Green Snake Publishing: 113 books

A collection of poems by a noted Canadian/American poet on the subject of the creatures we nurture, kill, admire, eat, hate, abandon, fear, cage, breed, protect, slaughter, love, envy, emulate, domesticate, curse, and ignore: animals of all shapes, sizes, and dispositions. Some of these poems have appeared previously in various magazines. The remainder are original to this volume.

It hasn’t rained in Michigan for a long while, and Billy Forché’s parents are worried they will lose the farm. Billy is tired of his silent father and is glad when his father’s stepbrother, Andrew Forché, comes to the farm to dry out and bring rain. That’s Andrew’s gift: He can make it...

Peter Gibson wants to be alone. He leaves his girlfriend and his job in California to become the great American writer living in a small town in New England. But Peter soon learns that being anonymous and alone isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. This story was originally published in the anthology...

A lonely old tattoo artist gets a mysterious call in the middle of the night. A customer needs a tattoo urgently. The tattooist agrees, but when the customer arrives, he brings a strange aura with him, a mixture of danger and mystery. The tattoo artist recognizes death when he sees it, and before he finishes with this client, he will see a lot more of death than he ever thought possible.

What happens when a know-it-all has to walk her talk? A charming tale of a gentle comeuppance. (short story)

On his way to M. Garnier’s chateau, Jean-Jacques Rieux gets lost in the forest and is rescued by a mysterious woman who turns out to be Garnier’s much younger wife, Marie. Garnier claims she has the mark of the beast on her because her parents were killed by werewolves. As Rieux observes Garnier’s cruel treatment of his wife, he begins to wonder which one of them is the beast.

She won’t eat. Her mother and grandmother try to get her to eat something, but she refuses. If she doesn’t eat, maybe the thing growing inside of her will die. She is not her mother or her grandmother, despite appearances to the contrary. One way or another she will change her family’s cycles.Kim...

Bart’s ghost writing job finds him penning letters from a deceased man to send to his widow. It’s a weird job, sure, but it’s a living. Then one day Bart gets a call. “Is this the place that sends letters from my Max?” and fear strikes at Bart’s soul. What does he do if no one wants his ghost written letters? What is his responsibility to those who have passed on? (short story)

Time is supposed to be something you can count on. But not if you’re a physicist’s spouse. Then time is as elastic as love. You never know what will stop it and you never know what will get it started again.

The old gargoyle hangs by the courtyard, cold and silent, but not dead. The spark of life burns inside him. When an old man approaches the gargoyle looking for wisdom, the gargoyle must decide how much of the truth to reveal. His answer will change the old man’s life forever.

KATE HEIN KEEPS hearing someone calling her name in the old farmhouse where she lives alone. Is the place haunted or is something wrong with her? One night a group of ghostly figures shimmer into view. They’re sitting around a table at what looks like a séance—and they’re calling Kate Hein’s...

Sarah panics when she has a dream about her young client, Paul, who is in therapy after he saw his mother kill herself. What if she is really like her father and brother, both of them child-molesters? Sarah must learn to free herself from her past so she can save herself and young Paul. Kim...

Cully and Jake welcome into their home David, a refugee fleeing from the atrocities in El Salvador. Cully feels an inexplicable kinship with David who has lost most of his family in the bloody war. But is he safe with them on the Oregon coast, so far from his homeland?KIM ANTIEAU HAS written...