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October 2002: Another weekend in the small fishing village in New Jersey. Five years after the events of the last book, can the Belford residents move on with their lives after what's happened in their past?

A simple mistake. A slip through time and space. A strange new world. He should have been more careful. But Alfred Favero, Senior Analyst with the IRS, wasn’t. Now he’s stuck in a world of opposites, where everything he knows is called into question. To survive in Yngil-wode, the taxman must rely on a mysterious band of outlaws and tax thieves. But he risks getting drawn into a war with a tyrant. He risks sacrificing every principle he holds sacred.

A little bird sits high on a wire, watching the strange pink monkeys below him. Father bird warns him that they are dangerous, but he is curious and decides to ask the other animals about them. He questions a robin, a horse, a cow, a honeybee, an ant, a dog, a deer, a rabbit, and an owl, all of whom warn him of the dangers connected to the fearsome beasts. The owl tells the little bird how they fight in great wars, and participate in animal slavery, poisoning the air and water, and even killing their own kind.

A routine tax fraud investigation. A trip down the extraterrestrial highway. A chance encounter with a mysterious visitor from outer space. He should have left it there. But Alfred Favero, a senior analyst with the IRS, couldn’t. Now he’s suspended from work and on the run from shadowy government agents as he tries to protect an ambassador from another world.

From the sworn oath of an ancient curse, a cult rises. She is the ocean vast, its deadly rake and primal power. Her first ones commune from across the great divide and make their new hive in the emptiness of men. A secret project, born from the ambitions of a young nobleman, transcends the passage of time and reaches through the veil of life and death for her reawakening. Deep beneath a mountain, inside a secure facility at the heart of a covert black op called Nexilexicon, a team of scientists, the military, and the CIA are about to punch a hole through to another dimension.

A routine tax fraud investigation. A strange lab. A mysterious button. He shouldn’t have pushed the button. But Alfred Favero, senior analyst with the IRS, pushed the button. And now he’s 67 million years in the past, stranded out of time with a coworker who hates him and a bunch of tax cheats. Oh, and then there’s the other inhabitants of his prehistoric home: the dinosaurs that want to make a meal of him. Things couldn’t get worse. Until a mysterious visitor from an uncertain future shows up with murder on his mind.

Meet George. George has a motorhome. George likes to travel around the country. And viciously murder people. But when he stops in a small diner one night for a pre-slaughter meal, he meets Nadia, a tiny little waitress who is just so full of life - life he wants nothing more than to squeeze from her. But she's much more than she appears.

Is your drink of choice vodka? Or is it the Texas taste of Austin Reserve Gin? Does it really matter if you’re distracted by a bit of purple lace or just jonesing for the best burger ever? Find out in a funny, disconcerting morose story with a culinary twist.

Another Friday night in the small fishing village along the New Jersey coast. A return to see how everyone has fared in the last five years and who's made the right and wrong decisions in their life. Check back in with Willie, April, Tommy, George, Frankie, Gary, Billy, Jimmy, and Garrett 10 years after the events of the original Belford Stories!

Fifteen-year-old Hutch tells us his story about growing up as a kid of free-spirited, drug-addicted parents, to hustling on the streets of New York City, to befriending misfits in a Bowery flophouse where he’s forced to fight predators and face the brutalities that lurk in the darkest corners of a runaway’s world. Through his determination, and by fate, he’s given an opportunity to change his life, and the lives of others. Embracing his future, finding redemption in literature, he must say farewell to his haunting past.

October 1992 - Another Friday night in the small fishing village along the New Jersey coast. With another pending snowstorm aiming at the town, everyone has to make a choice: stay in and write the night off or go out and see what trouble they can get into. Guess which choice most of them will make? Check back in with Willie, April, Tommy, George, Frankie, Gary, Billy, Jimmy, Suzanna, and Garrett five years after the events of the original Belford Stories!

Poetry in motion.

Peter Roth is a talented musician and an expert drunk. For years, he's heard voices in his head, voices of anyone he's ever respected, and they're all judging him for his failures. As his twenties are dwindling away, Peter decides to embark on a make-or-break trip to the West Coast with his girlfriend and his sister, honing his music along the way. One of the voices comes along for the ride - only it turns out that this one is real. As Peter makes his way across the country, he has no idea that there are dark forces gathering against him - and what it's going to take to survive.

In this science fiction satire of westerns, after the American West was destroyed in a series of biological disasters, rebuilding it is a lot like building it in the first place, but there are crucial differences. For example, new, partly mechanical cattle with computer brains are called steerites. They speak and sing a lot more than the original steers. Most of the cowboys, outlaws, and lawmen are partly mechanical, too, except for those few humans called control-naturals. That group has to keep all their original equipment, just like the original cowboys.

October 1987... A small fishing village on the New Jersey coast is ready for the high school football game and an oncoming snowstorm Willie Davidson... his mother left town when her husband died, leaving her son to fend for himself with winter approaching... Frankie and Gary Paul... two cousins sharing a public works truck and looking for trouble... April Schwartz... a lost teenage girl trying to prove how adult she is... Billy Hunter... the police officer with a chip on his shoulder... George Smith... an aspiring musician who just wants to play music and hang with his friends... Jimmy Petrucci... a family man with a wandering eye that could get him in hot water... Garrett Simms... the star quarterback for the North team, trying to keep his focus on the game... These and more Belford residents are waiting for you!

A horror novelist, hard at work on his new book, suddenly realizes that his plotline reminds him way too much of the disappearance and murder of a young girl he fell in love with almost 30 years ago. Coincidence? Maybe not. A mentally challenged young man, often the object of torment and ridicule, becomes the local hero in the end, helping to solve a string of decade-old murders. An aging hit man, dying of cancer, reflects back on the question he has been asking himself for almost 40 years: Was it his bullet that killed JFK, or was someone else involved?

If you're gonna rob a bank, make sure it's the bank's money you are taking. Dillon, a down-on-his-luck guy, hatches a plan to to get rich. But things do not go to plan.

Heartache. Loneliness. Teenage angst and rebellion. Life and death - and all the uncertainty that comes in between. All these emotions and more are examined in Blue Survivor, a small but powerful collection of songs, stories, and one novella.

Jack Brewster, a detective suddenly on the wrong side of the law, drives his car to the bottom of a lake, with a young woman tied up in the trunk. As the car fills with water, they pass out, moments away from drowning. Mysteriously, they regain consciousness in an alternate reality which seems to mirror their own, but in nightmarish fashion. With no memory of who they are, their search for answers leads them to a sinister, charismatic figure, the proprietor of a casino called The House of the Rising Sun. He offers them both the ultimate gamble - their souls, for another shot at life.

The author’s limbo is a ghost town that includes animals that had been killed by humans: a dog, some cats, cows, chickens, and wild creatures, too. The animals are content with their lot in the afterlife, but the humans have an infinity of time on their hands and not enough to do. They think about the big issues, of course, but no one can spend all their time thinking higher thoughts, so mostly they do what they did in life: they gossip, they get on each other’s nerves, and they play poker.