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The spirit of famous Jewish ballet dancer, Francheska Mann, is stuck in time in a parallel dimension in 1943 at Auschwitz Concentration Camp, Poland.
I am the Auschwitz Dancer, Francheska Mann, former ballerina, who was shot and killed by machine gun fire on October 23, in the women's locker room outside the Zyklon B gas showers. I was twenty-six when I died. In this game, they all call me "Frankie." The competition in this quantum dimension,...
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Clara Foltz, Esq. fights sexism and racism in early San Francisco
After losing a case in a sexist and racist kangaroo court, Clara learns to use street tactics to find the real killer.
In this exciting first mystery in the new Portia of the Pacific Historical Mystery series, the reviews are in:
"Chinawoman's Chance is an engaging mystery with a historically informative feminist bent." (Anita Lock, Clarion Book Reviews - Foreword Reviews)
"It...
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Postmodern Stories for Readers with Literary Tastes
Sliver Medal Winner for Best Adult Fiction Anthology, 2021, Readers Favorite Book Awards
IndieBrag Gold Medallion Selection for Literary Short Fiction
Hollywood and Broadway are icons of the American Dream. But what happens to those who feed off that dream? Just as drug cartels have many underlings, who must get paid along the journey to the addicts, so do the characters who need to be nourished...
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The Stockton Insane Asylum MurderA Portia of the Pacific Best-Selling and Award-Winning Historical MysteryVolume 3 "Madness can be seen as an intuitive probing into true reality."–R. D. Laing Women were, among others, misdiagnosed as insane by alienists in the 1800s. A female child has been institutionalized in 1887, but the aunt of this child comes to Clara Foltz to say she believes the child was admitted to the Stockton State Insane Asylum (the...
6) Voices
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I wrote this alternate history of the trial and incineration of Jeanne d'Arc using on Edgar Allan Poe's classic story The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade as a model. As a frame, I used the classic story by Ambrose Bierce Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge as a frame. The female hero of the French war against the invaders has been arrested, tried, and convicted by the Catholic Church. This story supposes that Jeanne, instead of hearing God was...
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CLARA AND HER FAMILY MUST STOP A MESMERIZING MURDERERWomen in 1886 San Francisco are killing their husbands. Attorney detective Clara Foltz uses an eighteen-year-old clairvoyant to track down the mysterious man using the powers of sexual magnetism and mesmerism to turn abused women into murderers. This becomes a family mystery, as Clara's two oldest children get involved.Clara's assistant, Ah Toy, must also enlist the help of her evil uncle, Little...
10) Panes of Glass
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An urban legend in San Diego that there are secret laboratories beneath a sidewalk's panes of thick glass. They are creating super soldiers using the homeless population.
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Should children be seen with zombies? Should zombies be children? What kind of a demented mind would want such a thing to happen? Horror on the Installment Plan's premier issue wants to explore this theme in order to give you a few thrills, a few moments of fear, and perhaps even gross you out a bit! Yes, and this theme also has a few laughs (dark ones, or, what my Pappy Skeleton used to call "gallows humor.") The authors of these stories are...
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"In a universe suddenly divested of illusions and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land. This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity."--Albert CamusThis is the plight of fledgling reporter Nick Holcomb as he visits Mar-a-LagoPlot:Staff of club slowly leaves for no reason. Pigs and...
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The spirit of famous Jewish ballet dancer, Francheska Mann, is stuck in time in a parallel dimension in 1943 at Auschwitz Concentration Camp, Poland.
I am the Auschwitz Dancer, Francheska Mann, former ballerina, who was shot and killed by machine gun fire on October 23, in the women's locker room outside the Zyklon B gas showers. I was twenty-six when I died. In this game, they all call me "Frankie." The competition in this quantum dimension,...
14) Jasmine
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A retired college instructor and former teacher in India meet online and decide to meet in person during COVID. They form a pact to be together forever.
15) Room 306
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Two rooms with the same number. Both events on the same day. Both events change history in different ways. A story about the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. from a veteran who had his own story about Room 306.
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An 1887 Handmaid Gets Her Revenge in This Best-Selling and Award-Winning Historical Legal Thriller and Mystery Series Abraham Lincoln was shot inside Ford's Theater, Washington D.C. In 1887, the investigation team of attorney-detective Clara Shortridge Foltz visits the same theater, which has now been converted into an Army Medical Museum for tourists.But, the same mysterious "vibes" are circulating among the skulls, surgical instruments and garishly...
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Setting is the Battle of the Alamo February 23 to March 6, 1836, in San Antonio, Texas, and afterward, when Santa Anna occupies the mission. Hannah has just returned from Scotland, where she was assisting the famous Scottish surgeon James Braid, the father of the use of mesmerism during surgery. She meets the narrator, journalist Edward Calmes, who works for Blackwell's Magazine in Edinburgh Socotland. Hannah visits President Andrew Jackson at his...
18) Dark Justice
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When Abortion was Against the Law, Attorney Clara Foltz Confronts the Establishment In the fifth mystery of the best-selling and award-winning Portia of the Pacific series, Attorney and Detective Clara Shortridge Foltz and her partner, Attorney Laura de Force Gordon, become involved in two trials. One, an administrative case, Clara defends the accused, an abortifacient merchant, who is allegedly the incestuous father of a child by his sixteen-year-old...
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Bring Your Students, Staff, and Bosses Together Right now, our Education Industry is fractured and divided, in the same way our electoral and political entities are. This guide is for the Parent and Teacher Organization (PTO) or Parent and Teacher Association (PTA), Employers, Teachers, Trainers, Students, Employees, and/or other participating members who purchased or are considering the purchase of the EMRE Publishing Embellisher™ Creator Studio...
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Boomtown San Diego, in 1888, erupts in murder. Retired marshal and hero of the O.K. Corral Wyatt Earp is involved.
What's really going on? Award-winning, best-selling mystery author James Musgrave takes issues from the present and turns them into ingenious puzzles for listeners to solve. In the 19th century, the same human foibles existed, but the problems happened at a much slower pace.
In The Dancing Murders, Musgrave turns four suspects over...