A county deputy reluctantly responds to a downed animal call and finds something far worse waiting for him. Two friends encounter an isolated grave during a hike resulting in a strange adventure across time for one of them. A curious tin box drives a man to extreme measures to see what's inside. New homeowners find the prior resident left something behind they cannot return. A long-anticipated vacation leads to an unexpected side trip which triggers a man to be pursued across New Mexico by...

"Phantom Canyon Tales" is a chilling collection of seven suspense horror stories by new authors D.L. Brown and Martin Walker Brown with gripping illustrations by Jon Stubbington. This contemporary anthology of horror steals you away to a moon-lit ranch, a violated sanctuary, the office of a private investigator confronting a terror older than humanity. These tales will take you across many years and many fears. Stories include The Piper's Song, The Men of Yuul, All Hallows End, Blood Wattl...

Norris tales are anecdotes of hyperbolic nonfiction and fiction about the adventures of Norris, the world's worst house cat. It is the much anticipated sequel to the Norris Tales, the Adventures of an Awful House Cat. The tales begin when the family first brings the five year old cat home from the pound thirteen years ago. It hasn't gone well for the family. Norris has drawn blood from the mom on most days of every week, and he likes to ignore his boys. He also likes to beat up th...

Poems of love, nature and moving on to new adventure.

"I waited three months at the pet store before choosing Joseph and Maya. Well, I wasn't going to make my home with just anyone, was I? And I certainly was not going to live alone with a grown-up. No, no, I much prefer the company of children. Children, unlike adults, know how to have a good time. They make Witches Brew out of shaving cream, root beer, and yesterday's spaghetti. Now that's my idea of fun!"When Joseph and Maya show up at The Bird Is the Word pet store, Bird knows he'...

I do not know much about God and prayer, but I have come to believe, over the last twenty-five years, that there's something to be said about keeping prayer simple. Help. Thanks. Wow.'Readers of all ages have followed and cherished Anne Lamott's funny and perceptive writing about faith and prayer. And in Help, Thanks, Wow she has coalesced everything she's learned about prayer into these simple, transformative truths. These three simple prayers will get you through tough t...

Much of this poised and luminous book is rooted in an idea of epiphany, an aesthetic of everyday incarnation; not the sudden and profound manifestation of essence or meaning, but the smaller steps taken toward it. The moments in which, as Joyce writes, “the soul of the commonest object…seems to us radiant.” If epiphanies are for theologians, perhaps the little steps towards them are for poets like Eve Joseph, and for all of us who attempt to see beyond the names we give things to the names...

Master storyteller Ethan Crownberry's classic tale. In Full Color (on Color Devices). If you only had one wish to make, would you change your life, or would you change someone else's? Can a Goldfish find happiness in his dreary surroundings? Trapped in a tiny glass tank, a miserable goldfish makes it perfectly clear how disappointed he is with life. That is, until a series of wishes granted by a magic star reveal that the grass is not always greener on the other side. Will the fish ever fi...

A little girl named An, struggles with her own loneliness and its effect upon her life by one day inviting another girl from school to the park for a picnic. The ensuing events devastate An.

I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN INTRIGUED BY AN OASIS. IN THE MIDDLE OF A VERY HOT DESERT, AN ISOLATED AREA OF VEGITATION, SURROUNDED BY A BEAUTIFUL SPRING, PICTURES A GARDEN OF PARADISE. THIS OASIS IS SO IMPORTANT TO TRAVELLERS, SO THAT THEY CAN REPLINISH THEIR WATER SUPPLIES, AS THEY GO ABOUT THEIR JOURNIES. A SOURCE OF LIFE FOR MIGRATING BIRDS. IMAGINE, CRYSTAL CLEAR WATER, FORMED BY AN UNDERGROUND RIVER, IN THE MIDDLE OF SOME OF THE HOTTEST PLACES ON EARTH, WITH PALM TREES IN THE COOL SHADE. TO THI...

Poems about relationships and the emotions they make you feel.

Poetry is no doubt an attempted distillation of a moment in time, an interlude. In as much as we are all present in the cosmos right now, cosmic pretty much sums up the location of the present moment in time. This collection of some 50 odd moments, distilled into anthology form, is offered up in the hopes that the whimsy contained will remind you of one or more of your own cosmic interludes.