After unexpected circumstances throw Clover Dixon into a wheelchair, xyr parents encourage them to still follow xyr dream of going to college in England.Xe encounters some unforeseen problems that lead xem to Kaid Booth, a charming young man who happens to be at the right place at the right time.When xyr starts college, xe also meets a wonderful girl, Zahra Glenn, who begins to become more important than xe thought was possible.

My first book with a real publisher had a very long gestation period. Problem was, I'd told a lot of people that it was coming out about a year and a half before it actually did. In the meantime, I took it upon myself to make these chapbooks. It was an attempt to get something out there, outside of the lit magazines. There were 50 copies of each of the three books. I know that doesn't sound like much, but it was a lot of work, and if I'd thought about what was actually involved in assembli...

The first poetry and short story collection from Michael Phillips. Originally published in a small limitation by Mother Road Publications in the 1990s, "alternative man" was unavailable for more than a decade, but is now available in digital editions for the first time.

One or two things needed to be salvaged from the defunct smog.net blog, so I pulled all the old posts up, went through them and thought, "Hmm, some of this doesn't suck - why not salvage a bunch of this stuff?" So this well thought-out volume came to be. It's best not to think too much, and this nasty little bottle rocket is proof of that. If I'd a thought about it, I never woulda done it, as Bob Dylan said.Carry the entire Internet - the good bits anyway - in your pocket! Just lik...

If you're looking for a poetry and short story collection where trains hit cars, garbage men find heads in trash cans, women throw groceries at men, gurus sheer their flocks, and little girls want to grow up to become dinner plates, this is the book for you.If you aren't looking for those things, you really should be.Phillips blends the all-too-real with the fantastic to deliver one of the weirdest, strongest collections you'll read this, or any year.

Incredulous bus driver Harold Stammer doesn't believe in a lot of things: life after death, safety warnings, and intelligent women, to name a few. People keep trying to tell him otherwise but he doesn't believe them. And when decides to go into a dangerous neighborhood to pick up a free kitten off of Craigslist against friends' advice, what could possibly go wrong?This hysterically funny work of dark humor/horror takes on the "Too Dumb To Live" horror trope from the first person pe...

A blend of This Is Spinal Tap and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, the cult classic confessions of a debauched rock ’n’ roller and his adventures in excess on the ’80s hair-metal nostalgia tour through Middle America, now in a revised and updated edition.Once upon a time at the start of the new century, the unheard-of Unband got a chance to drink, fight, and play loud music with ’80s metal bands like Dio and Def Leppard. To the mix they brought illegal pyrotechnics, a giant red infl...

Decades ago, when bands like the Everly Brothers rode the airwaves and vacancy signs shone like beacons in the night, a young man gets his first taste of love, loss, and the ethereal satisfaction that comes with knowing that the world is turning and life is being lived.

Cleaning ladies are not always what you think they are. They may give you a gift that you never knew you wanted.

This story is Episode One of a Miniseries Novel. Each story leads into the next one, but is complete by itself.Johnny wants to be a hero, but it isn't all its cracked up to be for him. He runs into a burning building to save a child in danger and finds out he was carrying a ghost. Later on he rescues a teen from a truck accident only to find out she's invisible. What's going on?To make matters worse his favorite cartoon character, a beautiful blonde, is speaking to him from...

She woke up, all alone, scared, tired, confused. Where was everyone? Why couldn't she leave the amusement park? Why was she consumed with grief every time she came near the shattered roller coaster track? Finally she realized she was dead, but still could not remember anything about herself, not even her name. Would it be like this forever?This is a short story.

This true story about chasing a burglary suspect through a housing project has an unusual ending for the police officers and the suspect. First in the Nine Lives Series of short stories.