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Delila is a senior at Coral Springs High School. She loves movies, writes film reviews for the school newspaper, has only two friends who are as eccentric as her, and keeps to herself. Then one night, she gets noticed by the celebrity star quarterback, and just like that, everything changes. The Geek Girl and The Quarterback is a funny, romantic, endearing, entertaining homage to 80’s teen movies and pop culture from writer James J. Caterino, the author of Pop Star, The Promise, Time Travel Stories, and The Last Neanderthal.

Jack Tripper is a man obsessed with the past and the road not taken. When he is given a chance to go back and change things, he finds out that time travel is far more complicated, and emotionally painful, than he had ever imagined. And now, he is Lost In Time. Lost in Time is another wild, engaging page turner from the imagination of James J. Caterino, the author of Super Hornet 1942 and Pop Star.

California Dreaming: How Not to Become a Hollywood Screenwriter is the entertaining and often hilarious tale of one man’s cinematic obsession and his attempt to get a movie deal done in the place where dreams are made. James J. Caterino is the author of Fantastic Films, Cult TV Shows, and Perfect Pop Songs, To Meghan, The Geek Girl and the Quarterback, and Miami Noir 1987.

Alex becomes Alondra and Alondra becomes Alex in The Anti-Matter Girl, a rousing new body-switching, alternate universe, dramatic, science-fiction comedy adventure from James J. Caterino, the author of Dreams, True Stories, To Meghan, I Want to Believe, and The Last Neanderthal.

Dr. Anton Mason is a brilliant biologist and anthropologist who has a problem asserting himself and has never gotten his way in life. He develops a revolutionary anti-aging genetic formula that turns back the clock of evolution to a time when we were a less frail species. When the project is stolen from him, Anton decides to begin his own human trials, using himself as the test subject. The formula changes him. He begins to transform into something stronger. Something faster. Something primitive and primal. Something, other than human. Dr. Anton Mason is “The Mesomorph”. “The ...

U.S. Navy fighter pilot Captain Brin Fallon is the best of the best. She is chosen as the test pilot for a new quantum invisibility drive and is accidentally sent back in time to 1942, at the peak of WWII in Europe. Facing a sky full of Nazis and a skeptical Allied command, Brin will have to use all of her skills to survive in the past and get back to the future where she belongs. “Super Hornet 1942” is another intense, action-packed work of epic imagination from acclaimed writer James J. Caterino, author of “Fireflies”, “Fantastic Stories”, “The Girl from the Stars”, and ...

Supernatural horror short story from James J. Caterino, the author of Starfighter Year 1, Pop Star, The Promise, Time Travel Stories, The Girl from the Stars, Watch the Skies, The Last Neanderthal, and much more.

33 Songs is just that, 33 original pop songs written by James J. Caterino, the author of Pop Star, Miami Noir 1987, 50 Films, Lost in Time, Super Hornet 1942, Fireflies, Fantastic Stories, The Girl From the Stars, The Last Neanderthal, The Green Girl, and so much more.

Alycia is on the trip of a lifetime. She is deep in the rain forest of the Congo Basin, conducting field research for her doctoral thesis in Anthropology. She leads a team of fellow students and a professor. All is going well until they come across a murderous group of poachers who hold them at gunpoint, determined to torment the group of academics before leaving them for dead. Things get ugly and all appears lost, until, a mysterious bare-chested man appears, giving the poachers more than they bargained for. They say he lost someone in one of the countless American mass shootings. They say...

Caitlin Star was once a beaten down but fiery thirteen year-old orphan trained by Gunner Star in the ways of the Bull Mongoni—a mythic species of ancient hominids. Caitlin fought in the Stadium Games and became the leader of a revolution that defeated fascism in the culture civil wars of North America in the days before the apocalypse. But those days of training, Stadium Games with fights to the death, and revolutions, were a long time ago. Now the Bull Mongoni are not mythic. They are real and living in the Congo rain forest with Caitlin and her human, chimpanzee and gorilla friends. And...

