House of Windows

Every house remembers what it has seen. Every window holds a secret.

In House of Windows, John Erik Dunnam invites readers into a hauntingly beautiful exploration of memory, grief, and the fragile architecture of the human spirit. This is not merely a story—it is an experience that peers through the glass between past and present, love and loss, reality and illusion. Each page draws you closer to the truth that every reflection carries both light and shadow.

Dunnam’s lyrical prose shimmers with emotion, capturing the quiet ache of nostalgia and the unrelenting pursuit of understanding one’s own story. The house becomes a mirror—its rooms echoing the voices we try to forget, its windows revealing the parts of ourselves we cannot hide.

House of Windows dares readers to look closer, to open the shutters of their own hearts, and to see what has always been waiting on the other side of the glass. A meditation on truth, trauma, and transformation, this work is a testament to the beauty that lingers long after the storm has passed.

Prepare to enter a world where every pane tells a story—and every story leaves a crack in the glass.

Nora's Diary

What began as a family reunion to visit their great-great-grandmother in Nova Scotia, Canada, turned unexpectedly suspenseful when sisters Laura and Holly discovered an old diary concealed in the family barn. Initially unaware of its significance, they soon realized the diary belonged to their great-great-aunt, who had mysteriously vanished as a young teenager. As they read, Laura and Holly decided they could never share its contents with the rest of the family, fearing the rest of the family would not comprehend it.

Laura and Holly are both afraid to continue reading, yet their curiosity compels them to keep reading. As they turn each page, they encounter surreal adventures, unimaginable places traveled through time, and wonderful people met along the way.

Follow along the adventure as Laura and Holly read Nora’s Diary.

Bloodtrue, Blood See It Through

Daytime was fine. Just a mother and daughter, getting by. But when the little one went to sleep, the nights got long and lonely.

Her stepdad always told her she didn’t need anyone but Angie, her roommate at the time. Easy for him to say, with his own wife right there beside him.

Life played a cruel joke. She didn’t know anyone who could’ve played the hand she was dealt. Pick one person over another and suddenly you’re an outcast. No shoulder to cry on.

The trials and tribulations made her stronger—but God, it took everything. She went to depths most people never see. Held onto her sanity by a thread. If it weren’t for the kids, she says she’d be writing this from a padded cell.

Years and understanding and a whole lot of hard-won knowledge got her here. Close friends and relatives saw it all happen. Now she’s asking for a few more people to witness it—you.

So read the book. She enjoyed writing it. Maybe you’ll find something in it too.

Til Debt Do Us Part

The book, Til Debt Do Us Part, is the story of the Banburys’ journey from Wales, England, to the U.S.A. to make their fortune on Wall Street. Hard work and honest integrity are on their side, and they move among the upper echelons of society.

However, this utopia is short-lived when a genius stockbroker comes onto the scene and swindles many prosperous clients out of their fortunes, including Daf Banbury. This is a financial crisis, and the genius broker suddenly disappears.

There is prison following, but an eventual release of Daf for exemplary behavior. Daf enlists in the army and is sent to fight in Vietnam. His son Clive follows him soon after. Daf pays the ultimate price in warfare.

Meanwhile, the family is scattered across the globe, and all are successful. A Purple Heart is given in memory of Daf. J. R., the genius broker who suddenly surfaced from nowhere. Financial restitution is made at great danger.

Enid Catrine, Daf’s wife, closes the saga by sharing a guarded secret with Clive, her son.

Where the Body Becomes Sea

In Where the Body Becomes Sea, Lia Valenne composes a poetics of dissolution, where the body is no longer fixed, language no longer stable, and identity no longer secure. These poems move through absence, memory, and rupture, tracing the fragile boundary between what can be held and what inevitably escapes. Here, the self is not a unified voice but a shifting field of echoes: fractured, searching, and persistently unfinished.

Valenne’s work resists consolation. Instead, it lingers in the tension between presence and loss, where meaning flickers but never settles. Images emerge like tides, returning, receding, and transforming, carrying with them the weight of longing, estrangement, and quiet resilience. The sea becomes not just a metaphor but a condition: vast, unstable, and generative, dissolving the limits of the body even as it gives form to its depths.

With lyrical intensity and philosophical depth, this collection invites the reader into a space where poetry does not explain but enacts, where language breaks, reforms, and opens onto something both intimate and ungraspable. Where the Body Becomes Sea is a meditation on what remains when certainty dissolves and on the strange, enduring impulse to speak from within that dissolution.

An Old Lady’s Haiku with Cat

At this point in my life, I’m committed to my work, driven by a deep desire to communicate and explore the many mysteries around us. In a time when it’s more urgent than ever to care for nature and one another, I create not just to please, but to provoke – to gently pause others in their tracks, inviting them to experience the profound, the playful, and perhaps to leave a little bit changed.

My art and haiku often draw on mythology, religion, nature, and personal memories. In this way, I see myself as a storyteller, hoping to intrigue anyone who takes a moment to stop and look.

80? Oh No!

Science, medicine, and attention to healthy living styles has created an ever-enlarging geriatric population. To arrive at this stage of development in reasonably good health is a blessing. Even so, one cannot escape the arrival of gremlins that enter the body uninvited and proceed to make renovations without permission. For example, they step in, mess around with hormones and cause hair follicles to pop out of a woman’s face and chin. Men may begin to bald while their ears sprout matted hair causing diminished hearing.

