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The Red Door and Other Stories

by K.E. Karl

The stories in The Red Door are quirky, humorous, and eclectic. Many of them are short—less than 1,500 words—in various genres: gripping thrillers, mangled fairy tales, ghastly ghost stories, a horrible horror story, scintillating SciFi, and dark RomComs. K. E. Karl, the author of Our Man in Mbabane, writes light, entertaining tales, and short thrillers with a wry sense of humor. Enjoy!

Twisted Love

by Robert Bigaouette

“Twisted Love” is a work of fiction that tells the story of a deadly love triangle resulting from unconquerable obsession. Let's explore the dark recesses of human desire through plot and characterization. Tommy Landis is a young man of Italian and Irish descent who lives in Brooklyn, New York and works at a messenger center in Manhattan. He is an attractive man who seems to hide behind Woody Allen – like glasses and a shield of insecurity. As the story begins, he lives a lonely life, socializi... more

A Quest for Survival

by Robert Perrin

In the midst of everyday challenges in life… There should be no more place for hate. Life is hard as it is, and challenges seem to come at every person nonstop. With a lot going on outside the house, inside each home should be everybody’s refuge. The family, though not perfect, should always be the source of strength, support, and love. But what if the chaos of the outside world is so strong that it destroys the family and the home? This is what happens in the book A Quest for Survival.... more

The Nihilist's Pocket Survival Guide to Modern Society

by Tungyn Cheque

The perfect antidote for Boomer, Millennial, and GenXYZ angst! This handbook is a must read for anyone trying to figure out and negotiate the landscape of work, home, family relationships, debt, dating and all that modern life offers. How best to tackle these challenges? The nihilist offers readers his well-honed suggestions. This survival guide is a satirical masterpiece, offering a much-needed intoxicating cocktail of humorous light-hearted criticism of the times we live in.

The Spirit In My Shoes.

by John Michael Cummings

Featuring twenty-three stories, John Michael Cummings’s debut story collection brims with the vitality and complexity of our shared humanity. In tales that conjure comparisons to John Updike, Raymond Carver, and William Gay, Cummings tells the truth about loneliness, relationships, and the common struggles we all face with prose both precise and vibrant. Cummings’s voice, assured yet questioning, will stay with you long after you’ve finished The Spirit In My Shoes.

Tears of Love, Smiles of Indifference: Soulful poetry to smile at life's struggles with (JB POETRY)

by John Bowie

‘In the style of styles of Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Charles Bukowski and Rupi Kaur, John Bowie's third poetry collection is a celebration of love, life and inescapable death.’ Soulful poetry to smile at life's struggles with. INTRODUCTION Life’s no more black and white than we are one thing or the other. The boxes we’re put in by our upbringing, schooling and society aren’t us. Despite what we’re told we should feel and be. We can often get so sad we smile, and so happy we cry purely at th... more

DEAR GOSEI

by Jorge Bosch

After a tragic teenage trauma, a young man fights to respect himself and embarks on a journey of self-discovery, facing his family to get the answers he has been searching for for the last 12 years. John, a good-looking, and athletic 14-year-old from an affluent family in the suburbs of Los Angeles, is a victim of sexual abuse at the hands of his uncle. Family interests will prevail above all else. The mother decides to keep the incident secret to avoid scandal and the bad reputation of the f... more

Maeve in the Morning

by Amanda Gale

He's been a thorn in her side since they were teenagers. But is her nemesis in fact her greatest supporter of all? It all started senior year in high school. Maeve Sheering was closing in on valedictorian and running a meaningful campaign for class president. But her efforts were thwarted by Kyle Langahan, the bright but cocky son of scientists intent on taking down a local chemical company that was poisoning the town's water. It didn’t help that a chance encounter with him triggered events t... more

Naked Love Berlin

by Jin DeLuong

The sexy gay novel that reveals all New York, Paris, San Francisco – back in their heydays, these cities were outrageous fun for gays and artists. Berlin was the forgotten ghetto, but post-war and post-wall, Berlin has become Europe's queerest city. In Naked Love Berlin, experience the city through the lives of four gay and bisexual men as they learn that the party's only fun when earned. Kay is a Canadian with a corporate job. He struggles for a fabulous European life, but fabulous and mo... more

Eleonora and Joseph. Passion, Tragedy, and Revolution in the Age of Enlightenment. A Novel.

by Julieta Almeida Rodrigues

As the novel opens, aristocratic Eleonora Fonseca Pimentel pleads with the High Court of Naples to be beheaded instead of hanged like a criminal. One of the leading revolutionaries of her time, Eleonora contributed to the establishment of the Neapolitan Republic, based on the ideals of the French Revolution. Imprisoned in 1799 after the return of the Bourbon Monarchy - due to her work as editor-in-chief of Il Monitore Napoletano - and while waiting to be sentenced, she writes a memoir. Here, she... more

The Worth of a Ruby

by Lya Badgley

It’s 1995 and Mallory Jones, a Seattle chef, embarks on an adventurous journey to Rangoon, Burma, in pursuit of a dream project. Immersed in a foreign world of beauty, stifling heat and political turmoil, Mallory's life takes an unexpected turn when she befriends a British diplomat and a charismatic French gem dealer, unwittingly becoming entangled in a treacherous plot to steal a priceless Burmese ruby. Haunted by her traumatic childhood, Mallory must confront her own capacity for violence and ... more

The Dogs of War

by Thomas Roke

The year is 1427. The Hundred Years War rages on. France is virtually extinguished. Amid the chaos of war, the ruthless Gilles de Rais - Marshal of France, murderer, Devil-worshipper – ransacks the monastery at Mont Baiard in search a holy relic, the Sword of Alaric, tied to an ancient prophecy: he who wields the sword will rule over the empire of the Caesars, just like the man for whom it was made once did. De Rais is thwarted, however; two novice monks escape the sack of the monastery with the... more

Hell Is a World Without You

by Jason Kirk

Rarely has an Evangelical upbringing been depicted with the relentless honesty, wide-ranging empathy, and Superbad-meets-Siddhartha playfulness of HELL IS A WORLD WITHOUT YOU. During the time of Pizza Hut buffets, 9/11, and all-night Mario Kart parties, a grieving teenager faces a mortal crossroads: fire-and-brimstone certainty vs. forbidden love. And whether or not you’ve ever begged God to delay the Rapture (so you could have time to lose your virginity), that kid’s story is about you.

The Man With Sapphire Eyes ISBN: 978-1-64890-655-8

by Larry Mellman

Venice, 1371. As war upends their lives, their families, and their republic, Nico Saltano, ballot boy to Doge Andrea Contarini, and Donato Venturi, a celebrated Black swordsman, fall in love during a clandestine diplomatic mission and run the risk of burning at the stake for their love. When an enemy alliance attacks Venice, their love is tried and tested in a warscape of greed, treachery, loyalty, and heroism. Surviving, sustaining their love, and protecting their republic radically redefines ... more

Unfit to Print: A Modern Media Satire

by G. Wayne Miller

What happens when SuperGoodMedia, a ridiculous out-of-town newspaper chain buys the venerable Boston Daily Tribune, which has published every day since 1823? Heads roll and the few journalists left wonder when it will be their turn. That’s protagonist Nick Nolan’s worry, too – until he gets exclusive coverage of a single mother who claims that the Virgin Mary is speaking to the world through her young comatose daughter. Nolan not only keeps his job but becomes an international celebrity as Th... more

The Gifts of Christmas

by Runjun Lahkar

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