Lorraine Ray: 7 books

A herd of phantom cattle stampedes into the fertile imagination of a young writer. She corrals stray stories and stampeding images until she realizes a rustling folklorist has wrested control of the most important memory, the Phantom Herd. Join her for adventures in the desert Southwest, and witness...

After a wild fight with air hoses, foul-mouthed Juan and Willy are fired from their jobs as car handlers at a dealership. The pair find work as kitchen helpers at the restaurant of Juan's cousin where dreams of gold possess them. Locating a lost mine, however, means they have to outsmart an eight-year-old,...

An anthology of quirky short stories including: Uncertain Trysts, His Faithful Companion, Big Paper Skeleton, Fantasy Artifact, Genuine Aboriginal Democracy, Mother's Woman-Marine Bra, Work Out Your Own Salvation, Consciousness Raising, Metamorphosis of Me, Snake Dance Disaster, and On the Rio Mayo.

Hit the streets of a desert town circa the 1960s and 1970s as the teen siblings from A Phantom Herd go mad for the Beatles, dance to rock and roll, and try to give LSD to a cowboy movie star. After Meredith receives a girdle, she switches her priorities to everything teen, claiming she never disliked...

Stephanie Falls, age eight, spends a weekend with her grandparents along with her Aunt Helen, who is recovering from her nervous breakdown after dropping out of economics graduate school. Trapped in a mansion full of creepy artifacts and unappreciated art with her depressed aunt, Stephanie plays with...

Circuses and parades go wildly awry when James Sauerbaugh joins a band of Shriners as a substitute trombonist. It turns out the band members are ancient and bombed out of their minds, but James comes to relish the friendships and wild fun on the bus and on parade floats. When Moses Grand, a fellow...

Stacie, Tiffany and Yadira hope to shut down their rental house and get back their security deposit before leaving town, but first they have to fix the gaping hole in the adobe wall and rid themselves of unwanted graduation "presents," both the result of an uproarious final party. This comic co-ed romp will keep you chuckling.