Books

Welcome to The Sink

Gritty Hard-Boiled Urban Fantasy Noir Stories
Book #1 from the series: The Cracked Sink

Welcome to Synchrony, Michigan—better known as The Sink—where corruption runs deep, crime stains every corner, and the poisoned atmosphere brings out the best psychokinetic talents in the worst people…

Uthman Breen, private investigator. Synchrony, Michigan native. Magnet for every bizarre, bloody, and impossible case this accursed city can cough...

Colder Than Ice

A gripping and chilling psychological horror story
From the series: Grace Otherwise

From the author of Blind Dates: Weird Stories comes a haunting and captivating tale of a woman who feels like she's been uninvited to her own life.

A mess of relationships has left Meredith feeling like a stranger in her own skin. Her husband doesn't want her, her son takes after his father, and her secret lover is a mystery she can't unravel....

BloodLight

An Eve of Light Novel (includes bonus story Lilith’s Arithmetic)
Book #0 from the series: Eve of Light

Psychological, body, and cosmic horror combine in this edgy and intensely surreal prequel to the Eve of Light series.

There are states of mind beyond insanity. Few would argue that any teenager deserves such experiences. But as his now-deceased mother once told him: Robert Goldner’s very existence is a mistake. Possessing Hell’s brain may be his...

Blind Dates

Weird Stories
From the series: Grace Otherwise

The heart beats loudest in the dark, where the hidden listen, take pleasure, and respond.

Come closer. Meet them. The desperate, the longing, the lost. Men and women aching for love, for belonging, for something to quiet the hollow ache within. Watch as they slip beyond the fragile borders of the ordinary, into places where reality bends, desire...

Fleeting

A Hero’s Sojourn
Book #1 from the series: Hero's Sojourn

With his quick mind and extraordinary powers, Kex has faced unimaginable challenges and overcome them all, securing his place as one of the greatest of all superheroes. Now he must undertake one last task in this heart-wrenching tale of heroism and sacrifice.

Time and time again, Kex has fought superhuman menaces and supernatural threats, both on...

Unbreaking the Ice (Hero’s Sojourn)

From the series: Hero's Sojourn

From the author of Fleeting comes a gripping tale of heartbreak and heroism.

A young powerhouse and hero-in-training, Noemi Nocenti has always dreamed of using her powers for good, saving the world, and falling madly in love with the perfect guy.

While she’s still working on getting her abilities under control, it seems she’s finally hit the...

No One Has to Save You (Hero’s Sojourn)

From the series: Hero's Sojourn

A poignant short story that offers a captivating glimpse on the complexities of heroism.

When tragedy strikes, a hero is tasked with saving the day, oftentimes no matter the cost. Such an expectation is why Patricial doesn’t consider herself a hero.

As an elite member of the Fair Legion, she navigates the more personal nights, tending to those...

Same New Song (Hero’s Sojourn)

From the series: Hero's Sojourn

A captivating short story from the author of Fleeting.

Believing herself a once-beautiful faerie-like being, Elysa has been stripped of her magic and reduced to a wingless shell, struggling to remember her past.

Trapped in a mysterious prison, her only company beyond her fading memories is a disembodied voice claiming she’s committed “countless...

Porcelain Prophets (Hero’s Sojourn)

From the series: Hero's Sojourn

A heart-pounding, action-packed tale from the author of Fleeting.

Ishwa’s eyes have brought men to their knees. Her fists have left their faces in the dirt. Her wiser enemies are eager to remain flat on the ground.

The big-boned, solitary warrior is not what people expect when they cry out for help. However, with her unmatched skills and...

Deviant-Hunter: Blood Oath (Eve of Light: Deviant-Hunter, #1)

Book #1 from the series: Eve of Light: Deviant-Hunter

Frank Sanders knows all about going to extremes to ensure certain ideals. As a one-time Black Peacemaker for the Heartland Security Agency, the government taught him a variety of unsavory methods to preserve the sanctity of American families and protect their children against domestic threats. He learned a little too well.

Designated as too...

Deviant-Hunter, Killer of Saints (Eve of Light: Deviant-Hunter, #2)

Book #2 from the series: Eve of Light: Deviant-Hunter

As a Black Peacemaker for the Heartland Security Agency, Frank Sanders used any means necessary to take out domestic threats to American families and their children. Everything from drug dealers to gang bangers, kidnappers to child molesters. And as a freelance hunter, he’s gone to even further extremes. So too have the potential threats.

