hand if Howard Richard Deacon III had just stayed with the group. And not just the group on field trip to Wollmans's Rink either, but also his five friends who had snuck off with him into the nearby zoo in Central Park. Rick Deacon just wanted to see the red wolves. That's all. But a modern-day werewolf bazillionaire has to be careful. Who knows who (or what) he might bump into? Carlos Mendez is the only one with a clue to where Rick Deacon has gone, leading his friends on the hunt that may mean the difference between life and death. And death is what 'Morty' sees.

Valentines Day is fraught with dangers. A mysterious gifter is sending Selena Davenport amazing tokens of his love--and it is up to Tom Brown to.... uh... save her by sabotage. Meanwhile a bewitched perfume entraps the vampire-bitten Troy, leaving others alone yet rendering him helpless. His friends must combine to figure out what's wrong and undo the magic before it is too late. After all, who uses magic that only affects people with a vampire bite? Vampires.

When Officer Johnson catches wind of a convention in NYC about moon theory with chaos and crime, he sends his son Joshua to go undercover to find out what the gathering is truly about. But when JJ arrives, he discovers an even more heinous crime afoot. After all, JJ can see ghosts, and they have a story to tell.

A new school year has finally begun at Gulinger Private Academy, and half of the student body had unexpectedly vanished. . . along with some of the staff. And the only one who knows where they have gone is the main shareholder's son--Howard Richard Deacon III. Oh, and Tom Brown, though he doesn't realize he already knew it. With the change, the school has also hired new staff. Including: a combat veteran, a crystal wearing goth-loving freak, a trained soldier, a retired SRA hunter, a psychic Russian teacher, and a CIA agent. One of them is terrified of werewolves. One of them can punish kids with headaches. One will have a nervous break down. And one just might be a spy. The games are afoot. And the kids of Gulinger are geared for action.

West End Prep, the daughter school to Gulinger High, wins again... at everything. At Academic Decathlon, at sports, and apparently at life. But that's only because they don't let the dangerous and psychic ghoulies participate. Cheaters--Tom insists. Finally fed up with the mysterious new private school for specially chosen ghoulies and mafis, Tom Brown decides to find out what West End Prep is really up to. After all, though they don't want werewolves and other extremely dangerous ghoulies, and they refuse to have psychics... but they are keeping an eye on them anyway. Tom sneaks off to find the truth. But the truth is scarier than even he could imagine. And it may affect his future forever.

It is a dangerous thing to gaze skyward on Halloween night. One might spy the Halloween Highway--the parade of beasties and fairy folk of the Unseelie Court journeying across the world, and get wisked away... This is something Matthew Calamori wished he had known before he stepped out to get some air after partying hard at the Gulinger Private Academy's Halloween dance. Lucky for him, his best friend, Tom Brown, is a half imp, and an unofficial member of the Unseelie Court. Otherwise he, and the other mortals swept up, might not make it out alive... but get taken forever into the fairy mound. But the real question is, what kind of mortals do the Unseelie Court spirit away? Because not everyone looking up on Halloween night gets snatched, now do they?

Almost no one goes to Gulinger High because he wants to. Most want to escape as soon as they arrive. But what happens when one does escape? Keenan Goodrich is about to find out. When he sees for himself the kind of freaky people that inhabit Gulinger Private Academy Keenan thinks facing the Mob is better than facing werewolves, half-elves, vampire bitten people, and the cursed. And he gets help from an unlikely source. Well... no. Actually, not unlikely at all. After all Tom Brown isn't called Trouble for nothing. All Keenan has to do is promise to pick up Chinese food 'on his way back.' Like Keenan plans on returning...

A tale inspired by the 1976 attempted assassination of Bob Marley spans decades and continents to explore the experiences of journalists, drug dealers, killers, and ghosts against a backdrop of social and political turmoil.