Green Publishing: 511 books

Put enough monkeys in a room, randomly punching keyboards, and eventually, with enough time, one of them will type out a classic work of literature. Only problem, if you’re the monkey who types Hamlet, is what to do for an encore. (short story)

Liz runs a greasy spoon near a prison where death row inmates wait to be executed. One night she takes an order for a last meal from a guy who is most likely innocent of the crime he is going to die for. Liz wants to make the meal as good as she possibly can, as a gift for his passing. But then she...

Hugh's dentist finds evidence of a mysterious double living inside Hugh’s body. Hugh, completely freaked out, flees from the office and falls into the hands of a mysterious woman who offers to help him over his trauma. As her intentions become clear, Hugh realizes she intends to delve into the mysterious doppelganger with ruthless efficiency and scarcely a thought for Hugh’s welfare.

Sister Bea Wilder Mermaid is restless after the Old Mermaids walk out of the Old Sea and into the New Desert. She wanders the desert near the Old Mermaids Sanctuary. She can’t seem to find peace or rest until she meets Annie, the Woman Who Loves Birds. Annie knows almost everything. She can even hear a spider spinning her web, and she was once called the Woman Who Loves Giants.

A plastic surgeon receives a strange patient when a marble angel raps on her window and asks for a radical procedure. At first the surgeon is hesitant, but the charm and beauty of the statue changes her mind. She gives the marble angel what she wants. The procedure is a success, but the result is bittersweet. A haunting fantasy of the sacrifice love sometimes asks of us.

Barbie’s retirement. Gambling fairies. Love sick giants. All this and more in a book of poems exploring the fantastic side of life. Unhindered by conventional notions of reality, Milosevic writes poems about monogamous house keys, the moon in his living room, the secret lives of telephones. Also: ghosts, angels, cosmic gluttons, Pegasus, Albert Einstein and Ray Harryhausen. Really.

Love is that sobering and paradoxical state of being in which one’s own happiness depends upon the welfare of another. The author’s third volume of poetry examines love in its many guises: familial, romantic, erotic, and Platonic.

Some people are born with a birthmark, but everyone has a deathmark, eventually. 16-year-old Michael and his mother have been running from the Shadow Woman for as long as Michael can remember. Every time they begin to settle in somewhere, the Shadow Woman shows up and people start to die. Now Michael...

“In morning light, my heart’s delight, is slinking in and inking skin.” Firefly, one of the river people, lives by this ancient song. She yearns to be an inker and tattoo giants, just like her mother. But one morning a rogue giant kidnaps her mother and takes her up to the plateau, a dangerous...

A thrilling Western tale by James Oliver Curwood.

The Agatha Witchley Mysteries >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Part 2 of The Agatha Witchley Mysteries: THE PLATO CLUB As an ex-spy rumoured to have gone insane after being held captive by the KGB and tortured for a decade, Agatha Witchley...

The Agatha Witchley Mysteries >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Part 3 of The Agatha Witchley Mysteries: THE MOON MAN'S TALE Retired spy Agatha Witchley and her fellow agents from the Office are drawing very close to solving the mystery...

Calder moves from Boston to the Oregon coast to be alone and mourn the recent death of his wife, Tara. Only he is not alone: Tara is haunting him. At first this comforts him. But then things begin to change. Includes bonus story: “The Girl in the Red Coat.” Kim Antieau has written...

Kim Antieau's brilliant short stories have dazzled readers for decades. As bestselling writer Charles de Lint once wrote, Kim's prose is always "evocative, even in the grittiest of her stories. I believe in her characters so readily that sometimes I expect to run into them at the corner store...