Porch Music by Kathy Maresca
All sixteen-year-old Rose has is what she carries: a pillowcase of clothes, her boyfriend's unborn child, and a heart full of shame.
All sixteen-year-old Rose has is what she carries: a pillowcase of clothes, her boyfriend's unborn child, and a heart full of shame.
Jenni knows there is more to life than what you weigh. She has come to accept and care for her body without the expectation of weight loss. She eats, moves and lives to feel her most energetic and alive. Yet when she fails to conceive, Jenni begins to wonder if her body is the problem. Jenni encounters weight bias as she investigates why she isn't conceiving, which causes her to doubt herself.
Legend has it that the Café Conquistador is haunted. Maybe it’s just tall tales or maybe it’s wishful thinking by the Conquistador baristas who miss seeing the most in love couple they’ve ever known sipping coffee together every morning.
Kerk Murray shares his dark moments while telling a beautiful story of love and forgiveness through his relationships with a few four-legged furry heroes.
Chris sometimes does ‘cleaning jobs’ with BONE, a high school friend turned mobster. Wanting to teach Chris how to fire a gun, Bone takes him to a nearby forest where they use two mannequins as targets. One of them remains intact, so Chris brings it home at his friend’s request, but the mannequin’s unholy presence grows and begins to torment him.
Magic, mystery, and a match made in heaven… maybe. Oh, and a somewhat mute aardvark, too.
An artist’s model is murdered and a wealthy socialite posing for her portrait is stalked by an unknown assailant.
The Mad Girl asks the question: Can a teen ever escape her mistakes, now that they have become deadly?
Tessa Goes Down begins as a breakneck border noir and becomes a sweaty, sexy, chaotic road trip through Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico—a ferocious ride punctuated by kidnappings, close calls, cliffhangers, and hell-for-leather sleuthing. Sit back as Tessa and Floyd tell their respective tales—and hurtle toward a soul-shattering shock ending.
LOSER BABY is a propulsive blast through the streets of the SoCal melting pot, a breakneck dark-comic neo-noir populated by misfits and malefactors, criminals and innocents, down-and-outers and spun-out dreamers.