Laughter and absurdity permeate our worlds no matter how much reality tries to wipe them aside. Our minds and imaginations are much bigger and more powerful than the world outside that tries to absorb us with its tale of woe and hopelessness. We live in fear that we might be wrong about something deep and essential to being at one with our lives. For this, we can pay a fortune for therapy or we can laugh and accept that, essentially, nothing is right about the world around us so we may as ...

From the tangled seaweed of modern life comes a collection of essays, rants, and observations that are as hilarious as they are bewildering. Stuff: Washed Up on the Shore is a driftwood pile of suspicious wit, questionable intelligence, and the kind of deep insight that sneaks up on you in the shower.Wander through satirical takes on the environment and the eternal horror of winter, stumble into philosophical rabbit holes, and surface with surprising clarity about the writ...

If you enjoy a mixture of literary fiction, absurd humor and poetry that will make you wonder that the hell you're reading, there's a good chance you'll enjoy this book. The stories and not-poems in these pages were written over a 45 year period and reflect the multiple personalities of a writer, like every other writer, trying to find his literary voice.From the heart-jerking journey of a slow but sincere man trying to do the right thing in a world loosing its moral compass, to th...

The gods of ancient Rome have awakened after sleeping for two millennia under a curse,and they're awake just in time to finish off the mortals or save them from themselves.Charon the Ferryman has just sent legions of the dead back to earth because no one hascoins for the trip across the Styx. His act awakens Jupiter, King of the Gods, and triggersa potential war between the gods of the sky and the gods of hell.Trivia, Goddess of Witchcraft, teams up ...

Nothing Is As It SeemsSeven odd people living seven separate lives with a secret connection that will change them forever.Jack fears the woman he loves. Jackson feels his comfortable life crumble from an unknown source. Jax is ready to commit murder under the orders of an internet being. Jacky falls in love with a woman he can see just once a week. Jacques destroys his career with a mistaken email. Jac is the most hated man on earth when children kill their...

Siblings can sometimes carry secrets of their childhood through their entire lives...or...stir things up by finally coming clean.(Humor)

Written for busy people like you who have always wanted to write a book, Writing Hurts Like Hell: How to Write a Novel When You Don't Have Time to Write a Short Story, guides you step-by-stop through the process of writing a novel from conceiving an idea, to developing the idea into a well-plotted story, and then revising your finished first draft into a manuscript that's ready to send to an agent or publisher.This workshop-in-a-book breaks the entire process into manageable tasks ...

Facing the bullies at school was one thing...facing whatever was in the lake was another.

A prisoner of COVID living alone in the time of lockdowns and frenzy, Jason's companionship is defined by credit card limits and shopping click after click after...

Today's noon hour crib game would be plagued by murder most foul as players dropped one after the other in a noon hour rampage of death.

Blaise desperately wanted her social life back but how can you have friends over when you never know what's going to tumble out of the refrigerator. But maybe if she could just get it right, the Book of a Thousand Life Changing Words would give her a new start her old life.

Benny's life has been something he tolerates just to get to the end. But what will happen then?(Literary)