"All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream."--"Edgar Allan Poe"

"The Lizard's Ardent Uniform and Other Stories" (Veridical Dreams Vol. I) takes you on several voyages into every day nightmares, bizarre detours, and hellish worlds. Enlisting the talents of authors Chris F. Holm ("Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine"), Terrie Farley Moran ("Well Read, Then Dead"), Patti Abbott ("Home Invasion"), Evan V. Corder, Steve Weddle ("Needle: A Magazine of Noir"), Hilary Davidson ("The Damage Done"), and Garnett Elliott ("Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine"), thought-provoking fragments...

"Derringer award winning "The Kaluki Kings of Queens" inside"

Come meet the relatives in Family Matters: Murder New York Style. These twenty short stories by members of the New York / Tri-State chapter of Sisters in Crime are as diverse in theme and mood as the city itself. They take us from the explosive excitement of the New York City Marathon to a secret cellar in Queens; from the warmth of an immigrant culture to the moneyed New York art world; from brutality and poverty to Wall Street's privileged thugs. What the families have in common is this: their lives have been changed...