Robert Brumm

Kelly Raney ends her relationship with her abusive boyfriend the day she leaves him bleeding on the bedroom floor after an exceptionally violent fight. She grabs their toddler son Keegan, and the two flee town with a few dollars and the clothes on their backs.

Her car breaks down outside the small village of Black Water Creek. Kelly reluctantly stays with the local auto mechanic and his wife until she can get back on her feet. She lands a job, moves into an isolated cottage by the river, and dreams of a fresh start and stable life for her son.

Despite swearing off men, she finds herself falling for her boss, a handsome and kind Army Ranger combat veteran with his own troubled past. Just when it seems like Kelly is finally getting her life together and may have found real love, vivid dreams of torture and murder, taking place in her own quaint cottage, plague her nights and haunt her days.

She starts to investigate the dark past of what she thought was her dream home. To make matters worse, she suspects her ex has tracked her down, looking for revenge and threatening to destroy her new life.

Spring break is over. Richard Bowman has resigned to keep his head down and finish his sophomore year at Grafton High School the way he started it – academically fair to middling, socially mediocre, and romantically well below average.

When the opportunity to befriend a group of senior guys lands in Rich’s lap practically overnight, he steps out of his comfort zone of weekends in front of his Commodore 64 to a world of cigarette smoke, basement beer kegs, and promiscuous members of the opposite sex.

In the meantime, the admin for a local online bulletin board asks Rich to hold onto a mysterious encrypted computer file. Rich reluctantly agrees, only to find it may put him and his entire family in danger.

Blackhawk Blues is a coming of age trip down memory lane lined with mullets, pegged pants, hair bands, and cell phones the size of toaster ovens. A simple and better time. Or was it?

Howard Bell thought he hit rock bottom the day he returned to his former employer with a loaded gun. Instead of putting a scare into his ex-boss as he intended, things quickly get out of hand, and he kills five people.

Howard is sentenced to life at an experimental prison camp off the coast of Antarctica, and he soon learns the true definition of “rock bottom.” Prison life at the remote island involves back-breaking work in the illegal mine run by the corrupt warden and his abusive guards.

After a mysterious object is discovered deep in the mine, the inmates and staff start dying from an unknown infection. Howard is lucky to find himself one of the few survivors immune to the pathogen, but he and his fellow inmates learn something far more sinister and terrifying also has emerged from the mine. The truly lucky ones are already dead.

The people living aboard the massive starship Ascension have no knowledge of the universe outside the hull of their home. For generations they’ve lived out their simple lives with no records of where they’ve come from or where they are headed.

The Earth, home of their ancestors, has been washed away with the passage of time. In the bowels of the ship lies the chapel, a room filled with mysterious chambers holding sleeping men and women who the passengers have deemed as gods.

Life aboard the Ascension has been quiet, until one day the gods start waking up. According to the scriptures of their religion, that can only mean one thing. Their world is about to end.

Immortality is pretty cool. For a while. For centuries I was witness to the rise and fall of humanity. But I never thought it would end for me this way. Floating through space until the end of time. Just me and my dead friend Nancy.

It’s Hank Reed’s birthday. As a citizen of the United Federation of Nations that means a mandatory death sentence simply because he turned sixty years old. Referred to as “retirement,” it’s one of the desperate steps the government has taken to curb overpopulation. Retirement is a widely accepted fact of life on a dying planet ruled by a tyrannical government. Hank’s execution goes ahead as planned but state sponsored euthanasia isn’t what it seems. The Reed family learns what really happens to retirees when secrets the UFN keep from the public start to unravel.

Warning. May contain traces of the following:

Talking cats and dogs, a serial killer on dialysis, testicle dissecting robots, prostitutes getting shot in the back, a meth head burned alive, a decapitated head kicked across the room, a puggle tempted to eat fresh vomit, a woman with a hangover wearing a Reggie White t-shirt, a pink litter box, and the extinction of the human race.

After three years in Mississippi State Penitentiary, Carl O’Donell re-enters society with simple plans – get back to work pushing drugs and keeping an eye on his younger brother Jimmy. He quickly learns that not only has Jimmy been committed after yet another failed suicide attempt, but his old boss is dead at the hands of Mexican drug lord Armando Vega as well.

Carl’s only way to quick cash and a fresh start is through Armando. Carl is hired for a simple assignment of busting up a rival meth lab that turns complicated and deadly. Now Carl and his brother are on the run from the cartel as well as the police after a messy robbery. It would be a lot harder to find them if they didn’t leave so many bodies in their wake.