Riverboat Steam is a short story about an intense and mysterious romantic encounter aboard a riverboat cruise ship, by James J. Caterino, the author of The Girl Out of Time, My Encounter with The Partridge Family, The Green Girl, The Anti-Matter Girl, True Stories, To Meghan, and much more.

Because sometimes, we just need to cry. Make Me Cry, Please is an essay by James J. Caterino, the author of Reviews and Essays, 50 Films, My Encounter with the Partridge Family, sort of, The Girl Out of Time, What If, The Address Book, and much more.

Am essay on legendary Hall of Fame quarterback Dan Marino by James J. Caterino, the author of True Stories, To Meghan, I Want to Believe, The Anti-Matter Girl, On Writing, Girl Pop, and What If.

Sixteen year-old Gina Zeneski is leading a good life. She is smart, beautiful, a track star, and has a sweet gig babysitting the Robinson kids. One fateful Saturday she takes the children for what was supposed to be a fun Saturday at the amusement park. But when she and the kids witness something they were not supposed to see, it turns out to be a deadly day of harrowing danger. “Rollercoaster” is another knockout, action-packed short story from the lurid imagination of James J. Caterino, author of “The Eco-Warrior”, “Watch the Skies”, and the “Caitlin Star” series.

On December 9th 1965 a strange, other-worldly craft crashes into a ravine in Kecksburg, a town south of Pittsburgh. It becomes known as Pennsylvania’s Roswell. The crashed UFO is witnessed by scores of local residents, including ten year-old Eliza Straight, a curious and intelligent young girl who is forever changed by the horror and wonder of what she experiences that night. On July 2nd 1993, fourteen year-old Shelly Stevens and her two friends have a close encounter with a glowing craft that descends down from the night sky, hovering above them. They awake three hours later with no ...

"The B Girl" is the story of an extraordinary friendship, a planet in peril, and a science fantasy adventure beyond imagination. Her people were dying, suffocating from the toxic poisons sprayed upon them by the humans. There is but one chance to save them. The Queen must take a fantastic journey and transfer her life force into a dying human girl named Victoria Vetri. If the transfer works, the girl will be saved and the Queen will achieve human form as the two of them merge into one consciousness. Then, the true danger begins. Once in the human form of Victoria, the Queen must adjust to ...

Angela is seeing things. Strange things. Dangerous things. She relocates to Pittsburgh and is haunted by intense visions of a menacing attacker clad in a welding mask who abducts her and takes her to an abandoned steel mill. The visions escalate, crossing the line into reality, and she soon learns the secret to stopping this Steel Phantom, may be buried in the dark mysteries of the forbidden past of her new hometown. Steel Phantom is a lurid, thrilling, supernatural horror story from James J. Caterino, the author of The Séance, Murder Psychic Incorporated, The Ice Mummy, Time Travel ...

We are driving on Street Runs Road now. This is the road the place where it happened, the birthplace of my journey, the crossroads, the crux of time where the line between life and death merged. It is the place where I was forever changed. In July of 1983, JC Pezzini and his parents were involved in a deadly hit-and-run car accident. A mysterious Good Samaritan referred to as She was the only reason JC survived and finding She has become his all-consuming passion in life. More than twenty years later, JC is a filmmaker, a voyeur, and a man haunted by his past. With the help of his ...

An essay by James J. Caterino, the author of Girl Pop, Chrome Dome, What If, True Stories, To Meghan, I Want to Believe, The Girl from the Stars, Watch the Skies, and much more.

Carlos is the film critic for the Miami Herald. His life is all about the movies. But now, he is about to experience a cinematic plot twist that will change everything. “The Dream Factory” is a spell-binding science fiction short story by James J. Caterino, the author of “Fireflies”, “Watch the Skies”, and “Super 8 Images”.