Short Fuse Publishing: 57 books

Marianne Timmons yearns to escape her father, an insane widower and leader of a snake-handling church. When her younger sister comes of age, forced to participate in the deadly test of purity and faith, it’s time to bid a terrified goodbye to their Georgia mountain home. Doing his best to...

Everyone who looks at "The Daughters of Edward Darley Boits," the grand-scale painting by John Singer Sargent that hangs in Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, is drawn into its mysteries. Who are these four girls, dressed in prim pinafores? Why is the composition so far off balance? Why are two of the...

I am a monster. You ask what kind, but I will leave that to you, gentle reader. The details of my modern identity are available, but The Creature’s Cookbook is woefully incomplete. This compilation of stories and recipes came about because of your questions and desires. I offer it so that...

Jason Mason and Ulysses Gump love the dump. The junk they find is a source of endless imagination and a home to their new friends, the garbage goblins, who help keep the trash extra smelly and rotten. But there’s a problem. Queen Cleansa and her seven cleanliness fairies have stolen the seven magical...

Jason Mason and Ulysses Gump love the dump. The junk they find is a source of endless imagination and a home to their new friends, the garbage goblins, who help keep the trash extra smelly and rotten. But there’s a problem. Queen Cleansa and her seven cleanliness fairies have stolen the seven magical...

Coxley-3425-28, or 28 as she is known to her sister constructs, is a genetically-engineered product of the prestigious all-female Coxley Clade. The Coxley Clade owns most of the top gene patterns ever produced by the human race. And 28 hopes that she is from the 400-year-old Digvy lineage, named after...

She had nothing to lose…Nan Dunleavy gave up everything to care for her ailing father, even her hope for love. But after his long illness takes its toll, she’s left alone with nothing to save their small dude ranch from bankruptcy. Seeking a fresh start, she accepts an unexpected invitation...

Jason Mason and Ulysses Gump love the dump. The junk they find is a source of endless imagination and a home to their new friends, the garbage goblins, who help keep the trash extra smelly and rotten. But there’s a problem. Queen Cleansa and her seven cleanliness fairies have stolen the seven magical...

Life Assessment: Seattleite Melanie Vanderpool needs to change her conservative ways and find a new wild life. So why does a fortuneteller have to give her such bad news about her soul mate? The good news—passion is in her future. The bad news—her dream lover is going to be forceful and perverse....

Jason Mason and Ulysses Gump love the dump. The junk they find is a source of endless imagination and a home to their new friends, the garbage goblins, who help keep the trash extra smelly and rotten. But there’s a problem. Queen Cleansa and her seven cleanliness fairies have stolen the seven magical...

Part District 9. Part Lost in Translation. Part Stranger in a Strange Land. Triptych was nominated for two Lambda Literary Awards and named one of Publisher’s Weekly’s Best Books of the Year. Kalp is a widower, burdened with an unimaginable grief, who escaped his dying world with...

While channeling Robin Hood’s “steal from the rich and give to the poor” attitude at a local politician’s house, ex-con Katie Logan witnesses a forced suicide. Dirty or not, supernatural or not, he didn’t deserve to die, especially not by his own hand. But with her record, stepping forward...

He's not that kind of angel. Jarrid is a “Bound One”: half angel, half human, trained from childhood to enforce Heaven’s laws on earth. An assassin with no remorse. And no choice. When he discovers an ancient ritual called Ascension, which might give him a shot at freedom, he can’t...

Jason Mason and Ulysses Gump love the dump. The junk they find is a source of endless imagination and a home to their new friends, the garbage goblins, who help keep the trash extra smelly and rotten. But there’s a problem. Queen Cleansa and her seven cleanliness fairies have stolen the seven magical...