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

A Feeling in My Bones    by Gervase Shorter
Price: $2.99 USD. 87680 words. Published on April 26, 2011. .
What was Jake Forrester doing when he disappeared while on an assignment for a reclusive billionaire? Did he really travel to Central Africa? A month later he reappears in a Miami clinic suffering from a nervous breakdown. Whatever happened during that month makes Jake and his wife Sally rich but when she tries to investigate what she discovers is so frightening that she has to run for her life.

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 and murderers explore the fine line drawn between sanity and insanity, reality and dream, life and death.

One Hand Killing    by Nancy O'Hara
Price: $5.99 USD. 86310 words. Published on November 28, 2011. .
Introducing Alex Sullivan, 45 year-old, soon to be retired NYPD homicide detective and novice Zen student, into the mystery genre. In the tradition of the best murder mysteries, it offers the reader entree into a new experience: the esoteric world of a Zen Buddhist Monastery – a place that is meant to be sacrosanct, where murder, suspicion and mayhem are not supposed to happen.

Turpitude & Bad Financing    by James M. Weil
Price: Free! 5670 words. Published on June 25, 2012. .
A misguided middle-aged man deals with the heartbreak of losing the love of his life, his job, his marriage, and ultimately his loss of self. A painful, brutally honest dissection of a man on the edge and what he will do to win back his identity, even though he is sitting on a house of cards.

A Summer World    by Stefan Kanfer
Price: $3.99 USD. 100830 words. Published by StoneThread Publishing  on July 27, 2012. .
A Summer World charts the incredible rise and precipitous fall of the Catskill resorts, from the pre-revolutionary period to the great days of the Borscht Belt.