A cruel mother seeks revenge on her wealthy, reclusive daughter. The fourth book of a unique and deeply emotional memoir by a woman named Carmen Angelina Coletti, a prodigy who was taken out of school when she was twelve years old and isolated from the world. Her strong, often apocalyptic voice gives a real world account of the unthinkable, of where her mother has been for twenty years, and the unbelievable circumstances of her return.
Abused since early childhood, her music is her refuge, with a gift for composition so complete that she is likely the world's first female great composer,...

A twelve year old girl is murdered by her mother and father. A truthful and disturbing glimpse at child abuse and molestation in the life of Sarah Maria Iris, as her family descends from the suburban middle class into a life of poverty. Her innocent but insightful voice is the portrait of a child held prisoner by cruel, unloving parents.
Imprisoned and abused before her death, she records the shocking events in letters motivated by fear and depression. Told from the pages of her journal, the story uncovers the tragic home life of Sarah and her older sister Sharon, as they struggle to cope...

A controversial religious play depicts Christ as a woman. A unique and disturbing glimpse at violence and fanaticism, as told by wealthy suburban mother Mary Sweet, whose daughter was murdered after staging the controversial Passion Play. Mary's voice is a lonely, ghostly portrait of a mother struggling to come to terms with her daughter's death, while dealing with the breakup of her twenty five year marriage.
Left to raise her youngest daughter alone, Mary surveys suburban life with unearthly insight, recalling the strange and tragic events surrounding her oldest daughter's murder. Mary...

A billionaire's wife has an affair with another woman. A deeply truthful and dramatic account by a woman named Sarah Bishop, who has an intensely sexual love affair with a struggling young female novelist. Her somber, poetic voice is the portrait of a wealthy mother burdened by upper class loneliness and bitter, private desperation.
Crushed by the years of chaos and family discord, Sarah meets beautiful young writer Austria Goldman, whose own desperate, lonely spirit allows the two women a quick and powerful connection. As their love deepens, so to does Sarah's knowledge of Austria's...

A beautiful young woman is a serial rapist and murderer of other women. A strange, disturbing account by a woman named Raven Moon, who takes out a lifetime of rage on unsuspecting young and older women. Her frustrated, often poetic voice is oddly restrained, with only the hint of a cold-blooded killer's insanity.
A survivor of extreme childhood abuse and neglect, Raven befriends female college professor Simone Cory and bank teller Chelsea Lynn Baxter, both survivors of similar chilhood trauma and cruelty. Isolated in Black Mountain, North Carolina, their friendship whirls into a perfect...

A gifted piano student is tormented by her domineering mother. A story of apocalyptic mother-daughter violence and perversion, as told by the girl's best friend Maybelline Windsor, a fellow college student who herself is tormented by jealous sorority classmates. Her stark, penetrating voice is a model of epic simplicity, which transcends into a deeply spiritual and poetic picture of dark family secrets, and a history of private mother-daughter pain and suffering.
Born in poverty in the Appalachian Mountains, Maybelline was adopted by a wealthy family named Windsor, raised in million...

Mysterious snowstorms threaten the entire earth's population. A bleak and gloomy account from the end of the age, as told by seventeen year old Belinda Freeman, who was a child of ten when the strange, worldwide snowstorms first began. Belinda's ominous, apocalyptic voice is the portrait of a young girl imprisoned by fear and impending doom.
Snowbound in their upscale community of Prosperity, Vermont, Belinda and her fifteen year old sister Amanda struggle to comfort their widowed mother, who is nearly broken by the years of end-of-the-world fear and grief. As the snow covered outside...

Written entirely during forty days in a homeless shelter, in March and April 2013 when the author was 45 years old, these four-line, simple rhyming verses represent the birth of a completely new poetic style for the author, with terse, old fashioned simplicity of form and execution, evoking the neo-rhyming spirit of Longfellow, while looking forward in content toward the end of this age of human history. Ranging in topic from homelessness to the Second Coming of Christ, these unique, peculiar poems are an expression of the author's profound grief and confusion, while living amongst the most...

"The tragedy of human existence is Fate." So says novelist and poet Jonathan Lovejoy, as his thoughts open this small collection of grief and longing. Written near the end of a tumultuous 24 year marriage, these simple rhyming poems are a reflection of a love that was greatly longed for, but would remain a hopeless heart's desire.
The poems appear to echo an inner sense of missed opportunity, and the tragic passing by of a soulmate that the author met in a university hall-a chance meeting by mutual eye contact and a pricking of the heart over 20 years before, several months before he...

An abused woman is the greatest composer who ever lived. Prose and poetry from the mind of a woman named Carmen Angelina Coletti, a prodigy who was taken out of school when she was twelve years old and isolated from the world. Her simple, honest voice remains the picture of a young and reclusive country wife.
Abused since early childhood, her music is her refuge, with a gift for composition so complete that she is likely the world's first female great composer, some believing her to be the most gifted composer of all time. Conceived and written for her own private journals, these verses...