Crazyfish Olefish Press: 8 books

What do you do when your diary is filled with episodes of heartbreak?  Tear it up to make origami, of course. A short story of about 1000 words which makes about four pages of reading.  

Read here one of the four great classics of Chinese Literature, Hung Lou Meng: Dream of the Red Chamber, BOOK II The novel follows the loves and troubles of Chia Pao-Yu, heir to the Chia clan as the clan rises in fortune and eventually falls from grace.

A collection of fantastical short stories for your perusal: Vignettes on love, pigeons, and death, especially death. A lady divided in an existential quandary; there is a gun somewhere. A little boy and his ghost bird friend try to find a way home and intact. A physicist and her serial killer boyfriend. Two grannies outdoing each other over a magical purse.

Humor and Satire from the ancient world! Check out the old epigrams from Martial as translated by Henry George Bohn for the Bohn Classical Library Series in 1897.  Fourteen books in all! With an extensive active and navigable table of contents.

Vampire tutors, illiterate rent boys amidst the pageantry and repression of Renaissance France .... What could possibly go wrong? Read here as Claude Severin tries to find his true way between the Cross and the Black.

Brash and beautiful Claude Severin lives easy. By day light servant duties occupy him; by night he moonlights as a gay prostitute. Certainly, a few gambling debts annoy him, and he sometimes wishes his big and brooding master, Serge, would stop frowning and kiss him instead. But life is...

In this second episode of this serial novel, Claude Severin has left the life of servitude and prostitution. He embarks on the quiet life of a student in the countryside. Within weeks problems arise. Studying is dry and difficult. The city tempts him back to the carnal pleasures of prostitution. And...

Here is book 3 of the exciting serial novel. Claude is adjusting to life of student, but Sabrine comes by way of trouble. Claude must choose between his conscience and a comfortable life amongst demons. How now is he to choose between the Cross and the Black?