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"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 ...

Jenna lives in the year 2080. It is a dystopian nightmare; a world ravished by climate change and non-stop wars, an Earth on the verge of becoming a lifeless, barren rock with toxic air and acidic oceans. But there is hope as she finds a way to travel back into the past to 2019. Now she must try to change the course of history, create a new timeline, and save the planet. “Super 8 Images” is a clever, thrilling, touching tale of time travel from James J. Caterino, the author of “Fireflies”, “Watch the Skies”, and the “The Last Neanderthal.”

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.

Sharice and Samantha meet at the age of fifteen. Best friends from the start, they begin to make music together, and soon form a band known as The Femme Fatales, one of the greatest pop sensations of the 1980s. This is the story about the rise and the fall of that band, and the special friendship at its core.Anchored by unforgettable characters and a vivid sense of time and place, Pop Star is a musical journey, and an epic tale of family, friendship, success, heartbreak, and hope.

Jordan Rose is a new high school graduate preparing to study archeology at the University of Michigan. She receives an unexpected invitation from a mysterious Oxford professor to join him on a fantastical quest in search of the ancient lost city of Azcar, and its mythic princess, Nadaya. What begins as a chance to earn extra college credits on the adventure of a lifetime, soon turns into a nightmare for the ages. Jordan Rose and the Tomb of Resurrection is a young adult action adventure by James J. Caterino, the author of The Anti-Matter Girl, Dreams, True Stories, To Meghan, Ghost Stories,...

In the fall of 1982 Jim went away to college for his freshman year to embark on the next phase of his life and there, he met a trio of girls with whom he formed an instant connection. This is the story of that friendship. A funny and nostalgic coming of age story, Nancy, Debbie, and Kathy is another entertaining true tale from the pen of James J. Caterino, the author of Method Acting, To Meghan, and How Not to Become a Hollywood Screenwriter.

How I Became a Stockbroker is a funny, nostalgic, and entertaining true tale from James J. Caterino, the author of Why I Don't Drink, Method Acting, To Meghan, and How Not to Become a Hollywood Screenwriter.

“Alex, Jordan, Desiree, and the story behind To Meghan” is a fascinating, humorous, and heartfelt behind the scenes real life story about the four girls behind one of the author’s works of fiction. Both this story and “My Hilton Adventure part II” (contained in this volume) are part of James J. Caterino’s True Stories, sort of, a brand-new epic collection of twelve tales from the author’s real life. James J. Caterino is the author of True Stories, To Meghan, I Want To Believe, Miami Noir 1987, and much more.

Reviews and Essays: Cult films, underrated movies, forgotten TV shows, pop culture, and other cool stuff is the fourth non-fiction review book from James J. Caterino, the author of Pop Culture Musings, 50 Films That Mattered to Me and Why, and Fantastic Films, Cult TV Episodes, and Perfect Pop Songs. In this book Caterino covers the neglected 2023 blockbuster The Flash, the underrated Jessica Chastain vehicle Miss Sloan (2016), the misunderstood Passengers (2016), cult movies like Joe Dante’s Piranha (1980), Amazon Women on the Moon (1987), Pump Up the Volume (1990), Sam Raimi’s The ...

Deeply personal, extremely self-indulgent book with something to offend almost everyone. Read at your own risk. You have been warned. True Stories is an autobiographical memoir by way of a short story collection. Each story is based on a real-life event experienced by the author. There are stories about best friends, mentors, lost loves, beloved pets, fanatical obsessions, an encounter with a Partridge Family style band, stories about being a stockbroker in the roaring 80s and 90s, pitching screenplays in Hollywood, the real story behind some of the author’s books, and even a dangerous, ...

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.

He is not human. He is not an ape. He is…something else. He is, the Mesomorph. Dr. Anton Mason invents a revolutionary anti-aging formula by turning back the genetic clock to a time when humans were a more robust and durable species. When the project is taken from him, he continues the research by injecting himself, transforming him into a hominid from our evolutionary past. Return of the Mesomorph is an action-packed suspenseful science fiction adventure from James J. Caterino, the author of Time Travel Stories and The Last Neanderthal. Also contained in this volume is the riveting ...

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.

While on the job, contractor Baker Rosen comes across an old analog TV that becomes a mysterious gateway into the past, where he must find a way to change history to save someone he loves. In the tradition of The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, and Amazing Stories, VHF is a sweeping, emotional tale of imagination from James J. Caterino, the author of Pop Star, Lost in Time, The Green Girl, and The Promise.

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 ...

Jim has always dreamed of being a film director. After decades of false starts and disappointments, he finally catches a break when his twenty-year-old supernatural horror screenplay Steel Phantom strikes Hollywood gold and he becomes attached as the director. He signs a major star talent to play the female lead and the shoot starts off as a smashing success. Then, as the intensity of the production ratches up, the lines between film and reality blur and Jim finds himself living in the world of his own creation, where the danger is deadly, and the horror is all too real. James J. Caterino ...

Jack Carlito is a writer, an artist, and a wannabe movie director looking for a deal. But time is running out and when he travels to Orlando for the annual Creative Screenwriting and Directing Convention, he knows this is his last best chance of making it happen. After checking in, he goes down to the hotel bar to grab some dinner, and then he sees her standing behind the bar, the real-life embodiment of the girl of his dreams. He leaves Orlando confident he has met the leading lady for the movie he is writing, and for his life. But when she vanishes, he is left without either, as he ...

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.