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1920s Chicago. Brady Washington is a cool kid living at Thompson’s School for Black Orphans. Beyond his wildest dreams, he never foresaw himself being the hitter that would win the city championship, especially since he had never hit a ball in a real game before. The cost? A broken ankle, which was totally worth it. After getting his cast, Brady sits in a waiting room at Cook County Hospital where he meets a nice white man, Barry Clark, who looks distraught. Brady asks and Mr. Clark tells the young boy that he just lost his wife. Brady hobbles next to him and holds his hand then tells him that he had also lost his parents three years earlier and knew how he felt. The odd pair ins ...

A turn-of-the-millennium slacker looks for meaning in life. Maybe he's on a path to discover the answers to life's questions, or maybe he's just going in circles.

Facing an Islamic extremist armed with a grenade launcher, Billy finds himself in a life and death situation. A fellow U.S. Marine lies trapped in a burning Humvee, while a young boy is pinned down under machine gun fire amid the nauseating odor of burning flesh. A Black Hawk helicopter unleashes a Hellfire missile reducing a building filled with warring Jihadist to rubble. These are the images that are frozen in his mind haunting Him. Billy has just returned to Spillerville after spending four-years away while serving as a U.S. Marine in the Iraqi War. The fatigue of combat has taken its toll on him. It is a bitter/sweet moment coming home. Flashbacks ...

"Sit down, now: The world is ending. It's beautiful." Suppitive Ornamental Vigilance is an experimental human-AI collaborative novel by Peter Ganunis. The book features a liquid narrative, flowing unconventionally between subjects such as Randy and Kathleen, two lovers; The Boozies, an experimental but critically acclaimed band; Robert Fomol, an accountant in a car wreck; and Q, the developer of a mysterious project called H-I-L-D. "Let this book stand as a celebration of the digital noise innate to the techniques used in part to create it. Embrace the loss of clarity, the inability to pinpoint the precise meaning within the literary latent space of these pages. Find beauty in the ...

A father's tale that contends with dogs and family in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

The battle between our two primal organs. We can FALL in LOVE with words but only actions provide the LOYALTY to STAND on!

Joseph has never experienced love before. Until he meets Stephanie and she becomes the love of his life. The only problem is she's an abusive girlfriend and eventually wife. The signs had been given to Joseph but he disregarded them. Two kids and a house later, Joseph is fighting for his life daily while trying to protect his children and get out. Will he survive and get out before it's too late? Time will tell as he loses his soul slowly and progressively and fights to get it back.