In a story reminiscent of Hemingway's work, a waiter works his way through a shift at an all-night café. On the table in the back booth he finds a pair of paper hearts. But when exactly did he find them?

Angela is very very good at her job. Still, there are some places in which a woman just shouldn't play. Aren't there? Some of the men in the story think so. Will she change their minds? Will they be alive to know it? Come along.

Martha Ramis, church secretary in a small town in South Dakota, ruminates on the new pastor as she goes about preparing the next church newsletter.

Ila, the keeper of the stories for her tribe, knows the mysteries of the piñon tree. The old tree has stood watch from a hillside for a century. It has gathered knowledge of events through vibrations that tremble through the ground to its roots. That knowledge is condensed in the seeds it produces. Always seeking more stories and more knowledge, Ila occasionally places a piñon nut beneath her tongue. What she learns is amazing. Sometimes it's troubling...

This is the tenth book in the Future of Humanity (FOH) series. After a long journey, General Amanda Lowrey has set the ship down on the new human home world: Terra 2.But this is still an alien world, and the humans are not alone. Landing Site Eden and each of the satellite sites, each 50 miles from Eden, to the north, east, south and west, have their own problems to deal with.Come along and join the fun. Or the battles.

All species eventually go extinct, right? Any lesser species should expect and accept that as just one more fact of life, right? But as King Elder Griesch Mor of the demolished planet Othgygnrk will soon learn, humans just aren't wired that way. In fact, they don't see themselves as lesser species at all. Many humans will give the shirt off their back to help a friend. But an enemy? Not so much. In this genesis novel of planetary invasion, the...

In these five short stories you attend a new kind of ink blot test, meet a man in an airport who will render you normal, lie mute and unmoving as a spider transports you to the next world, live and run with the wolves, and strive, strive to meet a goal as a writer and fail, badly.

In this collection of five intense short stories, a writer and his friend travel to Pamplona for the running of the bulls, the friend's attempt to truly live just one more time; Training can take many forms, from a good old-fashioned thumping to much worse treatment (that will leave you smiling); A young couple arrive in a bus terminal. Both are nervous at their impending separation. We assume it's a sad time for both, but is it? Are they running...

This is a novel, but only in the most basic sense. Actually it's a novel wrapped around eleven separate short stories. Or maybe it's a short story collection enclosed in a novel. The novel itself consists of a prologue and several intermissions, one after all the short stories except the last one. The stories run the gamut of genres: horror, action-adventure, psychological suspense, humor, western and others. The novel is about two writers on a...

It's the end of a hot, tired, sweaty day. Along with the other dock hands, you're waiting for your pay. Then a guy has to pop off.