susannah eanes - Editor

Metamorphosis: A Collection of Stories

Propertius Press

In this collection, stories chronicle changes, where by a lesson, a journey, discoveries, the confluence of ideas, an accident or some other more esoteric circumstances, we become more attuned to the connections - and distances - between the inner and outer worlds. We grow wings, take flight, and start all over again. More than a coming-of-age or life crisis, it might be said each of these sto... read more

In this collection, stories chronicle changes, where by a lesson, a journey, discoveries, the confluence of ideas, an accident or some other more esoteric circumstances, we become more attuned to the connections - and distances - between the inner and outer worlds. We grow wings, take flight, and start all over again. More than a coming-of-age or life crisis, it might be said each of these sto... read more

Draw Down the Moon

Elizabeth Bridges, Lori Michelle Hawks

DRAW DOWN THE MOON, which takes its title from a line in Sextus Propertius's Book I, Love Poems to Cynthia, is the third anthology of short stories assembled by Propertius Press. A woman has her husband's consciousness downloaded into a voice box so they can continue to be together. A fortune teller falls in love with a winged boy at the Circus and struggles thinking of ways they can be togeth... read more

DRAW DOWN THE MOON, which takes its title from a line in Sextus Propertius's Book I, Love Poems to Cynthia, is the third anthology of short stories assembled by Propertius Press. A woman has her husband's consciousness downloaded into a voice box so they can continue to be together. A fortune teller falls in love with a winged boy at the Circus and struggles thinking of ways they can be togeth... read more

Whispers From the Universe

Propertius Press

The stories in Whispers from the Universe explore the connections between the real and unseen worlds. Where hidden miracles turn expectation on its head, and perception and reality collide with the unknowable. What do we really know about the physical world, and is physics more understandable than we think? What opportunities present themselves when we let down our guard and explore behind the... read more

The stories in Whispers from the Universe explore the connections between the real and unseen worlds. Where hidden miracles turn expectation on its head, and perception and reality collide with the unknowable. What do we really know about the physical world, and is physics more understandable than we think? What opportunities present themselves when we let down our guard and explore behind the... read more

Narrow Girls on a Blue Profound Stage

Lisa L. Sellge

CALIFORNIA, 1983. Anneliese is a young ballerina who comes of age as she is performing with a troupe of dancers ten years her senior. Immersed in the new freedom of adulthood, she is enchanted with Rebecca, the seamstress and professional costumer for the company. Anneliese’s budding attraction to Rebecca surprises and confuses her, in spite of her shyness. When Rebecca flirts back, Anneliese ... read more

CALIFORNIA, 1983. Anneliese is a young ballerina who comes of age as she is performing with a troupe of dancers ten years her senior. Immersed in the new freedom of adulthood, she is enchanted with Rebecca, the seamstress and professional costumer for the company. Anneliese’s budding attraction to Rebecca surprises and confuses her, in spite of her shyness. When Rebecca flirts back, Anneliese ... read more

The Prince of Infinite Space

Giano Cromley

It is 1990 and, while the country stands on the brink of war with Iraq, Kirby Russo is finally at peace with the world. At seventeen years old, he's figured out some important lessons: how to stay out of trouble with the authorities; how to write muck-raking articles that expose the hypocrisy of said authorities; and, most importantly, how to avoid obsessing about his long lost girlfriend Izzy... read more

It is 1990 and, while the country stands on the brink of war with Iraq, Kirby Russo is finally at peace with the world. At seventeen years old, he's figured out some important lessons: how to stay out of trouble with the authorities; how to write muck-raking articles that expose the hypocrisy of said authorities; and, most importantly, how to avoid obsessing about his long lost girlfriend Izzy... read more

The Memory of Cotton

Ann K. Howley

Fifteen-year old Shelby’s life has been spiraling out of control since her little brother died and her parents divorced. She gets in fights at school, lashes out at her mother, and can’t find a way to pull herself out of her self-centered vortex of anger, fear, and grief. When Shelby inadvertently finds her great grandfather’s Ku Klux Klan robe and a cryptic message embroidered in a family qui... read more

Fifteen-year old Shelby’s life has been spiraling out of control since her little brother died and her parents divorced. She gets in fights at school, lashes out at her mother, and can’t find a way to pull herself out of her self-centered vortex of anger, fear, and grief. When Shelby inadvertently finds her great grandfather’s Ku Klux Klan robe and a cryptic message embroidered in a family qui... read more

News!

Dan Smith

It is 1969 and young newspaper sportswriter Eb McCourry’s world is about to change. He is pushed into emergency service by the newsroom when an airline crashes near Asheville, North Carolina, and his first real news assignment is like a drug. With mid-sized American cities facing dramatic cultural makeovers, Eb leaps enthusiastically to the front lines and front pages in the newspaper industry... read more

It is 1969 and young newspaper sportswriter Eb McCourry’s world is about to change. He is pushed into emergency service by the newsroom when an airline crashes near Asheville, North Carolina, and his first real news assignment is like a drug. With mid-sized American cities facing dramatic cultural makeovers, Eb leaps enthusiastically to the front lines and front pages in the newspaper industry... read more

The Smallest Universe

Wm. Anthony Connolly

This book is my memory.So begins a story chronicled in the tattered journal of Mary Cross, kept in an old accounting book that was a gift from her father when she left home at age sixteen. It is a chronicle of experiences, struggles, and breakthroughs of a woman diagnosed with schizophrenia, traumatized by the most vivid of visions and voices. But were these episodes, fugues, or “spells,” as h... read more

This book is my memory.So begins a story chronicled in the tattered journal of Mary Cross, kept in an old accounting book that was a gift from her father when she left home at age sixteen. It is a chronicle of experiences, struggles, and breakthroughs of a woman diagnosed with schizophrenia, traumatized by the most vivid of visions and voices. But were these episodes, fugues, or “spells,” as h... read more

The Impish Humor of Marlon Brando

Aubrey Malone

Here is a fascinating biography of the actor Marlon Brando, which focuses on his unique and mischievous sense of humor, something that has not been done in any previous biography of this actor. Full of anecdotes gathered from meticulous research into the papers, letters, and interviews of Brando's friends and colleagues, this book's purpose, according to the author, is to expand awareness of h... read more

Here is a fascinating biography of the actor Marlon Brando, which focuses on his unique and mischievous sense of humor, something that has not been done in any previous biography of this actor. Full of anecdotes gathered from meticulous research into the papers, letters, and interviews of Brando's friends and colleagues, this book's purpose, according to the author, is to expand awareness of h... read more