An enthralling debut, Above the Fire crystallizes the relationship between a father and son as they survive a winter of isolation. Perfect for fans of The Dog Stars by Peter Heller and The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Laboring under a shared loss, Doug and his young son, Tim, set out on a late season backpacking trip through the White Mountains of New Hampshire. They find beauty and solidarity in the outdoors, making friends along the trail, and falling...

Have you ever wished you could start over? That you could leave everything and everyone behind and find a new life? Our narrator takes that risk. He leaves a weary, dull, anesthetized existence, abandons his family and sets out to live as an explorer in the jungle that is called New York City, in the long-shot hope of finding contentment. He changes his appearance and takes a new identity, but he is not prepared for the obstacles he encounters and...

Caleb and Nina Byrnes, long married and struggling financially, travel from Texas to California, following the route Caleb's grandmother took when her family migrated from the Dust Bowl in the 1930s. As Nina, an amateur photographer, chronicles the journey, they discover a secret in Grandma Vera's past. Learning about Vera's hardships and perseverance offers perspective into their own lives. And tracking down old friends may just help Vera in her...

"Stairway to the Stars" is the ninth volume of the "Jazz Saga". It is the "Jazz Saga's" bitter-sweet-happy-end when Irene gets all she has ever asked for: heaven on earth with all the only men of her life and a bigger than life adventure with Egon who had to die to offer her the impossible as her phantasmal lover. Though is this really all Irenchen has ever pined for? Search her!

Rembrandt is famous for his paintings but not many people know about his personal life. After his wife Saskia died, his life became embroiled in a relationship that would shock the world even today. This short story is about the other side of Rembrandt - officially documented, but few people know of. He was a great artist, but at the same time - could he have been a murderer?On June 18 On June 18, 2003 Hans Benting received a call from Dr Giorgio...

Flash fictions about liars, slanderers, delirious, frenzied, deranged, scoundrels, scammers, and other wing nuts.• • •Mario Carrasco Teja (Mexico City, 1972) is an archaeologist, writer, editor, and designer of printed and electronic books and magazines (he is included in Smashwords' "Mark's List" of ebook formatting providers). Hombre Orquesta is his personal publishing imprint. He has obtained distinctions such as the "Edmundo Valadés" Latin...

In Reading To Write, a Novel Way to Write a Novel, Bill Johnson uses detailed reviews of the opening pages of popular novels to guide new writers to a deeper understanding of storytelling.The novels explored in this workbook include Catherine Hyde Ryan's Funeral for Horses, excerpts from Catcher in the Rye, Harlan Coben's Tell No One, The Tin Drum, The Bell Jar, and Lady Chatterly's Lover.Learn to write a novel by reading popular novels!Bill has taught...

Brazilian Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis was the finest storyteller of nineteenth-century Latin America. "Midnight Mass and Other Stories" offers a selection of Machado's tales, from the oft-translated and sly erotic title story, a classic of Brazilian literature, to such brief ironic tales, not previously translated into English, as "A Game," "Coimbra the Clerk," and "Sooner the Tarpeian Rock." Also included is "Botany Lesson," Machado's most successful...

Ficciones súbitas sobre mentirosos, calumniadores, delirantes, enajenados, trastornados, sinvergüenzas, estafadores y otros chiflados. Versión revisada y extendida.• • •Mario Carrasco Teja (Ciudad de México, 1972) es arqueólogo, escritor, editor y diseñador de publicaciones impresas y electrónicas (está incluido en la "Mark's List" de Smashwords de formateadores de libros electrónicos). Hombre Orquesta es su sello literario personal....

A unique and distinctively Canadian story about boys and girls and the problems between them. Warning: Explicit Sexual Content.On Twitter, tag comments with #DofL