One More Try

It’s only for a week, right?

When Mackenzie Walsh left the small town of Summer Cove, Maine, for college in California she had every intention of coming back home. But that was before she met Austin and snagged an internship at her dream company. She’s created the perfect life for herself in California, and Summer Cove will always be there, what’s the rush to go back?

A phone call from her mother about a family emergency catches her off guard, and soon she finds herself back home, in the cold, small town that she couldn’t wait to leave behind.

As she reconnects with Mads and Emma, her two best friends, and her ex-boyfriend Rigsy, she slowly starts to remember what makes the small town so loveable.

With Austin needing her back in California, and her family needing her in Summer Cove, she finds herself torn between the new life that she’s created and the old one that she left behind.

Where were you when the lights went out and the monsters came?

In the near future, a government experiment out of control opens gateways to other worlds and dimensions all over planet Earth, plunging everyday people into a nightmare of grim survival against the horrific and bizarre…

Portal Zero. The beginning of the end.

Faux marriage, real stakes, and a wildfire of emotions.

As a struggling waitress knee-deep in financial woes, I’m not sure how I can dig myself out. That is, until he walks in, offering a lifeline. Hudson Heart is a hot firefighter and devoted dad caught in an ugly custody battle. When he offers a solution to both our problems — a pretend marriage — I’m tempted. The thing is, I’ve always burned a little brighter whenever he’s near.
Boundaries are set, and we start our fake relationship, but when he pulls off a huge romantic act in public to prove to everyone how in love we are, he blurs the line between fiction and reality.

Can we find a way to turn this counterfeit commitment into an everlasting blaze, or is it destined to be extinguished once we both get what we want?

Bill Green published his first Alabama tale in 1990, after winning state awards for local history. Since then, he has stitched weird tales of sex, violence, magic, and myth into a local quilt — haunted families and forbidden love all part of the expected mix, but a dash of monsters and space aliens as well. Alabama Gothics collects 25 of these into a single volume.

Of the opening story, Jessica Amanda Salmonson wrote, “Luna deals with dangerous issues and topics, but does so with beauty, weirdness, and balanced understanding of the historical and social milieu… It is one of the best novelettes I’ve ever received as an editor” (Fantasy Macabre 12).

The 1950s in America was a time of great prosperity, I Like Ike, hula-hoops and the birth of Rock and Roll. Nearly seventy years on, the teenagers of that decade are finding themselves locked away in nursing homes with their family members just waiting for them to die.
But what if there was a retirement town in which these first rock and rollers could race hot rods, wear poodle skirts and be young again? Such a town was created thanks to nanotechnology and powerful computers that allows old people to live in a Mayberry-type town that exists only in virtual reality.
“Is this place heaven?” a new resident asks the town doctor.
“No,” the doctor responds, “this place is called Golden and it was created to give folks like you a chance at a nice retirement.”
Golden was the brainchild of Fred McKenzie, who has been in the virtual reality town longer than any other of the thirty or so residents. Fred was once known as Freddie and spent his own childhood as a Hollywood star and his teen years as a pop idol with hit records and a sitcom with his family. It was that money that allowed Fred to buy and develop the technology to create Golden. However, it wasn’t enough money and the Golden Foundation was set up through a government charter. The Foundation is run in the Real World by Fred’s daughter, Jenny.
Like all new technology, there are some glitches that need to be worked out. And because Golden is dealing with elderly patients interfacing with nanotechnology and a virtual reality town, sometimes it is the mind that gets sick. That’s why you need a staff psychiatrist. For Golden, that is Dr. Billy Watson, who is the only person who goes in and out of Golden on a regular basis. Not only is it his job to welcome new residents to the town but to serve as a Grim Reaper when it is time for a resident to die.
Golden is the perfect retirement village for a generation that isn’t ready for retirement. This world is shattered, though, when things go awry. Now it is up to Fred, Billy and Jenny to set things right before government agents shut down the town.

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