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These reflections by male inmates, recorded by a prison psychologist, are brief, sometimes only a few lines, but they offer profound insights into the realities of prison life. Some of the inmates are still bewildered that they gave up good opportunities and turned to crime; some fear that they may really like being in prison; others hope they will never return after being released, although they have not kept that vow in the past. Some come from families that abused or neglected them, and others had their every whim indulged.

When your Hollywood dream dies, what comes next? Connor Wells thought he had it all figured out. A screenplay in hand, three thousand dollars in his pocket, and a one-way ticket to Los Angeles. Two years later, he's broke, bitter, and working as a location scout—photographing forgotten towns for films he'll never write. But something unexpected happens in those small places. Sterling. Fulton. Ridgeway. Towns with diners that close at 7 PM, where waitresses remember your name and hardware stores display their tools like museum pieces. Connor starts writing again—not the scripts that ...

Connor Wells has one shot at making it in Hollywood. After ten months of coffee runs, brutal bosses, and swallowing his pride as a talent agency assistant, he finally gets his chance when his agent boss agrees to shop his thriller screenplay. The dream is so close he can taste it. Then Connor discovers the truth. His boss didn't just shop his script—he stole the concept and handed it to an established writer. Someone who can actually sell it. Someone who will get all the credit. In Hollywood, ideas belong to whoever has the power to use them. Connor's boss says he should be grateful for ...

When autumn arrives in Riverside, Ohio, four women face their first winter without the lives they once knew. Diane still talks to her dead husband while planning next spring's garden. Lauren battles panic attacks as everyone asks when she'll try again for a baby. Carol waits by her phone for the daughter who won't speak to her. Beth discovers that seeing her ex-husband means nothing—because she's finally found herself. Together, they built a garden from an abandoned lot. Now they must tend the roots they've grown in themselves. As temperatures drop and the garden goes dormant, these ...

When Diane walks past the abandoned lot on Maple Street for the hundredth time, something inside her finally breaks. Eight months after her husband's death, she's tired of pretending she's fine. Tired of the empty house, the silence, the well-meaning neighbors who've stopped asking how she's doing. The lot is a mess—weeds taller than her waist, broken chain-link fence, soil nobody's touched in years. But Diane sees something else. She sees possibility. Beth sees it too. Six months divorced, working part-time at the library, barely scraping by. She's lost her marriage, her job, her future....

Three months ago, Garrett Reed was broke, struggling, and ready to give up on his fishing business. Then Moira surfaced from the deep—beautiful, impossible, and offering him a chance at something he never dreamed possible. Now Garrett's salvage company is thriving, built on the secrets only Moira can share. But success comes with a price. Every treasure they find together pulls them deeper into danger. Professional rivals are watching his every move, suspicious of how he finds wrecks nobody else can locate. Moira's family is closing in, her brother tracking her movements, her father ...

When librarian Claire Hoffman discovers a mysterious 1847 recipe book in a donation box, she finds more than just old cooking instructions—she finds a recipe that promises to open hearts to love. Skeptical but curious, Claire bakes the heartwood berry cake and donates it to a community fundraiser. What happens next changes everything. Suddenly, people around her small town of Sloatsberg are taking chances on love they'd been too scared to pursue. Long-married couples rekindle their romance. A widower finally asks out his bridge partner. And the library's quiet IT specialist, Danny, ...

Some memories are too painful to carry alone. That's why keepers exist. Riley Bennett never believed in the supernatural—until the day Warren Kemp offered him a job that would save his life and end it at the same time. In Millbrook, a small Midwestern town hiding an ancient secret, Riley discovers a place where people can store their worst memories and finally breathe again. But becoming a Memory Keeper means binding himself to a convergence point—a supernatural intersection where trauma can be safely stored. Riley gives up his human form, his freedom, his ability to leave. He becomes ...

When saving one life means risking seven souls Kelly Donald would do anything to save Luna, the silver cat who walks through dreams and changed her life forever. But using Luna's gift has a terrible price—every time Luna enters someone's dreams to help them, she grows weaker. Now Luna is dying, and Kelly has run out of options. Dr. Rachel Winters offers one last hope: an ancient Egyptian ritual that could save Luna and six other dream walkers. But it requires something Kelly never expected—traveling to Cairo, lying to a kind-hearted veterinarian, and stealing the seventh key: a ...

What would you risk to protect someone you love? Kelly Donald thought exposing The Syndicate on national television would end the two-hundred-year war against dream walkers. She was wrong. Three days after her interview goes viral, The Syndicate strikes back—not with silence, but with violence. Dream walkers across the country are being attacked. Cats are disappearing. And Kelly's makeshift family of bonded pairs is running out of safe places to hide. When Vincent Walsh—the Syndicate agent who's hunted dream walkers for thirty years—captures everyone Kelly cares about, she faces an ...

