Confiscation Blues – Notes from the AuthorIn Confiscation Blues, Denver resident Eric is arrested for driving young, while leaving Colorado. The humorous story follows Eric as he deals with the aftermath of the arrest and carries on with his life.Confiscation Blues is the latest of my Colorado books. In order, the books are:Upside Down – free short storyCar Noir – free short storyConfiscation BluesSome Denver-based Confiscati...

Marcus Tate gave the Houston Police Department twenty-eight years. They gave him a plaque, a handshake, and a death sentence.Two weeks after retiring as HPD's most decorated homicide detective, Marcus's family is massacred in a home invasion that kills his wife, his son, and his seventeen-year-old daughter. Marcus survives — barely — and begins hunting the men responsible.But every lead the department feeds him is a dead end. Every trail circles back to nowhere. And the deeper Marcus digs ...

The Blue WidowByDarryl MartelMargaret Redfern, a retired schoolteacher with a keen mind for detail, visits the village of Highfield with her friend Eleanor Middleton. While staying with local vicar Reverend James Atherton, they hear whispers of an unsolved death that many believe was the work of a ghost. A year earlier, the difficult and ailing Mrs. Agatha Pritchard died under strange circumstances. Her wallpaper flowers turned blue, just as a fortu...

From the very beginning, the blues has had a close connection with the LGBTQ community. There is a long and decorated history of so-called ‘dirty blues’ songs, stretching back beyond the earliest attempts to capture the blues on record. The 1920s and 30s saw the release of dozens of raunchy, bawdy blues recordings aimed at a knowing LGBTQ audience. Queer Blues tells the story of the pioneering LGBTQ composers and entertainers that wrote, performed and recorded these wonderfully outlandish,...

With the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Louisville mobilized to fight Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. Citizens of all races and economic classes united in the effort, both abroad and at home. Louisville�s many industries banded together as well: the Mengel Company made wood products used in the war, and its staff burned a Nazi flag in an employee-held rally; Reynolds Aluminum Company manufactured arms and other war materials; Liberty National Bank sold war bonds at special wind...

The organization of the first Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition (SARMAC) conference centered around two specifically identifiable research topics -- autobiographical memory and eyewitness memory. These two areas -- long-time staples on the menu of investigators of memory in more natural settings -- differ on a variety of dimensions, perhaps most notably on their specific goals for scientific inquiry and application. For many questions about memory and cognition that are ...

The organization of the first Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition (SARMAC) conference centered around two specifically identifiable research topics -- autobiographical memory and eyewitness memory. These two areas -- long-time staples on the menu of investigators of memory in more natural settings -- differ on a variety of dimensions, perhaps most notably in their specific goals for scientific inquiry and application. For many questions about memory and cognition that are ...

Set in Perth, Western Australia, a has-been SAS soldier, Al Connor, divorced and out of luck, is called back to join a secret elite group called SAD (Seek and Destroy). He was one of the best but now finds himself expendable. Outnumbered and against all odds, he battles for survival against a fierce alien presence that is very unpredictable. In the turmoil, he finds true love and adopts a child left by the alien's carnage. He faces the thought of his own mortality and of his newfound famil...

Set in Perth, Western Australia. Al Connor is getting worried that his life is on the line and the people in charge just think of him as a number. He is expendable and has no say or is told what is going on. He has to suck it and see. The They People dont give a damn about him and complain if he wrecks a car, or asks for anything necessary for his safety. All they want to do is capture the aliens and their spaceship. Well they try a few different things to capture the aliens and their spac...

This story is set in Perth, Western Australia. Al Connor has to decide what he is going to do with his life. He isnt the cleverest of blokes, but he has a way with solving problems. His father suggested he join the army as at least he will get fed and have clothes to wear and something to do. Well, he joins up, and soon he is sent to Afghanistan, where he excels in the field. He hates authority and wonders why they never understand what goes on out on the battlefield. He befriends many men...