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Tales
Infinite Wonderlands by Oscar De Los Santos and David G. Mead ISBN: 978-0-9768856-7-2 Infinite Wonderlands - UFO invasions,
clone islands and radical physical makeovers! Infinite Wonderlands - Top Secret
mind experiments, phantom WWII armies and vintage fighter planes! Infinite
Wonderlands - Ruthless bike races and off-world competitors, space arks and
onboard assassins, ocean worlds and bulbous thinking clouds! Infinite
Wonderlands - Time travel treks, Lost Vegas casinos, pornolympics, the
resurrection of the King of Rock, and giant Jack Russell terriers! Infinite
Wonderlands - A cornucopia of the surreal and sober, the cosmic and comic! Join
Oscar De Los Santos and David G. Mead on a wild starship ride through Infinite
Wonderlands - stories that deconstruct the past, scrutinize the present and
project a multiplicity of extraordinary tomorrows.
solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short byEdward J. Carvalho ISBN: 978-0-9768856-2-7 Edward Carvalho is a twice-nominated
Pushcart Prize poet (2004-2005) who has been writing poetry for over 20 years.
His poems - once described as "original, innovative, imaginative and brutal" -
have appeared along with his essays, reviews and critical papers in numerous
journals throughout the country. In this collection, he defines our Age, "a
sexton upon us, this lost generation, this disapora of X, this gray inheritance
of bible-leaved smog and Yojo," Critically-acclaimed Connecticut poet writes of
Carvalho's collection, "Carvalho's courageous, outrageous poems fuse
celebration with despair; the mere fact that these poems exist illustrate
that the spirit is not dead, that it is possible to care, to play with language,
to create works of art out of the most grotesque human lives, and to love (if
for a few seconds only) in defiance of the triumph of death.
Every large city has its LIMBOLAND,
a seedy, squalid netherworld where the bizarre and the horrific are commonplace.
It is a wicked place inhabited by the dredges of humanity - by hookers, winos,
potheads, and psychopaths, and by wretched souls who have chosen depravity over
decency. Things inhuman reside there, too - hellish creatures that prey on the
weak and the unwary. A journey into LIMBOLAND will lead you into the dark
labyrinth of your own fears.or, perhaps, desires.
FOREWORD MAGAZINE 2006 BOOK OF THE YEAR FINALIST! Marked by rich detail and glowing
descriptions, the text transports its readers to a place where women live in
close proximity, grieve and celebrate together, and generally share their lives
in the wonderfully boundless and boundary-less style of found families. When
Terry beats Birdie, Patty and Colleen and Athena and Guinevere rush to Birdie's
side, offering her both comfort and practical assistance. When Faith struggles
to support Laura Grace Thompson is present as kind neighbor, committed
therapist, and even mentor to Faith. The same Grace Thompson shows up as Dr.
Thompson when Colleen, Patty's orphaned niece, needs help resolving her
difficult feelings about her parents' sudden death. Essentially, the lives in
the novel's chapter/vignettes rustle toward and away from one another in that
easy, familiar way our own lives rustle toward and away from those of the women
in our own found families. Readers will find in this book a sense of
envelopment, of belonging, of emotional connection. Reading Street Angel
is a delight, a Sunday afternoon wrapped in soft blankets, falling in love,
weeping for lost relationships, and finding new friends. It's the familiarity of
the stories-told as they are in luscious detail and rendered in language thick
with poetic undertones-that brings us home to a community built of the strange
and awesome moments that keep us always in relation to one another.
In this collection of thirty-four
short stories, acclaimed author Steven E. Wedel explores the worlds of ghosts,
mutants, vampires, magic, madness and despair. Visit the "Reunion" at a small
rural church. Venture down the slippery stairs beneath "The House Beside Soldred
Quarry." Listen to the insane song of "Warren Pepper's Victory Choir." Plug your
ears "When the Lady of Byblos Calls." The diverse stories contained herein,
blood-curdling stories of revenge and spine-tingling yarns that twist remnants
of old trite tales into narratives of horrific delight and wondrous terror, are
sure to entertain and genuinely scare.
