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Dark Union

After witnessing a barefoot bank robber two blocks from his office, an iron-fisted boss who’d ran the longshoreman’s union since the 1930s hires Mike to find the killer of his granddaughter, a loose-morals woman who slept with both sides of a labor war. The victim’s sister was a client’s secretary in his prior case, and Mike is drawn to her petite seductiveness and unabashed claims on him. A second murder confuses his case.

Dark Tattoo

Mike becomes embroiled in the Patty Hearst kidnap case when he discovers the missing man he seeks was invited to join the Symbionese Liberation Army, the ragtag revolutionary group who kidnapped Hearst. Mike navigates feelings for an admired female FBI agent and gets caught in the web of a voracious nymphomaniac, half-sister to the missing man.

Dark Sleep

What do missing Romanov Czarist Jewels have to do with Mike Angel private eye? Mike gets between remnants of killer White Russians and Soviets after tripping over a triple murder case he’s warned not to investigate by the new Portland Police Chief.

Dark Red

Mike and Molly are married on Christmas Day in 1967, but upon leaving the Reno chapel a stray bullet strikes Molly in the head. As desperate weeks and months pass with Molly in a coma, Mike cannot go south to find the shooter. Sanity forces him to take on a routine insurance fraud case, reported stolen jewelry by a mysterious redhead. Her connections throw Mike into the world of international drug cartels, ice pick murders, and even an apparition in Tonopah, Arizona.

Dark Quarry

Lust stalks Mike Angel as he stalks his father’s killers. The first of the Mike Angel Mysteries of historical, erotic novels. Set in the New York/New Jersey and Chicago areas in 1960. Plenty of action and seduction in this case connected to the infamous Purple Gang of the 1930s.

Dark Poison

When a grotesque and melodramatic female seeks protection from a convict Mike helped to send up, his scar needles heat up. After she slips Mike a mysterious substance in his coffee he suffers near total paralysis. While she rifles his office, he can only watch her take a file and leave. The next morning he awakes and tries to identify what was taken. Once he pinpoints the case file he stumbles through a chain of events involving three murders.

Dark Moon

Set in Portland, Oregon, 1965. Mike befriends an eccentric veteran with a drinking problem, whose estranged wife has been sleeping with hoodlums and racketeers. One night the man shows up at Mike’s office asking for a ride to the US side of the Canadian border. On the way the man discloses his wife had been murdered and he was being framed. Expecting a nice quiet life and a new start with love interest Molly Bennett, Mike is shaken by the history of crime and corruption still going on.

Dark Lake

Here is the steamiest of the Mike Angel Mystery series! Angel, a 32-year-old private eye in Chicago, rescues a mysterious bound beauty from a firebombing, which begins a chase into a white-slaver and murder for profit ring that lures conventioneers into sex shows and dumps victims into Lake Michigan.

Dark Idol

Amidst racial divisions in 1964 Chicago, Mike receives an anonymous note with a 1934 $10,000 Federal Reserve Note and a cryptic message that the bill is payment for unspecified future trouble. Tracking down the sender spins into a 40 year old kidnapping case involving four US Army officers in World War One, stolen gold with connections to the French Bonnot gang (the first to use autos in bank robberies), a Babylonian sex goddess cult, and trouble from Henry Ford's grandson.

Dark Jaws

Mike takes on a case searching for a stolen inheritance. The next day his dowager client is killed on a downtown Portland street. Clues she left leads Mike on a meandering case with murder, seduction and twists over three states, chasing a carnival con man and his stolen and counterfeit money. The finale carnival act involves a dangerous dance of death over an alligator tank. A twisted path takes Mike to Hardin Montana for the reenactment of Sitting Bull’s victory over Custer at Little Big Horn.

Dark Fantasy

In late 1966, the world’s richest man, Howard Hughes, took occupancy of the top two floors of the Desert Inn on the Strip in Las Vegas. After his time was up he refused to vacate the space, and wound up buying the Inn for thirteen million dollars from the Mob.

