Vertvolta Press imprint: 6 books

"Since I’ve gone this far, I’ll go a bit further and make the paradoxical admission that even us Deathlanders don’t really understand our urge to murder. Oh, we have our rationalizations of it, just like everyone has of his ruling passion—we call ourselves junkmen, scavengers, gangrene...

“But here is the thing with listening. At some point, it is not enough. The silence of the attentive, after all, sounds exactly the same as the silence of the complicit. . . . The question, then, becomes when to act: at what point is it appropriate to stop listening and actually say something?”...

Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States of America, ended his second—and final—term in office on January 20th, 2017. For eight years, President Obama, along with then-First Lady Michelle Obama, worked to define a new America; a better nation: one that was more inclusive, prosperous and...

SLIDESHOW is Eugene Babb’s debut collection of poetry. In these spare, vivid poems, Babb explores the fragments and moments that make up a person’s life. Bars, diners, street-corner fleeting encounters — the internal and external worlds interchange fluidly; searching for meaning in a word, a glance, a reflection. Also by Eugene M. Babb: Grit & Roses: stories

The stories in Grit and Roses trace the unsteady arc of a life spent pursuing a dream. A musician’s career, filled with the hard, grueling work of perfecting a craft, the mishaps and disappointments of touring, and the between-gig times of mundane jobs and restless wandering.  They also transcend...

Born of Earth parents. Raised on Mercury**. Mercenary on Mars and Venus. Warrior of the Solar System. ** "For hours the hard-pressed beast had fled across the Martian desert with its dark rider. Now it was spent. It faltered and broke stride, and when the rider cursed and dug his heels...