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It is 1965, the era of love, light—and revolution. While the romantic narrator imagines a bucolic future in an old country house with children running through the dappled sunlight, her husband plots to organize a revolution and fight a guerrilla war in the Catskills.Their fantasies are on...

Highway is author Donald O’Donovan’s third novel in which we find his quintessential hero, Jerzy Mulvaney, portrayed in early life as an over-the-road truck driver—a bedbug hauler, as the industry labels those who move furniture rather than commercial goods. But Mulvaney is anything but a typical...

The thing about the truth is; it doesn’t get out much...Colin Jekyll is an ‘Events Manager’. And a liar. Colin’s real name is Frank Canon, and his real job title is ‘Reality Enforcer’. And the lies don’t stop there; they only get bigger.Canon works for the Agency, protecting...

A story of hopeless love—a serial philanderer and gambler married to a woman much younger—and impossible love—his wife, Casey Googan, and a black boxer. Turn of the century Boston comes alive with crew races, balloon races, boxing, rat-baiting, and fashion competitions judged by Isabella Stuart...

The cycle of life as seen through the eyes of “Eve A. Floriste” is full of contradictions: beauty and decay, sensuality, violence, desire, and anguish.Haunted by memories of abuse, she expresses herself through passion, promiscuity, and even self-harm.Fresh Cut is the true story...

"Riveting, prophetic. Impressively well written."—Midwest Book Review"An important new book to add to the growing cli-fi world."—Dan Bloom, The Cli-Fi ReportPowerful, prophetic and poignant, Tales from The Warming is an anthology of ten short stories taking readers all over the world...

The first collection of poetry from Teri Louise Kelly showcases the methodology of an author whose life has been lived both within, and beyond, the borders of the binary system.

Drugs, death and rock and roll on Chicago's AM radio dial...​Before dawn in January, 1975, Emily detours from her normal route to work in the newsroom of Chicago’s top pop rock station to investigate a crime scene. The police believe the body on the street is a suicide. Emily is stunned...

A charming and sentimental trip back to a world of homespun characters, fertile fishing ponds, innocent love, and, at the center of it all, Cooperstown, New York's much-loved house of ill repute, the Sugarhouse. Excerpts from four novels by Donald O’Donovan accompany THE SUGARHOUSE, including ORGASMO, NIGHT TRAIN, CONFESSIONS OF A BEDBUG HAULER and TARANTULA WOMAN.

Stalking academia, re-ordering double prints and rewriting the autobiography of Buster Keaton, Clinton's hapless and sophomoric intellectual narrator offers his poignant and funny insights on modern-day culture in a series of slapstick misadventures.

Life, death and the relationships we forge between. THE COURAGE OF INTIMACY is a collection of modern poetry exploring the fundamental human need to connect with others.

Environmental attorney Keith Ainsworth focuses our attention on the day's most critical environmental issues, addressing them in contemporary verseas well as poignant prose.

A profound and disturbing collection of eight short stories, four poems and one vignette by award-winning author David A. Ross.

We still seem to believe in the ‘the ascent of man’ and that we are superior to all other species, so surely we must be in charge of our destinies. But is it any more valid, believing a man is superior to a butterfly because he is cleverer, than believing a butterfly is superior to a man because...