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Print: $12.94 Download: $3.75 "I'd decided to kill myself"
A young man burnt out by life, love and everything in between, decides to end it all. There's only one problem: He doesn't want to miss Burning Man.
So our hero sets off by himself for one last trip into the vacant heart of the wild west, landing on the fringes of the ephemeral Black Rock City. But when a group of misfits, loosely formed as a band called "The Fuzzy Chickens" camps next to him he finds himself plunged into a world that's nothing like he's ever seen before. He finds himself camped on the edge of a world where friendships are made in an instant, love is found and lost just as quickly, and where his potential termination is suddenly the least of his worries.
By turns funny, outrageous, and poignant, R. J. Thomas' "The Girl Who Tried To Catch The Man" is a flat out roller coaster ride into the dust covered, sleep deprived heart of the legendary Burning Man Festival. This is one carnival ride you'll never forget.
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Print: $14.95 Download: $3.75 Katie has a problem. As a young woman in an increasingly repressive world, it seems every day more options are closed to her, and surprising changes in her relationship with her girlhood friend Sandy are apt to land both of them in a state reeducation camp. Kate knew she had to do something.
Out on the warming waters of the Gulf and Caribbean sails The Fleet, a collection of small boats with its roots in the pirates of the early 19th century. The righteous government of America hates them with a passion. It’s said, in the Fleet, you can be anything you say you are.
And out at the docks sits the little sailboat Ganymeade, lovingly built by Kate and her late Father before the cancer had eaten him. Kate has a plan. A plan to escape with Sandy, a plan to be free, and despite the threat of insane governments, religious wackos, and looming natural disasters, a plan to, just maybe, become part of something greater than herself.
She calls it the Ganymeade Protocol.
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Print: $16.99 Download: $2.50 The three plays of the Coyote Trilogy-- "Coyote," "Cyberpunk Opera," and "Dub for Babylon"--have their origins in the coffeehouses of Los Angeles in the late 1980's, particularly the infamous Iguana Cafe of North Hollywood. Oddly prophetic, the plays detail life, love, sex, and the question of identity in the early part of the 21st century, including the growth of virtual reality, the birth of intelligent computers, and the promise of literal immortality in the virtual world.
They look foward from a time when the future was up for grabs, when neuromancers, master programmers, and artificial intelligences were just cresting the horizon, and when Cyberpunk began to ring the literary world like a bell.
The Coyote Trilogy is presented for the first time here in amended form by the author, complete with photographs of the 2006 Grindlebone Theatre productions of "Cyberpunk Opera" and "Dub for Babylon"
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Print: $7.41 Download: $2.00 The descent begins one day when you find that you’re one of the invisibles. That you’re living at someone else’s address, using someone else’s phone, doing libraries and public kiosks for e-mail and the like. The car dies, and there’s no money to fix it. Eventually somebody tows it, and there’s no money to retrieve it. All your credit accounts have long since maxxed out and gone. You’re so stressed and so tired you find you don’t care, and that is the first step into shadow.
But when two self-described shadow people at the fringe of society notice a man one day on a busy college town street, a man that no one else seems to be able to see, they open a door into a parallel world, one living in the midst of our own, and the implications rattle the very foundations of what is "real."
Published here for the first time, "In the Shade" is Don Elwell's disturbing and weirdly hopeful novella of vampires, ghosts, and the world we refuse to see.
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Print: $9.90 Download: $3.75 Beginning in 2003, sections of the cantos began appearing on the internet. "There are 23 Cantos" they would begin, following by a snatch of the text. For the first time, we've collected all 23 of the mind-blowing Cantos in their original version. Together they form a memetic religion of sorts, a blend of cyberpunk philsosophy, taoism, neo-paganism, and immediatism with dashes of poetry, anarchy, and general weirdness thrown in for good measure. Blessed be the heart of Verlain.
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Download: $1.00 Chapter I of the e-book serial: This is the first installment in the fascinating Zarabeth's World serial by Mai Reynolds. Watch this site for future episodes in this amazing and evolving work. Each episode is about 2500 words (a good short story length) and they're available only from Wild Shore Press.
Zarabeth is nineteen, orphaned, on her own, living a small life in a small apartment in a rainy town. But one snowy morning a slip in the shower leads her, not to a crawlspace or crack in the plaster, but to a gateway to an island, an island where magic works, where happiness is possible, and where the heart can sing.
Balancing those two lives, however, may be a bit more of a challenge than she'd bargained for.
Episode one: Zarabeth.
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Download: $1.00 Chapter II
Zarabeth meets the Greetings Sign and orders Pizza
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Download: $1.00 Chapter III: Here there be Mermaids.
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