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With her nasty divorce behind her and needing a respite from her career. Hollywood leading lady Nicole Davenport is enjoying the solitude of her New York apartment. Catching up on her reading, a dear friend recommends a play by an obscure playwright. Enthralled by the play’s language and its fascinating subject matter. Nicole arranges to meet the playwright. Not knowing what to expect, Nicole encounters Cyril Incromona, a Prolific and brilliant writer who refuses to compromise his integrity. As their relationship develops, Nicole discovers that Cyril, though brilliant is burdened with ...

On a cursory expedition through the Acliptes Wormhole, the Vlidican Coalition, one of two superpowers nearing armed conflict, discovered the enigmatic world Phendrom Solaxium, where a great but recently-extinct civilization flourished. Chosen for the more detailed return mission is Zase Fasoon, a young ambitious and ideological Anthro-archeologist.Zase, to his delight, is assigned to study a nearly intact structure whose function is a mystery. It’s during his analysis and evaluation of that edifice that Zase is visited by an ethereal presence that warns him of sinister events. Zase soon ...

On a dark Georgia night, tragedy strikes ending the lives of three girl scouts. Drunk, young Pierre Duquesne, heir to a great fortune lays unharmed, unconscious and unaware of his heinous act. To calm the public furor, Pierre is sent to St. Patrick’s Hall, a home for delinquent boys in Upstate New York. Privileged and sheltered, Pierre, to survive at Saint Pat’s, embarks on a journey to manhood with a diverse group of young men that will change his view of the world and force him to face his true self.

The protracted conflict with the Celadon Empire ended long ago in humanity’s greatest victory, bringing with it half a million years of human prosperity and culture across the enormity of the universe. To maintain this long standing Pax Humana; two vast human empires have been established. The sons of the Chalafonte family rule the Dardis Imperial Republic and the Fortinbras daughters reign in the Sovereign Republic of Tendus. When the Priam of the Dardis Imperial Republic unexplainably allows an illegal and dangerous colony to exist unopposed, a crisis ensues—threatening the great ...

Sean Gregor, the world’s greatest tenor, didn’t know what price he’d pay when he entered the palatial Ditmas Park home of the musically renowned DeFalco family and agreed to star in their upcoming opera. As opening night approaches, Sean finds himself trapped in a web of duplicity, bitter rivalries, vengeance and lust. Things only get worse for Sean when his career is suddenly threatened by a DeFalco family member. Desperate to neutralize this threat, Sean forms an alliance with the one DeFalco who can stop the onslaught before it starts. Decades later, unable to avoid them, Sean must...

A collection of cross genre short stories written by prolific writer M. Lennon Perricone

Visit the famed Peabody Apartments and its residence, who, through their typewriters reveal their hopes, dreams and secrets in a collection of tales from 1948 to 2016 that runs the gauntlet from tragedy and longing to sinister acts.

After nearly a century and a half of walled confinement, a demolition crew unwittingly awakens a stealthy killer. With an unquenchable urge to satisfy his thirst for blood and restore his needed bloodline, this silent predator must hunt. Disoriented by the twenty first century, he hides in the shadows till he is prepared to attack. Once replenished and satisfied this killer seeks to find a source of his ancient bloodline. Without it, his ability to hunt and feed will diminish. Honing in on that source, he’s led to Hidden Lake, an established community within the township of North ...

It wasn’t long after his canonization that a major Hollywood studio began making a movie depicting the life of Father Rick Petroni. Tasked with composing this screenplay, is renowned but deeply troubled Topher Lundquist, a brilliant and prolific multi-award-winning writer. When Topher, a non-believer delves into the life of Father Rick. He discovers a mysterious incident that causes him to dig deeper into both the enigmatic priest’s background and Catholicism as well. As he probes further and further, belief and value systems collide under the glittering canopy of New York and Hollywood...

After his defeat by Darren Moskoff, the nation’s most renowned junior sharpshooter, Vaughn Newcot wrongly interprets an innocent misunderstanding as an insult and a snub. Taunted by his abusive father for losing, Vaughn allows a dangerous hatred for his rival to fester. A decade later, after committing a violent action, Vaughn sets out to avenge this insult, and while seeking the Moskoffs, takes off on a violent cross-country odyssey. Mitchell Fenwick, a young Canadian recently discharged from the French Foreign legion forces his mother to reveal a secret from her past involving ...

Set in Central New Jersey, these three tingling tales will keep you up at night no matter where you’re from.

On a blistering summer night, three thousand miles from Hollywood, a devastating fire erupts in a major movie studio’s film vault. Determined a tragic mishap by both local authorities and insurance investigators, young crack private detective Montague DiNardo, is hired by that same insurance company to confirm or dispute those findings. Initially, Monty affirms them. However, after a visit to what’s left of the vault and its contents, Monty decides to give the situation his full attention. As the young detective doggedly delves deeper into the what or who might or might not have caused ...

THE JANISSARY IMPEDIMENT Asher Aragon, a young inept revolutionary and assassin, has been banished to a deserted planet to die. Much to the irritation of his keepers, Asheron isn’t only surviving, he’s thriving. His solitude is suddenly disrupted when a beautiful being is suddenly left on his world. THE STANDARD PROCEDURE As humanity’s deadliest and most prolonged conflict is nearing its end with a human victory in sight. Captain Agatha Tamberelli prepares herself to administer a dreaded procedure on a young high value captive, that could not only hasten the enemy’s defeat but will ...

It’s bitter winter, and seven of the world’s leading thriller writers have gathered for a memorial at a newly-constructed mountaintop getaway, which is owned by one of their own who died suddenly and violently on that same mountain – a mountain that in winter, is only accessible by helicopter. It’s only after a lovely buffet dinner, and after the hostess and staff suddenly disappear, do the seven writers realize they’ve been deliberately trapped, and not only by their hostess but also by the inaccessible mountain and the arctic weather outside. Assuming they are victims of a prank...

Its 1963 and Monty DiNardo, not yet thirty is enjoying his success as both a private investigator and one of the nation’s bestselling crime and mystery writers. While working on his current book, Monty is interrupted by his Aunt Penelope, who, after the local police dismiss her concerns about a suddenly missing trusted employee, turns to her sleuth Nephew for help. Monty, agrees to do all he can to locate the missing employee. As he retraces her steps, Monty is unaware that he is on a collision course with a pair of merciless marauders. What follows is a tense game of cat and mouse filled...

A collection of thought-provoking contemporary tales of Catholic Faith set in the Diocese of Metuchen.

Ten-year-old Nicky Moskoff’s suburban life is shattered when an act of vengeance exacted upon his prosecutor father leaves him an orphan. With nowhere else to go, young Nicky’s sent to live with his rough-and-tumble grandfather in the underbelly of a working class section of Brooklyn known as Bensonhurst. Unaccepted and taunted by Paulie and his gang of neighborhood troublemakers, Nicky learns to survive by his fists and his wits. In their late teens, Paulie commits an act of cruelty against Nicky’s grandfather. Nicky’s responds with swift violence, leaves Paulie wounded and lusting...