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Fact Check and More Probing Tales is the third anthology of previously published short stories by award-winning James Hanna. Stories rage from an air-headed farm boy tho is adopted by a beautiful bird-that squawks "Fact check" whenever the boy gets into an untenable situation ("Fact Check"). Another about a struggling writer who pens a maudlin book to mock his critics, but the joke turns septic when the book becomes a bestseller ("The Land Fis...

Her mother pushed a pinewood washboard against her belly trying to abort Jing Li. At two months old, Jing was left with her resentful peasant grandmother, who had a pair of three-inch bound feet, and had once thrown her own newborn daughter headfirst into the urine pot to drown because she wanted a boy. Running free, playing alone in the wilderness of her remote, impoverished village in Shanxi Province, Northern China's pine forest mountains,...

With 80 fading fast in the rearview mirror and handball, health and other lifelong joys littering the roadside, retired San Francisco Monsignor Harry George Schlitt relates the realities, indignities and sometimes hilarity of recognizing he's not the man he once was. Like many his age, FATHER HARRY of the GOD SQUAD, as he's best known, has embraced what environmentalist Bill McKibben dubbed "codger power." Prayerfully accepting the fogey trui...

In the seedy Tenderloin district of San Francisco, young Nadine struggles to take care of her younger brothers and mute sister, as well as please her abusive mother. When her mother applies for more welfare money, authorities discover that Nadine is a gifted child, qualifying her for a special educational program. Angry that her eldest daughter will now stay longer at school and can't babysit anymore, a brutal fight ensues. Nadine runs away an...

An anthology of short stories from Kate Adams, Sheena Arora, Doug Baird, Sue Barizon, Larry Bowen, Marianne Brems, Jo Carpignano, Penelope Anne Cole, Thomas Crockett, Tim Flood, Darlene Frank, Elizabeth Hawley, David Hirzel, Bradley Earle Hoge, Bill Janssen, Lisa Johnson, Annette Kauffman, D.L. LaRoche, Ida J. Lewenstein, Richard E. McCallum, Megan E. McDonald, Vanessa MacLaren-Wray, Diane Lee Moomey, Lucy Ann Murray, Colleen Olle, Korie Pelka...

In 1846 Alta California, Catalina Delgado daydreams about her future: roping cattle, marrying Angelo Ortega and raising children. But now, invaders from the United States-the Bear Flaggers-have declared war against Mexico, her country. Bear Flaggers have imprisoned one close friend of her family and murdered others. What fate might befall her parents, grandfather and younger brothers? And what about her best friend, a Costanoan servant girl? H...

In the seedy Tenderloin district of San Francisco, young Nadine struggles to take care of her younger brothers and mute sister, as well as please her abusive mother. When her mother applies for more welfare money, authorities discover that Nadine is a gifted child, which qualifies her for a special educational program. Angry that her eldest daughter will now stay longer at school and can't babysit anymore, a brutal fight ensues. Nadine runs aw...

When Sheila Kogan lost her boyfriend, job and dog--what she thought were the mainstays of her life, she experienced the tough lesson of not being in control. But fate and a friend encouraged her to face her aloneness and walk the Camino de Santiago in Spain-by herself. At first, she scoffed at the absurdity of a non-hiking, anti-backpacking, limited-Spanish-speaking, saint-resisting, Jewish-Catholic skeptic walking The Way of Saint James. But ...

Buffeted by a cheery outlook, Gertie McDowell, a naïve young girl from Turkey Roost, Kentucky, pens her diary-a series of bizarre misadventures that take her from starring on a foot fetish site in Los Angeles to hustling bets as a mechanical bull rider in Texas. From serving a stint in West Virginia's Alderson Prison, because she "trusted the wrong kind of fella, " to getting sold into white slavery. But perhaps her crowning mishap is seeking ...

After Kat Kowalski's husband ditched her, she finds a 19th century Polish peasant in her kitchen. She decides to give her life meaning by helping the woman whose name is Regina and hires Aniela, an affluent Polish émigré, as translator. Regina says she was praying to the Black Madonna for help from her abusive husband when a flash of light brought her to Kat's backyard. Distraught over leaving her family, Regina is horrified to learn Kat is li...

Extraordinary author James Hanna gives us his second collection of short stories--all of them eerily alluring yet packing a humorous or Kafkaesque wallop. Relying on his police and prison experiences, Hanna is able to craft realistic stories involving deviants as well as those who guard them, yet these stories are never police procedurals. Hanna has a Hunter S. Thompson flair that shows both the socially appalling as well as the underbelly of ...

Tony is an under-loved, over-sexed cropduster who comes to California's Salinas Valley in 1972 in search of a job. In the airport bar, he shares his love of women, guns and yellow airplanes with Bill, a wannabe pilot, and their friendship begins. Tony lands a temporary job as a flight instructor and meets the world's worst pilot, Father Roberto. The priest doesn't understand why Tony compares flying fast and low to making love with a beautiful...

Set in contemporary rural Nepal, The Burden of a Daughter tells of a mother's journey through childhood after a tragic accident marked her as damaged. Future marital prospects are slim and so she is promised into an unfortunate marriage. Next, we follow her daughter into a life where her hopes and dreams are frequently discarded. When her father promises her away in marriage, the daughter runs away from her small mountain village to Kathmandu ...

In 1915 while the First World War raged on in Europe, Americans, and especially New Yorkers, faced their own "silent war" at home. Disgruntled with America's so-called promise of "neutrality" and overt trade deals with England and France, the German government set up a spy ring headquartered in Manhattan. Their espionage and terrorist networks had tentacles reaching all the way to the German Ambassador in Washington D.C. German operatives plan...

In 1915 while the First World War raged on in Europe, Americans, and especially New Yorkers, faced their own "silent war" at home. Disgruntled with America's so-called promise of "neutrality" and overt trade deals with England and France, the German government set up a spy ring headquartered in Manhattan. Their espionage and terrorist networks had tentacles reaching all the way to the German Ambassador in Washington D.C. German operatives plan...

Set in contemporary rural Nepal, The Burden of a Daughter tells of a mother's journey through childhood after a tragic accident marked her as damaged. Future marital prospects are slim and so she is promised into an unfortunate marriage. Next, we follow her daughter into a life where her hopes and dreams are frequently discarded. When her father promises her away in marriage, the daughter runs away from her small mountain village to Kathmandu ...

The year is 1930. The place: Manila. Douglas MacArthur is the most powerful man in the Philippines, a United States colony. He's fifty years old, divorced, and he falls in love at first sight with a ravishing young Filipino woman. He writes her a love note on the spot. Her name is Isabel Rosario Cooper, an aspiring movie actress. One glance at his note and she thinks of him as my MacArthur.MacArthur pursues his romantic obsession even though h...

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On November 23, 2000, one hundred inmates hold twelve guards hostage in the laundry dorm of The Indiana Penal Farm. Emergency squads are massed along the fence, awaiting the order to attack, while sharpshooters are perched like crows on top of the administration building. Tom Hemmings, a dorm counselor, has been conscripted to defuse the standoff. But the inmates are divided into rival gangs, the guards into feuding unions. And the prison admi...

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