Earlier that year Mike and Rick were called to an empty apartment where the body of a world-famous glamour model, a twin, was posed with flowers. The scene tipped Mike’s equilibrium, and when the surviving twin hit town he struggled with

Dark House

In what Mike hopes will be his last case, he eventually comes face to face with a man he believes is D.B. Cooper, the infamous hijacker of Northwest Airlines Flight 305 on Nov. 24, 1971. When Mike renovates an old house to begin a new career, he uncovers a shrouded corpse. The wrapper turns out to be the very parachute D.B. Cooper jumped with.

Dark Drama

Dark Drama, the 12th novel in the series set in Portland in 1971, Mike Angel stumbles into his office during a power outage to discover a stunning look-alike for Hollywood actress Hedy Lamarr posed in his loveseat. At first he talks to the woman, then discovers to his horror she’s been murdered with a bullet in her brain. His partner discovers Mike’s business card in the dead woman’s panties. The murder leads Mike to the girl’s family, then into a thicket of smut film productions made to order

Dark Blonde

Wealthy, mysterious Julia hires PI Mike Angel to find her missing sister — but the case takes a perilous turn, throwing Mike and his partner into an underground world of mobsters, corrupt politicians, and deadly crimes of passion! A riveting page-turner set in 1960s Chicago.

Dark Eyes

n 1969 private eye Mike Angel works a routine missing persons case that falls into Albina, the black section of Portland, where a seductive light-skinned siren coaxes Mike to help black businessmen carry out a boycott of corrupt white bar owners and illegal gambling. She also coaxes him carnally, as does an infamous black fan dancer, in cahoots with white bar owners run by mysterious brothers.

Dark Conspiracy

In another complex case, Mike is shot after chasing a naked blonde down a dark street one wet night in Portland, Oregon. His near death experience, surgery and a long recovery convince him that the time’s right to marry Molly Bennett. But first Mike vows to catch the killer, whose victim turns out to be the granddaughter of the L.A. mob boss, Nick Licata. The girl was involved with a Marxist group headed by a Reed College professor, who heads anti-war rallies at the school and holds perverted bo

Dark Arson

Murderous arson in Mike's neighborhood leads to a luscious redhead client, which leads to the infamous Eddie Bentz, bank robber of the 1930s, 40s who has disgruntled cohorts after his many stashes of securities. One such hoodlum is the only man to have escaped from Alcatraz, a man the FBI refuses to believe is alive. Set in Portland in 1975, adult themes of sex and violence.

The Stamp of Guilt

An 8 year old Oregon boy and his family visit Grandfather John in Arkansas and is given a gift of postage stamps for his collection. Upon his return home the boy is startled by one of the stamps and struggles with returning the stamps. Readers have declared this tale "A Norman Rockwell painting..." with "an Edgar Allen Poe knife ending."

The Mysterious "O" Letters

Bill lived alone with his dog Ahab in a grand old house in the woods that his Uncle and late Father built in the 1930s. After Uncle Orville left him with a half-remodeled house and a leaky roof, Bill began receiving letters signed "O" containing clues that only his Uncle would have known. He remembered ghost stories his uncle used to tell about visits in the remote woods.

Tree House

A boy discovers the price of popularity and struggles for the courage to resist acts he knows is wrong. Boyhood, tree houses in the country, and befriending an old man all lead to the climax of this adventure tale.

The Seduction of Quentin

Quentin tells the story in his vernacular of growing up in Crawford County Arkansas and of his Pa's desperate gamble to grow strawberries on a failed piece of land; of Reba Truitt, a sultry and aggressive neighbor woman with designs on his virginity; and lastly of a tornado, which changes his world and changes him forever.

Treasure on Hope Mountain

Blocked writer Jim Davis returns to the mountains above Idaho City to search for the remains of a lost cabin where Old Swede mined in the late 1930s. He'd invited Steve, an old friend, to help in the search but discovers that when his wife left him over his writing obsession she went to Steve for a time. The struggle with the truth about his wife, about his blocked writing, and the need to find answers to the legend of the Old Swede lead to an amazing discovery high on Hope Mountain.