80? Oh No! presents an intriguing story about the aging experience with a powerful, authorial, bold, and endlessly entertaining voice. Whether discussing sexuality or mortality, this work is uniquely insightful and poignant. The writing style is unusual and dynamic.

The author hopes the reader will take a walk in her shoes and share her thoughts and feelings throughout the reading of each chapter.

This book is perfect for gift-giving and provocative reading for book club members.

The Clara Conjecture

The Clara Conjecture is a new interpretation of historical facts. In 1938 Germany occupied Austria. Professor Lise Meitner, no longer shielded by her Austrian passport from measures against Jews, was fired. An equal of Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein, she had led the world’s best theoretical physics institute for nearly 30 years. In Berlin she designed the experiment that would split the uranium atom to produce energy. Before it could be executed she fled to Sweden. Without the ability to continue her research, impoverished, fearing for her relatives in the Nazi Reich, she became depressed.

In the tiny community of women scientists in Stockholm she met a psychoanalyst, the Canadian Dr. Leone McGregor Hellstedt (alter ego “Clara”), who rescued Lise with psychotherapy and money. When her German colleagues performed Lise’s experiment, they asked her to explain the result: she did, in terms of Einstein’s E=mc², and called the new phenomenon “nuclear fission” in her article for Nature. Early in 1939 physicists everywhere grasped the menace of nuclear energy. From her former colleagues and students Lise received information about the Nazi atomic bomb program and relayed it to Clara, who then informed Allied spies including William Stephenson (“Intrepid”) of British Security Coordination and Ian Fleming of British Naval Intelligence.

Informed by this detailed knowledge of Nazi atomic bomb initiatives, the Allies were able to efficiently sabotage facilities, kill key personnel, deny resources, and thus cripple the German program that had begun more than two years before the Manhattan Project.

The Journey

High-schooler Jack wanted to escape his life at home, so he moved in with a caretaker in a quiet town in the middle of Pennsylvania. At first, everything seemed normal – he was living an ordinary school life and even made some friends. However, everything changes when Jack encounters a mysterious woman who awakens a latent power within him that he never knew he had.

Determined to fight the evil lurking inside people’s minds, Jack embarks on a journey across Pennsylvania, seeking allies and battling dangerous foes. He joins a secret organization dedicated to combating these evils, but he soon uncovers its dark and shady past.

As Jack’s mission intensifies, he finds himself facing the son of a powerful and malevolent organization. At the same time, he struggles to keep his double life hidden from his girlfriend, Audrey, who knows nothing about his secret battles. As relationships begin to crumble, Jack is torn between his growing responsibilities as a hero and the personal life he desperately wants to protect.

The Beauty of Words

Life experience has a unique way of inspiring words and thoughts. It allows us to revisit moments, trends, and milestones that shape who we are. The sights we’ve seen, the people we’ve met – these complete our inner selves. A lifetime of such memories can spill out into beautiful words.

From a special friendship to the birth of a child, or a love you never expected, these are the things that stir the heart and deserve to be written about. I hope to evoke genuine emotions in those who read my work. Writing wasn’t something I planned; it unfolded in a way that even I found surprising, revealing truths I didn’t know I had to share.

Within these pages are smiles and tears, crafted to make you think, reminisce on days gone by, or dream of what’s yet to come.

I do not seek to make history or gain fame. My words are simple, yet thoughtful, with meaning to uncover. So, enjoy the rhymes, reflect on the truths, and immerse yourself in the heartfelt works within.

Human Adjacent

What makes someone human? What makes them inhuman? What do you do when those lines are much more blurred than they at first seem to be? How do you reconcile with realizing that you might have more in common with the monster of the story? What do you do when you realize that the monster probably isn’t a monster at all? That many of the things you were taught to you aren’t true at all?

Human Adjacent emphasizes human nature by telling the stories of things that are non-human, of shared experiences, and stories that resonate with what it means to be human without actually being so. Follow nine different stories as they all try to paint a wide picture of humanity in uncommon places, each one set in a unique world with diverse characters all trying to navigate their very different, outlandish circumstances that may or may not be similar to your own.

The Way It Ought to Be

The Way It Ought to Be is based on the idea that life does not always happen the way we want it to and that the only things that are important are the relationships we experience along the way – those we can’t get away from, those we want but can’t have, and the one we hold with ourselves.

Winifred Simone is in love with the life she had as a young girl and with the people from that life: her lone, childhood friend, Casey, and her ever-present mother, Maggie. Winifred and Casey spend their days in the small, rural town of Hickory in 1940s Pennsylvania; free to roam the nearby woods and isolating themselves from the rest of the world. But what seems idyllic to Winifred was anything but for Casey, a boy who always felt unloved and unlovable, despite Winifred’s boundless adoration.

Neither one could perceive the events that take away their innocent outlook and, without a word, Casey leaves Hickory, shattering their bond. This propels Winifred on a six-year search to find her friend and love far beyond the comfort of her hometown. As the story moves from the canopied safety of the Pennsylvania woods to the exposed rawness of the California desert, Winifred continually relies on the wrong people in an attempt to find the life she is convinced she is supposed to have.

That is, until she meets two very different families, the Hixsons and the Quinns. With their help, she learns to accept and be grateful for the life she is actually living.