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Hell is For Mailmen: A Novella

by Chris Griffy

"I don't know which I found more surprising about the afterlife; that it has a mailman, or that I was it."
A man wakes up in a barren '50s-styled subdivision to discover he is, by all evidence, its mailman. As he delivers letters to empty houses he wonders what this is; why this job?
Until he finds something at 320 Sycamore that changes everything.

Computer Love: A Digital Anthology

by Ricardo Pierre-Louis

A god overlooks the world he created with restless dissatisfaction, and contemplates ending his misery. A young painter sees a dazzling woman from across the coffee shop and quickly falls in love, but her past brings him unspeakable shame. A gambling addict hides his debts to save his marriage, until a shady executive demands her money back or she'll squeal. Computer Love is a collection of stories about people who have experienced a profound sense of loss and seek to deeply root their sense of ... more

The Bargain Shopper

by WC Latour

“It’s almost cheaper than shoplifting,” raves The Bargain Shopper about his system for deep-discount shopping. Born into the ‘wrong century’, Charles Rochambeau despises technology, computers, and internet shopping. He was cursed with ‘bad timing’ as his father squandered the family fortune on Wall Street. As a scion of the legendary French general who helped Washington defeat the British in The Revolutionary War, he has become a ‘Certified Professional Shopper’ in the service of an arist... more

Letters to a Savage

by Zachary Shadoan

Letters to a Savage follows the epic tale of Spanish conquistador, Rodrigo Diaz, during the fall of the Aztec Empire. Rodrigo becomes disillusioned with the Spanish cause and falls in love with Atzi, a beautiful young Aztec woman. Betrayed and left to die, Rodrigo must navigate his way through an uncertain and intriguing new world as the countrymen from his old life come to destroy what he has come to love.

Operation DFC

by Ashley Fontainne

I came to rescue my imprisoned brothers, but now I’m one. Arriving in Thailand for my first black-op, Operation DFC, as part of an elite team ready to act on recent intel that over a thousand men and/or their remains are still behind enemy lines, Bangkok is our last stopping point before slipping into Vietnam and extracting as many American prisoners as possible. For me, this is personal. From 1971 to 1973, I was a POW; and now, ten years later, I work for the CIA under the fake identity of ... more

MADAME POMMERY, a Champagne Widows Novel

by Rebecca Rosenberg

Madame Pommery (March, 2023) A Champagne Widows novel Champagne, France, 1860. With the surprise of a newborn at forty years old, Madame Pommery is suddenly widowed and must support her family. With no experience, she starts a champagne house and invents brut champagne, breaking society and patriarchal rules. Wanting a winery to host customers, she takes over the city dump and builds the most spectacular castle winery in the world with eighteen kilometers of underground caves to store champa... more

Blue Billy's Rogue Lexicon

by David Lawrence

William Dempsey was a wonder among wonders. By 18, he had risen from a gang of London street rogues to be the personal plaything of the Marquess of Argyll. Maintained in splendour, celebrated at masquerades – with everything he could wish for. Now all has come crashing down. He is put out in the rain without patronage, his West End apartment, or a place among the ton. So on a stormy night, he arrives at a house in Southwark. Marathon Moll’s in the Mint – the bawdyhouse he worked in during ... more

Hugh: A Hero without a Novel

by David Lawrence

This romp through 18th century England is like nothing told in the era of Tom Jones – a sparkling, humorous, and poetical coming-of-age 242 years in the making. From an old family trunk comes a manuscript which never saw the light of day. Its pages tell of the life, times, and blackmail of a young queer aristocrat stepping into 1768 Society… A time of wig powder and heeled slippers. Duels and social climbers, when the most popular member of the government is declared an outlaw. Hugh Entwi... more

Beyond The Headlights

by allan davis

SYNOPSIS: BEYOND THE HEADLIGHTS Seven-year-old learning-disabled Aiyana, who lives with her mother, Mona, in the northern Ontario Broken Deer Double Wide Trailer Park, spends her time playing Chopin on the church piano. The why and the how of “Chopin" she can’t explain, other than to say she feels like two people, him and her Realizing Aiyana is a musical savant with the gift of acausal parallelism, Broken Deer parish priest, Father Clark, contacts Dr. Jerry McCoy at the Faculty of Music,... more

Hope for the Worst

by Kate Brandt

Ellie is twenty-four years old, stuck in a dead-end job, and questioning the meaning of life when she meets the much older Calvin. It’s as if her deepest wish has been granted. Star of the Buddhist teaching circuit in New York’s Greenwich Village, his wisdom is exactly what she’s been seeking. When she becomes the center of his attention, it’s almost pure bliss… until it becomes clear that Calvin expects sex as part of the bargain. At first reluctant, Ellie gradually falls ever more deeply in... more

Montraville, Episodes in an Early Appalachian Life

by Ron Griswold

While this book is not a history, neither is it a complete fiction. There are lots of facts which, tied together with the fiction, tell the story of the goodness and accomplishments, as well as the shortcomings and frailties, in other words the humanity, of the founder of Weaverville, North Carolina. But in a larger sense the facts and the fiction paint a picture of the period from the latter part of the 18th century through the late 19th century in Western North Carolina. And, by extension, the... more

The Journal

by Tiffany Joans

Cadence Anderson promises to fulfill her mother’s last wish by leaving her husband, Dan, and moving back into her childhood home with her eight-year-old daughter, Madelyn. After returning to her hometown in Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts, Cadence develops two bonds that shape her future: a friendship with Will, a Vietnam Vet, who is discovering his purpose in life after his wife is killed in a tragic accident, and Michael, a drifter who comes into her life unexpectedly looking for a place to call hom... more

Aurumia

by Robert Millon

Three travelers discover a modern lost civilization in the Amazon. Will they make it out alive to tell about it? In the vein of Gulliver's Travels, Aurumia is a social satire. It satirizes modern capitalism with its corporate greed, social and economic inequities, political corruption, and dysfunctional health care system.

Because of Mercy

by PD Dawn

Set in New Zealand in the early twentieth century against the backdrop of a small rural town and WW1, this is a story of hope, faith and love, and a merciful God whose ways are not ours.

THE DELCO YEARS

by Bill Owens

In Bill Owens’ novel THE DELCO YEARS a disillusioned evangelical Christian unwittingly sets loose a lethal virus after colluding with post-Soviet scientists from the dark web. The virus quickly spreads, and due to the Saccharomyces yeast strain, only craft beer drinkers are left to piece together some semblance of civilization.

Knightess (Eleanor's Tale Book 1)

by J.A. Stein

“He must not find me,” she whispered to herself. Her thoughts moved through a hundred terrifying memories and the work she had done to hide. The struggles she had been through. The humiliation. “Ah, really now? And how much is not finding you worth?” Sir Alec Earnblaec has discovered Ella’s secret. She isn’t a commoner as she so pretends. Her name isn’t even Ella. She is Lady Eleanor de Levan, wife of the disreputable Sir Lezay, and he wants her back. Fortunately, or perhaps unfortunately ... more

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