It Is in You

This captivating collection of short stories features both real and fictitious characters who, like all of us, grapple with life’s challenges. Within these pages, you’ll discover the potential to become better, happier, more balanced, content, humble, and successful individuals. Through her distinctive and compelling prose, Darlene Hawes illustrates how some characters surrender to the giving and receiving of love, while others choose self-destruction. Her transfixing and detailed storytelling highlights the importance of self-awareness and mindfulness in shaping our lives. Interwoven musical reflections remind us that our vibrations resonate with truth: energy does not lie. By knowing ourselves and striving for self-mastery, we can achieve victory. These stories reveal the extraordinary within the ordinary.

Friday's House and Other Stories

Friday’s House and Other Stories offers a captivating glimpse into the practicality of American farm life during the 1930s and 1940s. Through the author’s vivid storytelling, readers are introduced to a cast of eccentric characters who face extraordinary challenges that are sure to uplift and inspire.

Immerse yourself in a world of imagination as you encounter a thunderstorm that drenches you with its power, the honk of a goose that awakens you from slumber, and ponies trotting where they shouldn’t be. You’ll meet a cow and a woman living in a boxcar, a hen residing in a town library, and experience heartwarming moments that will bring tears to your eyes and laughter to your lips.

The book’s language is peppered with subtle surprises, and it offers a glimpse into the harsh realities of life in the Midwest during that era. But it also highlights the determination and perseverance of the people who lived there, as well as the awe-inspiring beauty of the land itself – from its twinkling stars to its majestic owls and butterflies.

Familiar Setting

In this evocative collection, Suárez weaves together ten tales that delve deep into the complexities of family, exposing the raw, often painful underbelly of relationships. These stories navigate the murky waters of familial dysfunction, drawing readers into a whirlwind of nostalgia, unease, and a spectrum of raw emotions.

From mothers weighed down by recklessness, fathers marked by absence, to young girls turning to the shadows to find a way out, and spinsters retreating from society’s judgment into lonely existences – each tale is a poignant exploration of choices, consequences, and the human yearning for connection.

Climbing the Stairs of the City & Other Short Stories

H. Lloyd Weston worked assiduously to create a compilation of short stories, some from real-life experiences, the others from the divine gift of the imagination. Each story is crafted with the author’s emphasis on originality and fluidity of thought and expression, keeping in mind the reader who will embark upon the same journey by finding enjoyment in reading these engaging stories. The author wants the reader to experience the same palpable joy and reward he received in the task of creating them.

His obsession with executing a quality batch of stories came from his love of literature and the coterie of exceptional short story writers whose works he read along the way. Among these are writers such as Anton Chekhov, Katherine Mansfield, D. H. Lawrence, James Baldwin, Eudora Welty, Katherine Ann Porter, Ernest Hemingway, and Leo Tolstoy. The reader is swept away by the gripping power of these stories-tales that are original, imaginative, and adventurous.

It is hoped that the average reader will find things pertinent to their own life experiences within these poignant and suspenseful tales; stories that afford them the chance to escape the humdrum of daily life and the headlines of today’s depressing 24-hour news cycle. It is hoped that these stories will take each reader to a place of wonder and escape to the three different geographic locations within these stories.

Building 8

In the heart of a dystopian metropolis, Building 8 stands as a silent witness to the lives and struggles of its inhabitants. Anthony C. Mazzella’s gripping narrative plunges readers into a world where reality bends and the ordinary collides with the surreal. As the central business district is besieged by chaotic flying machines and destruction reigns, the top floor of Building 8 remains a curious sanctuary of calm. Within its walls, two men go about their business, seemingly oblivious to the mayhem below, embodying the eerie contrast between normalcy and chaos that defines the story.

Mazzella’s vivid imagination and keen insights into human nature drive this thought-provoking tale, weaving together elements of science fiction and psychological thriller. As the characters navigate a landscape of fear, uncertainty, and hidden truths, Building 8 challenges readers to question their perceptions of reality and the thin veneer that separates order from disorder. This novel is a powerful exploration of resilience, human connection, and the mysterious forces that shape our lives, making it a must-read for fans of speculative fiction and those who enjoy a deep dive into the complexities of the human psyche.

Between the Bench

Between the Bench is bold and essential. It’s spicy, yet never crosses the line into obscenity. The message is crystal clear: something extraordinary is happening. Thoughts venture where people rarely tread, embarking on a spectacular journey into another realm.

Included are three bonus escapades, each distinct yet united by a logbook chronicling these extraordinary events and encounters. It’s a journey into a region of sheer madness – yes, madness! The hook? There’s no telling what one might bring back from such an experience. It’s crucial to return and share this revolutionary knowledge.

Craving something as irresistible as a peanut butter and jelly sandwich? This book has all the good stuff. So, buckle up and hold on tight! You’re in for a ride. Something poignant is about to break the seal, and it all begins now. Bon Voyage!

Ballsy

In this collection of novellas by Perry Glasser, three very different women find themselves confronting a world of men unable to see them for who they are.

They are pursued, tracked, and fearful, but they are never timid.

When they turn to face their foes, they must rely on their extraordinary courage and will to prevail.

Call it guts, call it bravery – or call it ballsy.

A Trunk in the Basement

Relationships involving love, lies, loss and loyalty are everlasting stories throughout Southern Culture. Marriage, affairs, relationships, friendships and life’s dreams never come out perfect or last forever. It becomes a growing and changing experience where the characters learn as they come and go in time and importance to others, while still managing to make a difference.

This collection contains ten short stories of such change, lament, and brief happiness, all by circumstance, and rarely planned. The characters adapt and try to maintain their uncertain world, always hoping for the best but rarely achieving it.

Come along as they deal with these changes the best way they can and experience life, seemingly always on the edge. While they may always seem flawed, the reader will come to love these characters for who they are regardless of the stage of life or circumstances they currently live within.

A Stab in the Heartland

Taking place across the Midwest’s heartland of America, this collection of short stories offers nuance to the darker aspects of human relationships. Told primarily from the intoxicating beginnings of lust before progressing toward love, the stories fluidly transform into stark realities rather than romantic ideals. Each story provides an intimate look at how commitment and affection can turn into disloyalty or even hatred. 

With subtle mystery and humor sprinkled throughout, readers will be fascinated and shocked at where these winding plots lead, both physically and psychologically. Though at times jarring, the stories ultimately highlight the complexity of bonds between people in both their beauty and brutality.

A Kind of Cousin

A Kind of Cousin is a daring collection of short stories by Suenel Bruwer-Holloway that whisks readers on a journey through the raw and unapologetic facets of human experience. Like a fresh breeze, blowing irreverently through old taboos, sweeping away the cobwebs of political correctness, Holloway shatters the confines of political correctness, delving into the resilient and complex spirit that pulses through her homeland, a place of beauty, sorrow, and resilience.From the wily old woman in ‘The Statistic’, cleverly hoarding her exit from this world, to the candid wisdom of a child in the titular ‘A Kind of Cousin’, and the unflinching gaze cast upon society’s underbelly in ‘The Healer’, these stories are as provocative as they are enlightening. ‘The Right Therapist’ delivers a satirical jab at the mental health profession, while ‘Horseflesh’ pays homage to the enduring spirit of an old donkey, a symbol of unyielding courage in the face of adversity.Strap in and prepare to be swept off your feet as Bruwer-Holloway tackles subjects often muffled by societal discomfort—farm murders, religious zealotry, the deep-rooted connections of the Afrikaner people to their land, and the poignant realities of aging and death. A Kind of Cousin promises a literary escapade that’s as thought-provoking as it is entertaining.