Thornton's Apprentice

Roseburg, Oregon, 1974: adopted parents abandoned Daggett, a young man nearly out of high school, to work on the Alaska pipeline. He watches trains then hops a freight where he meets Jenny, an intellectual beauty who is starving. Sharing his food with her and watching her sleep he becomes entranced; then accepts her invitation to stay with her father in Reno, Thornton Oranbee, a retired English Literature professor there.

The Woman in 3A

23 year old virgin, Thomas Warren, becomes a real live peeping Tom in his rooming house when he discovers a plated hole in his closet wall into a sexy and mysterious female's apartment. If that's not enough, his sultry landlady stirs up his fantasies, and strange goings on late at night.

You Can't Help What You Think

Older man with ambitous younger attorney wife grows increasingly disillusioned with wife's loss of passion for him; he embarks on a voyeuristic episode across two high rises. He becomes obsessed with the couple and the woman who dances in the nude in front of her windows, illuminated only by candlelight.

Why Can't We Live in the Country?

20 years after he married his opposite, Bunny, a permanently optimistic woman, Frank returns with her to Reno, the site of his lowest ebb before meeting her. Now he stands on the edge of bankruptcy and the loss of their home, but he hasn't yet told her of his business failure.....

The Immortal Spirit of Ipetlatah

Three literary, magical-realism SHORT STORIES totalling 5700 words. "The Immortal Ipetlatah" tells of the strange transmigration of a spirit who lived eons in Fort Rock, a volcanic oddity in Southeast Oregon desert, and his symbiosis with natives and other living creatures until wagon trains rolled into his sacred maar.

The Cruelest Game

Nick Kouras became addicted to backgammon a few years after his bride of only a few days abandoned him. When he started seeing a flash of what the next dice would be, Nick used the gift to enter and win tournaments. His wins led to a special invite and a chance to go up against Hamid Jones, world champion and treacherous opponent. The final game and its aftermath will shock you as much as it did Nick.

Self Edit Your Novel

In today’s publishing world many writers can neither find nor afford a professional editor. The only editing such writers benefit from is self-editing. Fears, a recognized Twain scholar, argues against the common notion that an independent novelist must hire an editor to turn out a good novel and proposes writers learn the skill set of an editor.

Sand Rhymes

An aging poet, divorced and suffering from writer's block, returns to an isolated coastal town to grapple with regrets and rediscover the magic of great poetry. He meets a mother and her newly divorced daughter. Attracted to both yet conflicted by memories and regrets of his wife and the need to once again win the NW Poetry contest, he mentally tries on the advantages and disadvantages of falling for either.

Sadeq's Chess Sacrifice

Sadeq's father migrated to the US when Sadeq was a child. He grew up in Oregon and lost his wife in a storm at sea on his fishing boat. Since then he lived in Astoria, and made a scant living by washing windows in the town. Most of the time he hung out at a pub where chess tournaments drew the best players from up and down the coast. It was during the first invasion of Iraq that Sadeq's challenge by the bully champion came, when the townspeople grew more intolerant of foreigners.

Revival

When Joey's dog Max eats poison and dies, Joey searches for enough faith and prayer to ask God to raise Max from the dead, believing God will do that very thing if he believes enough. Joey is an orphan who lives with his grandparents on their farm. His grandfather hasn't spoken in years. The story examines levels of faith, from believing with outward evidence, to no evidence, to the highest level, believing with evidence to the contrary.

Pretty Boy Floyd

A 75 year old man attempts to help struggling Oklahoma farmers close to losing their land by following the memories, legend and tradition of the local Robin Hood hero, Pretty Boy Floyd. Though he treasures his boyhood memories of Floyd and was given one of Floyd's pistols, the old man's nerves unravel as the plot to rob the Sallishaw, Okla. bank unfolds.

Pretend I am her

Tom and Ellen had previously suffered failed marriages, so both agreed to a rather "open" marriage, as long as neither slept out or was affectionate with others in front of the other. For Tom this had worked well, though increasingly he felt pitfalls. When Ellen pushed a co-worker Lana on Tom at a party, he discovered Ellen had been having a once-a-week affair with an older, wealthy widower.

