Southern Weird is not just a title--it is a way of life the ancestors brought over with them, with new concepts learned and taught through the generations. Southern Weird is about people who look at life just a little differently and Gary R. Hoffman brings them front and center with this short story collection.

I Haven't Lost My Marbles...They Just All Rolled to One Side

Literature & Fiction

Hoffman, Gary R.

Short Stories & Anthologies

Mockingbird Lane Press

"...when we make something it holds more than just the materials we use," says Miss Henrietta, one of the characters in a short story included in Crow Johnson Evans' generously laden buffet of a  book. With materials ranging from short stories, a novella, and non-fiction essays, tones and genres  which include memoir, science fiction, suspense, and YA, Evans takes readers from Beirut to the  Ozark backwoods, past, present, and future, with narrators of all ages (including a tree). Knitting,  weaving, the sounds of a South Indian morning, a loving but lily-besotted partner...these are rich  materials. But she makes them "more," as her observed thoughts, feelings, empathy, and insight overlay real and imagined experience. Flights Of Fancy takes wing. It will nest in readers' branches for a long time to come.--Crescent Dragonwagon, Author of Bean by Bean  In this short story collection, author Crow Johnson Evans displays a deep concern and understanding of humanity, a lively spirit of adventure, and a lyrical writing talent. The outcome is a reading treasure providing thoughtful entertainment and delight to all. Enjoy!  -- Radine Trees Nehring, author of Dear Earth:A Love Letter From Spring Hollow and the "To Die  For" Mystery series.  Flights Of Fancy is songwriter Crow Johnson Evans' fanciful journey into prose. Along the flight path the reader has a wide-angle view of terrain stretching from Gibraltar to India, to Texas. This collection is a feast for the senses as it stitches together a patchwork quilt of storytelling, mystery and song.  --Alison Moore, author of Synonym for Love.  Lyrical with a touch of magical realism, Crow Johnson Evans' writing carries the reader along and away to a world where the miraculous is part of everyday life. --Laura Castoro, author of A New Lu and Icing on the Cake.  In Flights Of Fancy, a character says: " I don't know how long we stayed that way, arms out, feeling the world humming." Crow Johnson Evans could have been describing her own book there. It hums --with wonder and wit and intelligence, with the natural world and knitting and generosity. It hums  indeed. --Ann Hood, author of The Knitting Circle and The Red Thread.  These marvelous stories are about everyday people leading not so everyday lives. Crow leads you  through a labyrinth of her own brand of Southern Gothic writing that's as real as the day is long. --Lucinda Williams, Songwriter/Grammy winning Recording Artist

Flights of Fancy

Crow Johnson Evans

When Mackenzie Murphy goes looking for her father she finds herself caught in the middle of a demon war between three rival families. Still trying to master her own demon abilities, who can she trust to help her? The mysterious Lucien? Or Taryn, the son of the enemy? With all three families hunting for a talisman that could shift the balance of power, Mackenzie must get to it first and finish what her father started, or die trying.

Daemon Persuasion

Gregory, S.K.

Genre Fiction

In 1966, Mary Margaret Butler (MM) knows she's in trouble when Aunt Lutie leaves her the Blue Moon Cafe in Harts Corner, Texas. Even in death, Aunt Lutie refuses to let MM have her own way and pushes her toward a romance with Miguel Kinkaid, the new deputy sheriff. As MM delves into the newly burgeoning world of drugs, she discovers two half-buried bodies in the river bank. As she questions people she's known all her life, she realizes Harts Corner has more secrets than Texas has cows. MM must put aside everything she thought she knew about her home town and find the killer in their midst, before her own death becomes another one of those small town secrets. Aunt Lutie's Blue Moon Cafe, embellished with humor, murder, and townsfolk readers will find hard to forget.

