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Is your drink of choice vodka? Or is it the Texas taste of Austin Reserve Gin? Does it really matter if you’re distracted by a bit of purple lace or just jonesing for the best burger ever? Find out in a funny, disconcerting morose story with a culinary twist.

Fifteen-year-old Hutch tells us his story about growing up as a kid of free-spirited, drug-addicted parents, to hustling on the streets of New York City, to befriending misfits in a Bowery flophouse where he’s forced to fight predators and face the brutalities that lurk in the darkest corners of a runaway’s world. Through his determination, and by fate, he’s given an opportunity to change his life, and the lives of others. Embracing his future, finding redemption in literature, he must say farewell to his haunting past.

Poetry in motion.

Peter Roth is a talented musician and an expert drunk. For years, he's heard voices in his head, voices of anyone he's ever respected, and they're all judging him for his failures. As his twenties are dwindling away, Peter decides to embark on a make-or-break trip to the West Coast with his girlfriend and his sister, honing his music along the way. One of the voices comes along for the ride - only it turns out that this one is real. As Peter makes his way across the country, he has no idea that there are dark forces gathering against him - and what it's going to take to survive.

In this science fiction satire of westerns, after the American West was destroyed in a series of biological disasters, rebuilding it is a lot like building it in the first place, but there are crucial differences. For example, new, partly mechanical cattle with computer brains are called steerites. They speak and sing a lot more than the original steers. Most of the cowboys, outlaws, and lawmen are partly mechanical, too, except for those few humans called control-naturals. That group has to keep all their original equipment, just like the original cowboys.

A horror novelist, hard at work on his new book, suddenly realizes that his plotline reminds him way too much of the disappearance and murder of a young girl he fell in love with almost 30 years ago. Coincidence? Maybe not. A mentally challenged young man, often the object of torment and ridicule, becomes the local hero in the end, helping to solve a string of decade-old murders. An aging hit man, dying of cancer, reflects back on the question he has been asking himself for almost 40 years: Was it his bullet that killed JFK, or was someone else involved?

If you're gonna rob a bank, make sure it's the bank's money you are taking. Dillon, a down-on-his-luck guy, hatches a plan to to get rich. But things do not go to plan.

Heartache. Loneliness. Teenage angst and rebellion. Life and death - and all the uncertainty that comes in between. All these emotions and more are examined in Blue Survivor, a small but powerful collection of songs, stories, and one novella.

Jack Brewster, a detective suddenly on the wrong side of the law, drives his car to the bottom of a lake, with a young woman tied up in the trunk. As the car fills with water, they pass out, moments away from drowning. Mysteriously, they regain consciousness in an alternate reality which seems to mirror their own, but in nightmarish fashion. With no memory of who they are, their search for answers leads them to a sinister, charismatic figure, the proprietor of a casino called The House of the Rising Sun. He offers them both the ultimate gamble - their souls, for another shot at life.

Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to Beyond My Imaginations Giving Back and listen to poetry in motion.

It's the late 1970s and city league softball - and partying - reign supreme. Talented Jo Jo Van Dyne and company struggle to right themselves from a winless first season, in part by renaming themselves the Streakers because their first year team name, the Hard Machine, hadn't exactly brought them any kind of luck. This time around, though, the early twenties team has high hopes. This is a year where, they all truly believe, anything can happen. And who knows...maybe it will.

When life hands you lemons, grab a bottle of scotch. Things are only going to get worse.When the chips are down, Bryan has always risen above it. But when you get disenrolled from college, dumped by your fiancée, and fired from your job all in the same week, sometimes you just need to get drunk and cause some trouble. However, for a strait-laced, no-nonsense guy like Bryan, that trouble might be a little more than he can handle.