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|  | | A Throne's Stowaway
Prince Charming in a Detroit warehouse? That's nothing! It's the throne that'll throw you! After freeing a ragged Prince Charming, two women discover dreams don't have to be fantasies -- and with enough elbow grease, anyone can create a kingdom.
When Tina Hamilton inherits a warehouse she never knew existed, she sees it as nothing more than a dusty, old, indoor junkyard. Her friend, Kate Mulligan, sees something else entirely. Expecting to find hidden treasures amidst assorted carnival gadgets and Kewpie dolls, Kate insists there's a fortune to be made there, and she's bound and determined to find it, even if Tina isn't.
The last thing either of the two long-time friends could have expected to uncover is an enormous throne…and its highly unusual occupant.
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What if armageddon started, and then just as suddenly stopped?
Armageddon. There are as many stories about how it will happen as there are cultures on Earth. What if it started to happen, and then, just as startlingly, stopped? And how would you respond if someone told you he was responsible for stopping it? Here’s a thought: have a seat; grab a cup of coffee or tea; and settle back to listen to his story. Then decide.
| |  | | In the End: Apocalyptic Poetry
In the end they'll all be dancin'--all them ones that didn't die.... Dance with me in the shadows amidst the lightning and the thunder, and all that nu-cu-lar debris. See the big bang from the other side, and then open that cellar door. Go down into the basement where creatures older than time lurk in dark corners. And imagine if the world could end with a single, simple sigh.
This collection of speculative poems explores the darkness that makes us shiver in fear and anticipation. But it doesn't leave us there. Moving from endings to beginnings, look for a promise of revolution, of standing up and taking back control. What can you do when you can do nothing? Maybe nothing more than dance in a starlit dream. And maybe that's enough.
| |  | | Mozart
(Short Story) Her first desire had been to purge the darkness from tortured human souls. Will her last desire be to purge her own?
When he gave no name, she called him Mozart, a muse to her research, maestro to her passion. But her Mozart had a dark hunger, and her research made it darker still. Now Dr. Melanie Morgan is facing judgment from an equally dark—and equally mesmerizing—stranger.Dr. Melanie Morgan has not only found proof that vampires exist, she has discovered they might hold the key to curing the dark ravages of mental illness. After three months of working with her mysterious benefactor, a man she calls Mozart, she is on the brink of something. But another midnight visitor warns that instead o | |  | | On the Edge of Words
Questions, unquestioned discoveries, and answers in parable and rhyme…. This collection records a journey starting with a 1960s retrospective and the first man on the moon, moving to a new millennium welcomed in with a terrorist spin, family crises, and the games we humans play…knowingly or not.
Follow me as “…I pick up a piece of smooth shale, see it skip like the man on the moon, the black and white picture lined with static despite rabbit ears and foil and all of us holding hands, skipping over generations, the gap forgotten, the hippies and Marine brush-cut men and boys, and women in kerchiefs, and me, a tow-headed little girl in thrall to a TV with bad reception , skipping over images like a needle across vinyl...”
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