Crimes in Southern Indiana is the most blistering, vivid, flat-out fearless debut to plow into American literature in recent years. Frank Bill delivers what is both a wake-up call and a gut punch. Welcome to heartland America circa right about now, when the union jobs and family farms that kept the white on the picket fences have given way to meth labs, backwoods gunrunners, and bare-knuckle brawling. Bill's people are pressed to the brink-and beyond....

A mysterious figure stalks the murky backwoods of the Midwest on an unrelenting mission for revenge, with nothing but a Bowie knife to protect him against the monsters that haunt the forest. And even if he's able to find what he needs… it's already too late. From A. J. Payler, author of The Killing Song, Lost In the Red, and Bank Error in Your Favor comes The Rumble of Heat Lightning Above the Deep Midwestern Woods-a story of the world we live in...

Angel of Manslaughter comprises a reissue of Cindy Rosmus' classic collection of short stories, originally presented by Fossil Publications. This master's gut-wrenching presentation, each a blow to the head, strips the veneer off fiction, her characters so vivid, the reader swallows hard with every description. She writes of reality with wide range while staying in the neighborhood she knows intimately: Moms and pops and best buds, their desperation,...

Cuando uno va a la caza de experiencias singulares, corre siempre el riesgo de encontrar alguna. En su viaje a lo largo y ancho de Nueva Zelanda, un escritor se topa con Roger B., un tetrapléjico con una historia realmente singular que contar que habla de un don muy especial. Una lección que nunca podrá olvidar.

Workingman's Blues short story collection is about...well the workingman. However, this collection of workingmen is far from ordinary. They manage to get into situations that you wouldn't imagine. This collection of stories is sometimes thrilling and sometimes funny, but they are always entertaining.

Pearl City: Stories from Japan and Elsewhere is short fiction for busy people who love to travel. Six of the stories are set in Japan, and the others in Hong Kong, East Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand, France, Austria, the Philippines, and Cambodia. The stories, which carry themes of freedom, family, redemption, justice, courage, corruption, girl power, are tied together by a single message: triumph over adversity.

This is not my baby, says his mother, closing her arms and turning away. "We all feel that way at first," lies the nurse, hiding her misgivings, "You'll feel differently once you get used to one another." City of Stone is a new collection of stories from F.L.Rose. Mostly dark, but not quite. The title story, City of Stone, takes us to 70s Albania, where a real estate agent falls in love with the last Princess of a doomed royal dynasty. But is black-haired,...

Nobody stays in the game forever. A smart hitman knows every kill shortens the odds of getting caught, and Mon Oliver has killed a lot of people for a lot of money. Almost enough to settle into the quiet life of a Californian business owner. Most of the pieces are in place, and he needs the cash from one more job to set up the gym he dreams of owning. To finally go legit Mon has to make a choice. Does he take the seemingly easy money from an acquaintance...

Living on the run is a hard grind. Even when you decide to hide in a tropical paradise it wears you down. Getting off that treadmill is tricky and sometimes you need outside help. Sherry Proper is willing to do a lot to change her fugitive status, but she needs to have something to offer. A meeting in a beach bar with a man who wants to bring down one of her enemies might give her that chance. If she can give him what he wants, or make him think...

A Dangerous Shelter, a crime mystery by Bruce Allsman Late for work again, Lou Calvino receives an ominous warning from his boss, Jack Walensky, chief editor of the Westridge Tribune. Walensky gives Lou an ultimatum, find a hard-hitting story or his twenty-five-year career as an investigative journalist is history. To Lou, his life is already over. Three months ago Julia, his wife, lost her battle with cancer. Julia was a real estate agent. She had...