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Vampyres, Junk & Disease

By: PF Stultz

The country is collapsing under the weight of corruption, avarice, fear, disease and addiction and a strange new sickness that stalks its streets. In the shadows of this decay moves Patrick—a brilli...

Quadseers

By: C E Marshall

Quadseers was born on a cruise to Iceland in 2019. Short of ideas the author attended a Creative Writing Course where one exercise was to begin a story with the words ‘Sitting on the bus’. From th...

TEN RULES OF THE ROAD I LEARNED AT MY FIRST CONCERT

By: Speedy

Countless "truth is stranger than fiction" tales, 177 magical concerts, 100 unique bands, 50 years of finding a way to the next show, and 10 Rules Of The Road all add up to 1 ordinary guy's extraordin...

The Beast Inside

By: Bill Cushing

Since ancient Greece, when Socrates likely advised us to “know thyself,” humans have been obsessed with the notion of self in many ways—as a soul, as an essence, as either conscious or subconsci...

Queer As Folk Tales

By: James Penha

When James Penha moved to Indonesia more than thirty years ago, he fell in love with its archipelago, its people, and its folk tales. But most of the tales, especially when passed on to him orally by ...

Heroic Brothers of the Civil War

By: Bill Cushing

When the United States found itself embroiled in the Civil War, it brought out the best in many Americans while at times pitting brother against brother. For the Cushings of Wisconsin and then New Yor...

Counting Down the Breaths

By: Bill Cushing

Drawing from his own experiences, Bill Cushing delivers a compassionate and honest account that resonates with anyone who has lost—or fears losing—a loved one to cancer or other terminal diseases....

Against the Machine: Evolution

By: Brian Van Norman

Earth, 2212: The novel, third in the <i>Against The Machine </i>trilogy, yet free standing on its own, tells of a dystopian society in the midst of catastrophic climate change. Billions ha...

Against the Machine: Manifesto

By: Brian Van Norman

Mel Buckworth, dependable family man, loses his manufacturing job through recession. Having lost his sense of purpose his pride sidelines him as he discerns his lack of digital skills so apparent in h...

Against the Machine: Luddites

By: Brian Van Norman

At war against Napoleon near bankrupt English mill-masters experiment with a new factory system acquiring machines to replace men. A young worker leads the Luddites attacking mills and smashing machin...

The Figure

By: Ken Kirkberry

A gritty cop drama, John Mercer, a cop whose life has been frequently dogged by tragedy. His partners, Ray Freedman and Lisa Barrett, are helping him come to terms with the losses he has endured and p...

Bailey’s Bandanas

By: Noranne Brumagin

Bailey, a spirited four-year-old blue heeler, is thrust into a world she doesn’t recognize when diagnosed with cancer. Despite her age, her indomitable spirit is known to take on challenges headfirs...

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