The alt-true story of a chance Chicago encounter with President Trump, soon after his 2017 inauguration. In this tribute to New Journalists of the 1960s and '70s, especially Hunter S. Thompson, Trump hides out, and parties down, in "fringe famous" author, performer, etc. John "Sloop" Biederman's home. In Gonzo style, the tale blends fact and fiction not to deceive, but to pursue Higher Truth.

This POV Big Rehab tour tells the Other Side of our Sacred Recovery Cow. Follow 23-year-old free-thinker Boris, and a diverse band of fellow 'Habbers (half on repeat stints), as he's floored to find 12-Step religious indoctrination via a 20th Century hospital. Desperate to quit, fearing for his very life, Boris learns he must recover by rejecting the Program, rather than through cliche acceptance.

The first two years of DailyLimerick.net from Sloop Biederman (MAD to Chicago Tribune; Comedy Store LA to Double Door Chicago)! This series watches it grow, from traditional Limerick per day to plug hosting 1999's 10th National Poetry Slam: Limerick Slam, to noted media source (TV, radio, print) with anti-partisan commentary section as Limericks, too, evolved to include news and human experience.

Intro/preview to "The Cosmic Misadventures of Floyd Pinkerton" (CMFP) comic, rock space opera novel/series--from John "Sloop" Biederman, fringe famous humorist and professional idiot! (The latter thanks to his paid--aka "professional"--features sold to MAD Magazine.)An early version of the first novel's start finds hard-drinking, cigar-smoking Floyd Pinkerton spiraling out of control in an unknown planet's atmosphere. Through flashbacks, readers learn that Floyd stole the spacecraf...

"Scanning the maddening scene around her, Trisha sighed under her breath, 'So it has come to pass... Hell is delivered to Heaven's heights. Look and see! I am Death, Destruction my lover! Today I set the universe ablaze. Phoenix will burn, and the gods will bow low to the Children of Damnation!'"Phoenix... Across the globe, legends of old tell of a majestic, beautiful bird known from antiquity, its age measured in centuries and beyond...a symbol of peace and justice, dying in flame...

Jake Greenwood is your average, wannabe war hero up until a head injury causes him to forget his most cherished memories. Armed with only his name and a few personal belongings, Jake must fight his amnesia while he tries to remember not only more about himself, but what happened at the time of his injury. As Jake struggles to reclaim his memory, a pressing question can be asked: Will Jake be successful in remembering who he is?

When darkness falls and the air turns cold, ghosts come out to play.Heather Beck presents Haunted, an anthology of ghostly encounters and paranormal events.Ghost ParkAfter discovering a mysterious playground in the woods, Chase is stalked by angry ghost children.A Haunting PastTruce’s class trip to an old native reserve turns deadly when Bear, an infamous chief who died two hundred years ago, blames him for the tribe...

A young woman is haunted by her phone. Photos that she never took, which reveal images of her working on her computer show up on the phone. Is there a night stalker following her around? Or is there something even more sinister lurking about her apartment?

Few people know the true purpose of the Badger Survey of Atlar. Ashlin Smith wants out of his boring, frustrating, and apparently pointless job. But it's about to get a lot more interesting, and not in a good way, as events foreseen decades earlier begin to unfold.A giant badger, murderous cultists, abominations and dinner guests straight from the fairy tales, and a frighteningly clever and stubborn empress soon stand in the way of Ashlin's desire to return to a quiet life.

Apocalypse unleashed. Swift and deadly. Merciless.Seven billion people inhabit this planet in blissful ignorance of imminent annihilation. Destruction comes, not from meteors or nuclear holocaust, but from a source no one even knows exists. The architects of doom have long moved among us, hidden in plain sight, waiting for the signal to trigger our extinction.A handful of survivors—traumatised, bewildered—must come to terms with the new reality. And quickly...

Slices of MidnightThe Black Craft Saga, vol. 1Marissa Bonifay was born unto magic.The product of untold millennia of selective breeding on the part of one of the universe's most successful covens, Marissa began life with the mind and mettle to become an all-powerful practitioner of the arcane arts. But, such greatness wasn't in the offing. At least not yet.A motherless child, living in a land where the practice of magic was reserved for only those of noble bl...

Horror, fantasy intermingled with the dark realityDuring a stormy night, the Storyteller, sitting by the fire of a stake, inside a strange cabin, lost in a creepy woods of dead leaves, that seems taken from the nightmares of the craziest dreamer of stories, he tells his stories to all those who arrive at the cabin in search for shelter. Fist night: THE DARK REALITY. The stories narrated during the first night dig into the deepest of the human soul. They are horror and fantasy tales...