Death Walks Among Us tells the
tale of a man driven to heroism in the midst of the unexplained rampage of a
psychotic killer. As a child, Clarence Bronski wanted to be good, but nothing
pleased his fanatically religious stepfather. Then Clarence (who preferred to be
called Bruno) found a friend to guide him -- a voice in his head he called
Jehovah. Oregon State Trooper Tom Kelly is driven to recapture Bruno Bronski,
after the monster kills Tom's best friend and paints a bloody path of mayhem in
a single-minded quest for revenge. Meanwhile, the coastal town of Lincoln City,
Oregon, is preparing for a huge Labor Day weekend. The local hotels,
restaurants, and other merchants expect to set new sales records. What could
possibly spoil their plans?
Lou Orfanella, the author of Composite Sketches and Scenes from an Ordinary Life: Getting Naked to Explore a Writer's Process and Possibilities returns with a new collection of poems that both preserves the past and looks to the future. Through memoir, collaboration, and keen observation, the poet inspires readers and celebrates life's little moments.
A literary tour de force. Like the Rio
Grande itself, Chuck Etheridge's Border Cantos winds beautifully through the
ethnically rich wold of El Paso, Texas and through the poignant terrain between
innocence and experience. This book captures the bi-lingual, bi-racial texture
of a region where both Anglo and Hispanic adolescents are forced to come to
terms with the culture as they search for identity. This novel tells a
captivating story, but it is the author's insight into forces that shape both
border life and adolescent boys' psyche that makes Border Cantos exceptional
fiction.
edited by Gypsey Teague ISBN: 978-09766652-1-2 "The New Goddess: Transgender Women in
the Twenty-First Century is a special and valuable book because it will be
viewed differently in different circles. This quality is its strength. To be
clear, it will not necessarily be "all things to all people'" but, rather, will
speak to those different audiences associated with transgendered women. The
academic, for instance, will have much primary source material in the
contributions from transgendered women, whose personal histories are, at once,
emotionally honest, at times frightening, and always compelling reading. These
personal accounts help throw light on a number of intellectual questions, such
as the role of nature and nurture among those interested in explaining
transgender, and whether gender is more a process than a property. By contrast,
for transgenders, especially those genies who have not escaped from the bottle,
and for those professionals who work with them, this book will provide a number
of fine-grained, realistic and honest snap shots of the social world. In
approaching transition to living as a woman, for example, transgenders will have
a clear picture of the difficulties to be faced and their diversity." - Frank
Lewins, excerpt from the Foreword
Superman, Spiderman, and the X-Men. To Professor William H.
Foster III, comic books are serious stuff and definitely not just for kids.
Though many fantastic tales have been told through the pages of comic strips and
comic books, some of the most interesting and least told stories, according to
Foster, are about the changing image of Black people in American society. If art
imitates life, cartoon and comic art might seem an unusual mirror in which to
view society. But to Professor Foster, a long time historian, lecturer, and fan,
comics are a source of scholarly research and just plain fun. This book
represents a collection of his published essays, articles, and interviews that
explore the historical portrayal of people of color in the world of comics.
Dark specters lurk in spaces unseen.
Countless persons are abducted by these beings with nefarious designs on the
human soul. Two young girls dabble with a Ouija board and one disappears.
Decades later, the mystery continues as Angela Miller, PhD, a respected
university professor, discovers her childhood friend calling for help from
beyond. Have you ever caught a glimpse of something out of the corner of your
eye, only to turn and find nothing there? Or sensed that someone was standing
behind you, whirled around, and stared at empty space? How about the touch on
your shoulder that made you jump when you knew you were alone? If you have had
any of these or similar experiences, then you have met The Shadow People.
"The intelligence, sensitivity and
humor of these poems are a gift to the reader. In the tradition of Langston
Hughes, J.D. Scrimgeour writes with the pioneering spirit of a jazz musician.
His work travels from Normal, Illinois to Greece to Salem, Massachusetts and
takes place over one hundred years. The poems are precise and powerful, but it
is the range that is extraordinary; there has never been a wider cast of
characters in a book of poetry. We meet adolescent baseball players, a Greek
grandmother, a father who is a poet, street people in Salem, two infant boys,
and many more. Wasn't this Whitman's dream: to reveal the miraculous power of
the ordinary man? J.D. Scrimgeour's America is composed of people we might walk
past, unless, like this poet, we stop and listen to what they have to tell us."
- Charlotte Gordon, author of Mistress Braddstreet: The Untold Life of
America's First Poet
The poems in this collection possess
all the "elements" expected of Miller's work-the hard, uncompromising vision of
Robert Frost for whom "anything more than the truth would have seemed too weak,"
the wit, the fecund imagination, and the courage to chronicle a way of life both
personal and cultural as it vanishes. The poems in this volume grow stronger as
we read more deeply into them, especially those in the final section, where the
poet unflinchingly confronts his own mortality with wry humor and grace. In
and Out of Their Elements is a volume which should not be overlooked.
