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Triptych Unhinged: Anecdotes & Stories

by Scott G. Harvey

Triptych Unhinged is a collection of anecdotes and stories exploring the oddness and beauty of the human condition. Chance encounters, honest misunderstandings, and neurotic ruminations are the stuff of everyday experience in these bite-sized tales. Wise and humorous, these are stories for, and from, a troubled mind longing for more.

The Melancholy Strumpet Master

by Zeb Beck

Gilmore Crowell’s anthropological study of Tijuana sex workers had his dissertation advisor cheering him on. But that was years ago, before his best sources in the streetwalker community up and vanished. Now he’s living in a downtown Los Angeles boarding house for seniors and listlessly trying to jumpstart his research anew. The faculty elders have grown impatient, he’s too broke to pay his parking tickets, and his girlfriend recently dumped him. To stay afloat, Gil takes a job teaching in a juv... more

The Oak People

by Ruth Mohrman

Home, for the Oak People, is a cave on the slopes of the Antelope Nose mountain. They live by hunting wild game and foraging for edible plants and fruits, but their way of life is under threat. The antelope and deer do not come in such numbers as they once did and hunger beckons. At a gathering on the plain at full moon, Ansa, a young woman from the desert, is mated with Bidari of the Oak People. After the feast, Ansa will come to live with him in the cave on the mountain. Will she be acce... more

A Promise Kept

by Victor Friedmann

In August 1941 Otto and Lenka Friedmann stepped out of their apartment in Zagreb, Croatia, and never returned. During the next 15 years they first evaded the Nazi death machine by escaping into the mountains of Croatia and then with the aid of Partisan militia they found temporary sanctuary in Italy. With the aid of refugee organizations American Joint Distribution Committee, AJDC, and Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, HIAS, as well as countless individuals who helped them along the way, they fin... more

Annie's Apple (Second Chance Book 2)

by John A. Heldt

Six years after emerging from a fountain of youth, siblings Bill, Paul, and Annie Carpenter, time travelers from 2022, make their way in 1911. In New York, Bill and wife Cassie finish a year as educators and struggle to start a family, while Annie tries her hand as a society reporter. In Arizona, Paul and Andy Lee, sergeants and brothers-in-law, attempt to keep the Mexican Revolution from spilling across the border. For all, life marches on. Then the soldiers receive new orders, Paul and A... more

The Lady and the Pendragon

by Elsa Watson

In war-torn, mystical, Dark Ages Britain, Lady Ygraine, alienated from her husband and drawn to the enigmatic Uther Pendragon, must help her people fight the invading Saxons and find true love with Uther so they can fulfill their destiny as Arthur’s parents and shape the future of their land.

Driving Toward Destiny

by Stuart Scott

It's 1971, and Jack Higgins has just graduated from college. For him, it means the beginning of his adult life, but it also means he's eligible for the Vietnam draft. Jack is certain he will die if sent overseas but feels he has little control over the course of his life. His parents want him to interview for career-oriented jobs, just like his father, but this is not the life Jack seeks. In order to ﬁnd his way-his own way-he must get away from his family and land on his own two feet. Jack l... more

Arms Wide Asunder

by S. Jay Bose

In 1774, renowned British general Robert Clive is found dead with his throat cut. His hasty and secretive burial in an unmarked grave marks the end of a life defined by ambition, cunning, and greed in the name of building an empire. Two decades earlier, Clive is a promising young general facing insurmountable odds. Locked in a gruelling power struggle against Diwan Mohan Roy of Bengal, Clive’s mere 6000 troops face an army of 30,000 men. But with the help of the powerful—and treacherous—banker ... more

Swimming to Jerusalem

by Seth Bornstein

Bram Goodman was the coolest, most confident and self-assured guy in New York City – or so he thought. A few years later he is anything but. The story opens on the French Riviera where he is finishing up a summer gig as a swimming instructor. It is six-thirty in the morning and his roommate is singing off key to the Clash. Pulling the sheet over his head he ponders what comes next. Thirty-two years later the “next” has happened. Despite any grand plan, Bram’s life took its course. He met Liz ... more

The Darker Shades of Night

by Burt Freiman

This is the story of a multi-faceted struggle, a young woman’s campaign against the strictures imposed upon her by her nation, culture, village and faith, each an epitome of male domination. Is she devout, a searcher, standing her ground, a smaller cyclone, careening within the greater, twisting in opposition to its Coriolis motion, lost in the wrong hemisphere? What befalls the characters happened to real people. The historical accuracy is backed by 400+ footnotes. A recent reader ca... more

Life by Pumpkin

by Leslie Popp

Life by Pumpkin chronicles the heartwarming adventures of Pumpkin, an orange tabby with determined curiosity, a desire for undivided attention, and dreams of world dominance. He provides instruction on how to train your human and an analysis of their odd rituals, such as standing under falling water in the morning, changing their fur daily, and being obsessed with portable, lighted rectangles that periodically make annoying noises. Pumpkin offers his views on everything, including how to handle ... more

Dunne's Landing

by kl kiefer

As a young woman, Jonna Dunne's fast track to a successful future is decimated with the sudden absence of her powerful father. She and her mother, who is also left without a shred of security, struggle to survive by moving from big city luxury and status into rural obscurity. Jonna's identity, exclusively formed by association with her important father, is nullified as she spends her days staring out the window at a soybean field. On a whim, she saunters into the world of ne'er do... more

House on Fire

by D. Liebhart

How far would you go to keep a promise?

Bernadette Rogers swore she’d never put her father in a nursing home. Does that include euthanizing him to keep her word? Her mother thinks it does. Bernadette isn’t so sure. And even if she were, it’s not like you can walk into a drug store and buy Nembutal.

As an ICU nurse Bernadette's no stranger to the blunt realities of death, but her mother’s request to help her father—who’s disappear... more

American Strays

by Douglas Richardson

A PERSISTENT ECHO

by Brian Kaufman

1897. August Simms—explorer, soldier, world traveler—returns to Rhome, Texas to chase one last adventure. Hundreds of UFO sightings have been reported, seven years before the Wright brother’s flight, and August intends to solve the mystery. Instead, the past comes calling. A murder, a lynching, and the death of his wife fifteen years earlier are inextricably tied to the present. The adventure August finds will not be the one he expects…

New Normal

by Michelle Paris

After the sudden death of her husband, Emilie Russell just wants to feel normal. But being a middle-aged widow doesn’t come with a how-to manual. Her well-meaning friend, Viv, believes the cure to all that ails is simple: a new man. So, she sets Emilie up with her handsome and charming new neighbor, widower Colin. There’s only one problem with the plan—Colin is gay. Emilie embarks on a rollicking journey of self-discovery with Colin as her mentor and best friend. From learning to swipe right... more

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