This gripping collection of stories - fiction, nonfiction, and narrative poem - will make your imagination run wild! Featuring stories by Sarah Smith Ducksworth, Elaine Crauder, Luanne Smith, Keith R. Fentonmiller, Lisa Montagne, Ann Stolinsky, A.J. O'Connell, Aimee LaBrie, Kristan Campbell, Jack Hillman, Bill Scruggs, Joshua Hedges, Gary Zenker. You will travel alternative planets, run away away like teens in search of adventure, solve a murderous mystery, come to grips with your fears, a...

For twelve-year-old Eric Johnson, leaving Philadelphia to live with his Uncle Al and Aunt Cindy in the country, after the accident that took his parents lives, was hard enough. Yet tragedies past seem to pale in the wake of becoming involved in a war of mythic pro-portions between the Norse gods of the Aesir and the Frost Giants, competing for domination of Midgard (Earth) and Asgard (realm of the Aesir). Eric befriends the mighty Thor, his father Odin, and brother Loki, along with the ind...

A Glimpse of Darkness is a collection of short stories which cover space from a local home and family to a Fantasy home with dragons keeping charge. This is a collection which will ask questions such as “Does a theater really come to life?” or “Do things really protect old farms?” Come join us for a place in the darkness, to see how the world really works and what to do about it.

From Myths to Monsters is a grouping of some short stories written over many years. The stories are about a variety of subjects, both good and bad, and do not accept Political Correctness as an option.Be ready for a collection that goes from a highflying sorcerous/warrior to dragon’s appreciation or lack thereof, to a deadly dragon, to symbolism in stories, to a class reunion to a sneaky teacher. Be advised the good guy doesn’t always win and dragons don’t always eat their prey. I ...

Born during the reign of Queen Elizabeth 1, young Cornishman Roger Kilter leaves his native fishing village and journeys to Plymouth, to join the fleet of Sir Francis Drake. Destined to face the mighty Spanish Armada, Roger’s adventures in port and at sea are both amorous and dangerous reflecting the violence and passions of those times. Even more tumultuous for Roger than the seas of war are the currents of love and desire anchored deep in the long-standing bitter feud between two Cornish fa...

When Eric Johnson moved from Philadelphia a year ago, he didn't have any friends in the Lehigh Valley. Now he had a lot of them, just not the usual sort for a twelve-year old boy. Aside from Tommy Kuhns and Stephanie Fuller-two young children his own age—Eric's house was often visited by Norse Gods, Rock Dwarves, Valkyr, and unfortunately the occasional Frost Giant. And most teens weren't caught up in a war that crossed multiple dimensions.Now the Frost Giants were trying to get ac...

The Giants are stirring again and this time they’ve decided to make Eric Johnson work for them. They infect Eric and his friend Stephanie with a disease to weaken the Aesir and the dwarves. Then they set about starting Fimbulwinter to paralyze the rest of the planet while they keep trying to obtain control of Mimir, the Aesir self-aware computer that has the information needed to get everyone back to their home dimension. They also kidnap Loki and try to turn him against his own people and...

Discover a more lighthearted side of the funeral industry in this collection of real-life stories from the authors of Mortuary Confidential.Not knowing what to do, I sat on the church steps and waited. As the gravity of my failure began to well up in me, I began to cry . . . I Had Lost The Hearse!Funerals and the all the things that accompany them are traditionally somber, contemplative events in which the bereaved look to their undertaker...

"As much about a father-son relationship as it is a survival story . . . his father's life philosophy . . . got him down the mountain and through life." — USA TodayNorman Olstead's New York Times–bestselling memoir Crazy for the Storm is the story of the harrowing plane crash the author miraculously survived at age eleven, framed by the moving tale of his complicated relationship with his charismatic, adrenaline-addicted father. Destined t...

In New York's Long Island, in the unpredictable decade of the 1960s, a young boy laments the approaching close of summer and the advent of sixth grade. Growing up in a household with an overworked father whom he rarely sees, an alcoholic mother who paints wonderful canvases that are never displayed, an older brother who serves as both tormentor and protector, and a younger sister who inhabits her own secret world, the boy takes his amusements where he can find them. Some of his free time i...

Whether featuring tattooed demon hunters, angst-y vampires, supernatural gumshoes, or pixelated pixies, Urban Fantasy mashes up old-school tales with pop culture, creating iconic characters, diverging moralities, and complex settings. Urban fantasy is finally showcased in this star-studded collection, representing all three of its distinct styles, including the playful new mythologies of Charles de Lint, the sexy paranormal romances of Patricia Briggs, and the gritty urban noir of...

Pauline can’t believe it, she’s been invited to the biggest hide and seek game in the neighbourhood, the one all the cool kids play in! The pressure is on. As the new kid, Pauline counts to one hundred and starts the hunt. As evening turns to night, Pauline searches the nearby housing construction site but instead of finding any of the other kids, she finds a stray barrette and a broken yoyo. Where are the kids? How can she win the game? In the growing darkness, she wonders, are they the o...