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...

The Varieties of Joycean Experience is a collection of ten essays that display the wide range and diversity of perspectives and critical approaches that can be drawn upon to enrich our readings of James Joyce’s works. With special attention to Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, these essays explore an array of unorthodox problems that these notoriously demanding books pose for readers.The first two essays offer new ways of tackling those persistent bugbear quest...

The Varieties of Joycean Experience is a collection of ten essays that display the wide range and diversity of perspectives and critical approaches that can be drawn upon to enrich our readings of James Joyce’s works. With special attention to Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, these essays explore such problems as the difficulties these books pose to categories and summaries and our understanding of Joyce’s composition methods. The book explores Joyce’s ambiguities aro...

The Varieties of Joycean Experience is a collection of ten essays that display the wide range and diversity of perspectives and critical approaches that can be drawn upon to enrich our readings of James Joyce’s works. With special attention to Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, these essays explore an array of unorthodox problems that these notoriously demanding books pose for readers.The first two essays offer new ways of tackling those persistent bugbear quest...

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...

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!

Margo Bryant is a young, brash reporter in New York City. She is sent undercover to St. Croix to investigate the kidnapping of a society heiress and runs into trouble as she steps onto the tarmac. She finds herself pitted with elements that are out of her league. But along the way she finds someone who is willing to help her and finds the islands are really a good place to find romance.Caribbean Blue is the first in six books about this fact-finding sleuth. She gets in and out of tr...

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...

A Time to Care is the prequel to The Curse of Indian Gold. This is a story about an Indian princess who was kidnapped from her tribe when she was four and subsequently sold into slavery with the Shawnee of Southern Ohio (or what would eventually become Ohio). She ran away, was captured, and was going to be thrown on the fire to be consumed by the tribe. However, John Daniels asked the Shawnee chief, Cornstalk, for her hand in marriage.Mary Alice Daniels later saved the chief's life ...

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...

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...

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!