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An excerpt from a Kevin Moffett's dazzling new story collection, Further Interpretations of Real-Life Events, where he offers a poignant, witty, and sometimes disturbing portrait of human uncertainty--of men and women suspended at the point of discovery or passage. Written with penetrating insight into our motivations and fears, Further Interpretations of Real-Life Events is a wise, funny, and haunting collection ... more...

The Druids viewed themselves as caretakers of the universe and considered the natural and the supernatural worlds to be one. In this story set in the time of the Druids, a very young man, dark-haired, dark-eyed, sits alone in the shadow thrown by the Poulnabrone Dolmen, County Clare. He has been set a test. And, despite himself, he will pass. more...

NOTE: Part One only A clerk named Desmond Argyle works in a franchise video rental store during the last weeks the store will receive VHS movies as its primary rental and retail product before restocking with DVDs. Think something of a cross between Nausea, The Tenant, and Hunger--an impressionistic novel of banality confronting the inexorably transitory nature of the world and self-identity. more...

Food triggers memories. The narrator experiences visions of nirvana and dead relatives in this richly descriptive moment in time. more...

A short story about Jos and his gradual involvement in a traditional Irish music session. more...

A family from the States, on their way to Costa Rica, run into trouble crossing the border into Guatemala. more...

A 61 year old man sits by his Chai Latte and reminisces over his life spent in three countries. In an hour he recalls 36 years of a roller coaster ride. In the end a few epiphanies dawn on him about the riddle called life. A 1,680 word short story. more...

The first e-publication of The Royalties, a collective of Australian writers who have come together to create new models of publishing for writers worldwide. more...

A short story that goes with Bem Le Hunte's bestselling novel, 'The Seduction of Silence.' more...

After half-a-life on the run from the horse business, Holly has spent six months pouring all her energy into renovating an old farm into a model equestrian center, according to the strict rules of the English Equestrian Council Manual, a book she knows by heart. But the white-glove inspection will uncover more than cobwebs in the tack room: in Holly's tumultuous youth, she was a famous rider. more...