And the Rest Is History…

Commonplace today, abdominal surgery in its infancy was once little more than a death sentence. Medical textbooks credit a humble country surgeon with the first successful operation of its kind. With limited context and few details, the legend merely whets our appetite for more. What’s the rest of the story?

And the Rest Is History...

Commonplace today, abdominal surgery in its infancy was once little more than a death sentence. Medical textbooks credit a humble country surgeon with the first successful operation of its kind. With limited context and few details, the legend merely whets our appetite for more. What’s the rest of the story?

Nighted

The light fades away,

The darkness creeps in.

The sins begin to emerge,

Immersing and drowning,

Slowly standing,

Waiting for divine light.

But nothing comes,

Except creatures of the night,

Dark and deep,

Falling into an endless stream,

Never to come back out.

Because when light leaves, darkness prevails.

Moving Day

Moving Day is a poetry collection that narrates the author’s early spiritual progress in Christianity. Exploring faith, identity, and reconciliation, these verses delve into the temporal and enduring aspects of human existence. This book considers depression and joy, community and isolation, conviction and freedom, arriving in the hope of Christianity. With an intention to encourage believers and promote introspection in others, these poems examine the individual looking to the eternal.

Pirates’ Pyrexia

“The sins of the Golden Objects of Power come to hunt you.”

This was the warning that was given to those who seek to abuse the powers of these ornaments. They soon found that they were hunted by pirates whose purpose was to retrieve and protect these objects, so these protectors were nicknamed “Sins”. Jon Bon Crim is a member of the Black Ribbon Pirates, and he is a Sin, a qualified doctor, and Medical Officer aboard the steam cargo ship S.S. Elizabeth. He utilises the Objects of Power to grant him immortality, supernatural strength and speed.

Together with his family, operation and sea creatures that share his burden, he travels the high seas aboard tramp steamers and submarines to exotic locations all across the planet of Besiens. If you are an Abuser, you had better watch your back as the Sins of the Black Ribbon Pirates seek, find, take and hold.

No Name

The poetry collection No Name depicts the path of the heart, and the path of the mind, through the images of the Deer, and the Wolf. These two paths, along with the symbol animals that illustrate them, are very different at first sight. The mind divides, and the heart unites.

Through the eyes of the author, however, the Deer and the Wolf are both magical creatures, and equally dear to her. All symbols that are presented in the book live together and represent wholeness.

And although the author reveals the message that each of the two creatures wants the other dead, there is one subtle voice intertwined in the story that insists that both the Dear, and the Wolf should remain alive. You can hear this voice while embracing the journey yourself.

I Swallowed the Cosmos and Spit Out the Stars

Words flow fluently through a poetic stream where the muse paddles in both directions, where he deems most rewarding. His intention is to capture an audience full of dreams where the author can captivate his own. There are many turns and bends in the water, but somehow the shore beckons him on solid ground. Mike invites his audience to open up the pages and become familiar with the author’s visions of friends, family and experiences in life.

Tesoro

After the brutal murder of her friend, Mattie, three years ago, Eva was left wondering what happened to Mattie’s baby. No longer able to resist the desire to know if the child is safe and healthy or met the same fate as her mother, Eva starts to investigate. Her questions take her on a dangerous path that alters the course of her life. Will she find the child, and perhaps love, along the way? Or will she meet the same fate as her friend did?

The Legend of Jane Coleman

This is a story of a stowaway girl on the passenger ship LYON, who was one of the colonists at Roanoke Island. It chronicles her life from ages fifteen to sixty-one, and it describes her hardships in both England and Virginia. The stories’ span of time is from 1587 to 1633.

The story is derived from the passenger list of the people that made up the third attempt at colonization of the New World. The passenger list had two people on it whose first names were either made illegible to historians or purposely omitted by John White, who was the governor of the expedition.

The two names were (blank) Coleman, listed as a woman passenger, and (blank) Marvis, listed as a child under the age of sixteen. Jane Colman was actually both persons who were written on that list.

Last Train Home

A collection of stories from the margins of American life

Wayne Creed’s debut collection pulls no punches. These are stories about people surviving on the edges—Eastern Shore watermen whose lives have collapsed, the junkies and car thieves marking time, and the wheelchair-bound and forgotten trying to carve out meaning in a world that’s moved on without them.

Written with unflinching honesty and surprising lyricism, Last Train Home maps the forgotten corners of life where loneliness mingles with grace, violence brushes against tenderness, and the desperate search for connection plays out in dive bars, detention centers, and abandoned churches. Creed’s characters—ex-nuns and altar boys, teachers and drifters, boxers and bell ringers—navigate worlds where the American Dream has curdled into something darker, yet somehow, improbably, moments of beauty still break through.

Raw, lyrical, and uncompromising, Last Train Home announces a bold new voice in American fiction—one unafraid to look directly at what we’d rather turn away from. From fishing villages to the streets of Moscow, Creed finds in the darkest corners the beauty and persistence of the human spirit. Last Train Home offers no easy answers—only the hard truth that grace sometimes arrives on the last train, just before the station closes for good.

The Odyssey of a Bad Mother

I’m going to spend 2026 in 1982; come join me.

The Odyssey of a Bad Mother takes place in 1982 in Bellevue, Washington, right outside of Seattle.

Come reminisce about the time of Pop Rocks, Tab, Hall & Oates, Heather Locklear, E.T., Reaganomics, and the changing of the family dynamic.

Set against the backdrop of Bill Gates’s rise and MS-DOS and the European expansion of Microsoft, finally to their home in Redmond. The Odyssey of a Bad Mother takes a look at three flawed women in the affluent Parkside community who are all deemed bad mothers.

They come together in a desperate quest to find answers to the kidnapping of one of their sons, a local boy, Ryan McKinnon. With no clues, no answers, and little hope, these three bad mothers forge the path to finding what happened to him.

During a time when the police were on overload, a time in American history when children’s kidnappings were becoming prominent in the United States, and with respect to the milk carton campaign, The Odyssey of a Bad Mother takes a hard look at the police and their fight to bring Ryan McKinnon home.

What happened to Ryan McKinnon that night at the movies when he went missing?

With Ryan as the narrator of the terrifying tale, his story sheds light on compassion, empathy, and psychological insight on what it means to struggle, self-preserve, fall apart, and pick yourself up again for the greater good!

A Southern Noir

Hunter Landon, a private investigator in Birmingham, Alabama, lives a life defined by faith, family, and unwavering values. This seemingly idyllic Southern city is his home, a picturesque backdrop to a devout existence alongside his wife and children. But when a new case lands on his desk, Hunter’s world is brutally shattered, which challenges everything he professes to believe.

He plunges into a maze of love, betrayal, and cold-blooded murder, swiftly uncovering the decay beneath Birmingham’s polished façade. The polite society he knows is a thin veneer, barely concealing a sinister darkness. Confronted with these unsettling truths, Hunter faces an impossible choice: remain true to the man he is, or become the very monster he hunts to solve the case.

In a world where no one is who they claim to be, can a good man survive in the shadows he uncovers?