New Fiction: Ringside at the Circus of the Fallen
An Honorable Mention from The Heroes Half of The Contest
By Roy Griffis
Robert was waiting at Zinnia Hotel, well up in the rather barren hills north of Burbank, that evening in early spring 1937. He was to meet a friend at the Grill, the hotel’s bar and curving dining room, when a foursome had arrived to take a booth. The two men and two women –– a somewhat Rubeneseque matron and a wide-eyed olive-skinned young girl who could scarcely have been sixteen, both of them overdressed for the room –– slid into the bench seats, the women on the inside while the men bookended them on either side. They seemed an odd group for this nightclub.
Behold Bill Walsh’s Inventive Thriller: Tales From the Black Chamber
Check out this cool excerpt from pages 156-157
By Bill Walsh
When one of her clients turns up dead after buying an apparently unremarkable 16th century breviary, antiquarian book dealer Anne Wilkinson is suddenly swept into a world that she had previously considered imaginary. An esoteric world of occult spells and invocations, of cryptic texts and secret doctrines, a world where necromancers spy through mirrors and armed assassins blow up her office and try to gun her down.
Before she knows it, Anne is recruited by representatives of a secretive government agency established by Calvin Coolidge to fight demons, vampires, werewolves, and other supernatural beings—and finds herself caught up in the pursuit of a renegade priest who seeks the power to unleash one of the darkest forces of the past into an unsuspecting present.
PreTeena: March 5 – March 11, 2018
Sunday Comics!
By Allison Barrows
You won’t want to miss these hilarious cartoons depicting the ups and downs of adolescence. Now each week’s strips will debut on Sundays as the lead strip of Liberty Island’s Sunday Comics feature. If you draw a comic and would like to have your work featured on Sundays, please contact us: [email protected]
New Liberty Island Novel: Sidequest: In Realms UnGoogled by Frank J. Fleming
Check out the first chapter!
By Frank Fleming
He dazzled you with the science fiction adventure Superego, Liberty Island’s debut title. Now Frank Fleming is back with a fresh, innovative take on fantasy. Order Sidequest today, now available on Amazon.
New Fiction: What Hath God Wrought?
The Runner-Up of The Villains Half of The Contest
By Roy Abrams
“Gentlemen, please, if I might have your attention. Is everyone present? There ought to be ample room for all of your colleagues, if you could please muster here, in the main hall. Yes, if would organize yourselves into serried ranks, the spacing will be more efficient, as when a grocer packs oranges. This is the first principle of an army, even an army of dedicated newspapermen and radio journalists such as yourselves. Please refrain from jockeying for a better position. The acoustics of the room have been designed so that I shall be perfectly audible to all of you from this dais. Indeed, Ignacy Paderewski entertained us here at the Tesla factory once, and from the back of the room, you could discern the faintest pianissimo. The mazurkas danced through the air and the polonaises crashed like thunder. Evanescent strains of beauty illuminated the room like tendrils of energy from one of my oscillators. It was a memorable evening that transported all of us, for a brief few hours, to an idealized world, almost as though it had been synthesized in a laboratory.”
New Fiction: The Bigfoot
The Runner-Up of The Heroes Half of The Contest
By Robert Arrington
The Bigfoot would be an unlikely hero. He didn’t know that, but then he didn’t know what a hero is. For that matter, he didn’t know that he was a Bigfoot, or that the Cherokee who once lived in these same mountains called him and his kind Tsul ‘Kalu.
He thought of himself and his family, and the other Bigfoot families in the most remote reaches of the Blue Ridge and the Smokies as the People, although he didn’t really have that word, or any words. A paleontologist would have called him a Panthropus robustus, but he didn’t know that either.
Discover L Todd Wood’s Novel Currency, the Start of a Thrilling New Series
Here’s the Prologue and first chapter for your reading enjoyment
By L Todd Wood
Pick up L Todd Wood’s thriller Currency, the first book in an exciting series from Liberty Island…
The smartly dressed, older man came first, sitting erect and still as death in the rear of the long oar boat as it silently rowed across the wide river. The moon cast an eerie glow across the fast-moving, silky, black current.
He was balding, middle-aged, and had dark features. However, he was in a much darker mood, a murderous mood in fact. He was the kind of man who never forgot anything, especially the stain on his honor. His eyes bored holes in the back of the man sitting in front of him, and he did not notice his surroundings, as his mind was lost in thought. He was there to right a wrong he had suffered.
PreTeena: February 26 – March 4, 2018
Sunday Comics!
By Allison Barrows
You won’t want to miss these hilarious cartoons depicting the ups and downs of adolescence. Now each week’s strips will debut on Sundays as the lead strip of Liberty Island’s Sunday Comics feature. If you draw a comic and would like to have your work featured on Sundays, please contact us: [email protected]
Reading Klavan In Canada
Part 10 of the Andrew Klavan Symposium
By Josh Lieblein
Sometimes the path to inspiration doesn’t go the way we think it will… I had traced the sole copy of Andrew Klavan’s Werewolf Cop – the only book by him available, anywhere in the vast expanse of the province of Ontario, apparently – to a Chapters bookstore in the mid-sized town of Waterloo…
Raising Sheep Dogs in a World of Wolves & Sheep
Continuing a dialogue on how to raise strong men with strong literature…
By David Churchill Barrow
Mike Baron writes, “A lot of young folks ain’t readin’. Just ain’t readin’. Weren’t raised that way.” Alas, so true…. But part of the reason – for young boys at least – they’re not given much of anything they’d actually like to read. Give ‘em what they crave, and it will lead to all that “toxic masculinity” dontcha know.
