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Deathbed Confession: My Son Was a Stolen Baby!

by Thadeus Parkland

Mary, near death, reveals to her daughter-in-law the unfathomable act she committed some fifty years ago. The man she raised was not hers; she took him from a young unwed girl she befriended on a city bus. Her own childhood took an unexpected turn leaving her sterile, leading her to commit such a heinous act. The action resulted from her deep-seated desire to have a child of her own.
When Mary befriends the young Beatrice, alone and pregnant in The City, helping another person was ... more

A Nickel and A Trinket

by MAX WATSON

Stefan works street corners around town, giving strangers the gift of their Time of Death in exchange for a nickel. Mona has worked the streets from a young age and years later, she fights to free as many lives as she can from the fate she suffered as a child. When a dangerous hooded figure has his sights set out to destroy all her efforts, Desdamona must rely on Stefan, the one person she’s afraid to get close to, or watch as everything she’s built is set aflame.

Exploration

by David Tory

Exploration: The Stanfield Chronicles by David Tory is a tale of high seas adventure as chronicled by Issac Stanfield, a young British sailor aboard a merchantman bound for the contentious New England Colonies. Through resilience, initiative, and luck, Isaac finds himself a participant and observer in the perilous explorations preceding the Mayflower’s arrival in New England in 1620. Charming and undaunted, he charts a course from shipmate to spy to confidant of key strategists during tumultuous... more

Pillowhumper

by Jason Hyde

Crazy Tinder dates. Kinky sex accidents. Depression and STD’s. These are things Jordan deals with after his pornography and alcohol addictions ruin his marriage. At first thrilled to be single again, he soon finds himself lost in a pitiful life of drinking, masturbating, serial dating, and exploring his bisexuality in a desperate attempt for happiness. With him is his best friend Kiana; a queer, fowl-mouthed photographer struggling with depression and her body image. Together, they navigate thro... more

Perchance Freedom

by Michael Thomas Brimbau

Perchance Freedom is a murder mystery set in New England and the civil war South in 1861. Emily White is a fledgling journalist whose instinct is to investigate her stories before reporting them. Her editor at the Daily Whaler in New Bedford introduces Emily to the Underground Railroad and enlists her on secret mission of inquiry and danger. The unexpected pragmatism of subjugation opens her eyes wide. And as she defies the brutality and injustice of plantation life, and the reality of her un... more

Careless Love

by Steve Zettler

Grace has gone to Hawaii to escape Southern California; with suicide very much on her mind. It’s 1979. Her philandering husband, Nick, a successful film director, has walked out on her and is carrying on yet another illicit affair. On Grace’s first night at Honolulu’s lush Pickering Club she meets Lee, a man who also has a need for escape. They recognize this bond immediately, along with an emotional and physical attraction that cannot be ignored. Enter Ray Slack, brutal and sadistic substance a... more

Alice's Adventures under Water

by Lenny de Rooy

A threequel to "Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland", written in Lewis Carroll's familiar style, but packed with new puns, parodies, and poetry - as well as 42 illustrations in John Tenniel's style! This time, Alice explores an under-water world.

Married, Living in Italy: Stories

by Misty Urban

What unites the unlikely protagonists in these very different short stories is their search for refuge. Whether their escape is imagined or tantalizingly out of reach, these characters are crushingly believable and endearingly real in their defenses, their damage, their humor, and their sheer will as they turn suffering into salvation. Full of disappearing children and surfacing secrets, fragile triumphs and imminent loss, these eloquent tales laced with hilarity and grief illuminate shared h... more

The Last First Kiss

by Walter Bennett

Ace Sinclair, now in his seventies, has one eye on a hurricane churning up from the south and the other on his old high school sweetheart, J’nelle Reade, whom he has invited to his Outer Banks beach house for a sentimental journey into their pasts. But the past is with them more than they know, and they are soon pulled into a haunting search among old memories for betrayals, mistakes, missed chances and ultimately the hard truths of their lives. As a dangerous hurricane turns in the Atlantic and... more

THE POPE'S BUTCHER

by Joseph C. Gioconda

Abandoned as a child and raised by the Church, young Sebastian works tirelessly in his pursuit of priesthood. But when a shadowy hooded figure passes him a scroll, his careful plans face a turning point. It appears his name has drawn the attention of the Inquisition and his attendance is commanded at once—for retribution, information, or something else, he does not know. Father Heinrich Institoris the Grand Inquisitor is lauded as a visionary man, driven by a burning desire to cleanse the wor... more

The Divine Comedy: The New Translation by Gerald J. Davis

by Gerald J. Davis

The beloved classic by Dante in a new translation. Inferno. Purgatory. Paradise. Complete and Unabridged.

Hotel Bars and the Art of Being Conscious

by August Delp

Consciousness, the meaning of life, friends and lovers, alcohol, life's progression, experience and existence—all the good stuff—are rolled together in this upmarket fiction novel. After dropping off her only son at a Swiss boarding school, independent and self-sufficient Daisy becomes a hotel bartender in order to pursue experience and search for meaning, looking to explore life's next stage. She befriends Coop, an advertising executive and bar patron, who is also a recent empty nester. Toge... more

Scarlet Oak

by Angie Weiland-Crosby

Tree sprite Scarlet Oak exists as an outlier in her forested community. Wingless since early youth, she longs for a more profound life. Then, one autumn night in 1977, an autistic boy hangs himself from her tree. Heartbroken, Scarlet bargains with Smis, Southern Maryland’s Grim Reaper, for one cycle of seasons to find proof that that boy’s spirit belongs to the Light, not the Dark. Scarlet morphs into human form and is accepted into the boy’s grieving family on an isolated farm, during which tim... more

Knitting

by Robin Merrill

Ask anyone: Jason DeGrave leads a charmed life. He’s the handsome hero, bound for greatness. But Jason has a secret, and it’s killing him. He doesn’t know what to do and asking for help will only make things worse. Can the seven senior saints of New Beginnings Church make a difference, or is this one bigger than them?

Stan, Stan, the Bacteria Man

by Stephen M.A.

● Stan the bacteria man appeared in the Oval Office on a gloomy Tuesday morning in late August.
● A wildly weird journey into the indeterminate future of this Great Nation full of 0.50-inch service weapon rounds.

He only wants to talk. The heavily armed humans only want to shoot.

Tale as old as time.

On the surface, gray goo gradually becomes warm skin. But underneath beats a heart of gold (or peanut butter, or ball bearings, or meat, as suits the occasion).... more

Light Fracture

by Deena C. Bouknight

Agnes’ plummet inside the Morris Island lighthouse became the stuff of local lore and ghost stories. But was her actual death driven by mental illness? Or, did the lighthouse keeper play a part? The teacher? This well-researched historical literary fiction illumines struggles meant to stay shrouded in a time when patience was a virtue, a lighthouse saved lives, and an earthquake was the furthest notion in the minds of those living in the lowcountry.

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