Birds, moons, words, water, skies:
with these basic elements Donna Kuhn creates a voice swirling down a hypnotizing
stream of thought, thought addressed to "u", which could well be the "I" of
these poems. Or of this single long poem which seems to wrap a conscious
presence in a veil of motion, as if to hide something, but revealing all.
Outside a "geometric beauty salon" she is "shaving inside birds"; a "typical
girl" dreaming from the outside in. A beautiful and mesmerizing book.
Dad, JJ Wade, is a used bookshop owner.
Son Buck is a screenwriter trying to make it on the west coast. Between them is
the long shadow of a divorce. When Hollie Ivie, a Goth grrrl, becomes the
obsession of JJ's life, Buck steps in with shock therapy-he steals Hollie.
Mixing journals, email, and third-person narration, this novel tells the story
of a wasted, bitter artist who still might pull it out, his son headed in the
same direction, and a woman who doesn't intend to be owned by anyone. Where does
Marcus Aurelius, the great Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher fit in? A frumpy
professor and email, of course.
A well-known writer, lecturer, teacher, and workshop facilitator, Lou Orfanella, the author of Composite Sketches, now takes his readers inside the creative process with Scenes from an Ordinary Life: Getting Naked to Explore a Writer’s Process and Possibilities. In this unique combination of informative essays, personal anecdotes, writing samples, and thought provoking prompts, he combines instruction, inspiration, and memoir to create a literary scrapbook and a portable writing workshop for both novice and veteran authors.
Meet Charlie. He's not the nicest person you'll ever run
into. In fact, you may wish you'd never met him at all. Because Charlie isn't
like other guys. Charlie is a human monster. With inhuman power.
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Ginger Akana, an experienced and
intrepid private insurance investigator, journeys into the extraordinary, lush
tropical island of Maui on a case that will make or break her career, and which
could end her life. The mystery, the mystical, the captivating and the
dangerous collide in this thrilling adventure where every phone call, every
note, every knock on the door could signal death.
ISBN: 0-9766652-6-3 Joshua Tyler Brown's Partielles: Incomplete Solutions touches the reader with an innate sense of earnest anxiety coupled with a robust joy for life. Brown's rhythmic short lines burst from the page like shots from an old Gattling gun, a weapon revisited in the poem "Wounded Knee," one of the more profound offerings herein. Readers will recognize themselves along this partial journey that offers that in this world there are only incomplete glimpses and few answers to life's greatest questions.
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James Scrimgeour’s Balloons Over Stockholm takes the
reader on dual trips – across the globe and into the heart and soul of the
artist. The poet’s visit to Sweden is born out of necessity: he and his wife go
to say goodbye to a dying relative. In the midst of the pain, we find Scrimgeour
at work and, in so doing, affirming life. As never before, Scrimgeour explores
the world of creativity and imagination, as well as the vast range of emotions
in the human spectrum. Read this new collection by the author of The Route,
We Are What We Have Loved, and Monet in the Twentieth Century. Now Available!
Irony's back. Coyote. Crow. Lear's fool. Traditional
trickster figures cross boundaries, incite chaos, and turn the world on its
head. Trickster Tales, by well-known chaos writer JP Briggs (Turbulent
Mirror; Looking Glass Universe; Seven Life Lessons of Chaos; and
Fractals) updates the ancient trickster idea. In this funny and disturbing
new collection of flash fiction and longer stories, we follow a psychiatrist as
his sanity is devoured by a woman who dreams herself a panther; an airborne bow
tie; an engineer visiting a prostitute, becoming stripped of his science; a
magician conjuring up a devil both fictitious and real. Declared dead by the
pundits, old fashioned literary irony returns in Trickster Tales.
This collection examines memory and awareness of what has been, where we are and where we might be going. Using wit and steering clear of sentimentality, Orfanella’s poems deliver a plethora of gritty, reality-infused observations contrasted with delightful whimsy and pop-cultural references. The poet explores decades-long change across America, in his heart, and in his family with honesty and reverence. His conclusions will both startle and move the engaged reader.
