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Voices of the Wright Brothers

by James T. Tecu For thousands of years man watched with envy as the birds soared effortlessly in the skies above. He was confined to the ground, unable to unlock nature's secrets to the mystery of flight. Then in 1903, after four years of systematic scientific research, two unknown brothers from Dayton, Ohio had found [...]

The Beauty of Listening

by Linda Eve Diamond "The Beauty of Listening" explores and honors the ever-challenging art and skill of listening. Inside these pages, you'll meet paper dolls and monsters, writers at work and words at play, and you'll find many open questions of perspective. While each poem tells its own story, the collection also tells a larger listening [...]

Halloween Night Fever – End of the Long Walk

by Dan Graffeo Willy Hynes can't understand how he pulled a patch of caribou skin out of his dream. Willy's mentor, Vince, explains that other residents of Sleepy Owl have had similar dreams. It is a sign to join the Pniese, a secret society formed for Halloween, when the undead are allowed to cross over. [...]

The Case Files of Roderick Misely, Consultant

by J. P. Rieger Roderick Misely wants desperately to pursue a career as a lawyer. He needs only to find an attorney mentor with whom to "read the law." But a scandal that unfairly sullied the family name has caused an absolute drought in apprenticeship opportunities. Instead, Misely is eking-out a living as a "consultant" [...]

Seven: Tales of Terror

by Michael P. Raff "The Door" - in 1963, two young, Catholic boys, Tommy Stockton and Roger Bartlett, discover an old, locked, metal door hidden beneath a stage in their school auditorium. Tommy suffers through two horrifying nightmares warning him that there is something evil behind it. Roger finds a key to open the door's padlock [...]

Stinger

by Diana R. Chambers An espionage thriller set in pre-Taliban Afghanistan. When a shipment of Stinger missiles disappears, a CIA officer becomes entangled in an unusual triangle with a journalist and her former lover, now an elusive mujahideen chief. These characters lead us into a world of danger, a world of spy versus spy, where hidden [...]

Final Stop Albuquerque

by Alice Zogg Twenty four-year-old Elena Campione seemed to have vanished into thin air. She had apparently left her South Pasadena residence suddenly, without telling a soul. The police traced her to Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she had boarded the shuttle bus to the Balloon Fiesta Park on the last day of the annual balloon festival, [...]

Cattle Capers

by Dawn M. Kravagna Lured out of early retirement, master detective Adam Steer partners with the cops of Precinct 13 1/2 to solve the kidnapping of newspaper publisher, ostrich Madam Griselda Portentsky. But the ransom demand may be impossible to meet by the Sunday deadline: deliver the fabled MooMoo Pearl or the bird gets plucked. [...]

Dead End

by Carol W. Hazelwood All Patty Harkin has left in the world is her father's new truck. Without any hope of getting work as a mechanic in northern Minnesota, she accepts the job of driving Josh, a mysterious blindman, and his trailer to Arizona. Along the way she learns Josh is trying to prevent a [...]

(Reluctant) Trips Book 1: Through Dimensional Detours

by Ryan Ratliff It's the 1980's. The Chapel brothers, proud inheritors of a successful bar located in the very small, very dry, and very hot town of Bowling, Arizona, proceed with their everyday lives completely unaware of the impending misfortune silently waiting in the dark viscous unknown. Things happen People disappear Even more things happen (as [...]

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