Among the Blueberries is a novel - the author's first - and sequel to Purple Phoenix, the epic poem. This ebook version is a much revised edition from the original book. In this story, two generations after the events in the prequel, a family emerges from the wilderness in an attempt to integrate into society. It does not go well for them as one of them is committed to a psychiatric institution, and her baby child lost, due to an abduction by a caregiver. Years later, the child, now a youn...

A young man has died in a car crash on the coast of Wales, his body apparently lost at sea. An inspector discovers that the man had been involved with a venerable Wiccan sect with connections to the elite. As he digs further, he comes to suspect that perhaps, Pedro, the young man, is not dead at all. There are some tenuous links to the mysterious history of the region going back to Druidic times, and that what was past is present, as indicated by some interesting clues from an archaeologic...

This is a novel about a doctor, who as a foreign aid worker has been kidnapped by the Taliban in Afghanistan, and left for dead in an unmarked grave. Despite the grim premise, the heroine doctor spins a tale through her memory as she confronts her demise. Given her situation, her story both fascinating and twisted, relates a humor only her personal recollection can subscribe. She grew up as the love child of two young teenagers, who, beginning on a farm, then followed a hippie trail to Cal...

Native woodnotes Wild are a collection of sonnets written over the years. The theme is about love: its loss, desire, exultation, delusion, pain, beauty and celebration. The sonnet is like a song of words; the music is in the rhyme, metre and meaning. They are like windows into the soul of the poet and his muse, perhaps personal, but also universal. May the reader set forth and discover his or her own experience.

This is a speculative novel that takes place in the late 24th century in a post-apocalyptic world. New tensions arise as countries again compete for dominance after centuries of relative peace since the 'Horror' - the generations following the impact of an asteroid in the early 22nd century. Our central character has possession of a 'synaptic memory chip' whose key once deciphered can summon minds from the past, in order to save the world from dominantion from a new racist regime. The worl...

This is a speculative fiction based on some of the apocryphal alien stories that have emerged over the years. Whether true or not depends on how close to the loop of ultra classified intelligence one is. In this case a foreign aid worker has disappeared for a quarter-century and presumed dead. He reappears and is wanted by authorities. He reconnects with two ex-girl friends who seem to compete for his attention, but also get drawn into the vortex of his circumstances. The question is not j...

This story is a novel based on the alternate history of what really happened back in Elizabethan times in regards to the true identity of 'Shake-speare'. It is a story that defies category in the sense that it goes back and forth in time from the past to the present day. Characters from the past and present seem to interchange their realities in an amusing rewrite of history, using the many facts dug up by scholars that have come to light in the last century. The outcome is a very differen...

Now that the war has ended, three soldiers make a pact to meet again in two years. One has lost a foot, one has lost a hand, and one hears voices in his head. Will they keep their promise to meet? Will their plans for the future work out as they hope? Find out what lies ahead for these soldier friends.

Honey heart is a book of poems dedicated to the love that transforms our existence in the dinghy rocking, in the murmur of waves, in the flooded spell, in the promised land, in the enlightened manna, in the unexpected rain, in the uncontrolled offence, in the dressed up sunset, in a dance of souls.It marks a new course for all those that wish to experience divine infatuation.I am through your truth.I am through your truthful love.I am through your universal sou...

With “incantatory prose” that “sweeps over the reader like a dream,” (Philadelphia Inquirer), Hoffman follows her celebrated bestseller The Probable Future, with an evocative work that traces the lives of the various occupants of an old Massachusetts house over a span of two hundred years.In a rare and gorgeous departure, beloved novelist Alice Hoffman weaves a web of tales, all set in Blackbird House. This small farm on the outer reaches of Cape ...

n Damien Broderick’s haunting tale, “The Meek,” the survivors of humanity’s drive toward racial suicide must pay an awful price for their continued survival. John Glasby’s “Innsmouth Bane” tells how the alien entity Dagon first came to nineteenth-century America. In “Helen’s Last Will,” James C. Glass shows us that death may not always be “the end.” Charles Allen Gramlich’s “I Can Spend You” is a futuristic western which puts prospecting in a whole new light! “The Voice of the Dolphin in A...