Palo Flechado Press: 9 books

This is a book designed not to please. It is meant to raise questions, disturb norms, and encourage thinking in new directions. The present volume exhibits a relaxed and random selection of topics, brief in treatment and considering such subjects as observations on the subjective character...

Intuition and Mind. Are they mutually exclusive terms? Or can a science of aesthetics help us understand the way our mind and emotions work together to create art? George Lowell Tollefson discusses these issues in light of literature, sculpture, music, and painting in this excerpt from his longer work, Unbridled Democracy.

One set of rules for all time. Is that possible? If not – if the rules must change – on what basis should be those changes be made? In this excerpt from George Lowell Tollefson's longer work, Unbridled Democracy, he explores why developing a spiritual awareness is essential to the evolution of a society's moral principles.

Is democracy essentially moral? Is a harmonious society possible? Or does harmony in both society and religion require an orientation towards the spiritual core of human experience? If it does, then of what does that spiritual core consist? George Lowell Tollefson discusses these issues in this book, which is an excerpt from his longer work, Unbridled Democracy.

Just what is the nature of the spiritual life? This book calls for a perspective that sees reality as simultaneously material and spiritual. It does not present a linear argument. Instead, it seeks, through observations about the material world and the operation of our consciousness, to explore a...

Just a man. Known for his character, not the color of his skin. That's all Gerald, son of a free black man and an Irish servant girl, wants to be. It's an impossible goal in slave-holding Missouri, but in the West, mountain men and villagers alike seem to accept him without question. New...

Short stories set in Old New Mexico, many based on actual people or events. Includes: That Damn Mule. A green-broke mule balks at the rain-slicked shale on a narrow mountain path. That'll Teach 'Em. A group of trappers encounters Apaches in the Gila wilderness. They Were My Friends....

Benjamin nodded and pushed himself away from the bar. "Elizabethtown," he repeated as he hitched up his trousers. "Now there's an idea." Forty-two micro-stories set in Old New Mexico, each less than 500 words long, and many based on actual people or events. Includes: Rattled. On the...

Suzanna hates everything about her New Mexico mountain home. The isolation. The short growing season. The critters after her corn. The long snow-bound winters in a dimly-lit cabin. But she loves Gerald, who loves this valley. So Suzanna does her unhappy best to adjust, even when the...