Where Fiction and Reality Meet
Funny how life can be so full yet so empty, how a life can be crowded with sycophants and drugs and parties and random one-offs but can be entirely devoid of anything that might make you feel like you’ve experienced anything close to a human connection. Nick Ventura has it all—fame, fortune, fast cars and... Continue Reading →
Funny how life can be so full yet so empty, how a life can be crowded with sycophants and drugs and parties and random one-offs but can be entirely devoid of anything that might make you feel like you’ve experienced anything close to a human connection. Nick Ventura has it all—fame, fortune, fast cars and... Continue Reading →
The world is a pretty small place according to M.J. O’Shea, as Stroke! shoots holes in the theory that electronic and social media have become the cold and disconnected replacement for interpersonal relationships. This is the short and so sweet story of two young men competing for a seat on their university’s rowing team. Elijah... Continue Reading →
The world is a pretty small place according to M.J. O’Shea, as Stroke! shoots holes in the theory that electronic and social media have become the cold and disconnected replacement for interpersonal relationships. This is the short and so sweet story of two young men competing for a seat on their university’s rowing team. Elijah... Continue Reading →
Good conversation is really important to me, but I never seem to realize how important it is until I feel its absence, so it makes sense, then, that well written, organic dialogue can either make or break a book for me. That also applies to the interior monologue of the first person narrative; the internal... Continue Reading →
Good conversation is really important to me, but I never seem to realize how important it is until I feel its absence, so it makes sense, then, that well written, organic dialogue can either make or break a book for me. That also applies to the interior monologue of the first person narrative; the internal... Continue Reading →
Forfeit. Collateral Damage. In a megalomaniac’s bid for supremacy, it was inevitable. It seems there’s a price to pay for everything in this world, and the currency is nothing less than a man’s very soul. Fen Jacin-rei is the pawn through which other players wish to manipulate this game. He is the tool, the sacrifice... Continue Reading →
Forfeit. Collateral Damage. In a megalomaniac’s bid for supremacy, it was inevitable. It seems there’s a price to pay for everything in this world, and the currency is nothing less than a man’s very soul. Fen Jacin-rei is the pawn through which other players wish to manipulate this game. He is the tool, the sacrifice... Continue Reading →
Truth in the Dark is for anyone who loves fairy tales and loves to see them re-imagined, fractured and then reconstructed into something familiar yet wholly new. This tale is a retelling of Beauty and the Beast and I don’t mind telling you that even though I knew what was coming, when it finally happened... Continue Reading →
Truth in the Dark is for anyone who loves fairy tales and loves to see them re-imagined, fractured and then reconstructed into something familiar yet wholly new. This tale is a retelling of Beauty and the Beast and I don’t mind telling you that even though I knew what was coming, when it finally happened... Continue Reading →
You can know who you are and embrace it. You can know who you are and reject it. You can suspect who you are and fear it. You can subdue who you are and bleed all the shades and hues from a multicolored life. Donnie is all about the embracing, but Chase is there just... Continue Reading →
You can know who you are and embrace it. You can know who you are and reject it. You can suspect who you are and fear it. You can subdue who you are and bleed all the shades and hues from a multicolored life. Donnie is all about the embracing, but Chase is there just... Continue Reading →
Richmond “Lucky” Lucklighter seems a bit like a commodity in the business of life and if nothing else, he’s enterprising. Lucky understands exactly what opportunity cost means and bases his choices accordingly, learning some very painful lessons for it along the way. Lucky traded his soul, the first time to a man who saw something... Continue Reading →
Richmond “Lucky” Lucklighter seems a bit like a commodity in the business of life and if nothing else, he’s enterprising. Lucky understands exactly what opportunity cost means and bases his choices accordingly, learning some very painful lessons for it along the way. Lucky traded his soul, the first time to a man who saw something... Continue Reading →
A father will do many things to protect his only son. A king will do many things to protect the heir to his throne, including, it seems, making sacrifices of his subjects’ children, like lambs on an altar, so they may take his son’s place as an offering to a plague. Misguided by love, or... Continue Reading →
A father will do many things to protect his only son. A king will do many things to protect the heir to his throne, including, it seems, making sacrifices of his subjects’ children, like lambs on an altar, so they may take his son’s place as an offering to a plague. Misguided by love, or... Continue Reading →
“This is not at all what I thought it would be.” This is so very much more. A beloved son. The Beloved Son. The son of the mother, and the Son of the Mother—both placed above and before all else for the good of all mankind. The Aisling and the Guardian, the Dream and the... Continue Reading →
“This is not at all what I thought it would be.” This is so very much more. A beloved son. The Beloved Son. The son of the mother, and the Son of the Mother—both placed above and before all else for the good of all mankind. The Aisling and the Guardian, the Dream and the... Continue Reading →
I wish there were a word in the English language that meant something bigger than love, a word that meant something grander than epic, a word that meant something greater than extraordinary. Extralovepicary. There. If you can’t come up with the appropriate word, sometimes you just have to make one up. Aisling Book Two: Dreams... Continue Reading →
I wish there were a word in the English language that meant something bigger than love, a word that meant something grander than epic, a word that meant something greater than extraordinary. Extralovepicary. There. If you can’t come up with the appropriate word, sometimes you just have to make one up. Aisling Book Two: Dreams... Continue Reading →
”You’ve so many names and I haven’t a one.” One man does not know who he is, one man does not know what he is; one man is prey, one man is protector; one man is the weaver of life, one man is the keeper of peace—the dreamer and the defender, the Aisling and the... Continue Reading →
”You’ve so many names and I haven’t a one.” One man does not know who he is, one man does not know what he is; one man is prey, one man is protector; one man is the weaver of life, one man is the keeper of peace—the dreamer and the defender, the Aisling and the... Continue Reading →
I’m a hypocrite. I can admit it. I’m not usually a fan of the “one handed reads”, and I fully acknowledge that I like a little plot with my sex. As a result, I’ve probably been more than a bit harsh in my opinion of quite a few sex-centric books that didn’t deliver much in... Continue Reading →
I’m a hypocrite. I can admit it. I’m not usually a fan of the “one handed reads”, and I fully acknowledge that I like a little plot with my sex. As a result, I’ve probably been more than a bit harsh in my opinion of quite a few sex-centric books that didn’t deliver much in... Continue Reading →
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