Salon Style is a collection of writers, poets, and artists with unique voices and incredible vision in diverse genres such as Gothic/Horror, Sci-Fi, Women’s Lit, and Americana. Salon Style features stories by emerging writers M.P. Diederich, Dan Ress, Casey Ellis (Startling Sci-Fi: New Tales of the Beyond), Jack Bates, Lucy Black, and established writers John Rodzvilla, John Vicary, Stefanie Freele, and P.J. Schaefer (Behind the Yellow Wallpaper: New Tales of Madness). It includes works by notable poets Michele Seminara, Reymond Drew, and Mike Algera. Salon Style also features art by NLSP veterans Nathan Mark Phillips (Southern Gothic: New Tales of the South) and Michael Tice (Retrospective). Illustrations by Carrion House, photography by Jessica Hoard, and drawings by Sarah-Jean Krahn complete this varied collection.

PLEASE NOTE: This anthology contains scenes with graphic depictions of sexual acts between consenting and wildly enthusiastic adults. We advise readers to read a maximum of two stories at a time to reduce the risk of overheating. Sex can be the greatest pleasure or the deepest disappointment. It’s an expression of love, a few moments of fun, the way to scratch an itch, a lifetime commitment and all with two (or more) bodies tangled in the dark. The human form comes together in perfect harmony, like musical instruments coming together to create the ultimate composition or concert.. Twelve authors have penned tales of sex, crime, revenge, ego, espionage, and unexplainable events, each involving a musical instrument commonly found in an orchestra. Couples, threesomes, group sex, same-sex, multiple partners, a bit of bondage, and one mermaid—no matter who they are or what configuration they choose to satisfy their lust, all participants soon learn it’s not just about sex. Of course, with just one wrong note…it’s murder. Sex & Violins features stories of crime and intimacy by Jack Bates, Laura Hazan, Anna V. Nelson, Chandler Christie, Albert Tucher, Shari Held, Karen Keeley, Joseph S. Walker, Linda K. Hardie, Steve Liskow, Wendy Harrison and Sandra Murphy.

This book is a day-to-day account of the life of Jack E. Bates, a resident of Horseheads, New York, while serving his country in World War II. He originally "volunteered" for the infantry in 1944, but transferred to the Army Air Corp. After training as an armor gunner, he was assigned to a crew and sent to Australia where he served with the 2nd Bombardment Squadron, 22nd Bombardment Group, Fifth Air Force. He spent his entire military career, up to the end of the war, in the Pacific theater. The diary follows him as he moves from base to base and throughout his forty-one missions. Jack Bates kept an amazingly accurate account of the things that went on around him including the bombing missions, etc. His diary follows him right through to the end of the war and his arrival back in the United States. The diary is augmented by three maps; a missions chart with detailed information concerning each of his missions; 189 photos of people, places and things; and a list of over two hundred servicemen who came in contact with Jack Bates while he was the postmaster of the unit at the end of the war. A bibliography and an index to full-names, places and subjects add to the value of this work.

Rebellious teen Robbie Willette thinks her life sucks. Her grades aren't the greatest. Her dad hates her "older" boyfriend. And her mom keeps Robbie on a short leash. Just as her life is improving, a plague crawls over the planet, mutating humans into zombies. Is the world too dangerous a place to discover what she needs most-hope?

Colt Buchanan's life changes in a matter of minutes when his mother and father are ripped away from him during a surprise dust storm that leaves their Wyoming cabin in nothing but splinters. It's a moment they've prepared for all his life, but at ten years old, he's not sure what comes next. When he climbs from the cellar, he realizes that this was no ordinary dust storm. The devastation was done by something more powerful...more sinister. Something man-made. But Colt is rescued before any further harm can come to him by Captain Conrad Givens who pilots an amazing invention that flies in the air. Givens takes Colt to the safety of Fort Discovery, a place where Colt learns how important his parents' scientific work has been-and that he's not alone. There are many other brilliant children there, as well-children whose parents had extraordinary scientific skills just like Colt's parents did. And someone is making orphans of them all. When danger threatens Fort Discovery, there's only one choice Colt can make. He has to do whatever it takes to protect the enlightened community that exists there-teachers, scientists, and students alike. But how can he defeat the formidable enemy, Anvil Smith? With the help of his friends and Pecos Bill, Colt realizes he's more than "just a kid"-and saving Fort Discovery is the only way to find out where his parents are!

A tsunami-sized crime wave of hardboiled noir from some of the most enduring names in crime fiction, outside of the New York Five. This is the biggest, most robust issue of Switchblade yet. An all-star lineup, brimming with hard luck tales from some of the best outlaw fiction storytellers in print. Court Merrigan and Rob Pierce are in this issue. Indianapolis crime writer, and managing editor of Pulp Modern, Alec Cizak, has a story in this issue. Switchblade usual suspects Preston Lang, Jack Bates, Robb T. White, Rick Risemberg, and Lisa Douglass, are back and sharper than ever. New prospects Tom Andes, Tony Genova, E.F. Sweetman, David Rachels, Danny Sophabmisay, Chris McGinley, Timothy Friend, and Tom Barlow, have been jumped in to the fold. Sharp and deadly, quick and dirty; it's the fast action gutter mag that fits into your back pocket. Featuring the soul-searing poetry of Lisa Douglass.

Much was written and copied in this book about Julius and Mildred Fischbach and their Christian journey and their influence on the greater Lansing and other areas in their ministry.Also the many people and children that were influenced by their lives and they showed them the way to their personal faith journey.Members of The Peoples Church will enjoy knowing more about this great Christian team (THE COUPLE IN THE LIBRARY) and many will say "I remember" and they will reaffirm their faith.I hope that many others reading this book will say to themselves, "I will try to be like them" and the world will become a better world because of the GOD GIVEN GIFT OF THE FISCHBACH'S to the world.