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Get Out, You Ghosts: Stories from the Workshops Volume II (2021)
Some ghosts look back at us from a mirror,
while others hold us to a tragedy in our past.This second volume of Stories from the Workshops consists of a novella and 9 short works whose characters attempt to bring the ghosts into the light or, instead, embrace what is spectral and nefarious.
Full description at the bottom of the book page.
Paperback is signed by the author and includes a special bookmark.
Kindle edition also available.
Published by Silk Raven Press. 297 pages.
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Everything’s Ephemeral: Stories from the Workshops Volume I (2021)
“What happens between the movements of the second hand
can last a lifetime—if you don’t blink.”From Michael-Patrick Harrington comes a suite of 21 stories that explores the moments between light and dark, moments in which the choice to be damned or to be redeemed is as elusive as it is ephemeral.
Full description at the bottom of the book page.
Paperback is signed by the author and includes a special bookmark.
Kindle edition also available.
Published by Silk Raven Press. 304 pages.
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The Distant Sound of Boiling Tea (2015)
Ever notice how the whistle of a boiling tea kettle sounds like a scream?
When a female teacher seduces Ruth’s fifteen-year-old son, the aftermath consumes the entire town, and the stage is set for confrontation. But neither woman takes much notice of Ruth’s husband’s growing obsession of the teacher.
Full description at the bottom of the book page.
Paperback is signed by the author and includes a special bookmark.
Kindle edition also available.
Published by Silk Raven Press. 162 pages.
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Sweater Girl and Other Tales of Mondauk County (2014)
Welcome to Mondauk County
Where the Past is Never Past
Sweater Girl and Other Tales of Mondauk County is a collection of novellas and stories that explores the condition of morbid nostalgia: being so bound to the past that it poisons the present and chokes the future.
Full description at the bottom of the book page.
Paperback is signed by the author and includes a special bookmark.
Kindle edition is also available.
Published by Silk Raven Press. 370 pages.
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Saving Magdelene: A Novel (2013)
If terrorism begins at home, then school bullies are the first wave…
Thirteen year-old Magdalene Barrows is still reeling from her brother Michael’s disappearance the previous summer. Now another child has vanished. There’s been a shooting in a second grade classroom. Eight-year-old Katie has a ring of bruises around her arm. And Magdalene believes the bullies are to blame.
Full description at the bottom of the book page.
Paperback is signed by the author and includes a special bookmark.
Kindle and Nook editions also available.
Published by Silk Raven Press. 668 pages.
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I See No Angels (2004; second edition 2013)
Revised Second Edition!
Enter a world without angels in three novellas, one each for Purgatory, Limbo, and Hell: The Priest’s Story or The Singing Bones, Wake Up and Breathe!, and The Gift Room. “The Gift Room knows no boundaries,” Father would say, “it knows no rules, only what we bring to it – only reflections.”
Full description at the bottom of the book page.
Paperback is signed by the author and includes a special bookmark.
Kindle edition also available.
Published by Silk Raven Press. 288 pages.
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Deep Autumn (2003; second edition 2013)
Revised Second Edition!
The time between the waning of the Hunter’s Moon and All Hallows’ Eve is what the old-timers call Deep Autumn, when the clocks will be turned back and the curtains drawn against unwanted eyes.It is a period of reminiscences and backward glances. It is the season of sleepless nights when accumulated sins flicker in the mind’s eye like leave dancing in the bitter wind. Presented here are fifteen stories of the fall—and the lies and regrets that accompany the plummet.
Full description at the bottom of the book page.
Paperback is signed by the author and includes a special bookmark.
Kindle edition also available.
Published by Silk Raven Press. 222 pages.