In this incredible chapbook, Meg Files' poems sing us goodbye. As humans take their leave from this planet by ordinary death, the animals remain. Meg Files' unpretentious Beasts will not miss us but perhaps they'll note us as beautifully as she has noted them. In these straightforward, penetrating poems, we can take some solid satisfaction knowing the beasts keep the humans alive and significant a little longer.-Nicole Walker, author of Processed Meats: Essays ...

"A Hollow, Muscular Organ is a bittersweet, cannily precise anatomy of a love story-a meditation on connection and disconnection, and on writing itself, for the self, as connection and retrieval. Meg Files' riveting, wise novel, the story of Susannah and Griff, is unputdownable for its intelligence and its heart. I read it in one sitting and so will you."--Karen Brennan

She is 50 feet underwater, scuba diving on an old sunken warship in the harbor of a Pacific island, which is about as far away as she can get from her unhappy divorce, a string of unfulfilling affairs and her persistent lack of conviction about her life. Kit Manning wonders if Tano Island will be for her a point of departure to somewhere better. Then everything turns a bright yellow, “the water like wrinkled amber foil.” Her new beau, an air force captain from the island’s base, swims down...

A studio executive leaves his family and travels the world giving free reign to the bipolar disorder he's been forced to hide for 20 years."Juliann Garey writes with stark, lucid power about the tumbling journey into madness and the agonizing climb back out."--Brian Yorkey, book and lyrics for Next to NormalIn her tour-de-force first novel, Juliann Garey takes us inside the restless mind, ravaged heart, and anguished soul ...

The second e-book in the popular series of horror fiction by John McDonnell, "13 Scary Stories" will give you a chill, and a chuckle too! These are short, scary stories that depend on twists and surprises, and a heavy dose of psychology. There are trolls, vampires, werewolves, man-eating tigers and jealous lovers. Every story has an unexpected twist, and a laugh or two along the way. Readers are raving about this style of writing that combines horror and humor.

North and Shaw: Out of Office is a collection of short stories. It includes the following:“Bad Boys at the Radio Girls”Radio Girls is a lesbian bar. A group of straight guys thinks it’s funny to crash. North and Shaw are hired to take care of this problem (and they try not to fulfill the white savior stereotype while doing so). This story takes place before Orientation.“Gone Goat”North thinks Shaw needs a vacation. Shaw isn’t so sure, until he hears about th...

StellaOne night with Kruger was enough to ruin me for any other man. But knowing that he only thought of me as a friend, and didn't remember what we did, I knew I couldn't stay and watch him work his way through the club bunnies. I fled back to Florida, unaware that I was taking a piece of Kruger with me while leaving him my heart.KrugerIf I was ever meant to claim a woman, it would be someone like Stella. Only, I'm a hard man; my father made sure I knew not to trus...

Bull has a hard task ahead of him, winning over his woman and claiming her for himself after having to inform her she has to fake her death and run away with him. He knows how dedicated she is to her brother and his wife, their kids, and her students, but lives are on the line and he won't take no for an answer. If he has to haul her away kicking and screaming, it's something he's more than willing to do. He refuses to lose her before he's had her.Dottie loves her family, her job, ...

Trey's life has been one of protection and privation. Facing a hungry winter, he leaves his mountain home and family and goes looking for work in the human world. The "wolf school" seems like a good choice. He might not know much about the modern world, but if he can learn to work with a human, he'll earn a good living, never go hungry again, and help his family survive, too.It's just a job, and he doesn't understand why some shifters are so fussy about who they team up with. Findi...

Nora Simmons experienced her first kiss when she was just ten years old. Ben Hollister was twelve and visiting his grandparents in Nora's hometown, Emmett's Mill. But after that summer—and one very memorable kiss—Ben and Nora didn't see each other again. Until now…Ben, who's become a high-powered lawyer, has inherited his grandparents' rambling old Victorian, which he plans to sell. He needs Nora, the town's best landscaper, to help him get the house in shape.As much as they ...

Dragnet Anthology 1 collects some of the best works from the first eight issues of Dragnet Magazine (dragnetmag.net), the online literary journal that isn’t afraid to approach serious topics with humour. Covering the period from February 2011 to July 2013, it features such fine catches asA.G. PasquellaAmelia FloortjeAndre BabynAndrew J. BorkowskiAndrew FaulknerAndrew F. SullivanAndy Sinclair

It was supposed to be a romantic RV weekend. Then the murder started.Charles and I planned a quiet getaway with the three Rs: Rest, Relaxation, and Romance. But two furry stowaways—one very vocal cat and a raccoon pretending to be a trucker—had other ideas.Things go from cozy to chaotic when a body turns up near the campground picnic area. As if that weren’t enough, a desperate grizzly bear begs for help locating her missing cubs, a wannabe reality TV star ...