Jesus Plays the Catskills    by Hank Gross
Price: $9.99 USD. 24280 words. Published on March 6, 2010. .
In this sublime retelling of the story and teachings of Christ's life, Jesus himself takes the mike and tells it to a Borscht-belt crowd as a Jewish comic might. It's the New Testament as you've never heard it before! So here he is, ladies and germs, the King of Kings, the Lamb of God...let's give it up, folks, for JESUS!

The Kill    by Alan Peter Ryan
Price: $4.99 USD. 83370 words. Published by Bob Booth on September 23, 2010. .
Alan Peter Ryan's novel, published in 1982, is the story of a young couple who flee the city to rural Deacons Kill in the Catskills. Their home becomes the target of an invisible evil that lives in the nearby wood. They join with their neighbors to confront the monster. A fine example by a World Fantasy Award-winning author of a theme explored extensively by Golden Age (70s & 80s) horror writers.

Light Cahill    by Peter Koch
Price: $4.95 USD. 1800 words. Published by Worthy Shorts on December 5, 2010. .
In this short story, a grown son reflects on his father's last and liberating final days. The author takes us to the edge of the Catskill creek and its teeming natural life in which his father fished for fifty years. He imagines the old man's thoughts and a life fully lived - a life of which he intended to be in charge until its last moments.

Departures    by Stephen Leslie
Price: $0.99 USD. 5770 words. Published on March 10, 2011. .
The is a moving book of poetry by an upstate New York hospice Chaplain. The poems about true experiences from working with terminally ill patients. Most of the poems are written in an Ancient Japanese style called a Haibun. A Haibun is a combination of a brief narrative plus a Haiku. As you might expect many of the stories are moving but surprisingly there is also humor. Enjoy

Death and the Dream    by JJ Brown
Price: $2.99 USD. 41230 words. Published on August 7, 2011. .
Scientist storyteller J.J.Brown's fourteen short stories explore death and dreams. From tragic moments in childhood up to crises of conscience in the research labs of New York City, the stories illuminate the beauty and the horror of ordinary lives. Mothers, daughters, scientists, murders and grandmothers explore the fine line drawn between sanity and insanity, reality and dream, life and death.