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Catalogue
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The Girl Who Tried To Catch The Man
A Novel of The Burning Man
"I'd decided to kill myself"
A young man burned out by life, love and everything in between, decides to end it all. There¹s only one problem: He doesn¹t want to miss Burning Man.
So our hero sets off by himself for one last trip into the vacant heart of the wild west, landing on the fringes of the ephemeral Black Rock City. But, when a group of misfits, loosely formed as a band called "The Fuzzy Chickens" camps next to him, he finds himself plunged into a world that's nothing like he's ever seen before. He finds himself camped on the edge of a land where friendships are made in an instant, love is found and lost just as quickly, and where his potential termination is suddenly the least of his worries.
By turns funny, outrageous, and poignant, R. J. Thomas' "The Girl Who Tried To Catch The Man" is a flat out roller coaster ride into the dust covered, sleep deprived heart of the legendary Burning Man Festival. This is one carnival ride you'll never forget.
164 pages
$12.98 trade paper, $3.75 download
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The Ganymeade Protocol
Katie has a problem. As a young woman in an increasingly repressive world, it seems every day more options are closed to her, and surprising changes in her relationship with her girlhood friend Sandy are apt to land both of them in a state reeducation camp. When her stepfather begins making noises about “finding her a suitable husband.” Kate knew she had to do something.
What that something would be is a bit of an issue. The newly unified Europe is off limits to Americans, as are the shining cities of Surinam and Venezuela, and crossing the heavily fortified Canadian border is out of the question.
But out on the warming waters of the Gulf and Caribbean sails The Fleet, a collection of small boats with its roots in the pirates of the early 19th century. it is a place of artists and rebels and iconoclasts, of dangerous free spirits and pirates, circling endlessly in the waters, rafting when they can, sailing when they must. The righteous government of America hates them with a passion. It’s said, in the Fleet, you can be anything you say you are. It’s said , in the Fleet, there are no rules, no judgments, only the freedom to be who you are.
And out at the docks sits the little sailboat Ganymeade, lovingly built by Kate and her late Father before the cancer had eaten him. Kate has a plan. A plan to escape with Sandy, a plan to be free, and despite the threat of insane governments, religious wackos, and looming natural disasters, a plan to, just maybe, become part of something greater than herself.
She calls it the Ganymeade Protocol.
Driven by a profound knowledge of history and a lifelong experience with the sea, Don Elwell creates for us an amazingly textured world of the near future in this novel of modern day piracy, anarchy, liberation, and hope in an era of rapid social and environmental upheaval. Come board the little sailboat Ganymeade on a voyage you won't soon forget
219 pages
$14.95 trade paper, $3.75 download
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In The Shade
The descent begins this way: first of all, something goes wrong in your life. It could be that your job evaporates or your mate leaves. It could be drugs or alcohol. It could be illness or love. It’s mostly always money. Often, it’s just life. Whatever.
It begins one day when you find that you’re one of the invisibles. That you’re living at someone else’s address, using someone else’s phone, doing libraries and public kiosks for e-mail and the like. The car dies, and there’s no money to fix it. Eventually somebody tows it, and there’s no money to retrieve it. All your credit accounts have long since maxxed out and gone. You’re so stressed and so tired you find you don’t care. You're a vampire, living in shadow, world without end. Namaste'.
But when two self proclaimed "vampires" see a man on a busy street, a man no one else seems to be able to see, they kick open a door to an unseen world living within and among our own, and the concept of what is "real" just got a lot more complicated.
Published here for the first time, Don Elwell's novellette is an alternate take on vampirism, faerie, and la vie Boheme that will change the way you look at shadows forever.
appx. 11,000 words
$7.47 trade paper, $2.00 download
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The Verlaine Cantos
Beginning in 2004, the Cantos of Verlaine (having nothing apparently to do with the French poet Paul Verlaine by the way) began appearing on the internet. The anonymous postings would begin “There are 23 Cantos” followed by one or two of the snatches of prose and poetry that comprise them, never all of them in a single gulp.
The 23 cantos are a composite work, probably the work of several hands, drawn from the Tao, Buddhism, Christianity, Neo Paganism, the Al Koran, Tim Leary, Frank Herbert, the works of a couple of underground playwrights, and the gods know what else. This thing has more literary and cultural references per square inch than your average coffeehouse debate. It is a memetic religion, creating itself in a memetic universe. Together, they comprise a hopeful vision of a world that could be. A world with a future ahead of it instead of behind it. One wag emailed me when we were compiling this and sneered "what is this, the religion of the internet?"
Maybe it is.
50 pages
$9.90 trade paper, $3.75 download
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The Coyote Trilogy
The three plays of the Coyote Trilogy-- "Coyote," "Cyberpunk Opera," and "Dub for Babylon"--have their origins in the coffeehouses of Los Angeles in the late 1980's, particularly the infamous Iguana Cafe of North Hollywood. Oddly prophetic, the plays detail life, love, sex, and the question of identity in the early part of the 21st century, including the growth of virtual reality, the birth of intelligent computers, and the promise of literal immortality in the virtual world. They look forward from a time when the future was up for grabs, when neuromancers, master programmers, and artificial intelligences were just cresting the horizon, and when Cyberpunk began to ring the literary world like a bell.
The Coyote Trilogy is presented for the first time here in amended form by the author, complete with photographs of the 2006 Grindlebone Theatre productions of "Cyberpunk Opera" and "Dub for Babylon"
173 pages
$16.99 trade paper, $2.50 download
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Greylight: Theatre for a New Century
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