THE BOOKS
Love Pop
Fiction – Speculative Fiction
When Eliot’s wife popped from the inside out, he was left speechless. When everyone else started to pop, he had a feeling it had something to do with him.
It could’ve happened to anyone. Eliot and his wife Peggy were like any other couple in love. Another pair in the crowd living simple, happy lives. Arm in arm as life carried on into the sunsets of tomorrow. Now it was a mess of red. Of blood, guts, and bones. The love is still very much alive. It’s just buried under a strange, developing pile of carnage.
Surrounded by lunatics, Eliot is dragged through a mystery of blood and madness. With no explanation in sight, he is forced into an adventure he wants nothing to do with. The authorities are scratching their heads. The news is trembling as the blood level rises. And a new religion is dressing in red. But all Eliot wants to do is lay down and sleep. His dreams are where the real mystery lies.
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It happened fast. It was in that moment of profound and euphoric truth that Peggy Olive Woods exploded into a cloud of red mist. Her insides painted the walls and stained the room around her. Guts, blood, and bone violently bounced around the moderately luxurious hotel room. Eliot froze in disbelief as he was soaked in his wife’s insides. Intestines and flesh draped from the ceiling swaying with the same elegant grace Peggy carried with her throughout her life. It was a sight beyond surreal.
Yet it happened.
Hours slipped away as room three-o-six remained motionless. Eliot was looking just passed the light that gave the room all of its shapes. Looking but not seeing. His mind was blank. Fingers locked around the tiny bottle in his hand.
Eliot has no recollection of the authorities escorting him in handcuffs with a sheet draped over his head. The hours of interrogation, the photos, the fingerprinting, strip search, even the barrage of shrinks and doctors were all a blur. Weeks of inquiry led to a closed trial. The only words that left his breath he spoke in the hotel room before he was taken away. He muttered an almost hollow sound. A nearly vacant wave of speech that fell out dead. Fell out lost and confused.
Fell out and said…
“She popped.”
I love this book. I was surprised by it. It had so many twists and turns… it’s a page turner!
John McDonald
Gentlemen
Started reading it because of who wrote it, finished it because it was an absurdly fantastic read!
Donna Tucker
High School Art Teacher
For Love of Fire
Fiction – Literary Adventure
A homeless schizophrenic man wandering the streets of Brooklyn can’t help himself from talking out loud. And some can’t help but listen. When two friends decide to bring the troubled man’s delusion to life, their lives are turned upside down as his reality becomes their reality. Stranded within his world, they are left to wonder… is he even crazy?
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Someone had stood in the hot street for so long it burned off the bottoms of their feet. Staring down at the someone’s unfortunate moment with the hot asphalt stood one troubled Abigail Pratt, presently disturbed by the sight of two sizzling bloody plops of such a barefooted tragedy. Bubbling in the heat before her, she could smell the foot-flesh still cooking. Trailing off from the footprints was the painful, bloody track marks of a sole-less New Yorker.
She couldn’t imagine what would compel someone to endure such an experience long enough to burn off the bottoms of their feet. She knew one didn’t have to walk far in the city to see something bizarre. This, however, was beyond the typical oddity. Processing the image turned her stomach and her mind against themselves. She was regretting her heavy pasta lunch.
She had regretted the heavy pasta earlier as well.
Standing glum before the be-footing, she had only managed ten paces out of what was supposed to be the day that would change her life forever. She doesn’t blame the pasta, but it didn’t help. This is an exaggeration, of course, she didn’t expect her day would have changed anything, but she has always been more of an optimist.
What a ride! This book pulled me in and held me through till the end! I fell in love with the characters and want them to come live with me!
— Donna T.
Grandmother
This moment is to be savoured, and reread and reread. The satire is brilliant and the fire is there! … “For Love Of Fire” held me to the end, and Abby, disappointed by her American life, heroic in her misery, gets livid after Arnold destroys it. Or does he?
— Jonathan Finch
Poet & Author
Take Out
Fiction – Adventure
Our narrator only needs fourteen bucks to pay for his meal, but will he survive the night to enjoy his take-out prize?
This short story is both brief and absurd, pointless and entertaining. Take Out is a roller coaster of ridiculous thrills chasing an all consuming craving for Chinese take-out. A tale of hunger and madness, danger and other things, risk and kung-pao pork fried rice.
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She was holding out the job slip like it was the least important thing in the history of any things importance. If only she knew. If only she could feel the black hole screaming out from my stomach for everything to rush inside it. I’d eat the job slip if it came to that. Dangling unwanted in her careless dead grip I could hear a hum from something higher calling out from within it. My hand struck at the job slip with a streak of fire breathing out from my fingers strike.
Hope.
Looking to the slip I read the job title to myself. It whispered in my skull something ghostly. It read…
D.O.O.M.
The horns blew, and the windows shut. Tall metal sheets unraveled from the ceiling with a loud violent clatter. Eighteen windows crashing shut, bouncing a brooding tremor through the open chamber of Quick-Job’s main hall. The chandeliers above chimed with an effortless jingle, adding that final highlight to the day’s end as dust floated down for the concluding swipe of the mops.
A delirious meal. An intriguing demented and beautiful approach to a simple story. I couldn’t get enough of this story. Remarkable style and delivery. I can’t wait for more. Bravo.
— Steve B. King
Artist
A fun read. A well paced story that takes you through the twist and turns of what one man will do for Chinese takeout.
— Wiz
A person who shops on Amazon