Tim Conley's prose whipsaws between carefully observed realism and fantastic absurdity to create surreal, compact worlds. Whether they're sketching the familial fallout of a stentorian patriarch or teaching the eponymous dance moves to survivors of the apocalypse ("With the rise of the invertebrates, spinelessness has never been so hip"), these stories are all marked by precise, engaging prose, dark humour, and a demented imagination.The 24 stories in Dance Moves of the...

Cheyenne, Luna and Bruno are very close and are outcast in the Chimeran society. They try to live off the grid but are pursued by people who have ties behind the political figures of the time. They stumbled onto the connection between worlds that was being used to transport people into slavery.The girls had to go even further into the background to combat the evil they perceived as coming into their world.The Rhumgold Sagas delve into politics of an abandoned society. Abandoned beca...

Earth sent out a fleet of starships in the year 2455. They were bound for Proxima but ended up broken down in the Antares Star System. Shoddy workmanship prevailed to save money for the Guild. They managed to land on Chimera. The ships never to off again and the stranded population had to survive or die. One thing - they had to live under the iron fist of the Guild. What a burden.Years ensued and the burden get any less onerous. Into an already strained society Mhel'Sargonus was bo...

Ronald Benoit has assembled a team of private investigators that he calls the Gravediggers. Their proficiency at rooting out corruption is noteworthy. They are usually hired for jobs too intense for others to tackle. When time is of the essence, Ronald and his team are there - in the middle of things. They get the job done - catch the criminals and defend the innocent.Crime Busting: Benoit Style is the fourth book in this series of six. In it Benoit and his team of Gravediggers figh...

Tales by the Light of the Moon Shadows is an anthology of 36 short stories that deal with some of the darker aspects of the human condition. It is the first book of three anthologies of short stories (The Hardwood Chronicles and Cherry Blossoms are the other two). This book deals with some of the 'hot button items' we modern humans would rather sweep under the rug, so to speak. Read & Enjoy!

Birthright Under a Sign is the first book in the Dark Moons on Chimera saga. Dark Moons is closely tied to the Rhumgold Sagas as they inhabit the same planets and contain some of the same people. Birthright is a four volume set that details the events and personages leading up to the occupying of the Triple Thrones of Theuniss. Read & Enjoy as our adventurers seek the ways and means of thwarting the machinations of the Guild.

Foundations of the Moon Runes is part of the Rhumgold Sagas - a series of 28 tales based on human and alien civilizations in the Antares Star system. Humanity leaped into space in a big way following the invention of the Starlight Drive, but they got to Antares and their ship broke down. They were left to fend for themselves. An alien race calling themselves Marconians were already there but allowed humanity to live in peace.But peace isn't one of the things humanity seeks after. Th...

Tim Conley’s Useless Joyce provocatively analyses Joyce’s Ulysses and Finnegans Wake and takes the reader on a journey exploring the perennial question of the usefulness of literature and art. Conley argues that the works of James Joyce, often thought difficult and far from practical, are in fact polymorphous meditations on this question. Examinations of traditional textual functions such as quoting, editing, translating, and annotating texts are set against the ...

Who would have thought that Corn Flakes would turn the world upside down. Actually, the breakfast staple didn't do it - the additive of nano technology did. The shadow government finally figured out how to bring all aspects of human life into focus by introducing a factor into people's diets that would make them amenable to becoming automatically controlled by the State. Someone has to rebel! Read & Enjoy!

The short story form is unambiguously un-dead in this new album of thirty fictions from Tim Conley, coming at the reader in a variety of shapes and guises running the gamut from elliptical micro-fictions to tales of the inexplicable.Steeped in Beckett, Borges and Nabokov, Conley's multiple universes allow for werewolves that excite ridicule not fear, and where birthdays are an occasion for forgetting not remembering. Here, the world greets a new colouring book with the same serious...

Dark Moons on Chimera is a four part compendium that tells the stories of triplets (Kn'dra, Kn'Ross and Kn'Rose) who are born under a dire sign of danger and intrigue. The problem being there was only supposed to be one heir - not three. The other problem was an ancient alien curse spoken by the Marconians (original inhabitants of the Antares Star system. This curse told of Triple Thrones upon which the children would sit. King Wagamar, the triplets' father, decreed that the curse would no...

An unscrupulous character named Mnuchin was yanked into the Chimeran timeframe and almost loses his mind. He is the subject of investigation by the Guild, the Grand Master and local denizens. Everyone seems to want to find him - for their individual purposes. He only wants to find out where he is and who has messed with his mind to get him to wherever here is. Mhel'Sargonus - the local wizard, has to pull some strings to protect the innocent. Read & Enjoy!