Joanna's Ghost

Joe Martin lived a precarious existence In Central America, torn between past Peace Corps dreams of his late wife, and the promise of a much younger young woman student. The political dangers of the country bring violence to the small village of San Balboa, including the growing enmity of the police commisioner Horba, who is determined to expell Martin and all Americans

My Brother's Keeper

Mystery with lighthearted elements.
Benjamin the sensible brother decides to escape from Los Angeles with Brent, his reckless brother, to Port Angeles Washington, after Brent bilked a society woman out of a pile of money and her husband threatened them. On their very first day in the sleepy port they witness two thugs abducting a stunning female to board a ferry to Victoria, Canada.

Heaven From the Top of a Cherry Tree

Bill Martin, weary from decades of selling irrigation supplies throughout the West, sees a mysterious woman waiting in a 1949 Buick convertible at the train station one night in Cheyenne, Wyoming. When she appears to be in distress he moves toward her but she quickly drives off. The next day her butler visits Martin at his hotel and requests he come to the woman's home. Discovering her to be a retired movie actress of some repute, suffering from a terminal heart condition.....

Ice Woman

Awakened in the middle of a zero degree winter night by sobs out in the street, Robert Wright saw a scantily clad apparition walking in the middle of the street. By the time he got dressed and followed her, she was gone. The next day would lead him by her footsteps to investigate a dangerous cave and stumble into murder and kidnapping.

General Delivery, Back From 'Nam

Back from Vietnam to small town John Day Oregon, Nick struggles with survivor's guilt from a firefight and tries to pick up his life again, when he is shocked by the wink of an eccentric and flashy girl in an old MG with an albino crow. He tries for days to find her and thinks he might have imagined the scene. He goes to the post office daily for letters from Charlie, a buddy in Saigon who lost a leg, and is helped there by Smith, a plain looking postal worker.

Drug Store Venus

Five Erotic short stories totalling 10,442 words. A coming of age tale about a young man who gets bad advice on sex from his buddy; a blind man who has an operation on his eyes has his fantasy fulfilled before the bandages are removed; a man hides an affair from a controlling abusive wife; an Arkansas teen gets a sexual overload and education from a 28 yr old woman during a tornado.

Auditing The Class

Professor Philip Brannon becomes entranced with a sexy blonde student who announces she's auditing his class to avoid accusations of sleeping with him for an A grade.

Bizarre Tales

Looking for something different? Something that defies category? 1) "Many a Good Man" is a haunting trip that dumbfounds a young man after seeing a shapely woman sunbathing. Do they really rob banks? 2) "Something Woke Me" finds a young man revisiting his parents' history, including a critical moment that might deny his birth....

44 Collected Stories

44 of David H. Fears' best short stories (written under the pen name of DH Henry) were culled for inclusion here, including revisions not before published. We believe there is something for everyone here in this diverse and stimulating collection by an extraordinary storyteller—from magical realism, romance, mystery, literary, fantasy, history, humor, and suspense (adult themes).

The Hermits Last Wish

Here are five short stories in the vein of Brothers Grimm. (12,500 words; 50 pages). The title story is a sinister tale of a mysterious hermit living alone on a mountain. What was his past in the town that had forgotten him? "Bird of Summer, Bird of Winter" is a haunting tale about depression and the colorless world it inflicts. "Stamp of Guilt" has been described as a 'Norman Rockwell painting with a dagger ending from Edgar Allen Poe."

Dark Union

After witnessing a barefoot bank robber two blocks from his office, an iron-fisted boss who’d ran the longshoreman’s union since the 1930s hires Mike to find the killer of his granddaughter, a loose-morals woman who slept with both sides of a labor war. The victim’s sister was a client’s secretary in his prior case, and Mike is drawn to her petite seductiveness and unabashed claims on him. A second murder confuses his case.