Aunt Lutie's Blue Moon Cafe

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Deming, Barbara Mims

Mystery

Jolee Bellissa is a 21 year old English major graduate living with her soon-to-be penniless inventor father, Moe, in Highlands Ranch, Colorado. All that's waiting for her in this 'bubble' of a town is a relentless suitor, Gage Aristade son of a rich accounting CEO and notable playboy, and a part-time job at the local Tattered Cover. When she sees a job listing for a literature and poetry tutor for a shut-in adult student in Aspen, room and board paid with a $1000 a month stipend, she figures she has nothing left to really lose.  Adam Emile is a 33 year old eccentric artist, whose paintings' beauty is only matched by their disturbing choice of focus. Scarred by a horrific childhood and holed up in the mountains to keep from embarrassing his wealthy and famous father, he is beginning to lose all sense of reality. As a last resort, his personal nurse Chip has put out an ad on Craigslist, under the guise of tutoring, for a new friend for his patient. Will the beautiful young woman who answers the ad change Adam and break the curse of his mental depravity? Or will the secrets he harbors drag them both into madness?  A dark twist on the beloved story of 'Beauty and the Beast.

'Til the Last Petal Falls

Rose, Elizabeth

Contemporary

The Unicorn Tree

Collins, Cynthia

Parenting & Relationships

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Unexpected Gifts

S. R. Mallery

Fourteen-year-old Beck Conleth is living a quiet life in the seaside town of Queen's Weather when his grandmother sends him on a journey to Ulfwood to retrieve his father's bones and a family skean (dagger). After reaching Ulfwood, Beck discovers the skean is magical, and that it answers only to him. Soon the enchanted skean and its owner attract the attention of dark mages, goblins, and worse. Helped on his journey home by Wisewomen, warriors, shape-changers, and the other good folk of Lifthrasir, Beck faces death, danger, and the theft of his skean.  Accompanied by his best friend, Beck stows away on a ship, takes back his skean, befriends a dragon, and escapes with a troop of thieves. After reaching a dock in West Arnora, the company heads for the fortress of Ravens Haunt. As Beck and his companions face a hideous Skullsoul and an army of ogrehunches, he realizes there is a developing confrontation between good and evil, and he and his enchanted skean have a role to play.

The Enchanted Dagger

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Crist, Vonnie Winslow

Fantasy

Twenty years past, the governors plotted murder. Ruled by avarice, they imprisoned the winged dragons of Taran Leigh in the black cells of a stone lair. Tormented by spine and spur the once peaceful creatures howl, immense webbed wings beating beneath iron bars. Those who raised their voices in protest were banished--skyriders, the men who rode the dragons--vanished to the distant mountains of the Mirror.Now, Treasa, the daughter of exiles, seeker of secrets, dreams with the lair's dragons, her heart torn by her love for the winged creatures and a man who masters them. She must choose her path with care. The lair's black -garbed riders sense the dragon's growing savagery. Yet one, Conall, longs to grasp their power, subdue them and soar, unaware that winged flight, merged in harmony, is his for the asking. Then, a curved talon rends Conall's flesh and dragon scale, rattling against white ribs and the world shifts. As hearts once parted bind, Terasa and Conall join forces to fight for the dragon's freedom. Alliances form, old myths are revealed and new myths are born.

Myths of the Mirror

Peach, D. Wallace

Alexander Gray is an ex-Navy Seal with an impossible assignment. Air Force One is shot down over the Mediterranean Sea with no survivors. The new president secretly orders the U.S. Navy to prepare the Sigonella Naval Air Station on Sicily for a clandestine and experimental operation to save the life of the Russian president, the man most Americans believe responsible for the downing of Air Force One. Antagonistic forces within the U.S. and Russian governments are determined to prevent that operation from taking place. From the U.S. to Sigonella, Gray must evade and outwit those working against the president. Will Gray survive to bring the traitors to justice and execute the daring operation?

The Far Side of Silence

Robert B. Marcus Jr

Kim Frank Richardson

Thrillers & Suspense

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