Carlotta's Wedding Reception MeltdownAfter a tumultuous courtship, Carlotta and her boyfriend quietly held their nuptials at City Hall. Her friends plan a surprise wedding reception that same evening. But after the newlyweds make their grand entrance, it becomes clear that the bride is not exactly in a festive mood. She has things to say. Important things…
This is the story of that fateful evening. JustifiedSecond Edition The story of an ordinary man caught in an extraordinary life. Edmond Styles awoke one morning and walked to work to a job he detested. By the end of that day, he found himself held hostage at gunpoint by a disgruntled civil servant. Before the night fell, two people were dead and Ed began a journey that proverbially lasts 15 minutes.
Chronicles of Ash, Vol. 0An introduction to a nine-book series, the fantasy is a steampunk-inspired adventure series of stories about Ashleigh Peters, a sassy young woman from Brooklyn that finds herself sucked into the world of Eleusis. It begins with Ashleigh’s last days on Earth and we meet her family, learn of her life in Brooklyn, and what she leaves behind as she is transported to this new world.
La ChancletaThere is no Latino who hasn’t received a chancletazo. To some, even well into adulthood, the mention of it can cause a primordial urge to flee. Nothing more than a simple sandal, a chancla is a disciplinary tool meant to shock not harm, but it does inspire fear, respect and the very real threat that it if leaves the foot it will strike and find you for your offenses. This is the story of one such chancleta, told tongue-in-cheek in Spanglish.
The Smell of HoneysuckleMike and Jess Morgan are a relatively happy married couple who, after winning a large lottery jackpot, purchase a lighthouse in an idyllic north eastern town to pursue their true passions. Soon the quaint and beautiful setting is marred by a series of increasingly unsettling and mystifying experiences . . . including the intoxicating sweet scent of honeysuckle.
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He Done Her WrongHe Done Her Wrong, is Volume Two in The Bloody Trail of Disenchantment, and include stories that seek to portray a moment in time in the aftermath of infidelity—told without judgement (save for what the characters themselves have to say about it), and with a playful array of playfully recurring details throughout the collection.
Sins of the FatherThe Bloody Trail of Disenchantment is a series about the aftermath of infidelity. Sins of the Father, Volume One in the series, includes stories about how the infidelities of father figures affect the children in their lives. Some events in this collection of stories are based on real life. The scenes of atrocity and names of the guilty have been changed to protect the disenchanted.
The MistressTold in a series of fractured stories put together by a heartbroken woman seeking truths about the origin of her inner torment. After she began writing her memories. But soon she realized memories lie. So she started gathering the stories of those who’d witnessed that day and its aftermath, from police reports, court records, articles written. Tragic, messy, chaotic.
Check out its Facebook page. Because She Was A WomanSecond Edition A collection of vignettes about the lives of a dozen women from all walks of life, trying to get from one moment to the next in as graceful a fashion as possible. Some of the stories and characters are there to make the reader question the status quo, to turn stereotypes on their heads, to dare to suggest that women often are far more than what they appear to be skin deep.
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