"Animal Dwarf Bandits" with Tommy Guns are on a crime spree in Georgia Dillinger-style bank heists are being committed by a dangerous gang of little people wearing animal masks. Enter ursine photojournalist Thelonious T. Bear. Still smarting from his misadventures in Norfolk, he's eager to begin his assignment in the American South. However, Thelonious soon learns that the South isn't all fried chicken and sweet tea. In between encounters with a trigger-happy farmer and a fire-and-brimstone preacher with a snake, he's stalked by a man in a red pickup truck and nearly bear-napped by a family...

Sexual desire and soul-searing need fuel this contemporary erotic sequel that relocates the original character from Gaston Leroux's classic novel The Phantom of the Opera to present-day Paris... While attending an auction of music memorabilia, young soprano Christine Delacroix bids on some letters written by another young soprano, Christine Daae, who lived during the 19th century. Here she meets the handsome Compte Rezso Esterhazy, who immediately sets out to court her. Despite his attentions, Christine becomes obsessed with the Daae letters and her namesake's mysterious "Angel of Music"-a...

Acclaimed author Mitzi Szereto explores the many complexities of desire, love and lust in this rich and varied "best of" collection of erotically charged short stories. In these 17 provocative and often witty offerings, Mitzi Szereto travels expertly between genres with tales that explore both the light and the dark sides of sexuality. Oysters and Pearls gives the reader a glimpse into worlds that are as ordinary as they are fantastical and mysterious. Like a skilled lover, this sensuous and imaginative compilation will leave you wanting more. "Whether it's gothic, paranormal, fantasy,...

Stuck in a twilight world between life and death... A hit-and-run driver leaves Ernesto Martinez to die by a Miami canal. Then an alligator comes along to finish the job. Being dead gives Ernesto plenty of time to think. He thinks about his wife, taken from him too soon by illness. He thinks about his daughter, the victim of a drunk driver. He thinks about his death as he watches his body slowly decompose. Most of all, he thinks about injustice. The meth head ex-con living in the Everglades. The judge enjoying retirement on the Gulf Coast. The son of a Colombian drug kingpin partying in South...