BEGIN A CONVERSATION WITH PATRICK, IF YOU DARE… On Patrick’s Pacific Northwest Island home, people whisper about his family’s sad history. Some feel sorry for him. Most want to help Patrick, as if he’s a song-less bird, make him their next project, and even set him up on a date with a best friend… On one such date, Wendy sits across from Patrick and confesses she’s afraid to die, and says…
HARK’S SIX LITERARY HOLIDAY TALES ARE NOT FOR KIDS-THEY ARE FOR DISCERNING ADULTS CONTEMPLATING MORE THAN SIMPLE SUGARPLUM SWEETNESS. Within Hark: A Christmas Collection, a retired police officer faces another Christmas Eve while bitter recollections haunt his every turn, a lonely businesswoman plans to seduce Santa Claus one Christmas Eve…
SPEAK THE WORD contains the two dark tales added to the original ten to form the third edition of Sandcastle and Other Stories, and a peek at the first chapter of Justin Bog’s next psychological horror thriller, Horrorstruck: Four Dark Novellas. If you enjoy these two tales, find more darkness in the award-winning suspense story collection, Sandcastle and Other Stories, which reveals twisted secrets that are mined like plutonium.
A small college town’s populace is tied to the brutal, bullying attack of a teenage boy by four of his classmates. Soon, heated rumors of a possible hate crime surface. Injustice is a hungry beast. An adulterous father is haunted by his past. His wife lives her life in a rigid shell. Their son, untethered from this mortal plane, discovers the secret they share with Deepika, a visitor to their town from northern India….
Ten literary, psychological, and suspense tales collected in Sandcastle and Other Stories are nothing short of an adventure through a roiling sea of emotion. An old man twisted by fate and a lost love . . . a young girl playing on the ocean shore becomes entangled in nets of a mercurial god . . . a divorced man mired in troubles, coerced into taking a singles cruise . . . a Hollywood actor in a television drama, always typecast as the bad boy
Indie Authors Naked explores and defines the world of independent publishing.
Comprised of a series of essays and interviews by indie authors, booksellers and publishers, readers will get a look at the many aspects of the indie community, where publishing professionals of all types come together with the simple goal of creating something unique; something that speaks directly to the reader, no middleman necessary.
