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FORCES OF NATURE explores the intersections of disability and loss, nature and nurture, families of origin and families of choice. It begins with the moment the author, Gina DeMillo Wagner, finds out her brother Alan, who had a complicated genetic disorder, is dead. From there, she takes readers along as she is pulled away from the safety of her friends, away from her husband and kids, and thrust back into a family she has been estranged from ...

A successful career woman, at a juncture in her life, has finally attained the beautiful lifestyle, the security, all she had ever dreamt of during her trauma laden upbringing-- only to realize she may have lost the only thing of worth. Fear, drama, trust, grief-- and eventually, understanding and redemption dominate this novel-like memoir.

The shooting of a homicide detective is captured on film by a mysterious figure from a second-floor window, implicating Riley Keane, an anti-gun activist and a school shooting survivor. Riley flees Chicago for a frozen island in Lake Superior. A race to find her ensues between her secret lover-- Chicago politician Finn O' Farrell-- a corrupt police lieutenant, and the mysterious cameraman who extorts Riley's family and Finn. Finn's entanglemen...

When a savage home invasion results in the death of a town's most glamorous couple, the surviving friends and relatives of the victims must navigate the emotional aftermath: Exasperated high school Vice-Principal Zachary Rivers makes a final effort to reach a troubled student. Town librarian, Shelby Blythe-- the eldest daughter of the murder victims-- begins a correspondence with Billy Lawson, her parents' murderer. Evelyn Kavanaugh, a retired...

He leaves his birthplace during a nuclear missile crisis. As a refugee in a foreign land he struggles to adjust to a new set of life circumstances. The author recollects his childhood in his Cuban barrio from the eyes of a child, and then decades later, from the vantage of a grown adult. From stealing a rowboat and being nearly capsized by a Russian tanker, to befriending an old fisherman who tells him a haunting tale, to being bullied by a ne...

Undetectable is a story of love, loss, and viral loads, a memoir of long-term survival with HIV. From graduate student in 1989, who contracts the virus from the love of his life, to writer in 2018 visiting the slums of Nairobi, the author finds his own drama intertwined with the astonishing stories of his HIV+ peers, narratives that intersect the path of his travails and act as foils to the foibles of a gay man who comes out, falls in love, an...

Mickey: Surviving Salvation' is the story of a boy shaped by abandonment and abuse, who returns to his estranged mother at age 12 and has to figure out how to survive in her new life. Based on the author's real-life childhood, Mickey tries to find his place amidst poverty, suffering and religious self-righteousness in the 1950' s. From Chicago to Mormon country in Ogden, Utah, where religious intolerance strikes deep, and finally to California...

After a nightmare about a disembodied, skinless head calling him from under the bed, Daniel woke with a jolt, but managed to fall asleep again with little effort. He was used to these hellish visions-- while asleep. Now the visions have started to cross over to his waking life, and it's game over. As he tries to bury the feeling that he's being stalked by an unseen force, one of his closest friends takes their own life in front of Daniel, but ...

Japan, 1745, is a land under the iron grip of the Tokugawa shoguns. Roads are monitored, dissent stifled, and order maintained through blackmail and an extensive network of informers. Amid rumors of rebellion, Kurosawa Kinko- samurai and monk- is expelled in disgrace as the head music instructor of his Zen temple in Nagasaki. He begins an odyssey across Japan, dogged by agents and assassins from an unknown foe. Along his journey, Kinko encount...

I was not originally scheduled to edit the RIZE Short Story Anthology, Volume 1, but sometimes fortune smiles. The opportunity to select and edit this collection, written by authors from underrepresented groups, was one of those professional milestones that ultimately has a way of getting into the psyche and marking my personal map with moments of growth, insights, and cherished value. With an eclectic gathering of voices, these stories add di...

Obsidian Waste is a psychedelic dark fantasy space odyssey born out of a mysterious technology transmitted from a universal mind that takes root and grows as the Earth is reseeded by the new technology. Growing and inhabiting all those receiving the message of Peace and Love as remnants of their mother world disappear in budding forests and fields, resisting the plagues and radiation that finished off what once was once under control of Earth'...

Hollywood movie star Goldie Saint Helen comes out of a coma after a car accident with an altered identity. She now believes she is a hippie detective living in the Sixties, hired to find a missing teenage girl who is about to end up a guinea pig in a CIA drug experiment. Goldie also thinks screenwriter Blake Deco, her husband, is an intern at her detective agency. For the time being, Blake plays along as advised by the hospital until she recov...

Fay's Men traces the adventures and misadventures of Fay Watkins, a Texas-born dancer and spiritual seeker, on the poignantly funny, circuitous path to self-realization. Prompted by her naïve, almost quixotic idealism, Fay's quest inspires hasty decisions in love and a disillusioning spiritual encounter that nearly knocks her off course. Undaunted, she boldly pursues her goal, journeying from home to an initiatory stint as a revolutionary in M...

When Aaron Langford's friend, Otis Thomas, gives him a divination tray as a housewarming gift, Aaron thinks nothing of it. However, as weird occurrences begin to happen around him, Aaron's life is suddenly thrust into turmoil with the disappearance of his son, Asher, and daughter, Imani. As Aaron's marriage and life spiral out of control and the police zero in on him as the prime suspect in his children's disappearance, Aaron realizes he and h...

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Cold Spring, Minnesota by Rachel Coyne Deana knows she needs to run for her life, she's concealing a pregnancy from her now deployed and always violent husband. Its not his. But Cold Spring, Minnesota is where her family is - a teenage sister with a new baby and too many choices and a mother who is coming apart from grief and anger over her son's recent death in Afghanistan. The only home she's known and the family she's trying to save will ei...

Mark Hayes has come up hard. Poverty. Chaos. Hunger. His mother a junkie. His father serving a life sentence. But as his senior year looms, Mark finds a bit of peace with his mother and her girlfriend in a farmhouse outside town. Here, he hopes to escape the upheaval that has dogged him since the day he was born, but as hard as he tries, he can't outrun his shadows. He is lost, but no more so than many of his friends, no more so than the insti...

Kite Kid by N. D. Rao A cynical hustler rediscovers his inner child during a gig gone awry in California's East Bay. Can he clean up his act? Fire And Ice by Rani Jayakumar A girl growing up in a small town reflects on her relationship with her dead mother and her alcoholic father as she struggles to reconcile the traditional Indian culture and mythology she was taught with her modern American upbringing, and her own dreams. Multicoloured Muff...

And the Train Kept Moving is about Bryan Meigs, a gay alcoholic with OCD who struggles with the aftermath of getting date-raped and potentially infected with HIV. As Bryan works up the courage to confront his rapist, he must confront his present fears of infection, ghosts from his past, and brutal truths about himself.

The Corner of East and Dreams is a collection of nineteen stories which are off-kilter in some way. The stories include re-tellings -- Cassie Bunyan's Yarn which gives a voice to Paul Bunyan's wife, The Lion's Honey which narrates the Biblical story of Samson and Delilah from the point-of-view of Samson's savaged lock, The Missing Days of E.A.P. which imagines itself into the interstices of Poe's mysterious death, The Unnaming, a metafictional...