Category: Literature & Fiction

How Hot It Be in Hell

How Hot It Be In Hell descends into the hidden impulses people try to outrun—jealousy, obsession, violence, desire, and the quiet urges that twist a life off course. Each poem opens a door into a different human fracture: a lover’s fatal rage, a predator’s watchful hunger, a drunk stumbling toward chaos, a homeless man recounting the slow collapse of everything he held dear. Even the act of writing becomes a reckoning with the shadows that shape meaning, rendered through Drummond’s surr... [Read More...]

Hannah Bloom: Dream Juggler

Hannah Bloom longs to claim the title “poet.” With her daughters at camp, she expects time to write—until heartbreaking letters arrive, an unexpected pregnancy upends her plans, her mother considers moving back to Europe, and a lawsuit threatens the family business. Now Hannah must hold it all together—and find her voice. $0.99 on Kindle. ... [Read More...]

Going to Zossen

NUMBER ONE AMAZON BESTSELLER “Gripping” – Kirkus Reviews Based on true accounts of children’s penal colonies that emerged during the 1990s post-Soviet chaos, Going to Zossen is a raw exploration of the bargains ordinary people make under oppressive systems – necessary reading for fans of Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These and Colson Whitehead’s The Nickel Boys. The year is 1993. In a collapsing post-Soviet mining town, a former serviceman, Vasily Mikhailovich, accepts work as ... [Read More...]

And So It Was for Mary

If given a second chance at life, would you love differently? Would you mend broken relationships? Would you follow your dreams? Homeless and estranged from her family, Mary, a guitar savant with big dreams and little hope, is on the verge of letting her life slip away. Just before taking a fatal mix of alcohol and pills, the spirit of a guitar legend appears before her to offer her guidance and a glimmer of hope. Mary takes advantage of this second chance by getting clean through rehab, fallin... [Read More...]

Free: Zenith’s Peak: Journey of a Light Shaman Book 1

This is not a book about trauma. It is a book about what is born through it. Thaddeus Harold Pierson is a disabled, queer orphan raised inside institutions that alternately erase him and weaponize him. His survival requires a splitting of self: the dissociated observer during confinement, the intimate narrator when free. Through shifting narration and bilingual prose in English and French, Zenith’s Peak mirrors that fragmentation—inviting the reader into a consciousness attempting to reasse... [Read More...]

Free: Welcome Darkness

Experience the heartbreak and turmoil of a suppressed population through the eyes of a Black man. Follow this grieving widow as he struggles to find a meaning for life. Witness a tumultuous presidential election; these powerful poems delve into themes of loss, heartbreak, and the struggle for justice. Join our protagonist, a Black writer, as he navigates the darkness and despair of his world. Don’t wait any longer; pick up your copy today and immerse yourself in another raw and poignant j... [Read More...]

Such a Bad Influence: A Novel

In this humorous and heartfelt novel, a blueberry farmer teams up with a teenager in need to start a revenge business. What could possibly go wrong? In rural Ohio, the last connections lonesome Felicity Lavigne has to her late mom are the blueberry farm she inherited and her mom’s old phone number—which Felicity still calls every day. Until she gets a call back. It’s the number’s new owner, Alex Norse, a surly, homeless teenager who has aged out of the foster care system with no one to ... [Read More...]