Stonethread Publishing: 199 books

In this wonderfully descriptive short story by Nick Porter, an elderly woman and her husband take a journey through a small west-Texas town and her memories.

The story of Little Red Cap (Little Red Riding Hood) retold in blank verse, revised to include the magic inherent in all of us and with no need for a woodsman to save the day.

What's a mobster punk to do when the detective he's talking with about an attempt on his life turns and walks away? Or worse yet, simple fades out and disappears?

The young new guy is more defective than detective. But his snitch gave up the information so he's in charge. It ought to be a routine takedown, albeit of a rising Mafia star. But old age and treachery will overcome youth and vigor every time. On both sides of the law.

This is a magic realism short story, a tale for children. I hope adults will enjoy it as well. In a small town in Mexico, a drought has ravaged crops, killed stock and left the villagers hungry. What can one rabbit do to help?

A literary psychological suspense short story. Euthanasia, morality, right, wrong... how do you repay the oldest debt? How can you make anyone understand that you have to pay? Everyone learns that what seemed important an hour ago really wasn't important at all.

Sometimes letting go just isn't possible... at least not without help from the other side. You've loved the same soul down through the ages, but just before you can be together forever, he is ripped away yet again. The eerily weeping heavens combine with the sea and a departed love to ease the burden...

Several ladies who have been attending the Abused Spouses group at the local parish hall decide to break away from the main group. Perhaps they will have some creative solutions to their problems.

A killer is moving through the city in darkness. He's raping and murdering women, and leaving nothing in his wake but a tell-tale calling card: a pyramid. For one woman, it's paint cans stacked against a wall. For another, it's a mound of dirt over her face in a shallow grave. For another it's...

Mark Smith, an old retired Marine, is not happy with the state of the nation. But he's only cleaning his rifle, a weekly ritual held over from the old days. He leans one way, his wife the other. Protector and protected, neither able to exprience the other's worldview. Will it matter?

A rural New Mexico boy learns joy and pain as his future is washed away in a flash flood.

This is a short story. Hmm... a description... I don't know. Whether our hero is a great writer to be or just another psychopath out wandering the beach or a friend (or stalker) for a professional writer... I guess all of that will have to be left to the reader to decide. Enjoy.

A whacked-out writer makes his way through a nuclear holocaust, narrowly avoiding being eaten by wolves and plummeting into a canyon on his way to his desk.

In this humorous, intense short story by Eric Stringer, the adult child of a woman who recently passed leads you through a humorous, sometimes irreverent look at her life and the impact she had on the other residents, males and females, of the village.