Dark Tattoo

Mike becomes embroiled in the Patty Hearst kidnap case when he discovers the missing man he seeks was invited to join the Symbionese Liberation Army, the ragtag revolutionary group who kidnapped Hearst. Mike navigates feelings for an admired female FBI agent and gets caught in the web of a voracious nymphomaniac, half-sister to the missing man.

Dark Sleep

What do missing Romanov Czarist Jewels have to do with Mike Angel private eye? Mike gets between remnants of killer White Russians and Soviets after tripping over a triple murder case he’s warned not to investigate by the new Portland Police Chief.

Dark Red

Mike and Molly are married on Christmas Day in 1967, but upon leaving the Reno chapel a stray bullet strikes Molly in the head. As desperate weeks and months pass with Molly in a coma, Mike cannot go south to find the shooter. Sanity forces him to take on a routine insurance fraud case, reported stolen jewelry by a mysterious redhead. Her connections throw Mike into the world of international drug cartels, ice pick murders, and even an apparition in Tonopah, Arizona.

Dark Quarry

Lust stalks Mike Angel as he stalks his father’s killers. The first of the Mike Angel Mysteries of historical, erotic novels. Set in the New York/New Jersey and Chicago areas in 1960. Plenty of action and seduction in this case connected to the infamous Purple Gang of the 1930s.

Dark Poison

When a grotesque and melodramatic female seeks protection from a convict Mike helped to send up, his scar needles heat up. After she slips Mike a mysterious substance in his coffee he suffers near total paralysis. While she rifles his office, he can only watch her take a file and leave. The next morning he awakes and tries to identify what was taken. Once he pinpoints the case file he stumbles through a chain of events involving three murders.

Dark Moon

Set in Portland, Oregon, 1965. Mike befriends an eccentric veteran with a drinking problem, whose estranged wife has been sleeping with hoodlums and racketeers. One night the man shows up at Mike’s office asking for a ride to the US side of the Canadian border. On the way the man discloses his wife had been murdered and he was being framed. Expecting a nice quiet life and a new start with love interest Molly Bennett, Mike is shaken by the history of crime and corruption still going on.

Dark Lake

Here is the steamiest of the Mike Angel Mystery series! Angel, a 32-year-old private eye in Chicago, rescues a mysterious bound beauty from a firebombing, which begins a chase into a white-slaver and murder for profit ring that lures conventioneers into sex shows and dumps victims into Lake Michigan.

Dark Idol

Amidst racial divisions in 1964 Chicago, Mike receives an anonymous note with a 1934 $10,000 Federal Reserve Note and a cryptic message that the bill is payment for unspecified future trouble. Tracking down the sender spins into a 40 year old kidnapping case involving four US Army officers in World War One, stolen gold with connections to the French Bonnot gang (the first to use autos in bank robberies), a Babylonian sex goddess cult, and trouble from Henry Ford's grandson.

Dark Jaws

Mike takes on a case searching for a stolen inheritance. The next day his dowager client is killed on a downtown Portland street. Clues she left leads Mike on a meandering case with murder, seduction and twists over three states, chasing a carnival con man and his stolen and counterfeit money. The finale carnival act involves a dangerous dance of death over an alligator tank. A twisted path takes Mike to Hardin Montana for the reenactment of Sitting Bull’s victory over Custer at Little Big Horn.

Dark Fantasy

In late 1966, the world’s richest man, Howard Hughes, took occupancy of the top two floors of the Desert Inn on the Strip in Las Vegas. After his time was up he refused to vacate the space, and wound up buying the Inn for thirteen million dollars from the Mob.

Earlier that year Mike and Rick were called to an empty apartment where the body of a world-famous glamour model, a twin, was posed with flowers. The scene tipped Mike’s equilibrium, and when the surviving twin hit town he struggled with

Dark House

In what Mike hopes will be his last case, he eventually comes face to face with a man he believes is D.B. Cooper, the infamous hijacker of Northwest Airlines Flight 305 on Nov. 24, 1971. When Mike renovates an old house to begin a new career, he uncovers a shrouded corpse. The wrapper turns out to be the very parachute D.B. Cooper jumped with.

