Mike: 6654 books

Do you play the Powerball or Mega-Millions lottery? If so, read this almost-completely-real-life short story, and hopefully you won't make the same multi-million-dollar blunder that Agents 32 and 33 did. While driving to a bar in uptown Charlotte to watch the Aston Villa - Liverpool football/soccer...

That day in question was Wednesday, February 10, 2016. For most people it may have been an ordinary day. But for the commuter-bicycling author, it was a day when a very, very, veeeery expensive, forever-to-be-haunted-by blunder was made. That day is chronicled from awakening to crashing. Approx....

Back in 1970, an unmanageable Australian lad can't wait to see the world. After fleeing from adult supervision once again, he decides to hitch a ride on a DC-8 jetliner docked at the Sydney airport. It all starts off real well in the wheel well. But, then ... Closely based on a photo-captured...

Hua is a young woman from remote northwestern China who takes a factory job in Shanghai. The work is tedious, wrist-aching and spirit-defeating. The hours are very long. On her only day off, she receives a phone call relaying some tragic news. Once back in her village, reminders of the forever-gone...

While watching the TSG 1899 Hoffenheim - Liverpool FC Champions League play-off match (first leg) in a Charlotte (NC, US) bar on a hot-as-hell August day, the author is accosted by a South American man who comments on the game, and then agrees to answer an octet of questions. His replies are quite...

A late-twenty-something, still-getting-to-know-each-other, content Asian American couple goes to the Bridge Day festival in Fayetteville, West Virginia in October of 2006. All seems to be going well on the autumn-splendor drive up I-77 from Charlotte. But then a veteran BASE jumper has a severe mishap....

The author recounts a candid conversation with a Philadelphia Eagles fan in uptown Charlotte, while waiting for a streetcar to arrive on a muggy Friday morning. Some unexpected revelations. From ho-hum ordinary to hysterically absurd. 1500 words PG-13-rated. (language)

In the mid-1970s in east Charlotte (NC, USA), a young man chances upon a peculiar woman in the forest surrounding his neighborhood. Approx. 1600 words. Sex: No. Violence: No. Drug usage: Yes. Strangeness level: Moderately high. Mr. Malloy: Absent.

A 20-something, struggling Latino American actor gets a strange letter in the mail on a desultory Hollywood afternoon. He then decides to act on the letter's invitation and takes a flight from Los Angeles to Portland (OR). In the PDX airport, he accosts a cute Latina, and they pass the dead time with...

Born in the worst suburb in Pittsburgh, Elaine Brogan is bright, beautiful and bold. When her father is falsely arrested for passing counterfeit $100 bills, Elaine vows to become a Secret Service agent and track down the man responsible. After barely surviving the arduous Secret Service Training Academy...

Spending your life underground isn’t living, it’s surviving. But with the surface of the earth left ravaged from war, those surviving in the Burrows might be all that’s left, and their lives come at a cost. As an orphan born in the depths of the Burrows, Foren has spent his life dreaming...

Readers of Stephen King, Veronica Roth, James Patterson and Suzanne Collins will enjoy this fast-paced, dystopian series.  Briana Fox is the wildest girl in school. She and Kyle have been close for a long time...almost lovers. But Kyle is afraid that if he pushes her, he'll have his heart broken...

The author (Agent 33) and his teenage son (Agent 66) are passing an American football in their back yard on a fall day in east Charlotte (USA). When dad kicks the ball - errantly - an aerial dilemma ensues. A possible remedy crashes out.  Approx. 1500 words. If this little, largely...

A rooster who just wants to sleep in gets a little help from a friend in this laugh-out-loud picture book from New Yorker artist Mike Twohy. Rupert the rooster knows that every morning when the sun comes up he must cock-a-doodle-do—no matter what. But Rupert is terrible at waking up! And...