“Lucky indeed is the man who can follow his passions,” contemporary Scottish artist Robert McBride tells an interviewer, “but if he doesn't go full-tilt at them, he's failing in life.”Robert’s main passions are oil painting and swimming. He excels at both. But either might turn his life upside down.DEPTH PERCEPTION, set in Edinburgh, Oxford, London, Cornwall and the Scottish Highlands, takes you into the life, the art, the adventures and the imagination of a remarkable Scot...

Graeme Stockbridge is America’s best TV journalist and nightly news anchor, unequalled in talent and charisma. He’s at the height of his career.But now, Graeme would like to drastically slow down whenever he’s off the air. Rather than doing the news from the constant tumult of his network’s studios, Graeme decides he wants to broadcast year-round from a small working ranch in semi-rural Idaho.Instead of being caught in the noisy rush of big city life, he wants to continue h...

Would you like to be able to read minds? Well, here's your chance. If vicariously.Set in Seattle and in the beautiful countryside of Vancouver Island, Mind After Mind is the story of highly-successful cartoonist Sloane Ferguson, clever, sardonic and philosophical.His prodigious output, brilliantly-drawn and wittily-written, appears across the country in newspapers, magazines, books and on television.When Sloane discovers that somehow he has developed the ability to ...

Could you go out onto a snowy rooftop to confront a would-be jumper? What might you experience if you were trapped inside a tornado? How long could you keep a huge secret from your concert-hall fans? How would you choose between two irreconcilable talents? What would you do if you suspected something about yourself which would demolish your career? How would you deal with startling childhood memories emerging after decades of being repressed?HOAR FROST is an anthology of seven dram...

STONERISE: An anthology of nine dramatic and entertaining literary short stories by award-winning author Eric E. Wallace (UNDERTOW; HOAR FROST). Could your memories keep you alive? What would it take to make you climb a mountain? Could you be happy living in complete poverty? To what extremes might you go to protect your privacy? What might you learn while working inside a gorilla suit? Filled with highly-evocative settings, unusual juxtapositions and remarkable characters, the diverse sto...

Highly atmospheric, often lyrical, filled with quirky and memorable characters, Emperor's Reach intertwines a fascinating psychological portrait with history, humor, romance and suspense.There's much to admire about Darrol Yount. He's one of the best young waiters in San Francisco. He's smart, handsome, charming and artistic. He's very kind to the street people he encounters on his walks—eccentrics like Billy Pickleface, Gerta Twoshoes and Burlap Ives.Darrol's also interest...

In this is diverse collection of dramatic and entertaining short stories you'll meet many remarkable characters, including:—a drone pilot with a singular nightmare ("Birds of Prey")—a taxi driver trapped in a day of crises ("Meter Running")—an American couple facing conflict in Scotland ("Loch Ness Monsters")—a Cherokee teen hounded by a bully ("Charley Horse")—a professional coffin builder with claustrophobia ("Room Enough")—a downsized exec...

Pianist Garreth Llewelyn has a hair-trigger imagination. It helps him lead his audiences into amazing realms. His mesmerizing improvisations engage listeners' senses in incredible ways.Garreth is the best-known pianist in the world, but he's struggling to balance his music with his complicated personal life. His romantic relationships are becoming difficult. His authoritarian father and his envious brother are making it hard to have close family ties.A noted writer, followi...

Fifty remarkable short stories from a range of contemporary fiction authors including Junot Diaz, Amy Tan, Jamaica Kincaid, Jhumpa Lahiri, and more, selected from a survey of more than five hundred English professors, short story writers, and novelists.Contributors include Russell Banks, Donald Barthelme, Rick Bass, Richard Bausch, Charles Baxter, Amy Bloom, T.C. Boyle, Kevin Brockmeier, Robert Olen Butler, Sandra Cisneros, Peter Ho Davies, Janet Desaulniers, Junot...

Could they be a picture-perfect family?Daredevil photographer Jake Hollister has never stayed in one place. But after an injury, he has no choice. No more photographing polar bears in the Arctic or documenting the wonders of the world-he's in small-town Washington State for at least a year. A year with his wholesome, beautiful landlady, Hannah Nolan, and her young son.The longer Jake stays, the more he's drawn to Hannah. She's passionate about her community...

MARLvision Publishing presents "Dark Light," an anthology of horror edited by Carl Hose. "Dark Light" is the light that shines through when some of the finest writers in horror use the power of their words for good. That's the case with this anthology—42 writers coming together to help support the Ronald McDonald House Charities and all the good the organization does for families year round.Make no mistake, though, these are horror writers and the stories they've written are not pr...

The Fisher is a short story set in the early 21st century about a man in the mountains of Colorado. A young man struggling to find a balance between modern society and the joys of nature.Please note, this is a short story.