Dark Drama

Dark Drama, the 12th novel in the series set in Portland in 1971, Mike Angel stumbles into his office during a power outage to discover a stunning look-alike for Hollywood actress Hedy Lamarr posed in his loveseat. At first he talks to the woman, then discovers to his horror she’s been murdered with a bullet in her brain. His partner discovers Mike’s business card in the dead woman’s panties. The murder leads Mike to the girl’s family, then into a thicket of smut film productions made to order

Dark Blonde

Wealthy, mysterious Julia hires PI Mike Angel to find her missing sister — but the case takes a perilous turn, throwing Mike and his partner into an underground world of mobsters, corrupt politicians, and deadly crimes of passion! A riveting page-turner set in 1960s Chicago.

Dark Eyes

n 1969 private eye Mike Angel works a routine missing persons case that falls into Albina, the black section of Portland, where a seductive light-skinned siren coaxes Mike to help black businessmen carry out a boycott of corrupt white bar owners and illegal gambling. She also coaxes him carnally, as does an infamous black fan dancer, in cahoots with white bar owners run by mysterious brothers.

Dark Conspiracy

In another complex case, Mike is shot after chasing a naked blonde down a dark street one wet night in Portland, Oregon. His near death experience, surgery and a long recovery convince him that the time’s right to marry Molly Bennett. But first Mike vows to catch the killer, whose victim turns out to be the granddaughter of the L.A. mob boss, Nick Licata. The girl was involved with a Marxist group headed by a Reed College professor, who heads anti-war rallies at the school and holds perverted bo

Dark Arson

Murderous arson in Mike's neighborhood leads to a luscious redhead client, which leads to the infamous Eddie Bentz, bank robber of the 1930s, 40s who has disgruntled cohorts after his many stashes of securities. One such hoodlum is the only man to have escaped from Alcatraz, a man the FBI refuses to believe is alive. Set in Portland in 1975, adult themes of sex and violence.

The Stamp of Guilt

An 8 year old Oregon boy and his family visit Grandfather John in Arkansas and is given a gift of postage stamps for his collection. Upon his return home the boy is startled by one of the stamps and struggles with returning the stamps. Readers have declared this tale "A Norman Rockwell painting..." with "an Edgar Allen Poe knife ending."

The Mysterious "O" Letters

Bill lived alone with his dog Ahab in a grand old house in the woods that his Uncle and late Father built in the 1930s. After Uncle Orville left him with a half-remodeled house and a leaky roof, Bill began receiving letters signed "O" containing clues that only his Uncle would have known. He remembered ghost stories his uncle used to tell about visits in the remote woods.

Tree House

A boy discovers the price of popularity and struggles for the courage to resist acts he knows is wrong. Boyhood, tree houses in the country, and befriending an old man all lead to the climax of this adventure tale.

The Seduction of Quentin

Quentin tells the story in his vernacular of growing up in Crawford County Arkansas and of his Pa's desperate gamble to grow strawberries on a failed piece of land; of Reba Truitt, a sultry and aggressive neighbor woman with designs on his virginity; and lastly of a tornado, which changes his world and changes him forever.

Treasure on Hope Mountain

Blocked writer Jim Davis returns to the mountains above Idaho City to search for the remains of a lost cabin where Old Swede mined in the late 1930s. He'd invited Steve, an old friend, to help in the search but discovers that when his wife left him over his writing obsession she went to Steve for a time. The struggle with the truth about his wife, about his blocked writing, and the need to find answers to the legend of the Old Swede lead to an amazing discovery high on Hope Mountain.

Thornton's Apprentice

Roseburg, Oregon, 1974: adopted parents abandoned Daggett, a young man nearly out of high school, to work on the Alaska pipeline. He watches trains then hops a freight where he meets Jenny, an intellectual beauty who is starving. Sharing his food with her and watching her sleep he becomes entranced; then accepts her invitation to stay with her father in Reno, Thornton Oranbee, a retired English Literature professor there.

