James Suriano: 8 books

In this collection of tantalizingly weird fiction, acclaimed author James Suriano makes what seems innocent wicked and what seems strange sinister.In the opening story, “Carter Delight,” a teenage boy faces his fears as he wanders into an abandoned carnival, only to find three malevolent...

Gavin Pennings and his wife, Noila, have exhausted all options searching for a treatment for their son, Joshua. Depraved personalities are battling for supremacy in the teenager’s mind, pushing him to the brink of suicide. In desperation, Gavin tracks down Lucifer, realizing he may be his last hope...

The small golden lights emerged from my hands and mouth, lighting up the space around me. They swirled in the air, pulled by the currents of wind, before reforming and coming together. The lights returned to me like a million fireflies and swarmed in a tall column over each of my upturned palms.“What...

The 21st Century will be remembered by the rise of the Android. Alia Vicadora is not your normal Android. Created at the hands of a disgruntled genius working in a Washington DC lab, she was engineered with stolen government technology to be used in war games, and process emotional components...

In the 25th century, Earth is a place where countries and borders no longer exist and every citizen is required to be physically connected to a global information system called the Consciousness.President Haakon has recently been voted out of office after a three-year run. But he knows what...

Melody Parifallo thought usurping Earth’s latest election to put President Haakon back in office was the right thing to do. She believed she knew better than the Majesty and that breaking the one unbreakable law—“Obey the vote”—would go unnoticed.But the consequences came hard and...

A Short StoryIn present day Tokyo, Mr. Harikami is a respected Salaryman. For years, forty-nine of them to be exact, he has always been present. But something has happened and in one literal second, he has vanished. Now, the world is missing Mr. Harikami. What the world doesn’t know is if Mr. Harikami is missing the world.

In present-day Caracas, Venezuela, two things are certain: crime and corruption. Ten-year-old Lola Plaz lives in the Tower of David, the world’s tallest vertical slum. Her mother, Martha, sweeps floors at a hair salon, earning just enough bolos to pay the local gangs for their single-room...