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This place looks a filthy mess, Margie thought. “Three miserable years,” Babs announced, tromping around the kitchen, bagel
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A Short Story from the book Comes this Time to Float: 19 Short Stories by Stephen Geez In the end, bad weather
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Ten minutes till. The clock beside my mattress flings every spent second into my lap, nudging me so much closer to whatever is
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Holler Song Short Fiction By Stephen Geez Retta danced the willy-nilly, grabbed at slick branches, then lost
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Jimmy McNamara’s hand lingered atop that skinny shifter, eagerly awaiting the jump from second to third gear, and the growing
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I don’t know why I even bother. It’s not like we were ever close. You failed me when Dad died. You failed me and Jeffrey. But
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HORIZONS (Inspired by a vision from my little yacht-cockpit lying anchored in the river on an Autumn Evening) Oh Flight of
Karlyle Tomms Returns with Edge of Smoke
In the Pruitt Igoe slums of St. Louis in the 1960s, a heroin-addict mother breaks her son’s dolls and screams, “You are not a girl!” However, no one can convince Stephanie to live as Stephen. Her mother pimps her out to a man who rapes her and takes pictures of her as others rape her. After finding her mother brutally murdered, she is placed in Christian foster care, where they also try to convince her to accept being male. Her mother’s lover is sentenced to life in prison for the murder. Famed Televangelist Pastor Ronald Dennison sets up a trust that allows a compassionate old neighbor to adopt her out of foster care. Still, she is violently bullied at school for identifying as female. The trust pays for transition surgery at eighteen, and she begins to live fully as a woman. Frightened by men, she remains a virgin until she falls in love with Jordan, but she runs into the man who abused her and remembers her childhood pledge to kill him. Will her lust for murdering the man who brutalized her as a child cause her to lose the man she loves, or will she come to her senses before it’s too late?
Steven Skibicki’s American Darkness is Now Available!
Welcome to American Darkness where you can explore the mysterious fires of Yellowstone National Park. Be awestruck by the sheer power of a God in yellow whose very breath lays out the cosmos with his maddening glow. Recall what it’s like to be there for a friend, even if that friend is hiding something insidiously infectious. Explore the poetry and short stories out of a manic-depressive mind, set to entertain and also remind you that there is a way out of the darkness. Sometimes you just have to be like our local sin eater Tucker and say enough is enough, so come on in and dive into American Darkness.
The Soul Whisperer’s Decision by Gwen M. Plano Now Available!
Sarah Jameson, a nurse at County Central Hospital, survives an accident that kills her two young children. While comatose, she travels into the heavenly realm where she visits with her precious little ones. She is given a choice – return to her husband, Jack, or remain with her children in their celestial home.
Jack was not in the fated automobile. Though he heard the crash and ran to help, there was nothing he could do. He suffers the loss of his children, fears the potential demise of his wife, and wonders about his own sanity. His struggle with PTSD from his military years has returned and at times, he cannot distinguish between the present and the past.
An accident tragically changed the lives of this young family, but out of sorrow emerges unexpected blessings.
The Essence of Spiritual Awakening OUT NOW!
Our mistakes do not define us. All of our experiences and challenges, especially the most painful, serve a greater purpose. A lifelong journey of profound experiences and personal sacrifices led Judy White-Artz to discover her destiny and connect with her true authentic self. Judy shares her story and divine “pearls of wisdom” in this memoir that is equal parts inspiration, insight, and self-help. The Essence of Spirtual Awakening: Enlightenment, Inspiration, and Insights that Illuminate the Path to Divinely Guided Wisdom is beautifully illustrated with full-color photos and a journal in the back for recording your personal thoughts. Discover your true authentic self through The Essence of Spiritual Awakening as you journey toward your path to self-enlightenment.
The Chair: Volume IV: Punt, Pass, & Kick OUT NOW!
The Chair Volume IV, Punt, Pass, & Kick tells of a gala retirement ceremony for an employee held on a railroad trestle, a fishing expedition under the Idlewood Arch & Aqueduct, the bravery, battles, and bastions of the Texas Revolution, a quinceañera celebration near Matamoros, a standoff gun-boat battle on the Rio Grande between the Armada de Marina de México and Americans, an all-girl rock band from Topeka, a Thanksgiving dinner in 1971 Beverly Hills, a brunch with mimosas at the Pierre Hotel on 5th Avenue, a lunch at The Horse tavern in Baltimore, a docu-drama about a high-school football team in East Texas, intimate mother and daughter correspondence, an English suffragette who becomes an ocean-liner titan, four brothers from Italy creating a family olive-oil and wine-exporting company, the creator of synonym, antonym, and hyponym awareness for women entrepreneurs, a courageous cattle drive from South Texas to Wyoming, a seascape watercolor painter, and a teenage writer whose unpublished manuscript is found and read by Lana McCracken, the prime character in The Chair pentalogy, a story that can only be found in an old trunk between the real and imagined, a story for all times.
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