The Woman in 3A

23 year old virgin, Thomas Warren, becomes a real live peeping Tom in his rooming house when he discovers a plated hole in his closet wall into a sexy and mysterious female's apartment. If that's not enough, his sultry landlady stirs up his fantasies, and strange goings on late at night.

You Can't Help What You Think

Older man with ambitous younger attorney wife grows increasingly disillusioned with wife's loss of passion for him; he embarks on a voyeuristic episode across two high rises. He becomes obsessed with the couple and the woman who dances in the nude in front of her windows, illuminated only by candlelight.

Why Can't We Live in the Country?

20 years after he married his opposite, Bunny, a permanently optimistic woman, Frank returns with her to Reno, the site of his lowest ebb before meeting her. Now he stands on the edge of bankruptcy and the loss of their home, but he hasn't yet told her of his business failure.....

The Immortal Spirit of Ipetlatah

Three literary, magical-realism SHORT STORIES totalling 5700 words. "The Immortal Ipetlatah" tells of the strange transmigration of a spirit who lived eons in Fort Rock, a volcanic oddity in Southeast Oregon desert, and his symbiosis with natives and other living creatures until wagon trains rolled into his sacred maar.

The Cruelest Game

Nick Kouras became addicted to backgammon a few years after his bride of only a few days abandoned him. When he started seeing a flash of what the next dice would be, Nick used the gift to enter and win tournaments. His wins led to a special invite and a chance to go up against Hamid Jones, world champion and treacherous opponent. The final game and its aftermath will shock you as much as it did Nick.

Self Edit Your Novel

In today’s publishing world many writers can neither find nor afford a professional editor. The only editing such writers benefit from is self-editing. Fears, a recognized Twain scholar, argues against the common notion that an independent novelist must hire an editor to turn out a good novel and proposes writers learn the skill set of an editor.

Sand Rhymes

An aging poet, divorced and suffering from writer's block, returns to an isolated coastal town to grapple with regrets and rediscover the magic of great poetry. He meets a mother and her newly divorced daughter. Attracted to both yet conflicted by memories and regrets of his wife and the need to once again win the NW Poetry contest, he mentally tries on the advantages and disadvantages of falling for either.

Sadeq's Chess Sacrifice

Sadeq's father migrated to the US when Sadeq was a child. He grew up in Oregon and lost his wife in a storm at sea on his fishing boat. Since then he lived in Astoria, and made a scant living by washing windows in the town. Most of the time he hung out at a pub where chess tournaments drew the best players from up and down the coast. It was during the first invasion of Iraq that Sadeq's challenge by the bully champion came, when the townspeople grew more intolerant of foreigners.

Revival

When Joey's dog Max eats poison and dies, Joey searches for enough faith and prayer to ask God to raise Max from the dead, believing God will do that very thing if he believes enough. Joey is an orphan who lives with his grandparents on their farm. His grandfather hasn't spoken in years. The story examines levels of faith, from believing with outward evidence, to no evidence, to the highest level, believing with evidence to the contrary.

Pretty Boy Floyd

A 75 year old man attempts to help struggling Oklahoma farmers close to losing their land by following the memories, legend and tradition of the local Robin Hood hero, Pretty Boy Floyd. Though he treasures his boyhood memories of Floyd and was given one of Floyd's pistols, the old man's nerves unravel as the plot to rob the Sallishaw, Okla. bank unfolds.

Pretend I am her

Tom and Ellen had previously suffered failed marriages, so both agreed to a rather "open" marriage, as long as neither slept out or was affectionate with others in front of the other. For Tom this had worked well, though increasingly he felt pitfalls. When Ellen pushed a co-worker Lana on Tom at a party, he discovered Ellen had been having a once-a-week affair with an older, wealthy widower.

Joanna's Ghost

Joe Martin lived a precarious existence In Central America, torn between past Peace Corps dreams of his late wife, and the promise of a much younger young woman student. The political dangers of the country bring violence to the small village of San Balboa, including the growing enmity of the police commisioner Horba, who is determined to expell Martin and all Americans

My Brother's Keeper

Mystery with lighthearted elements.
Benjamin the sensible brother decides to escape from Los Angeles with Brent, his reckless brother, to Port Angeles Washington, after Brent bilked a society woman out of a pile of money and her husband threatened them. On their very first day in the sleepy port they witness two thugs abducting a stunning female to board a ferry to Victoria, Canada.

