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Bleeding Hart

The city of angels is hiding a few demons.
At San Diego Comic-Con, Chris Hart wants nothing more than to meet his favorite actress, Marie LeBeau. But someone else wants her dead.
When Chris manages to stop an attack from what can only be described as a ninja, Marie finds herself impressed by his martial arts prowess and offers Chris a job on her personal security team. Little does he know she has ulterior motives for wanting him close and may not be the person he thinks she is.
Everything changes when people associated with Marie start turning up decapitated. While Chris finds himself more vulnerable to Marie’s charms than ever before, he realizes that being with her may not only put his life at risk, but his very humanity.
Bleeding Hart is a biting look at Hollywood that combines the quirkiness of Grady Hendrix with the hardboiled pulp of Mickey Spillane.

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Odd Devils

There once was an angel named Satan who’d lived as a simple mortal shepard, but died at the hands of a brutal fallen angel. His soul was remade into the cold-hearted, serpentine angel of the damned. He had no memory of his former humanity, and reigned over the abyss as the jailer of God for many centuries, until one day his icy heart was opened, and he had no choice but to leave Hell behind forever.
An evil wizard created an innocent child-like spirit in his own image. He mistreated the little boy made of stars, and forced the young entity to live on as a wicked copy of his own beastly self. The enslaved spirit fed on the wizard’s followers for many years, until fate intervened. Through the power of love and self-sacrifice the boy was released from the wizard’s influence, and able to finally gain his freedom.
A mortal woman fell in love with a dangerous demon, who came to love her in turn. They joined their souls together to become as one, but both died in the process, resulting in the birth of a terrifying new creation. The ravenous monster devoured so many before it was taken under Heaven’s wing, and transformed into the strange demonic angel of Satan’s orchard.
Angels, demons and humanity collide throughout the short stories of Odd Devils, weaving a tapestry of darkness and redemption, with the only certainty along the way being that love is as powerful a force as vile wickedness.

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Kakapo and the Fiery Sundown Case of the Berjudas Hellhole Triangle

An eccentric wild beast with a mysterious kaleidoscopic nature, camouflaged into endless skins by the braves who venture beyond its glorious thousand corners and the puniceous mist that befalls upon the verdant city.
A sci-fi novel, an operatic thriller, the Kakapo Sonata nº 2022 in 3 movements, a horror comedy (or a horror of a comedy), a silent movie where frames are wordy Time, a sensical nonsense, a parody, a mutant mimiambi, a baroque extravaganza hit by monsoons of ironies and rivalries, a friendships’ tale, a love story, a cosmic puzzle, a pulsing star, a booming wish, an epopee, an epic battle, a minutes burning survival race, a yearn for celebration, an unveiling, a whirlwind resurrection. An homage to the brilliance, beauty and imagination of life and nature, to the triumph of self-love and the love we have for whom and what surround us, to the challenges of being and (co)existing. A surreal shapeshifting creature. A fine brew. A chimera. A you. Kakapo.
So to you plucky kakapoan who enters with open heart this Time in space your beloved home, what else to say other than “what you do before the astronomical clock bangs the fateful midnight counts”. And remember. We are stronger united. For sublime 12 step into lucky 13, will Kakapo cross 24 to abundant 24 embrace? Let’s hope so. And many more. Raise your glass fellow life! We’re all stars! Chin, chin!

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Starlet

FAME. FORTUNE. JELLYFISH.
When an aspiring young actress accepts an invite to a fading A-lister’s home, she soon learns the terrifying secrets of the Hollywood Elite.

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Bubblequake: Book 3 of the Disposable Soma Trilogy

The year is 2180, and former Senator Jim Liu has switched parties and is now running for president as a Republican. Battling chronic pain, he faces an uphill election battle as his resistance to joining World War Four puts him at odds with most members of his party. Things get more complicated when Jim’s long lost sociopathic brother surfaces, he receives an ear in the mail, and many of the bubbles that America relies on for food, housing, and industry are destroyed in a cascading bubblequake. Adding to the mystery and confusion, strange blue individuals, speaking an unfamiliar language, emerge from an unregistered bubble, leaving society in bewildered disarray.

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Psittacide: Book 2 of the Disposable Soma Trilogy

The 2172 election is soon approaching. The incumbent, authoritarian President Silas Blackwolf, has had his vice president arrested in order to prevent her from invoking the 25th amendment and removing him from office. Now with the election coming up, he has to choose a running mate. His conspiring cabinet steers him toward selecting moderate senator and former presidential grandson Jim Liu. Through Byzantine constitutional logic, the only way Jim can defeat Blackwolf is by helping him win the race.
The plan gets more complicated when a deadly plague begins to spread among the nation’s genetically enhanced, super-intelligent parrots. The only cure is a plant that grows on Centos Island, which currently lies in the middle of an international war zone. Jim finds himself increasingly compromised, as he makes one ethical compromise after another in his struggle to protect the country from Blackwolf.