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The Devil's Widow and Other Stories

by Richard Average

Ten magical realism stories of Man's relation to the Sea,Love, Life and Death. In the midst of the drudgery of our here-below they evoke a bright spirit world where the flame of consciousness burns true and free.And maybe a wee bit Pixie-ish.

The Architect Of Law

by Michael Jeffery Blair

Two men. One a wealthy corporate lawyer from Los Angeles to whom success has come easy. The other a former homeless child from the streets of Rio aching for the big money. Both are reaching for something impossible, something that has always eluded them.

For ascending law firm associate Randal DeVergeres, success had come without much effort. He is riding high on a free-running global economy that has reordered the world. He had attended the right schools, cultivated the right contacts,... more

Devon: The Wild Adventures of Devon and Friends

by Elena N. Marcus

Ages: 4 to 10 years old. Devon's friends, Picco and the panda bear get in trouble at the zoo and are rescued by the boy's first grader friend, Shirley, and her schoolmates. A 74-page illustrated story written in rhymes and in play format, to be read aloud, interactively.

Sudden Rivers

by Michael Jeffery Blair

A mid-level U.S. diplomat is sent on a mission to Egypt the day before a military coup that nobody expected. Suddenly, the streets aren’t safe for anyone, especially an American, especially one who mysteriously begins to show fantastic healing powers.

Set alternately in Washington DC, Cairo and Alexandria, “Sudden Rivers” takes us into the richly imagined world of a modern Egypt and spins a tale of a complex society in flux told through the eyes of a man in crisis,&nbs... more

Just Mercy

by Dorothy Van Soest

Bernadette Baker lives through every mother’s worst nightmare when her adopted sixteen-year-old daughter, Veronica, is brutally murdered by a deranged stranger. The shocking and random act of violence sets off a chain of events that causes Bernadette’s family to face unimaginable pain and question everything they hold dear. Ten years later Veronica’s killer, Raelynn Blackwell, is facing execution. Despite being united in their grief over Veronica, the Baker family is deeply divided about the de... more

Untethered

by Katie Hayoz

Sixteen-year-old Sylvie isn’t comfortable in her own skin. In fact, there are times she can’t even manage to stay inside it. She accidentally astral projects in all the worst places -- from the cafeteria to the car -- slipping out of her body and fainting to the floor. After years of trying to ignore her ability to astral project, Sylvie finally decides to embrace it. But she also decides to embrace the shadows that accompany her on her out-of-body experiences. Opening herself up to the shad... more

Reel Sharpe

by Jenna Baker

After working as a producer in reality television for the past eight years, Victoria Sharpe knows how important it is to get the shot. When she teams up with two unwilling detectives on her latest gig, a real-life detective series called Murder Live!, her unorthodox style and in-your-face approach throws the cops for a loop. She asks a grieving mother to redo a camera take to show stronger emotion and nearly gets kicked off the project when she decides to go undercover to try to solve the ca... more

The Fog Index

by Pat Jourdan

People are puzzled, trapped or inquisitive as a painting comes to life and an hotel disappears. A story goes on trial, love-letters surface, protestors stagger past ; these stories give shape to random events.

The UnStealer

by Joshua Wilson

The UnStealer is an interactive story about a thief who sneaks into situations and steals the "un" from the front of descriptive words ultimately turning negative events and feelings into positive ones. It is recommended for ages 4+.

We'll See You When We Get There: Stories

by Jude Joseph Lovell

A resonant, diverse short story collection from the author of the acclaimed novel BLUE SIX. A man struggling with personal tragedy and financial hardship unwillingly mimics his father's breakdown ... a traveler spends two haunting nights in an isolated British farmhouse ... a middle-aged woman with a secret guides a waylaid youth through a burned world towards a towering monolith ... a 40-year-old father exchanges vivid rock n' roll dreams for the sake of his young daughter's future ... a would-... more

Blue Six: A Novel

by Jude Joseph Lovell

In 2033’s tarnished America, an ambitious, unnamed filmmaker, employed by an educational production company called Formative Experience Films, has earned his first directorial gig. The assignment: travel back in time 40 years to Fort Benning, Georgia, in 1993, to shoot a documentary concerning the acclaimed fiction writer Joel Duvell’s own first job as a platoon leader in the United States Army. Over a six-week production, as the film crew documents the young officer’s life, we witness an artist... more

A Home for Wayward Husbands

by Johnee Cherry

Bitzy Smith has big-time man trouble times four. This intertwined story follows Bitzy through her first, but brief, love affair to the present day where she has expanded, but maybe not grown-up. From the time she had been old enough to sashay, Bitzy has been attracted to the wrong men, the guys with a big, invisible L for loser stamped on their foreheads. When Beau, her long, lost husband shows up looking for a place to crash, Bitzy unwittingly takes him into her home, but he hasn't returned alo... more

Is There Enough?

by Faye Hartzell

Noah is curious and watches everything. He asks questions when he doesn't undertand things and searches for answers. Something exciting is happening at his house. He has checked the dining room, the living room, and the bedrooms but he still wonders, is there enough?

A Simple Kind of Man

by Nathaniel C. Oliver

A Simple Kind of Man is a novel of interlocking episodes detailing the lives of three generations of Alabama men named Douglas MacLemore: the first, an uneducated Depression-era farmer who is called to preach the Word of God; his son, "Junior," who rebels against his father by chasing after the secular pleasures of alcohol, violence, and women; and Junior's son "Dugz," a pierced and tattooed high school dropout who doesn't know what he wants, only that it is something that he cannot have. The s... more

Go to Liberty

by Patricia Hilliard

GO TO LIBERTY is a novel about a community’s effort to preserve a public park.

X-Novo

by Ken Hagdal

20#6 AD. Following the discovery of the genuine Dead Sea Scrolls, women learn it’s a tampered-with version of the Old Testament which was used to keep their foremothers in submission for nearly two millennia. Hilarity fails to ensue. After a first, scorned, attempt at enforcing the female-friendly precepts, the not-so-weaker gender ends up revolting and snatching the reins of the US administration from the callous hands of Patriarchy. Two novelties will be born out of their reforms towards a ... more

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