When Louis Proof collapsed in pain in front of his uncle's store, he thought he was going to die. Instead he awoke in Midlandia, a place of the impossible.Almost as soon as he arrives, three eNoli -- people who look human but are otherworldly -- try to kill him. In fact, it seems as if everyone in Midlandia is trying to kill Louis and the other two human teens, Cyndi Victoria Chase and Devon Alexander. The three are Favorites. If they survive Midlandia, they will have great powers....

Five award winning sci-fi short stories. In the Garden of Mistress Bloom won First Place in Science Fiction in 2021, in Writer's Digest's self-published ebook category.

Whimsical and surreal, this collection of short stories won 1st Place in Sci-Fi in 2021 from Writer's Digest for self-published ebooks. All that really matters is that the listener delight in hearing these tales of adventure in the spacetime strangeness the characters encounter.

I feel compelled to admit that this is a strange little book of fictional short stories, whimsical and surreal. I loved writing the book, and had many giggles each time that I reread for editing purposes. The first story is In the Garden of Mistress Bloom, a bit of garden, galactic empire, and folktale complete with human and non-human characters. In The 19th Frustration, we find our hero and heroine caught up in a time and dimensional struggle with advanced alien culture. In Vanlines - Th...

A mystery wrapped around two love stories with the same woman, Maggie O'Die.Like so many mysteries, Cle Curbo’s new novel, For the Love of Maggie O’Die, opens with a body, but lest you get too comfortable, nothing is at all what it seems. From the first page, Curbo crafts a mystery, sci-fi adventure that takes the readers on a rollercoaster ride, putting them in the driver’s seat, while trying to figure out what exactly is happening. The book grabs you and makes you want to keep re...

What could the aliens want with his father? Bharkli flees to his mother's planet to prepare him to fight the aliens. Meeting the orphan Sylvane as a fellow Watcher, they seek to protect Earth from invasion and takeover by the aliens. As Sylvane speeds to planet Ghames to reveal the alien's plans and gain help for the Earth, she is met with a mysterious man who knows her from a life she does not recall. Will she be able to save Earth and become the mature goddess that the mystery man claims...

Simon Silibus is unflinchingly devoted to his friends, Maggie O'Die, Jake Chin, and especially to Ryger Deacon's comatose body. He will give Ryger a new life, but only if he can get him to Heavenly Hospice without being caught by the Trackers. When Simon leaves suddenly for the Arizona desert at night, Maggie and Ryger are left with a nagging mystery to solve as they flee to evade capture by the Trackers.

A frantic call from his daughter puts Harry in harm's way. BAM! He's dead but doesn't know it. He comes to a lake, where a she-captain blows in on a storm, and they sail the choppy seas of the afterlife, harrowed by a mix of monsters, both human and not.

When Louis Proof collapsed in pain in front of his uncle's store, he thought he was going to die. Instead he awoke in Midlandia, a place of the impossible. Almost as soon as he arrives, three eNoli—people who look human but are otherworldly—try to kill him. In fact, it seems as if everyone in Midlandia is trying to kill Louis and the other two human teens, Cyndi Victoria Chase and Devon Alexander. The three are Favorites. If they survive Midlandia, they will have great powers. That's a big...

Louis Proof is an Ordinary kid. He loves listening to hip Hop, racing radio controlled cars, and hanging out with his best friend, Brandon. Then a mysterious letter invites him to visit the local junkyard. There he finds a secret underground amusement park like no other in existence. This is the best day of Louis's life. The park even has the most amazing race course for radio-controlled cars.Louis starts racing right away. It's a close contest; he's about to activate his nitro boos...

In this study, the appearance and location of shops in Amsterdam during the early modern period is linked to major changes in the urban economy, the size and socio-spatial distribution of its population, and the structure of the urban grid. Not only is there ample attention for the spatial distribution of shops across the urban landscape, but for the first time it is also accurately charted what the exterior and interior of Amsterdam shops looked like and how they changed in the course of ...

This volume brings together research on retailing, shopping and urban space; themes that have attracted wide interest in recent decades. The authors argue that the 'modernity' of the nineteenth century is often over-emphasised at the expense of recognising earlier innovation.