Now Available! by Will Bless ISBN: 0-9753388-9-7 In the vividly imagined stories comprising White River - written in a prose of lyrical clarity and sparseness - Will Bless evokes the stony uplands and rocky glacial streams of Vermont, divining the inner lives and sometimes haunted dreams of its inhabitants, and their search for meaning on uniquely American landscapes. These tales span from the mid-nineteenth century to modern day, illuminating both the lives of soldiers and the historical soul of the central Green Mountains.
by Craig Wolf ISBN: 0-9753388-2-X How thick is your skin? Think your nerve endings are safe?
This baker’s dozen of dark delicacies from a rising voice in fantastic
literature begs to differ. Meet the strange, wonderful and truly frightening in
a music pirate’s worst nightmare, a god whose vengeance knows the patience of
ages, a woman with a fearsome weapon in her mind that wants out, a school bus of
children that may be bound for a terrible fate, a man returned from the grave to
confront his killer — his own dead father, and more. From divine madness to
desire unchecked, these stories aim for your soft spots with an intensity and
fury that will both shiver and simmer by your side when you turn out the light. Now Available!
Take a journey
through landscapes where the strange and sinister collide with the poignant and
tender – countries of blinding lights and tarnished (k)nights. Here, magical
realism shatters doors marked Ordinary. Hardboiled Egg will satisfy the
lover of gritty mysteries, but these short stories also probe dark hidden niches
of the human soul. Included in these travels are glimpses of love, sex,
spirituality and the supernatural. Disc jockeys and nude bars, medieval
werewolves and time travelers, damsels in distress and distressful damsels,
ghosts and midnight masses, stop-motion animation, Hollyweird actors, dead rats,
lost fathers, and masked Mexican wrestlers: Do you dare bite into this
hardboiled egg? Now Available!
ISBN: 0-9753388-7-0 In Spirits of Texas and New England, Oscar De Los Santos, Ph.D. chronicles over one hundred authentic cases of paranormal phenomena in and around Texas and New England homes, neighborhoods, ranches, roadways, schools, apartments, and condo complexes. Texas and New England are two of the most haunted regions in the United States. The author has spent a lifetime living in both locations and collecting these true encounters with the unknown. Some of these tales are inspiring, while others are disturbing. A few may best be described as horrifying. Now Available!
From the
American Library Association's 2004 Award Nominated Author of The Life
and Deaths of Carter Falls comes the latest Claire Daniels mystery:
The Massabesic Murders, set in 1935 New England. This gripping
mystery serves up Nazi’s, organized crime lords, drugs, guns, murder and
suspense enough for the hardest of the hard-boiled reader. Once again
it’s Claire Daniels and her assistant Rachel Jackson (from The Life and
Deaths of Carter Falls and Two's Company, Three You Die!)
against secret, dark forces. On a lonely, snow covered city street
in Manchester, NH, Claire and her cousin, Federal Agent Danny St. Claire,
are viciously gunned down. Danny is killed and she is forced to
unravel the mystery of cryptic clues he left for her before she joins the
dead. If this were a movie it would be black and white. If you love
Chandler, Spillane, Hammett, and Gardner, you'll love this historical
mystery.
Beating a dead horse is easy. It's
dead. Hit it all you want, it won't hit back. Watch out for these
stories, though. They bite and scratch and put you face to face with your
darkest nightmares. Meet a reporter who knows too much about a sinister
crime, a woman obsessed with a dead serial killer, a hitchhiker with a
magical gift, a tooth-fairy who won't take no for an answer, a loner who
gets his blow-up doll pregnant, and an abortion nurse who has a plan for
those unwanted fetuses. From a basement turned into a torture chamber to
a Nebraska highway you'd beg not to be stranded on, these twelve stories
and five stage plays will lash out at your imagination and leave you
whimpering for more. Now Available!
Breakout: A Search for Being is an important work in African-American literature that further exposes the imposed separation between so-called “black” and “white” cultures, recounting the buried thoughts and feelings of two African-American men who came of age in predominantly white academic environments. Leaving categories behind, Wright and his companion have a personal conversation dealing with the universal aspects of a misshapen culture, including materialism, racism, and the denial of true individualism, while expressing the complexities of being black in America and negotiating educational opportunity, taboos, questions of “selling out,” and definitions of success. An everyman’s autobiographical novel with a twist, Breakout leaves the reader knowing that asking the avoided questions and being true to one’s self is the pivotal beginning of any quest for knowledge, as individuals and as a nation of amalgamated identities.
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