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Jacob Thomas Austin is a writer from Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He is the author of the short story anthology Menagerie, a collection of creature-related horror stories.

Austin's work has appeared in numerous successful publications, including, but not limited to, The Fear House, Literary Yard, and Bewildering Stories. In 2018, he was shortlisted for the genre fiction award in the 87th Annual Writer's Digest Writing Competition.
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“An animal can be many things. Sometimes, that distinction can be a matter of life and death.”
― Jacob Thomas Austin, Menagerie: Stories

“Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“An animal can be many things. Sometimes, that distinction can be a matter of life and death.”
― Jacob Thomas Austin, Menagerie: Stories

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C. Payne You a Sabbath fan 🤟


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C. Payne Thanks I’ll give it a look over


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C. Payne Hey Jacob

Thanks for the add as a gesture a heads up up my Novel Call of the Klatulen is currently free on Amazon from June 17th to June 20th have a look and let me know what you think.

Cheers🍻
C

Call of the Klatulen the sky turned black, then rained fire. Humanity was caught unprepared. When the colossal Klatulen motherships descended, they brought with them a horrifying truth: Earth wasn't just being invaded, it was being harvested. Their seven-foot warriors were impervious to conventional weapons, their velocity-sensitive shields deflecting anything faster than a thrown stone. For Staff Sergeant Carson, the invasion meant losing everything he held dear, leaving him with nothing but a burning thirst for vengeance. Against a towering, alien threat that can only be killed up close, humanity is forced to adapt. Outnumbered and outgunned, soldiers like Carson and the fiercely resilient teacher-turned-warrior, Vie, must master brutal hand-to-hand combat, exploiting the Klatulen's two hearts with every desperate strike. From the ashes of London to the desperate, all-or-nothing offensive in Berlin, humanity fights a war for survival, discovering the terrifying truth of their enemy's true purpose. But even as a hard-won victory offers a glimmer of hope, the chilling reality emerges: this was just the first wave. More will come. Call of the Klatulen is a visceral, action-packed military sci-fi thriller, a testament to human resilience in the face of overwhelming odds. The battle for Earth has just begun.


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