Heaven From the Top of a Cherry Tree

Bill Martin, weary from decades of selling irrigation supplies throughout the West, sees a mysterious woman waiting in a 1949 Buick convertible at the train station one night in Cheyenne, Wyoming. When she appears to be in distress he moves toward her but she quickly drives off. The next day her butler visits Martin at his hotel and requests he come to the woman's home. Discovering her to be a retired movie actress of some repute, suffering from a terminal heart condition.....

Ice Woman

Awakened in the middle of a zero degree winter night by sobs out in the street, Robert Wright saw a scantily clad apparition walking in the middle of the street. By the time he got dressed and followed her, she was gone. The next day would lead him by her footsteps to investigate a dangerous cave and stumble into murder and kidnapping.

General Delivery, Back From 'Nam

Back from Vietnam to small town John Day Oregon, Nick struggles with survivor's guilt from a firefight and tries to pick up his life again, when he is shocked by the wink of an eccentric and flashy girl in an old MG with an albino crow. He tries for days to find her and thinks he might have imagined the scene. He goes to the post office daily for letters from Charlie, a buddy in Saigon who lost a leg, and is helped there by Smith, a plain looking postal worker.

Drug Store Venus

Five Erotic short stories totalling 10,442 words. A coming of age tale about a young man who gets bad advice on sex from his buddy; a blind man who has an operation on his eyes has his fantasy fulfilled before the bandages are removed; a man hides an affair from a controlling abusive wife; an Arkansas teen gets a sexual overload and education from a 28 yr old woman during a tornado.

Auditing The Class

Professor Philip Brannon becomes entranced with a sexy blonde student who announces she's auditing his class to avoid accusations of sleeping with him for an A grade.

Bizarre Tales

Looking for something different? Something that defies category? 1) "Many a Good Man" is a haunting trip that dumbfounds a young man after seeing a shapely woman sunbathing. Do they really rob banks? 2) "Something Woke Me" finds a young man revisiting his parents' history, including a critical moment that might deny his birth....

44 Collected Stories

44 of David H. Fears' best short stories (written under the pen name of DH Henry) were culled for inclusion here, including revisions not before published. We believe there is something for everyone here in this diverse and stimulating collection by an extraordinary storyteller—from magical realism, romance, mystery, literary, fantasy, history, humor, and suspense (adult themes).

The Hermits Last Wish

Here are five short stories in the vein of Brothers Grimm. (12,500 words; 50 pages). The title story is a sinister tale of a mysterious hermit living alone on a mountain. What was his past in the town that had forgotten him? "Bird of Summer, Bird of Winter" is a haunting tale about depression and the colorless world it inflicts. "Stamp of Guilt" has been described as a 'Norman Rockwell painting with a dagger ending from Edgar Allen Poe."

"Amazing!" "Page turning book" "Five Stars" "Great little PI Novel" "Another Great Mike Angel thriller"

I am a writer and historian who came to the former rather late in life, writing four volumes "Mark Twain Day By Day." Just before I got into the Twain writing, I began writing short stories, a few of which morphed into a hardboiled private eye detective novel (Mike Angel Series). After studying hundreds of such books, and admiring Raymond Chandler and Mickey Spillane's work, I wrote four of them--and oh! how much fun they were to write. There are now NINETEEN in the series and I'm taking a break for an undetermined time. #19, "Dark Vigil" may be the last. We shall see.

I also studied composition theory, and read thousands of short stories. I taught writing at two for-profit colleges. Like Mark Twain, I love cats, am father to 3 girls, and am a Portland Or, native who has lived in various parts of the country. During a break after # 11 in the Mike Angel Mystery series, I wrote and published "Self-Edit Your Novel," a 124 page in-depth look at self-editing. I'm now taking a break from all things Mark Twain and all things Mike Angel.

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