Check your email. Help is out there...When Sherry and Beth discover what their boyfriends have been up to, they want in on the action. Working as vigilantes and providing justice for wrongs committed is a noble thing to do, but the women decide the stakes need to change.Once again, the conflict is personal.This follow-up to Roundabout Revenge follows former Professor Phil Philemon as he and his friends continue to seek elusive justice for victims w...

A conflict between what is legal and what is just...Phil Philemon has it good—he enjoys teaching history at a university and is happily married. In fact, he and Mary Jane have been married for decades. After returning from a business trip, he stands in the airport waiting for his wife to pick him up.She never arrives.The police tell him that her death was instant, and she never knew what hit her. Phil is devastated. She had been the love of his life, and su...

They were two strangers on a cruise. Now, they're racing against the clock to save lives and are about to become the world's most unlikely heroes.Athena and Brent had never met until fate threw them together aboard a luxury cruise ship. When disaster strikes and the ship begins to sink, they risk their lives to rescue a couple in wheelchairs, making them the last passengers to escape the doomed vessel.Their bravery goes viral. Overnight, they become interne...

A small-town kid, a reformed criminal, and an assassination... will the hate group behind it all be brought to justice?In 1968, Horace Narwhal commits a stupid crime and ends up paying for it by serving a stint in the Army. When his required enlistment ends, he returns home and finds a new job. A new life. He takes classes at night, gets his GED, and finds he has a natural talent creating whimsical sculptures. And he meets a police detective, a woman who c...

When is truth nothing more than an illusion?Dwight returns to his hometown after a divorce, determined to pick up the pieces of his life and finish writing his second book. After all, the first one was a bestseller. Instead, he gets pulled into a bizarre conspiracy involving a shadowy group trying to spread misinformation through a series of videos detailing odd stories of Vikings, mermaids, and space aliens. Who are these people, and why do so many actual...

West Lothian Writers have celebrated Halloween with an annual writing challenge since 2013. This collection is just a few of the spine tingling, creepy or down right silly, short stories and poems our members have crafted for the holiday. Read on, if you dare.

George isn't certain how he became a dung beetle-or scarab, as he prefers to be called. All he knows is that after he was murdered, this is his new incarnation.And since dung beetles don't have opposable thumbs, he enlists the help of Judy, a travel writer working on a piece in Africa, to help him track his killer. Her luggage tag address says she is from Cleveland, his hometown, so he grabs the opportunity to go home and fix things. Soon, George and Judy figure out a way to commun...

Contrary to popular belief, it turns out that crime might pay, and it might pay well.Four friends had become vigilantes to combat the offenses they saw committed against the innocent. But a promise to the FBI means they can no longer break the law to seek justice for victims. A family crisis changes everything, and now they have no choice. They are driven to take some sort of action, even if it means skirting the law. Again.Beth's mother and father are wrongfully sued and l...