Slate Run Publishing: 15 books

Slate Run Publishing presents it's second annual collection of unique and diverse voices drawn exclusively from New York's Capital Region. Featuring a wide range of genres from women's literature to science fiction and fantasy, Slate Run Annual Vol. 2 is sure to contain something for everyone.

Slate Run Annual is a collection of unique and fresh new voices draw exclusively from the Capital District area of upstate NY. Diverse in genre and style, Slate Run Annual presents a wide range of voices - literary fiction, humor, fantasy, science fiction and coming of age. So expansive a collection will doubtless present readers with something for every taste.

Nothing is out of place in Tommy's life. Not his immaculate house and lawn. Not his beautiful and successful children. Certainly not his loving and loyal wife, Lana. But when Tommy's health and, later, Lana's, take bad turns, he finds himself facing the question of what had meaning and what does not.

When death calls, no magic in the world can hold it at bay forever. As two very different men face it together, each struggles to accept the inevitable in his own way.

Afton Leer is a mercenary with too many years - and battles - behind him. Today, however, he has chosen the wrong side in a very one-sided fight. As the enemy closes in, he uses what time he has left to reflect on a life lived by the sword.

*This short story contains an excerpt from the novel, Thinner Than Blood, Book One of The Mark of the Dead, by Edward K Ryan.* Tyris and Stilthius Menion have just had a falling out with their previous employer. In the brutal, unforgiving world of mercenaries, this makes them hunted men. Their...

Tyris and Stilthius Menion and the sell-swords of the Black River Company find themselves at odds over the fate of a prisoner and facing the question of whether or not honor means more than the code that binds them.

Embarkation is the author's attempt to write a normal short story about normal people. He failed.

Mr. McInroy claims to be familiar with various addictions, Norse goddesses on motorcycles, and the allure of each. He adamantly asserts that the divine is always with us, whether riding a chariot across the sky, hanging from a cross, or driving the back roads of America in a Dodge Charger Hellcat....

Jantalus Kathias remembers his mother's murder with perfect clarity. Unfortunately, it's the only thing he remembers. Found unconscious in the company of a dying man, his rescuers learn only his name. Jantalus cannot explain who he is, why a strange, uncontrollable magic courses through his veins...

Mary Devstenia, is recently returned to Troy, New York from her Army Reserve deployment in Iraq, during which time she was involved in the shooting-deaths of an Iraqi family, including their small daughter. The effects of this incident are most profound, and Mary soon finds herself descending into...

Ivan Twig is a lucky man. He has a great house, a great job, a great wife - a perfect life. It all falls apart when his wife is killed and he is sent to prison for it. But Ivan is an innocent man. Just when he has begun to accept his new, awful life, his whole world falls apart again - literally...

Barrooms. A raw, boozy ramble through the life of Mike MacDonnell — reluctant boss, fitful husband and wayward soul. Together with a ragtag cast of characters — bums, femme fatales, gin-soaked sages and madcaps — he shuffles from antic misadventure to violent confrontation, to the edge of nowhere...

DIE LIVE LOVE is the story of one reluctant pilgrim’s progress from childhood’s end through the various stages of spiritual and physical death into life, then into Grace. It is a tale of growing alienation metastasizing into alcoholism and impending spiritual death. It is a story of a man buried...