Rita Delude: 20 books

Writers take inspiration from their experiences and those of others. They also harvest the colors, tastes, smells, tactile stimulus, and sounds around them, and the world in which they reside or wish they could to write their tales. Henry David Thoreau wrote, "This world is but a canvas to our imagination."...

War Paint: A Crazy Ink Anthology Sometimes, to stand up for what you believe in, you have to put on armor. For soldiers on a battlefield, it comes in camouflage and face paint. Blending in to hide from the enemy is one way warriors hunt their prey. But make no mistake. The strongest...

Escape into the Beauty of Love Kaleidoscopes are made of many faceted pieces of broken glass. Alice is broken like that glass, and Travis did the shattering. She runs to Escape, Colorado for its healing vibes, the love of her aunts, and a new beginning. She invests everything she has...

Age? Sex? Location? Relationship status? Sweep left. Sweep right. They are the phrases and pleasantries that move through modern dating sites and apps promising true love or a one night stand. They offer just about anything a person might be looking for. Easier than ever...

Insane Insomnia: A Crazy Ink Anthology It takes all kinds of crazy to keep a person awake at night. Sometimes, it's the monsters under the bed. Other times, it's night terrors. It doesn't matter what keeps a person up. What matters is the dread one feels alone in darkness. Multiple stories...

Beyond Oz A Crazy Ink Anthology There's no place like… Somewhere over the rainbow and far beyond Oz, there was a happy ending. Or, was there? Follow Dorothy, Toto and more down the yellow brick road. Read stories of how their lives twisted and turned AFTER...

"I can't." "It's just too much." "Over it." We've all seen the vague posts. We've all sat, wondering exactly how we should be responding to the oh-so-distressed regular vague book posters who use social media as personal diaries aimed at making sure...

“We’re all mad here.” - Cheshire Cat - ‘Alice in Wonderland’ Crazy Fools: A Crazy Ink Anthology It takes all kinds of crazy to make the world spin and keep people interesting. The line between sanity and insanity can be threaded with the thinnest strings. Sometimes,...

Forgive us, Father, for we have sinned. The Roman Catholic sacrament of confession has been around as long as the church. A sacred ritual believed to clear one's soul of guilt and offer eternal forgiveness, believers flock to the confessional to admit their sins to priests in churches across...

A Crazy Ink Sci Fi Anthology There's nothing crazier than the concept of outer space. From two-headed alien bar maids to one-eyed space explorers, other galaxies have flirted with imaginations for as long as humans have existed. Stories with varying degrees of madness and imagination and one...

Breakup or Makeup? A Crazy Ink Anthology Love is complicated and happy endings are mostly for fairy tales. Sometimes, though, things work out the way they were intended. And for many, the definition of romance is the finish line. Read stories of relationships on the brink of change. Questions...

TTYS? People say, "I'm never going on a blind date, again!" "Why?" We ask. "Don't get me started," they say. Then they start: "He wore coveralls to dinner at a fancy restaurant." "He ordered five courses of the most expensive...

What's Your Superpower? A Crazy Ink Anthology to celebrate heroes both real and imagined. Everybody's got one. Or wants one. Or has a hero with one.  What's YOUR superpower? Step into the real and fictional lives of heroes who change the world one superpower at a time...

Famous French impressionist Edgar Degas said, "Art is not what you see, but what you make others see." With that sentiment in mind, Crazy Ink accepted submissions from numerous authors who choose from two dozen paintings in the public domain. From the painting each one picked, the writer...