Fiction, Literary
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Cassandra’s Reward … for Failure
by Nancy I. Young
For most of her life, Cassandra Stillwater lived a life of failure, plagued by disappointment and shame at her own inability to “do better.” But through the grace of God, for a time, it seemed she had moved beyond all that. Her abusive husband...
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All We Don't Know
by Tara Marshall King
Against the backdrop of Newfoundland’s craggy rocks and turbulent seas, marine biologist Finleigh Farraway finds the buried journal of World War II veteran Liam Crowley. The journal’s shocking content turns Finleigh’s world upside down and...
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Tiny Little Pharmacists
by Michael Park
Darrell, Mala, and Jack are three quirky characters who have an equally unusual dream—to transform the world through the alchemical power of pharmacy. Just as pharmacists work on an elevated platform, in their own way, Darrell, Mala, and Jack...
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Personification
The Story of How We Die by Adam Nobody
Personification explores what we hold on to when everything begins to slip away. Where will your mind wander when you know the end is near? After losing its place in orbit, Earth is drifting toward a nameless planet. The collision is to occur...
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Chipped
by K. A. Johnson
What’s a talisman to do when his human dies and he finds himself in the hands of someone she loved, but he can’t stand? Chip lived in Isabelle’s pocket for 25 years. He was her talisman—that little voice in her head that gave her the courage to...
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Until This Soul Departs
by Jim Puskas
A Toronto inner-city hospital. January 1960. Well past midnight. There it is, the first shriek. At least the brat sounds healthy. Is that the best I can expect, just that the infant isn’t sickly—this red-faced newborn whose prospects appear so...
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The Anteater
by Clark Falconer
This ground breaking comedic mystery is the second in the Cumulative Effect Series. A young psychiatrist with serious emotional problems seeks out help in psychoanalysis with an aging analyst immersed in his own problems. Mutual guilt lust and...
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Madness, All Over Again
by Fabian Garcia
Milo is an inpatient at the Bellevue Psychiatric Institute & Hospital. He is clever, verbose, and wants absolutely nothing to do with the world outside—but doesn’t seem to want much to do with anything inside, either. He and his chatty roommate...
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Cane Wood
Based on True Stories by Stephen L. Howard
There are billions of people in the world and they all have their stories. This is just one of mine. A man changes a lot over the course of fifty years and in Cane Wood, ten lovely, observant short stories chronicle this journey, from an...
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Tyrant
A Collection of Stories by Michael Wilde
Tyrant is a collection of stories exploring arcane realms and dystopian landscapes. "Harness,” follows three High Riggers hired for an obscure salvage mission on an alien planet. In "Tank," a reporter interviews witnesses to a drug den at the...