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Deviant-Hunter’s Sabbath (Eve of Light: Deviant-Hunter, #3)

Book #3 from the series: Eve of Light: Deviant-Hunter

Frank Sanders has spilled a lot of blood over the years. He is neither proud nor apologetic. The human population is under assault, engaged in a near-invisible war of which few are even aware. As a single father raising a young daughter in a world where viral terrorists with supernatural abilities are ascendant, he has had no choice but to make...

BloodLight

The Apocalypse of Robert Goldner
Book #0 from the series: Eve of Light

An African-American teenager’s alienation is taken to the extreme in this cross-genre prequel to the Eve of Light series. An utterly surreal and bizarre work of Dark Metaphysical Fantasy.

Deep down, Robert Goldner knows he’s a mistake. His mother told him so when he was just five years old. But he never found the courage to ask just what she...

Lilith’s Arithmetic

The Revelations of Artemisia Wright
Book #0 from the series: Eve of Light

From the author of BloodLight: The Apocalypse of Robert Goldner comes a haunting parallel novel that will leave you breathless. As intense and surreal as its predecessor, this dark and uniquely compelling tale delves into the horrifying reality of a cursed young woman’s existence.

A product of her brutal confrontations with Hell’s triumphs and...

Broken Angels (Eve of Light, Book I)

Book #1 from the series: Eve of Light

Dark urban fantasy meets surreal cosmic horror in this first book of a provocative and mind-bending series.

Three years after contracting the White Fire Virus, Watcher agent Robert Goldner still considers himself damned and confused. Damned to live with a body overrun by billions of sentient parasites. Confused that the deadly infection has not...

Divinities, Entangled (Eve of Light, Book II)

Book #2 from the series: Eve of Light

Surreal, action-packed, and beautifully written, Divinities, Entangled is the second book in a series that explores whether humans can survive beyond the demise of their Creator.

God is near death. The dimensions of Reality are collapsing. And The Infinite Definite, an amorphous gang of magick-wielding terrorists, has become even more powerful...

ArtWork

An Eve of Light Story
From the series: Eve of Light

She sings like an angel
to the delight of devils.


Life has caught up with former avant-garde artist Lourdes Ruiz.

Once a unique and promising young singer with a strong cult following, she is now a middle-aged single mother of a sick child, reduced to entertaining deranged and twisted underworld criminals.

Temporary body modifications for...

Influx

An Eve of Light Story
From the series: Eve of Light

Dark fantasy meets cosmic horror in this surreal and suspenseful tale.

Henri Benoit doesn’t believe the rumors about angels and demons walking the Earth. He considers the plan to pacify Americans by drugging all bar drinks to be a mere fairy tale. He’s never been gullible. Though, as a failed candidate for the Heartland Security Agency’s...

Influx: Expanded Edition

An Eve of Light Story
From the series: Eve of Light

Dark fantasy meets cosmic horror in this surreal and suspenseful tale. The expanded edition includes the prequel story Knotty & Ice.

Henri Benoit doesn’t believe the rumors about angels and demons walking the Earth. He considers the plan to pacify Americans by drugging all bar drinks to be a mere fairy tale. He’s never been gullible. Though,...

White Fire

An Eve of Light Story
From the series: Eve of Light

From the author of BloodLight and Lilith’s Arithmetic comes an intense and mind-bending tale of memory, magick, and life after death.

Like many young professionals, Jenny is at a crossroads. Bite the bullet and go to law school, or remain a paralegal a little while longer? Strive to become exceptionally successful at her chosen career, or start...

Hell’s Brood

An Eve of Light Story Collection
From the series: Eve of Light

In the Eve of Light universe, no one is safe from what hides beneath the gossamer of superficial reality.

A struggling singer who travels to the middle of nowhere to perform a gig finds herself exposed to a sinister creature with a hunger for something only she can provide.

A small-time criminal who finds a gun that seems to be of supernatural...

The Lark

An Eve of Light Short Story
From the series: Eve of Light

Danny is a struggling singer willing to do almost anything to get a little exposure and keep food on the table, so she doesn’t think twice about traveling to the middle of nowhere to perform a gig. When she’s stranded at an abandoned airport, however, she finds herself exposed to a sinister creature with a hunger for something only she can...

FoolKillers

An Eve of Light Story
From the series: Eve of Light

When lonely middle manager Avery Brocus set up a profile on an adult hook-up site, he never dreamed a young hottie would contact him, let alone insist on meeting in person. Agreeing too quickly, he expects to be robbed of his money or identity. He soon realizes he’s been caught up in a plot for something far more valuable.

