When a man and woman come together sharing dreams, aspirations, intimate fulfillment, loyalty, compassion, compromise, laughter and the ability to work together in pursuit of happiness, it brings forth an indescribable joyous feeling. But what happens when things dont work out the way you perceived, planned and desired? How do you spring back from such disappointment? What happens to the broken heart and weary mind, and most of important of all, where is GOD in the midst of this catastroph...

Welcome to Fogger's Notch, a quaint New England town where the stories are always unexpected.Nestled in a picturesque valley of the Berkshire Mountains, Fogger's Notch is a classic summer destination with a history rooted in its old toy factory. But appearances can be deceiving. While the town seems idyllic on the surface, its residents harbor secrets, strange ambitions, and sometimes, outright malice.Six authors take you deep into the heart of this charmin...

THE SPELL HAS BEGUN gathers more than 550 supernatural mysteries, macabre tales, and horror classics into an expansive map of the uncanny. Ranging from Gothic romance, ghost story, and sensation fiction to decadent nightmare, psychological terror, occult speculation, and early weird fiction, the volume traces how dread assumes domestic, historical, comic, and cosmic forms. Canonical landmarks of haunted houses, revenants, cursed objects, doubles, vampiric visitations, and forbidden knowled...

The best thing a Father can do for his children, is love their mother. Our Dad did just that for 61 years before our Mothers death in 2008. They raised six of us during their life together. Since Moms death our Dad has done some writing about his life. The document he has produced is what I am using as a guide to record and publish the story of his life and our family. My sister Patricia took the time to type most of Dads memoir. If Dad and Patty had not put in all that effort this book wo...

Gavin Donnigan left the Marine Corps a shell of a man, hounded by guilt for deaths he couldn't prevent. But teaching a self-defense class at the local gym brings some stability to his life—along with a gorgeous leggy blonde who won't give him the time of day.Zoe York lost her twin sister to a freak car accident a few months ago. She's been struggling to bury her grief, but it isn't until she signs up for a self-defense class with its distractingly hot instructor that she begins to ...

The incomparable Civil War diarist Mary Chesnut wrote that she had the luck “always to stumble in on the real show.”Married to a high-ranking member of the Confederate government, she was ideally placed to watch and to record the South’s headlong plunge to ruin, and she left in her journals an unsurpassed account of the old regime’s death throes, its moment of high drama in world history.With intelligence and passion, she described the turbulent events of p...

Edited by Linda M. Rodrigues and featuring an introduction by Susan Van Kirk, The Fish That Got Away is the latest anthology from the Guppies Chapter of Sisters in Crime. This volume selects 20 great new stories from the rising stars of mystery fiction!Included are:TO EVERY SEASON • Mary AdlerBLACK ON BLACK IN BLACK • MB DabneyTHE PEARL NECKLACE • E.B. DavisKNOW NOTHING • C. M. SurrisiGREETINGS FROM THE BOARD • Mary DuttaQUARRY • ...

The picture I selected for the front cover of my book is our corn crib; I call it my gazebo. Raymond no longer needs it to store corn for his cows because they are gone. I would have posted it on Craigslist to sell it for him, but he says it isn’t worth the time or effort. It has been enjoyable working outside on this project when the weather isn’t too hot or cold. My neighbor Arnie Mancl wants me to send a picture to a Wisconsin magazine, which I will when that project gets to the top of ...

The story is about a mouse who lives outside the childhood home of Mary, the Blessed Mother. She keeps herself concealed from Mary and her parents and everyone else. She loves Mary so much she goes through risky antics just to stay close to her. She attends the wedding of Mary and Joseph, witnesses the visit from Gabriel the Archangel (the Annunciation), and travels to Bethlehemall while remaining undetected.She listens very carefully to all the conversation between the innkeeper a...

Like many Southern writers of the 1930s and 1940s, who as a group created the richest, most memorable body of regional literature in the history of American letters, Truman Capote eventually journeyed northward. As the years passed, Capote’s moorings to his Southern past grew weaker and weaker, and he deliberately cut himself off from the people and places that provided fodder for much of his early fiction.The Southern Haunting of Truman Capote is a thoughtful reflection o...

In their variety, the memoir, poetry, and fiction included in this exciting new anthology show the transitory nature of the literature of southern women who lived through a violent and defining crossroads in their lives. In rare and rediscovered excerpts and verses these women writers evidence the early hopes of a cause destined to be lost, the propagandic rhetoric which accompanied it, and the destruction ultimately visited upon them, their homes, and their families. Paradoxically, even a...

When Adrian Beardsley is diagnosed with cancer at age forty-nine, no-one can imagine how quickly death will come, nor the challenges it will present. Mary Dwyer details with courage and candour the substance of a marriage, a family, a business partnership, a spiritual journey and how she and her children faced profound loss and grief. This moving memoir of life’s most mysterious experience brings us into the light of an eternal grace. A companion for the dying, for those losing a loved one...