Here is the novella A Long, Slow Burn, as well as seven of the author's favorite short stories, collected and presented together for the first time ever. They encompass ten years of short but inspired fiction, and while their tone and content varies, together they present a unique voice, and vision.
Here is the novella A Long, Slow Burn, as well as seven of the author's favorite short stories, collected and presented together for the first time ev...
Anthony Rizzo's girlfriend Andy has just broken up with him. He's a few months away from finishing his undergraduate degree in psychology, a feat which has taken him somewhat longer than the allotted four years. The fact that he is adhering to a strict regimen of drugs, alcohol, and sleepless nights isn't helping matters. As he himself is quick to point out, he is in no hurry to join the job market and the "real world." Anthony has become disillusioned, if not disgusted, with college, and with Pittsburgh, where he has spent the last twenty-two years of his life. Despite his self destructive...
Anthony Rizzo's girlfriend Andy has just broken up with him. He's a few months away from finishing his undergraduate degree in psychology, a feat whic...
The Woods is set in the fictional town of Feral, West Virginia, a rural community with a modest population. Tad Surrey is the middle child of the family, sandwiched between older brother Casey and younger sister Daisy. Casey is athletic and popular, while Daisy is intelligent but withdrawn, possessing artistic tendencies but virtually no desire for social interaction with her peers. She lives away from the rest of the family, cloistered in the attic of the farmhouse in which they live. Tad himself is also a loner, finding most in common with his younger sister, and choosing to spend much of...
The Woods is set in the fictional town of Feral, West Virginia, a rural community with a modest population. Tad Surrey is the middle child of the fami...
Marlow Heatherton, degenerate gambler, is in deep to the Russian mafia. When he skips town, it sets off a chain of events that will cause chaos and bloodshed from Westchester County to Brighton Beach, from Asbury Park to Bushwick, from Atlantic City to a rest stop on the New Jersey turnpike. Along the way, police, bounty hunters, and criminals of all stripes will be pulled into the vortex. Who will come out on top? Who will walk away from the carnage at all?
Marlow Heatherton, degenerate gambler, is in deep to the Russian mafia. When he skips town, it sets off a chain of events that will cause chaos and bl...
On the planet Everos, a young boy, Trill, is being raised along the eastern shoreline of Funderling, one of two principle continents, by Balthus, his aging warrior father. They live in the shadow of the Sea of Colors, a hypnotic, swirling mass, about which little is known, but much is speculated. While Balthus is away, Trill is kidnapped by raiders, forcing the father to pick up arms again, and embark on a desperate rescue mission. But there is a secret about these raiders that neither father nor son will be able to believe. Meanwhile, on the other side of Funderling, in the stark, pitiless...
On the planet Everos, a young boy, Trill, is being raised along the eastern shoreline of Funderling, one of two principle continents, by Balthus, his ...