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My mother's husband and her 2 kids put this together as a tribute to my mother's cats over the years. It starts with a chronology of each of the cats from 1968 to current in the form of Haikus. The second part of the book are fictional stories that Steve, her husband, has written over their past 4...

Cowboy Christmas Tales is a collection of short stories celebrating Christmas the Cowboy Way. Several of these stories are modern-day tales, dealing with modern-day challenges. Others are more traditional western tales set on the American frontier.  The characters found in these Cowboy...

Look up - ever wonder why we're here? The secrets of the universe are finally revealed in book three of the amazing WINNER trilogy, 'The Last Knell of Tarumus', an epic sic-fi story of splendor, destruction and retribution.  A doomsday machine has been set in motion, a lethal...

What an odyssey! A man who believes he caused his wife’s three miscarriages learns to love himself again.--Start with a lawyer drowning himself in the river--Add a film critic catfish who rescues said lawyer and nudges him back to sanity by discussing auteur theory and dissing Deniro--Throw in the...

If you're daydreaming about the romantic notion to move to Costa Rica, buy a farm, have horses, and become part of a community outside of the bucolic expat condos, hold on for the ride! Back in 2004, I came to Costa Rica and ended up buying a 200-acre piece of farmland on my first trip to the...

Poems from the roots of a Southern childhood, feral poems from the parts of us that run wild when given a chance, poems born out of a home on the pristine northern California coast, poems that emerged out of travel and art. This collection offers up all these experiences, sometimes playfully, sometimes sorrowfully, but always with an eye on the experience more than the poet.  

When, after her father's murder, Jill Carlisle moves into their ancestral home in rural North Georgia, she finds that she, herself, is now the victim of stalking and threats. Strengthened by her connection with the spirit of a Yamasee Indian woman, Jill seeks for answers, finding only that more than...

It is the height of the Renaissance.  The “princes” of the states which 400 years later will be united into the country of Italy are trying to maintain their independence from foreign intervention, including the Vatican.  Culture in the form of painting, architecture, writing and philosophy...

Clean, efficient, civil---Tokyo is a modern marvel. It's also home to the largest criminal organization in the world.  Private Investigator Mia Mio and her partner Yuki are hired by a small-time punk rocker to tail a rich kid and find out if he's doing anything "freaky." But...

What if the majority of the Lost Colony on Roanoke Island moved fifty miles north, as originally intended, and became assimilated into an Indian tribe there? In his novel, Natishma, Shaman of the Chesapeakes and Friend of the Roanoke Colony, Richard Proescher offers a fictional answer to this...

Set in the colonists’ earliest days on Manhattan and its environs, ‘Land of Tribute’ chronicles the lives of both colonists and native peoples.  Based on many actual lives and events, we see through their eyes what gross abuses in power can do to bonds made in years of peaceful co-existence....

“Have you looked enough into the world and found it lacking? Have you sought peace in the world but only find yourself at a dead end road once again? Feeling the same sadness, have you finally decided to surrender? Are you ready? How great!” This quote is how it began. I was ready. My...

Ten year old Beatrice Brown has a very vivid imagination. Sometimes this clouds her good judgment. Instead of going home after missing her school bus, she chooses to stay in the nearby forest with her cat Rufus. It’s December and winter has set in with lots of snow. In order to seek shelter from...

In a brief meeting the police chief told JP that the species of baboons that originated from the Drakensburg Mountains bordering Natal and Lesotho were rescued from the hold of a foreign ship in Durban harbour. JP knew why the Police Chief told him this, so he scouted the area for the movement of...