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Private Admission: A Black Comedy

by Antonio Robinson

“Famous? … Being famous don’t mean much nowadays if it ever did. They’re making murderers famous now."

Private Admission is a dark comedy about a man named Jimmee who's trying to write his breakout novel to elevate his stalled writing career. He uses Muffin and the other unsavory characters that he encounters during his day as his muse.

Reading With Matthew

by S. D. Turner

Into the Maelstrom

by Douglas Cornell

1922 - OKLAHOMA: Oil-rich Osage Indians are being murdered one by one. It's up to a veteran US Marshal and a young FBI agent to catch the killer and solve one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.

Strange Child

by G. J. Daily

Marvin Johnson was an influential author before his daughter was murdered nearly three decades ago, and now with the death of his wife, he is contemplating suicide. Until Samantha Wilkins, a homeless 16-year-old, invades Murphy's sheltered existence in an impoverished neighborhood in Boston and forces him to face parts of his past he would rather forget. Known as the neighborhood recluse, Marvin is a man whose mystery and eccentricity border on the mythical, especially when he begins talki... more

The Courtesan's Daughter

by Susanne Dunlap

What happens when a daughter's dream and a mother's sordid past collide? New York, 1910. Seventeen-year-old Sylvie and her French-immigrant mother Justine eke out a living doing piecework in a tenement on the Lower East Side, while Sylvie attends school so that she can escape their life of poverty by becoming a teacher. At least, that's what her mother believes should happen. Sylvie, though, has a different dream. She wants to be a star in the new moving pictures, just like the beautiful V... more

THE VOYAGE OF A DRESS

by Amy Hartman

HA! (Humanity's Absurdities)

by Remo Perini

From the mind of a retired harpsichord psychologist, HA! (Humanity's Absurdities) touches upon the meaning of life in much the same way that a misplaced moist towelette does not. HA! is a sardonic parody, rife with irony, satire, and lampoons of every-day drivel-laden gibberish. Complete with a glossary of insightful and meaningless original vernacular, this volume will exercise your mind and keep you laughing, grinning, or smirkingly amused as you try to discern fiction from fabrication or mere... more

The Judges

by Eric J. Matluck

"You can't win unless you're judged." So somebody tells Mary Sorabi, and Mary is no stranger to being judged. She's a young woman, half-Indian, half-Chinese, who's a classical pianist, and plays the kind of music, music from the twentieth century, that most people hate. But that's her passion. When she wins a prestigious competition, her life changes, but rather than fill her with a sense of pride and accomplishment, it fills her with feelings of fear and claustrophobia because, suddenly... more

The Unsealing

by Robert Brighton

Love, Lust, and Murder in the Gilded Age ... Buffalo, New York, 1901 ... a muscular, young city, Queen of the Lakes ... The Electric City ... where the money spent to build Newport mansions and Park Avenue townhouses is made, plays host to the world’s greatest fair, the Pan-American Exposition and its 8,000,000 guests ... And less than a mile from the great spectacle, a web of love, lust, and intrigue is forming among the young, elite Ashwood Set. Alicia and Edward Miller may be one of Ashwood’s... more

River of the Red Earth People

by Fred Cardin

Andy Vincent is in high school in Wisconsin in 1964. He lives in a terrible home. He is a decent, sensitive boy who is sociable, has a number of friends including some who are close friends. But at home he withdraws into himself, into his imagination, to escape the fury and warfare of his parents. He falls in love with Sara Roberts, but their love lasts only a year. Her father is transferred to a job in California. Andy is devastated when she leaves. He runs away from home, drives alone t... more

The Desert Kingdom

by Richard Hampton

The Desert Kingdom follows a group of Egypt’s best warriors on a mission to free a kingdom that is in charge of the majority of trails and passages to the East of Egypt from the iron grip of an army comprised of mercenaries, disgruntled warriors that were thrown out of their country’s army, and who turned raiders and robbers from many armies. These are the men without souls, without heart, without pity. Torture, murder, rape, theft, and the burning of villages, towns, and cities f... more

Blown Cover

by Peter J. Azzole

The Navy and the CIA desperately needed unique, critical intelligence about hints of Soviet anti-ship and ballistic missile threats being brought to Cuba.
Putting a radio-intercept operator into Cuba was one way to gain insights, otherwise unavailable, into Soviet activities there. U.S. Navy Communications Technician First Class Salvador Conte had the long list of skills to pull it off, and he volunteered without hesitation.
Salvador quickly learned that it was an arduous miss... more

Driving Toward Destiny

by Stuart Scott

Jack Higgins is feeling suffocated and increasingly disillusioned by the political climate in America. It is 1971, and many young men his age are being conscripted into the army, and Jack is convinced that he will be next. His strict parents wholeheartedly believe he should fulfill his American duty, but Jack has other plans. His high school friend, “Wild” Bill, is attending university in Berlin. It just so happens that he has space for another roommate. After a disagreement with his parents an... more

The Great Gatsby and the Zombies

by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Wayne Soini

Nick Carraway, veteran, must overcome Lost Generation apathy to deal with an imminent zombie apocalypse that no one in Gatsby's circle will take seriously, any more than Commander in Chief Calvin Coolidge. High stakes surround the defense of West Egg. Sadly, Gatsby dies at the end.

Divine Julius

by Jacek Bocheński

"Would you like to become a god? This is perfectly doable."
So starts this fascinating glimpse into the minds of Julius Caesar and his opponents, written in the award-winning brisk style imitating Caesar's own. The book takes the format of a modern reader commenting on historical documents. Rather than follow chronological order of events, the book is divided into four parts, each dedicated to a different aspect of Caesar's political strategy: Cruelty, Ben... more

The Sword Swallower and a Chico Kid

by Gary Robinson

A fifteen-year-old youth escapes a toxic home and joins the circus. For five decades, the Sword Swallower (Duke Reynolds) embarks on a journey shared with the oddest characters in our society. He learned to swallow swords while traveling with the circus freaks across the United States. He later found himself in prison, where he received a degree in musical theory from Julliard. After a terrible accident ended his career while performing on live Television, the 40-year methamphetamine addict a... more

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