Bittersweet Legacy is the dramatic story of the relationship between two generations of black and white southerners in Charlotte, North Carolina, from 1850 to 1910. Janette Greenwood describes the interactions between black and white business and professional people--the 'better classes,' as they called themselves. Her book paints a surprisingly complex portrait of race and class relations in the New South and demonstrates the impact of personal relationships, generational shifts, and the interplay of local, state, and national events in shaping the responses of black and white southerners to each other and the world around them. Greenwood argues that concepts of race and class changed significantly in the late nineteenth century. Documenting the rise of interracial social reform movements in the 1880s, she suggests that the 'better classes' briefly created an alternative vision of race relations. The disintegration of the alliance as a result of New South politics and a generational shift in leadership left a bittersweet legacy for Charlotte that would weigh heavily on its citizens well into the twentieth century.

Bittersweet Legacy

Literature & Fiction

Brannon, Jason

United States

Silver Lake Pub

Puzzles of Flesh

This fine collection of short fiction, plus novella, are a nostalgic return to childhood when we all had innocence, faith and imagination.  Decades have passed with the writing of these varied tales--some written in the mid 1980s, some more recent--all of them fascinating in their own way.  While reading, you'll be picked up and dropped straight into your own history while visiting various, imaginary neighborhoods and worlds.  What an amazing pageant of dates, details and déja vu in this collection!  We glimpse a carnival that set up camp in a small town--here today, gone tomorrow--leaving behind a list of missing children.  We enter a bizarre junk store filled with truly 'impossible' things.  We experience a fish tale about discovery and loss--a slice of life wrought with childhood disappointment, yet a grain of promise.  We're questioned, "If you could bring back a famous person from the dead, whom would it be?"  And we're then reminded, be careful what you wish for.  We accompany a guy named Rick in a downward spiral toward insanity--or is he right, and the world has taken cloning to a point beyond the extreme?  We read on and shudder to ourselves:  don't mess with them video manipulators!  Then comes a tale with a question and a twist ending--Will Daddy show up to take you to Disneyland?I thoroughly enjoyed every story in this collection, but my favorite would have to be the novella, "Aliens and Minibikes"--a story about a neighborhood and some very believable boys and girls.  It's a science fiction and puberty cocktail, that first amused me, pulled me in, then scared me.  Won't tell you the ending, but it was good! I recommend this collection.  You won't be sorry you read it.  It's nostalgia at its finest.

Aliens, Minibikes and Other Staples of Suburbia

Korn, M. F.

Auch Das Schone

Weidner, Stephanie Dyrkacz

A collection of fourteen stories that attempt to blend two opposing genres: surreal fiction and science fiction. The resulting journey through dark and desperate futures of aliens, diseases, and humanity's own madness is brain-bending and utterly bizarre.

Sunset With a Beard

Mellick III, Carlton

Contemporary

The War is over. 
The demons have won. 
Cibola, the citadel of Heaven, has fallen. 
On Earth, life goes on. No one knows of the war, of the death, of the fire. No one knows that when you die all paths lead to the same eternity: one of torment, slavery, and eternal pain. 
For Indigo, Dave, Gramm, Rico, and Hitomi, death is more dangerous than life. Afraid and naked, they awaken on a forgotten beacon. They set forth seeking answers, revealing a shattered landscape, one crawling with bloodthirsty demons, defeated angels, a Heaven that continues to burn, and a prophecy that offers only the barest sliver of hope.

The Shivered Sky

Dinniman, Matt

Genre Fiction

All Ana Vasilifata ever wanted was a simple life, with a good husband, children, and a happy home. What she found was a vampire who made her his bride. And when she fled to England in the winter of 1665, she found a stake in the hands of a fearful and angry mob. 
Over three hundred years later, an accident reanimates Ana in the quiet town of Meriwether, Iowa. She flees to an abandoned house where she meets Joshua Davidson, a kind-hearted carpenter who helps Ana adjust to this strange place and time. As her friendship with Joshua deepens, Ana begins to hope that she can finally find the peace she has always sought. But dangers still haunt her, for even now there are some who believe in the stories of vampires. This time she is not friendless, but, she wonders, would Joshua continue to help her if he knew what she was? And, even if he would, could he protect her from all the monsters lurking in the shadows?

Lifeblood

Lind, Werner

Hell Cop

David C. Burton

Two horrific tales to delight Korn lovers. In "The White Trash Witches Coven", Keith Ogden accidentally meets a witch in a Super-Usav-Mart. When she invites him to join the coven, he accepts, thinking of evil sorceries and dances with the devil. The gaggle of chatty women he encounters severely disappoints, with their baby pictures, recipes, and addictions to trashy afternoon TV. Is this "coven" just a group of wannabes, or is something more sinister lurking underneath the chicken grease? In "Pavane for a Scream Queen", Jeff Vincent, freelance writer for Filmland Magazine and as-of-yet-undiscovered novelist, has landed the interview of a lifetime with cult favorite Aurora Sterling, scream queen of the 1950's classic B-movies. But when Dame Aurora cancels and those who worked with her die or go into hiding, Jeff finds himself in the middle of a mystery. What is the secret behind this gorgeous, elegant woman? Is it just Hollywood hype, or something else much older and eternal?

Swamp Witch Piquante and Scream Queen Bisque over a Bed of Rice

Bad News From Orbit

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Rand, Ken

Science Fiction

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