Books tagged: disillusionment

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Lightning Rider    by Rick Mofina
Price: $0.99 USD. 9420 words. Published on May 29, 2011. .

Twenty-six year-old Jessie Scout had endured a life steeped in pain. She had come to Las Vegas, a city of risk, not to gamble. But to collect. This short work won Canada's top literary prize for crime fiction, the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Short Story, presented by the Crime Writers of Canada.
Blood Red Rings    by Rick Mofina
Price: $0.99 USD. 8270 words. Published on June 12, 2011. .

After 24 years of putting his life on the line, Officer Frank Harper sees it all tick down to one defining moment in this soul-wrenching short story.
Dangerous Women & Desperate Men    by Rick Mofina
Price: $2.99 USD. 27910 words. Published on June 19, 2011. .

Four gripping stories of people on the brink; a broken-hearted woman in Las Vegas plots to take what she is owed, a haunted street cop finds his life on the line in a way he never expected; a desperate agent in California makes a life-changing choice; a hard-working middle-aged woman whose world is coming apart fights back with shocking vengeance.
Conversations With Verbs of Prey    by Connor Nicolas
Price: $0.99 USD. 2130 words. Published on August 26, 2011. .

Life is not always what we expect. Your vision and what is doesn’t always align. Do you fold into yourself and let your wishing get the best of you? Or do you look around and find that friend? Conversations With Verbs of Prey is Connor Nicolas’ latest short story exploring loneliness and how the need for connection causes one woman to exchange in dialog with an inanimate object.
The Lucky Boy    by Caroline Gerardo
Price: $1.99 USD. 81200 words. Published on November 9, 2011. .

Seth McGrath goes through hell to raise ten grand to find a girl. His neurosurgeon father & pill popping debutante mother send him away to be raised by his Grandmother. When Grandmother suddenly dies, Seth returns to a disillusioned life in Radnor. A hypnotic story that will charm you through a dark journey. Seth will sell drugs, arrange bum fights for hire and more. Can a psycho become a CEO
The Idealists    by Jeannie van Rompaey
Price: $1.99 USD. 2370 words. Published on January 20, 2012. .

Two actors meet in a café in Antwerp. Years before at drama school, they were full of ideals, convinced they could help to save the world through political theater. Each accuses the other of losing his artistic integrity. The argument culminates in a slapstick fight which entertains the customers and demonstrates their talents. Ideals or not they are both actors.
Love Song ? by Joan Dooley    by Suzy Stewart Dubot
Price: Free! 420 words. Published on February 11, 2012. .

This is a poem written by my mother Joan Dooley Foster, when she was young. She is now a partially sighted person, due to her age. It is published under her maiden name as she has always been known as 'Joan Dooley' to distinguish her from the hundreds of other Joans of her generation. Please leave her a review that I will transmit to her. Thank you!
Disillusioned    by Cari Moore
Price: $2.99 USD. 116900 words. Published on March 29, 2012. .

Sometimes marriage sucks. Sometimes husbands are hypocritical jerks. Sometimes life with them is too bound up in history to have any hope for a future. What happens when an opportunity arises to leave it all behind? And what if the chance comes with the benefit of a handsome companion? To decide, Tessa Wilson must choose between two men: one a scoundrel, one a hero. But which is which?
New Questions for a New Age: The limits of metaphysics and other belief systems    by sl stanley
Price: $2.99 USD. 39220 words. Published on May 27, 2012. .

This book is for everyone who has turned away in disillusionment from their inherited religion, only to find more of the same in the alternate paths they have chosen.