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Dragon tales is a relatable journey for anyone that has ever experienced the roller coaster ride of love, the pitfalls and triumphs of life, and the lasting impression of trauma. Red Dragon gives a voice to those that cannot speak up for their pain, or too fearful to walk in their truth and embrace themselves with acceptance of self and knowledge of self worth. In life we all go through phases and Phase One of Dragon Psalms is sure to leave you wanting more!

This is a story about two families. A terrible accident brought them together. There is sadness and happiness, friendship and love. Can this tragedy bring two people together or will it tear them apart? Will separation help or hinder them?

The Color of Jars delves into the life of Jake Reiser, a small time college educated drug dealer living in Asheville North Carolina. As a dedicated bachelor, he prefers life to be as simple as possible but a drug deal gone bad one night takes the life of his best friend and he learns that maintaining your sanity can be next to impossible, especially when you are at war with your own mind. After trying to deal with it through alcohol, drugs, and group meetings, his girlfriend, Stacy suggests a risky underground procedure called 'Gapping' where unwanted memories are removed and sealed in a jar. But the mind has a way of hiding memories in dark alleys where they can't be reached and even th ...

In the mid-1970s the hero of The Jolly Place, fresh out of university and drawing upon the only marketable skill he ever contrived to acquire during those salad days, takes his first faltering steps into adulthood as he moves to San Francisco from a cloistered college town. Landing among the city’s Russian émigré community, both White and Red, he tiptoes through a cast of eccentrics, including a genially alcoholic Cossack landlady, an Aspergerish roommate and unlikely Lothario, a near-feral puppy, and the vividly-limned staff and management of World O. Pancakes, the eponymous “Jolly Place,” with its smarmy supervisor, sadistic short-order cook, slatternly waitresses and suicidal, seldom- ...

Every author would some day like to see his work published. For Frank Bishop it started out as a hobby after he retired. Something to fill his lonely days. When walking with his daughter an idea mentioned to her becomes the start of a book. Several years, several books, and a fruitless attempt to find an agent followed. Fortune finally seems to be falling his way. A publisher seems to be interested. A meeting with him leads to a contract. Then a Hollywood producer calls. One thing leads to another and it seems the future couldn’t look brighter. Then disaster rears its ugly head.