With stories set in a...

Heaven’s Gun

An Eve of Light Short Story
From the series: Eve of Light

Jacob is a small-time criminal who dabbles in everything from drugs to prostitutes to illegal weapons. When he finds a gun that seems to be of supernatural origin, he begins to dream of the big time. His dream turns into a nightmare when he realizes someone wants their toy back.

With stories set in a world where humankind’s twisted fantasies and...

Knotty & Ice

An Eve of Light Short Story
From the series: Eve of Light

Even though he’s one of the Heartland Security Agency’s Peacemaker agents, a man sworn to help protect and preserve the morality of the United States, Neal can’t give up his habit of patronizing prostitutes. When one of them steals the prototype of a top secret device, however, he has no choice but to come clean in order to rally fellow agents...

Rogue Beauty

An Eve of Light Short Story
From the series: Eve of Light

A fugitive from the Sprytes, one of the most dangerous supernatural cults on Earth, Betty has refashioned herself as a revealer of dark conspiracies and a killer of misogynous conspirators. On her crusade, she has successfully stayed off the radar for months. When the Sprytes close in, however, Betty may find herself entangled in a conspiracy...

Beholder

A Short Story
From the series: Grace Otherwise

Wayne is a silver-tongued master of the dating game, one who knows how to deliver just the right words in just the right way in order to transform any woman he wants into candy in his hands, to be devoured, savored, and forgotten at his pleasure. But when he goes out on a blind date with the mysterious Nayantara, he will learn there are no such...

The Lure

A Short Story
From the series: Grace Otherwise

Unsightly and awkward, Aoife Finnegan has never been successful in love, only in attracting the indifference or hostility of every man she’s ever met. After partaking in an experiment, she finds her luck has drastically changed—but while on an exotic cruise for singles, she may find her stark reversal in fortune is actually the rudest curse of...

Last Contact

A Short Story
From the series: Grace Otherwise

As a single adult living in his country of birth but still feeling perpetually out of place, Faraji dreams about nothing else but establishing a true connection with just the right woman, someone who understands him deeply, to the core. Shortly after creating an account on an unusual dating site, he begins communicating with a woman who claims...

Love Among the Ultramoderns

A Short Story
From the series: Grace Otherwise

An accountant by day, Mr. Rodgers spends his nights and weekends indulging in a unique passion. Traveling from neighborhood to neighborhood as an unknown entity, he uses unconventional methods to help long-suffering wives rediscover the love they once had for themselves and their husbands. Some might consider him a selfless hero, ahead of his...

Unfair Play

A Horror Story
From the series: Grace Otherwise

Tommy Turtello served ten years for a bloody crime he doesn’t regret. He, in fact, used his time behind bars to hone his skills, learning new methods for making himself a more effective “maintenance man,” one self-appointed to rid the world of those he deems as soulless. He has spent his first year of freedom putting his new talents to use,...

Hero Zero

From the series: Hero Zero

Not everyone is the hero of their own story …

Bottom-rung office worker Sevin Naughtiér probably shouldn’t be alive. His nose spontaneously leaks a weird tarlike substance and he possesses the inexplicable ability to run faster than any other creature on Earth. Not to mention that a new coworker vividly remembers him committing suicide back when...

Spring’s Fall (Autumn Numbers)

Book #1 from the series: Autumn Numbers

The story of one young man crossing the burning bridge between innocence and experience, Spring’s Fall is a narrative dramatic poem comprised of several stand-alone poems about fitting in and falling out, finding oneself and losing oneself, and discovering the meanings of life, love, and identity.

An unusual but familiar coming-of-age...

Trinity and Its Twin

A Subversive Narrative
From the series: Poetry

Whether one regards it as a sequence of forty-two narrative poems or the somewhat broken body of a metaphysical epic, there will be no disagreement that Trinity & Its Twin is a provocative work. Ostensibly the fragmented tale of a homeless refugee and a runaway teenager who join a separatist religious sect, the story interweaves...

Wine Songs, Vinegar Verses

Poems Out Of Love
From the series: Poetry

Sometimes lovers enter a relationship with the best of intentions but wind up in a place far from love.

Sometimes poets attempt love poems, simple and pure, but . . .

Over breakfast, a husband trying to deny creeping out on his wife the previous night can’t help but give hints about the creepy things he really did. On a beach, a man minding his...