In this is diverse collection of dramatic and entertaining short stories you'll meet many remarkable characters, including:—a drone pilot with a singular nightmare ("Birds of Prey")—a taxi driver trapped in a day of crises ("Meter Running")—an American couple facing conflict in Scotland ("Loch Ness Monsters")—a Cherokee teen hounded by a bully ("Charley Horse")—a professional coffin builder with claustrophobia ("Room Enough")—a downsized exec...

Would you like to be able to read minds? Well, here's your chance. If vicariously.Set in Seattle and in the beautiful countryside of Vancouver Island, Mind After Mind is the story of highly-successful cartoonist Sloane Ferguson, clever, sardonic and philosophical.His prodigious output, brilliantly-drawn and wittily-written, appears across the country in newspapers, magazines, books and on television.When Sloane discovers that somehow he has developed the ability to ...

“Lucky indeed is the man who can follow his passions,” contemporary Scottish artist Robert McBride tells an interviewer, “but if he doesn't go full-tilt at them, he's failing in life.”Robert’s main passions are oil painting and swimming. He excels at both. But either might turn his life upside down.DEPTH PERCEPTION, set in Edinburgh, Oxford, London, Cornwall and the Scottish Highlands, takes you into the life, the art, the adventures and the imagination of a remarkable Scot...

Highly atmospheric, often lyrical, filled with quirky and memorable characters, Emperor's Reach intertwines a fascinating psychological portrait with history, humor, romance and suspense.There's much to admire about Darrol Yount. He's one of the best young waiters in San Francisco. He's smart, handsome, charming and artistic. He's very kind to the street people he encounters on his walks—eccentrics like Billy Pickleface, Gerta Twoshoes and Burlap Ives.Darrol's also interest...

Graeme Stockbridge is America’s best TV journalist and nightly news anchor, unequalled in talent and charisma. He’s at the height of his career.But now, Graeme would like to drastically slow down whenever he’s off the air. Rather than doing the news from the constant tumult of his network’s studios, Graeme decides he wants to broadcast year-round from a small working ranch in semi-rural Idaho.Instead of being caught in the noisy rush of big city life, he wants to continue h...

STONERISE: An anthology of nine dramatic and entertaining literary short stories by award-winning author Eric E. Wallace (UNDERTOW; HOAR FROST). Could your memories keep you alive? What would it take to make you climb a mountain? Could you be happy living in complete poverty? To what extremes might you go to protect your privacy? What might you learn while working inside a gorilla suit? Filled with highly-evocative settings, unusual juxtapositions and remarkable characters, the diverse sto...

Could you go out onto a snowy rooftop to confront a would-be jumper? What might you experience if you were trapped inside a tornado? How long could you keep a huge secret from your concert-hall fans? How would you choose between two irreconcilable talents? What would you do if you suspected something about yourself which would demolish your career? How would you deal with startling childhood memories emerging after decades of being repressed?HOAR FROST is an anthology of seven dram...

Pianist Garreth Llewelyn has a hair-trigger imagination. It helps him lead his audiences into amazing realms. His mesmerizing improvisations engage listeners' senses in incredible ways.Garreth is the best-known pianist in the world, but he's struggling to balance his music with his complicated personal life. His romantic relationships are becoming difficult. His authoritarian father and his envious brother are making it hard to have close family ties.A noted writer, followi...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Most people depend on a single paycheck. That works until it doesn't.Side Income Blueprint is a practical guide to building additional income without sacrificing your health, family, or career. Instead of chasing endless hustle, you'll learn how to create sustainable revenue streams that fit your skills, schedule, and long-term goals. The audiobook presents a clear framework for turning your knowledge into income while ...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Master your emotions before they master you.What if the difference between reacting with regret and responding with confidence was just ninety seconds?The 90-Second Rule reveals the science behind emotional reactions and shows how understanding one brief biological window can transform the way you handle stress, conflict, frustration, and everyday challenges. Drawing on neuroscience and practical psychology, thi...

Lew Wallace's The Fair God is a sweeping historical romance of the Spanish conquest of Mexico, dramatizing the collision between Hernán Cortés's imperial ambition and the doomed grandeur of the Aztec world. Richly descriptive and ceremonious in style, the novel blends adventure, political intrigue, and tragic spectacle, drawing on nineteenth-century historiography—especially the tradition of Prescott—while filtering it through the moral imagination of romantic fiction. In this illustrated ...

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. Obviously for most of humanity’s time people couldn’t read and texts couldn’t be publishe...