Shelly: 352 books

Kari is sure of two things: Her husband's infidelity and her loss in recalling the events that led up to it. With no where else to go, she stands on a corner across from her house, watching. An attractive young man shows up and offers Kari a solution to her situation. Although she's reluctant at first,...

Mulciber is an alternative name for Vulcan, the powerful Roman god who gives and controls fires, including the liquid spirit spurting out of volcanoes and the sparks in the forging of arms and iron. It’s a strikingly apt title for Shelly Bryant’s questing verse, which feels distilled from literary...

Turkey, Iraq, Qatar, Jordan, Egypt, and Tunisia The “Arab Spring” all started when a young Tunisian fruit seller set himself on fire in protest of a government official confiscating his apples and slapping his face. The aftermath of that one personal protest grew to become the Middle East...

I want to share my story of how I was living what seemed to be the perfect life. I had a fantastic husband, beautiful baby girl with another on the way and a great career. Then all of a sudden it all seemed to fall apart as each day had gone by. I lost my career, my child and almost lost my family....

The arson attacks in early 2006 on a number of small Baptist churches in rural Alabama recalled the rash of burnings at dozens of predominantly black houses of worship in the South during the mid-1990s. One of the churches struck by probable arson in 1996 was Little Zion Baptist Church in Boligee,...

There's a reason Shelly Bryant is one of the best-selling science fiction and fantasy poets on the planet Earth, and you can find out what it is in her latest collection, "Harps Upon Willows." Or, if you want advance notice, here's a passage from the introduction by Sun Li, an English instructor...

It's the new year and puff piece reporter Brandy Alexander has the best of intentions to keep her life safe, sane and simple...but she is having one tough week! It seems that everyone at her new job at TV station WINN hates her--everyone except for co-worker Tamra Rhineholt. But when their budding...

Come Home. Love, Dad warmly introduces us to magical mirrors of every color and shape, giant balls of string, brothers wearing Davy Crockett T-shirts, and stalwart lions who guard the entrance to the Art Institute. Shelly Reuben's description of her father's escapades in the kitchen, "if flour footprints...

Ava has watched her parents, Caleb and Maggie, live the perfect fairy tale, the perfect love story, played out in front of her eyes her entire life. Her family is love, life, and happiness. The Jacobsons are everything a family should be and Ava is loved and well taken care of. But the one thing that’s...

Sherry and Merrick's story continues in this sequel to Collide. In this installment, we come face to face with old acquantances, new friends and new enemies. Things will change for all of them especially when a little girl is found and everyone's loyalties are tested. A revelation may upset the delicate...

Maggie learns much more about all the strange things that have happened to her and has to face many new obstacles. She learns something about herself, that she is something that the clans have been waiting for. She rebels against it, but ultimately must face it for her new family's sake, and maybe...

My name is Maxton and I’m a trader. I live on a soulless planet where gravity, oxygen, and everything else are sold to the highest bidder on the black market. People are sold on the black market, too. You have to work really hard not to become one of those people. Pay your taxes, keep your...

Things get a little hairy for Tini after a day of rickety-rackety hair-brushing drama! Shelly Calcagno is a freelance writer who lives in Waterdown, Ontario, with her amazing husband, two energetic kids, and a cranky cat named Zoe. www.shellycalcagno.com

The discovery of a material called Quantinium, which moves matter between dimensions, launches human-kind into high gear to exploit the riches of the solar system, but nature has other ideas. When discarding garbage into another dimension, the forces holding the universe together don't get mad,...