Newspaperman Ryuu Shimada falls in love with a young guy who reminds him very much of his lost love in Tokyo. A novel by a woman who's been reading too much yaoi.

Set in 1988, Mabel Hackenbush is between gigs, her baritone ukulele smashed, and her car in the shop, she is bravely temp secretarying her way to a kinder, gentler, not to mention, solvent life until she can get back to work as a jazz standards singer.

Set in late 2008, "Electricland" satirically describes a large scale terrorist operation that goes wrong and the damage control put into effect in Los Angeles. The terrorist cell of seven brilliant middle aged women, known as the Seven Sirens, use hackers and gamers in the massively multiplayer online role-playing game online game called "Electricland" to wreak havoc in and terrorize secure networks. The hackers and gamers think they're playing a game while they're really being played by the Seven Sirens. Until one of the hackers gets cocky and all hell breaks loose.

It's 1984 and Hackenbush's broken heart is on the mend as she assists the very roguish, but devastatingly charming theater director, Monte Vista, in his last and greatest production. Mabel Hackenbush, better known as the singer, dancer, ukulele player extraordinaire, and front woman for Dr. Hackenbush and her Orchestra, has taken a chance on love and lost. After an epic binge, she can't sing, won't dance, and can only get through the day by focusing on her temp secretary job. Add in all this, the band has a big show coming up that Hackenbush might not be able to do in her current state of...

She is called Rose, and she works in a House of Pretty Ladies. This is not me, I am not here, she tells herself when she is with clients. But the night after the city falls victim to a conquering empire, she encounters a young prince whose sadness makes it impossible for her to keep her own griefs forgotten. Spring comes, and Rose becomes more restless. The conquerors start home but the prince lingers, and she wonders if he will ask her to go back with him. She does not know if she loves him, or if that even matters. For the first time in the years since she fled to Madame's House, Rose...

"'Darkness at Sunset and Vine' draws on conventions and stock characters from several genres such as comic books, anime, and action-adventure movies. For me, the most important influence on the structure of the novel is the tradition of Film Noir. As in a classic Humphrey Bogart movie, "Darkness" gives us the first person narrative of a jaded private investigator in Southern California, navigating his/her way through a jungle of violence and moral bankruptcy. As in the classic Noir film or Raymond Chandler novel, the heart of the story is not about solving the case. It's about the journey the...

Mabel Hackenbush, frontwoman and singer for Dr. Hackenbush and Her Orchestra, is up to her ukuele-playing neck in trouble in this murder mystery novella set in the Los Angeles art and music scene of the 1980s. More information at www.Storylandia.WapshottPress.com

Storylandia, The Wapshott Journal of Fiction, Issue 10. The novella "Death Among the Marshes," a murder mystery set in the Twenties by Kathryn L. Ramage. Visit www.storylandia.wapshottpress.com for more information.

It's 1986 and there's trouble in Macarthur Park, and Mabel Hackenbush, better known as Dr. Hackenbush of Dr. Hackenbush and her Orchestra, is up to her neck in it. She's trying to help out her friends Anna Kodaly and Ross, and winds up in the middle of a mystery in the elderly Westlake section of Los Angeles. Oh, and during all this she and the band and are playing gigs wherever and whenever. It's a Hackenbush mystery in the best tradition of the other Hackenbush mystery, "Dr. Hackenbush Gets Some Culture." More information at www.Storylandia.WapshottPress.com and gm.WapshottPress.com

Three on the Bank is a novella that begins from the perspective of Sam, the sole survivor of a bus accident on his wedding day, and follows him as he descends from his life as a successful lawyer into a world of drugs, alcohol, and night-dwellers. There he meets Marissa, a single mother and fellow bartender, who recognizes him as the man they found along the river. When Sam does not show up to work one day, Marissa finds him passed out in his apartment and brings him home, then introduces him to her precocious seven year old son, Joey. Although Sam is afraid to be close to a child again after...