A "bony-headed psychopath" makes his two step-sons clear out rats in the basement, a traveling American finds horror in a Casablanca opium den, a young man is driven insane by the voice of English writer Daniel Defoe, a former black player in the Negro Leagues tells the awful truth about why he quit playing, a grieving family tries to understand why a loved one committed suicide, and a drummer in a rock band hallucinates the Apostle John from ...
DIAMONDS OF AFFECTION is a collection of short stories filled with a wild and eccentric cast of characters who are all, in some way, struggling to survive in the chaotic and disturbing world created by John David Wells. The reader will find a rock drummer, Todd Benjamin, who is schizophrenic, and thinks the images on MTV videos are originating from the Book of Revelation in the Bible, Donna Robinson, a former dancer on American Bandstand, who ...
Dark, edgy and riveting, the stories by John David Wells are white knuckles for the mind, capturing the incomprehensible depths of madness, cruelty and despair in modern society. Written from the gut these stories rise up from the same lyrical dark well as Bukowski, Shelby Jr.. and Burroughs."-Robert T. AllenA narcissistic, confused college student is brutally raped and murdered, a "bony-headed psychopath" makes his two step-sons clear out rat...
Young Jackie Riddick's journey is haunted by the premature death of his father, the horrific abuse by his stepfather in Baltimore, and a harrowing escape to a small New Jersey town. Jackie is a promising athlete striving for hard-earned recognition. Like so many fatherless boys, his search for identity, knowledge, and acceptance is hindered by the absence of a positive role model. As Jackie develops into an outstanding athlete, his popularity ...
Believers who wish to thrive in a postmodern world must cling tothe joy, truth, and love that comes only from understanding Christand his ultimate purpose in this world.
Dinner for Two is a feisty, irreverent novel about a fifty-something professor and his dinner dates with a female student. Jack Burns is currently dating Jessica Fontaine, an English major, who is mesmerized by the notorious professor's extraordinary tales of drunken debauchery, chronic drug addiction, crimes of robbery as the "Speedy Bandit, " and his wild adventures in exotic countries like searching for the opium-addled "Flat Man" in the he...
The Twilight of Romanticsm is a fascinating account of the lives and literature of French Bohemian poets and writers of the Beat Generation in 1950's America. Beginning in 19th century France, every youth generation has developed a group of rebel artists and literary outlaws who defied the middle class conventions of their time in an attempt to create new forms of literature. These artists were the first ones to experiment with all kinds of de...
Set against the backdrop of a deeply troubled, psychotic female student infecting men with the AIDS virus and a fanatical board member taking over the college, "The Plague Year" is a Swiftian black satire of college life in the mid-nineties.
This haunting detective story echoes Daniel Defoe's "The Journal of the Plague Year" in its stunning depiction of the horrors and fears of a spreading disease.
"The Plague Year" is a searing indictment of ...
