Category: Literature & Fiction

Shades of Mortality

Join three time-traveling, universe-hopping, interdimensional storytellers as they share stories of life, death, love, and despair in Jamal Barbaris debut short story collection, Shades of Mortality. Each story features a unique illustration by one of 9 different artists and draws the reader into a mixture of profound, touching, and comic tales unlike any you’ve ever read. $2.99 on Kindle. ... [Read More...]

Cynthia and the Blue Cat’s Last Meow

“It is truly one of the best things I’ve read in years.” — Robin Theiss, writer, editor, former president of the St. Louis Writers Guild. Cynthias world is full of fury and fishing, moonlight and candlelight, magical red berries and howling caverns, a land where many of us would like to visit, and a few do, briefly in our youth. Perhaps we all secretly want to explore such places of the soul where we dream of blue cats and hearts capable of idyllic and adventurous sensua... [Read More...]

Death on the Grand Strand

Death on the Grand Strand Maintenance men are during their routine of dragging the ponds, to retrieve lost golf balls, on an exclusive Golf Club in South Carolina. To their surprise and shock, they discover the body of a man, his mouth stuffed with golf balls. BJ Gleeson, residing in Louisiana, is called by a good friend, to investigate the murder on behalf of the Grand Strand Golf Club. BJs relationship with his fiance, Lieutenant Karen Gagne from the New Orleans Police Department continues to... [Read More...]

Emma’s Perfect Puppy

Emma has wanted a puppy for as long as she can remember. She is eight years old, almost nine, and on a mission to achieve this long-standing dream. Its now or never, she believes. But her parents and older sister think she is not responsible enough to own a puppy. Despite the many obstacles in her way, she is unwavering in her quest for a puppy of her own. She is determined to do whatever it takes to get and keep a puppy forever. Its a story of determination, challenges, love, and surprise. Wil... [Read More...]

Free: Embrace the Now

May the poetry in this book serve as a reminder to be present here and now. Use meditation and mindfulness as tools to fully embrace this earthly experience. Be aware of your mind, body, and spirit in each moment. Root yourself through grounding techniques and cleanse your physical body of impurities. Spend time in nature and connect to its divinity. Honor this material form by creating financial stability, security, and abundance. Be present to answer the necessary questions: Who am I? What is... [Read More...]

The Love of Impossible Sums

Still grieving the loss of his wife, Oliver reluctantly agrees to attend a poetry reading, and on the way a stranger asks him for a light. She is Alex, who is also the poet, and soon after the performance she and Oliver embark on a whirlwind romance. But a cast of meddling friends stir up tensions that risk coming to a head. KIRKUS REVIEWS: “GET IT!” $0.99 on Kindle. ... [Read More...]

Concerning Intelletual Suicide in The Human Race

Intellectual suicide corresponds to the more or less conscious decision to switch off the brain and renounce rational thought in favor of attitudes dictated by superstitions, by established habits, by prejudices, by common places. The effects of irrational choices made with the brain switched off can be devastating for oneself and for the others. Examples range from conformism, to religious superstitions, to ideological fundamentalism, just to name a few possibilities. $0.99 on Kindle. ... [Read More...]

Free: The Tales of Zren Janin boxed set

Three strangers race across two countries with only one goal: to survive. Kerek, Matasi, and Vikland are three countries squabbling like quarrelsome siblings. The Kerek King has allowed banditry against anyone with a different language or skin color, and the Vikland Empress has had enough of her travelers injured and killed outside of her borders. Matasi has also suffered from Kereks brutality but has the money and power or so the Triune Council believes to break Kerek without bloodshed. In a w... [Read More...]

Madeleine and Jane

Jane and Madeleine are roommates, first in an East Village tenement and later in the luxurious uptown apartment of a mysteriously absent woman. Madeleine and Jane encounter the terrors and excitements that burgeoned in the New York of that era. As the two develop a wary friendship, a self-appointed therapist becomes entangled in their lives. $0.99 on Kindle. ... [Read More...]