A young, beautiful and near orphaned Mun. A young girl, married to a hustler, Sulieman. A man she trusts completely in her innocence. Shakila, a very high end link in the flesh trade. Ahmed, a good samaritan. Or is he? Rama, a guest house owner. All of them versus the young innocent Mun and her mystical blue bottle. A simple, innocent, beautiful, young child woman full of heart whose life unfolds in front of her. Will she survive the ordeal? Will the mystical blue bottle help her or hinder her? The blue bottle, a saga of faith and hope in the face of adversity. A saga of the need to believe in something more than yourself.

If you loved Maxine the Rainbow Cow, you're sure to fall in love with her baby bull, Ben. Maxine and Ben is the tale of a very special Mommy cow and her baby. Trouble begins on the Murphy dairy farm when the family decides they have no room for a non-milking bull. Abbie Murphy, Maxine's best human friend, finds a way - once again - to save the day and keep Maxine and her baby together. Fall in love all over again in this charming tale of a little girl, her pet cow, and baby Ben.

Fix Me By EL George, author of Goodbye Unicorns "Why can't you fix me, Mommy? You always do. You're the only one who fixes me." "Hush." Hush was the word from my favorite bedtime song. It was the one where Mommy promised to give me the world and never, ever let anyone hurt me. But Mockingbirds did sing. I'd heard them. And I was too young for a diamond ring anyway. All I wanted was for her to fix me ... again. This time was different. This time, Mommy didn't bring me to the doctors where they'd give me stickers and take my blood. This time, she said I wasn't sick enough. Mommy looked sad. She wanted me to fix her. I knew there was only one way to do that so I forced out a cough. She smiled. "Can you fix me, Mommy?" "Yes. I'm the only one." She pulled out the blue stuff that tasted like the car wash. I wanted to throw up but smiled anyway. Anything to make Mommy happy. *** Fix Me is the story of a little girl named Josephine who only has one wish: To be normal like the other kids and not have to repeat another year of school for too many medical absences. But to get there, it will take making her mother-a sufferer of caregiver fabricated syndrome-healthy again. Josephine after all, is the only one who can pull it off - if time doesn't run out for her first...

VirtueA Crazy Ink anthologyWe've all heard of the seven deadly sins.But lesser known are the seven virtues that give us our humanity.Faith is belief in the right things.Hope is taking a positive future view that good will prevail.Charity is concern for, and active helping of, others.Fortitude is never giving up.Justice is being fair and equitable with others.Prudence is care of and moderation with money.Temperance is moderation of needed things and abstinence from things which are not needed.Seven authors will take on the seven virtues in a zany multi-genre mash up in hopes of restoring faith in the human condition.Join us as we shed a light on the good in humankind...

It wasn't realistic for me to think that I could change the world. But it didn't mean I couldn't get my hands a little dirty and save all the children who came across my desk. That's why I became a social worker; to make a difference in kids' lives. I was doing it-one day, one kid at a time-until I met Faith. Faith changed everything. For a kid too young to even really talk, her smile said everything I needed to hear. The way she reached for me as I shuffled her from visit to visit with her drug-addicted mom spoke louder than any plea she could have shouted. I heard her. Even the guardian ad litem, the guy appointed to protect her, knew. Everyone did, except the law. The day I handed her back was one of the hardest of my life. It's this pesky thing called 'minimum standard of care.' It's the law and the law doesn't listen to one-year-olds who'd probably rather not grow up in shelters with mothers who don't believe in daily feedings. They told me I couldn't save the world. They told me not to try. I took it as a dare and said, "watch me." *** Losing Faith is the story of social worker Aster Henderson and her battle to save a little girl known as Faith. Fighting against a broken system and people who've simply given up, Aster finds herself with a decision to make - to break the very laws she's sworn to work within, or, to follow the rules. Sometimes, when a child's life depends on it, things get murky . . . At least, for the ones who really care.

TTYS?People say, "I'm never going on a blind date, again!" "Why?" We ask. "Don't get me started," they say. Then they start:"He wore coveralls to dinner at a fancy restaurant." "He ordered five courses of the most expensive food, plus drinks, and expected me to pick up the tab." "He thought a burger and a bag of fries was enough to get into my pants. Not!" "She's one-foot taller and didn't want my face in her boobs while we danced. Where else was I supposed to put my tongue?""He talked about his ex-lovers, but didn't ask me about my dead ones." "The lady didn't say a dozen words. My dog's better company. And what a dog she was." "He proposed because he'll be deported next week unless he gets a wife by Friday." "She wore her prison clothes. She just got out of the 'joint' and didn't have time to shop.""He wanted to borrow my credit card for 'just a few days.'" "She wants to be a 'trophy wife.' Some trophy--I'd have to hide her in a closet."Blind date fiascos like these will pale in comparison to what Crazy Ink authors have shared in this zany collection of blind dates gone horribly wrong...

"Goodbye, unicorns." "What?" My heart dropped. "What?" was a stupid question. I knew exactly what she meant. Still, it was hardly the kind of thing I expected to hear a seven-year-old girl mumble as she headed out her bedroom door for what would probably be the last time. To an onlooker, it might make sense. Her room was, in fact, a pink and purple web of horned horses she'd spent more than half her life believing in. But I knew the rest of the story. And her words told me this was worse than a kid finding out about Santa. 'Goodbye unicorns' wasn't happening. Not on my watch. The true story of a little girl looking to find a new faith in the world after losing her mother to the drug epidemic, Goodbye Unicorns is a story of love, loss, rebuilding, and what it takes to restore magic for a kid has no reason to believe it exists... Could you have faith again?

Authors who love a good challenge--and a good charity--come together with holiday stories inspired by feline friends. Kitten Tails is a limited-release collection of stories included in The Unlimited Tails Series, all of which benefit the Independent Cat Society.

Writers take inspiration from their experiences and those of oth-ers. They also harvest the colors, tastes, smells, tactile stimulus, and sounds around them, and the world in which they reside or wish they could to write their tales. Henry David Thoreau wrote, "This world is but a canvas to our imagination."For this anthology, Art Inspires Words, we literally gave the writers a painted canvas to spark their creativity. The only limitation set on each author was that the famous painting he/she selected must be the muse for the story. That's how the stories you are about to read were created. Art inspired more art, this time in the form of words. Re-lax in your most comfortable space and enjoy.