In Millbrook, memories were once protected. Now they are being stolen. Riley Bennett is no longer entirely human. Bound to a convergence point beneath a quiet town, he serves as its Memory Keeper—guardian of pain people can no longer carry. But when residents begin losing days, weeks, and even months of their lives, Riley discovers something far worse than grief at work. Someone is ripping memories away by force. As the victims multiply, Riley uncovers a chilling truth: their stolen memories are being sold on a black market to wealthy buyers who crave the experience of love, trauma, and ...

The Things We Never Say is a deeply human flash-fiction novella that explores the quiet truths people carry—grief that lingers, love that transforms, and the small moments that change us without warning. Through ten intimate stories, P.A. Farrell invites readers into the private spaces of ordinary lives: the last dance between lifelong partners, childhood promises rediscovered decades later, a green suitcase filled with a father’s hidden past, a diner ritual that keeps a lost love present, and the unexpected phone calls that shift everything. Each story is brief yet emotionally layered,...

Between life and death, there is a silence—and in that silence, Trevor Hayes hears her. After spending eight months in a hospital room waiting for a new heart, Trevor receives a rare opportunity. The donor is a young woman named Lily, gone too soon—but not gone entirely. Soon after the transplant, Trevor begins to hear a voice. Not imagined, not fading—present. A voice that belongs to the woman whose heart now beats inside his chest. As days pass, Lily’s memories flicker through him: books she loved, songs that shaped her, and the world she never had time to finish exploring. ...

What would you trade for your dreams? Everything? Even love? Harvey makes the best pasta in the city, but nobody knows it. Working in a tiny shop on a forgotten street, he dreams of the life he'll never have—fame, restaurants, cooking shows, the whole package. Then a stranger walks in with an impossible offer. Become the most famous chef in America. Get everything you've ever wanted. Just follow two rules: change your name to Herve, and never fall in love. Harvey takes the deal. Overnight, his life transforms. Michelin stars. Television shows. Endorsement deals worth millions. He has it ...

What would you risk for a love that could only last three days? Independent filmmaker Kate Collins has spent five years fighting for her documentary about forgotten women artists—five years of rejection, exhaustion, and doubt. Then Eli Carson walks into her life with an offer that seems impossible: full funding, complete creative control, and only one condition. They have to film everything in the next seventy-two hours. Kate doesn't know that Eli is keeping a secret that would shatter everything she believes about reality. He's not human. He's a supernatural guardian of human creativity,...

Worth the Wait is a heartfelt romance about second chances, healing, and choosing love even after the past has broken you to pieces. Claire Henderson thought her future was set—until she was abandoned weeks before her wedding with no explanation and no closure. Four years later, she has rebuilt her life, learned to breathe again, and expects nothing more than a safe, quiet existence… until Owen Morrison walks back in, bringing the return of everything she swore she’d never feel again. Owen is steady, kind, and patient—the opposite of the man who once shattered her. He doesn’t want...

A heart-stirring collection of short stories about love, loss, and the quiet courage that keeps us going. From P.A. Farrell, author of The Secrets We Keep, comes a second volume of flash fiction that finds beauty in the bittersweet and light in the shadows. Set in small towns filled with memory, longing, and second chances, these stories explore the hidden corners of the human spirit—where healing begins and forgiveness takes root. Each piece is a glimpse into the lives we pass every day but seldom see: a mother waiting for her son to come home, a clockmaker haunted by time, a community ...

Immerse yourself in the tender and evocative world of "Whispers Across the Sea", a romance novella that will sweep you off your feet and leave your heart yearning for more. This deeply moving story unfolds across ten captivating chapters, each a window into love’s many facets—its whispers, its aches, its triumphs. From the haunting allure of "The Voice Beneath the Waves" to the bittersweet closure of "A Last Embrace", P. A. Farrell masterfully weaves a tale that transcends time, distance, and the barriers of the heart. Set against the backdrop of coastal villages and the boundless ocean...

The Heart’s Repair: A Tale of Quiet Courage and Care tells the story of a young professor who leaves behind everything familiar to build a career in a new town. Amid faculty dinners and polite conversations, she finds herself restless, unmoored, and unsure if academic life can fill the quiet spaces of her heart. When her car breaks down, she meets the town’s mechanic—covered in grease, yet grounded, kind, and refreshingly genuine. What begins as a practical encounter slowly deepens into a relationship that challenges every unspoken rule about status, class, and belonging. As ...

In Love Me Once Again, P.A. Farrell offers a tender, slow-blooming romance set in a small town where stories linger as deeply as memory. When Avery Brooks returns home to take over her late aunt’s beloved, timeworn bookshop, she hopes to restore more than shelves and dusted corners—she hopes to find a place where she still belongs. Surrounded by books whispering of lives, dreams, and second chances, she believes she can rebuild quietly, without complication. But everything shifts the day Daniel Wright walks through her door. Owner of the town’s new and polished bookstore just across ...