Ravenscourt Press: 7 books

Cover of A King in Exile - A Short Story
by Bridget McKenna
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2015

Lady Penelope Smythe-Everton is ill-suited to the life of a gentleman’s daughter in mid-19th-century England. She’s independent, courageous, adventurous in the extreme, and not a particularly good risk on the marriage market. After a brush with death in the tropics, she returns to London with a rather...
Cover of The Old Organ Trail - A Short Story
by Bridget McKenna
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2015

Pewtie Marshall’s days of tearing up the blue highways in his hot-rod with an Igloo full of black market organs are long behind him—or so he thinks. When Angelo “The Eliminator” Angelini calls upon Pewtie to make one last run, he knows it’s not an offer he can refuse.Now Pewtie and his...
Cover of The Bard Effect - A Short Story
by Bridget McKenna
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2015

A team of scientists has assembled millions in government funding and a staggering number of chimpanzees to train in communicating via keyboard. Jackie is a promising beginner, and Harold is an up-and-comer, but Billy is a failure who types nothing but gibberish. Today, Billy is being transferred to...
Cover of The Little Things - A Short Story
by Bridget McKenna
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2015

They came in twos and threes and half-dozens, flying above the main street of town on some unknown and unimaginable errand, perhaps twice the size of large butterflies, with pale slender bodies, and dragonfly wings sparkling in the sun.The children noticed them first, and followed them down the...
Cover of The Defiling - A Short Story
by Bridget McKenna
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2015

On a pilgrimage across a pitiless desert, three poets find a small child dying of thirst and exposure. They stop to observe and create art from the moment, for this is the work of true poets—their duty to the world. To interfere in the event would be to risk defilement.One poet will never comprehend...
Cover of Yorrie Rose - A Short Story
by Bridget McKenna
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015

Yorrie Rose’s mama is dead. She wants to stay with her Aunt Wanda, but Aunt Wanda’s husband—violent and cruel Uncle Ralph—is determined to send her away to live with strangers.Yorrie needs to keep the only home she has, and her talent for slipping from the world we know into new futures may hold the key to her happiness and ultimately her survival.
Cover of The Good Pup - A Short Story
by Bridget McKenna
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2015

A summer rainstorm, a speeding car, and all that’s left for Romer Wills and his family is to build a coffin and hold a funeral for their beloved Pup so the children can feel they’ve done the proper thing. And that would be that, but three nights later something scratches at the door. Pup has come...
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