Harvey Stanbrough: 216 books

You're just sittin' around with the boys, playin' dealer's choice poker, and keepin' an eye on the girl locked away in the next room. Only somethin' goes wrong. Is there any way the big boss will unnerstan'? Whaddya think? Really, is there any way outta a deal like that?

This is a short story culled from the forthcoming prequel to The Wes Crowley Trilogy. In "The Road to Amarillo," 17 year old Mac and 16 year old Wes witness a small troop of Texas Rangers taking care of business. Mac decides he has to become a Ranger, and Wes goes along. In this one, we get to meet Mac's father.

In these five short stories you attend a new kind of ink blot test, meet a man in an airport who will render you normal, lie mute and unmoving as a spider transports you to the next world, live and run with the wolves, and strive, strive to meet a goal as a writer and fail, badly.

This is an intense short story. As man lay dying in the hospital, he thinks back over his life and his twelve children. He has divided them into two groups, The Needy Greedy gang and the good kids. By the end, he comes to some new conclusions.

Come along as Consuela goes about her morning chores while her husband seems to be sleeping longer than usual; an elderly woman is last seen on a soggy, dreary day by two of her neighbors who are playing checkers on a porch—maybe one knows her better than he lets on; a childhood friendship takes...

This is the 10th and final book in the Wes Crowley saga. A group of bad guys, out-of-luck drifters, screw-ups and wet-behind-the-ears boys head south, lured by the promise of gold and adventure.  The final Talbot in the line is the instigator, driven by his warped perspective of history. Will he succeed where others have failed to bring his nemesis, Wes Crowley, to his knees?

What would it be like to be the last man on Earth, or at least to believe yourself so? Not only that, but the only other living creature is a live oak tree. Albeit one who listens well, but never speaks. Until it's too late.

Three of the first five stories feature Charlie Task. Ever wonder what goes into making a psychopath? Find out in "The Odd Task." Ever wonder what it might be like to sit down in a psychopath's home and interview him? Check out "A View to the Curious." In "A False Sense of...

Nick Spalding and Mary Jo McWherter partnered up in Book 1. Things are great when hell is all around, but sometimes you have to go in search of it. Now in Book 2, they've traveled to a different country, a different conflict. Nick Spalding has been a warrior, both military and civilian,...

The Rise of a Warrior is the first prequel and Book 1 in the Wes Crowley novel series. Although the titles eventually will be arranged chronologically, each is a stand-alone novel.  In The Rise of a Warrior, Wes Crowley and Otis "Mac" McFadden are teenagers in Watson, Texas, a town some...

Everybody needs friends. But friends come in all shapes and sizes. When World War II aviator Archibald "Packy" Burkhalter seeks out a long-lost friend, he gets a great deal more than he bargained for.  

In a story reminiscent of Hemingway's work, a waiter works his way through a shift at an all-night café. On the table in the back booth he finds a pair of paper hearts. But when exactly did he find them?

This collection of ten stories has it all: A hit-woman who inadvertently recruits a bored youth into service; a story of pure, extremely adulterated human nature; an incident in a waiting room; a living vision on a pier in the dark; a cautionary tale that is uniquely American; a ghost story; a young...

This short story is excerpted and adapted from the novel Leaving Amarillo, the fourth novel in the Wes Crowley series. Western Z Crowley has left the Rangers and is searching for his errant lifelong friend, Otis "Mac" McFadden. As he's riding from El Paso to Las Cruces late one night, would-be...