Category: Literature & Fiction

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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

Free: Surviving Jane

Dr. David Scholz is looking for a career change. He’s burnt out and is planning a year-long sabbatical to travel and reset before beginning his ophthalmology residency. During these last weeks, David is given a tough patient: young Jane Doe, a heroin addict, is brought in with severe injuries. Jane does not want to be in the hospital. As David grows increasingly disgruntled, a surprising source reminds him why he entered the medical field in the first place: to help people. An emotional j... [Read More...]

By the Sea: A Comic Novel

By the Sea tells the stories of an ensemble cast of characters all living in or around the architecturally eclectic Briers Hotel, situated on out-of-the-way, scruffy Leech Beach. With comic verve, their pursuits of happiness in love, art, sex, theater, power, fast cars, and old movies all come together in revelations that change their lives forever. Its a modern comic adult fairy tale of heroes and heroines, villains and jesters, the village ogre and the village idiot. $0.99 on Kindle. ... [Read More...]

The Weight of Water

This is a novel about two sisters born into an abusive and neglectful poor trash family, and their love for each other. They live in the 9th ward of New Orleans, and Hurricane Katrina is on the horizon. The tension builds as you realize what they are going to have to contend with it. This was a beautiful, sad story, with very believable characters. $0.99 on Kindle. ... [Read More...]