Step inside Sam's and you can play a game of eight ball, nurse a beer, or get to know a wayward preacher, a reformed hooker, an Iraq vet amputee - or Sam himself. You may watch a baby being born, see a deadly knife fight, or simply hear tall tales. But there's always a rough-hewn truth within the lies, and Sam's there to manage everything from birth to death with a righteous cant. All things considered, it isn't a bad world. Sam's Place is a collection of interwoven short stories that revolve around a local watering hole in the Alabama town of Striven. Pull up a chair and get to know the locals in this powerful and entertaining world that is Sam's Place.

Sam's Place

Literature & Fiction

Mustin, Bob

Contemporary

AM Ink Publishing

Angie and Warren Hardaway are on second marriages and are having trouble communicating. The problem threatens their marriage, and it isn't limited to their Asheville, North Carolina home - it's neighborhood- and city-wide. As COVID-19 hits the town and country, the problem begins to seem insurmountable. Too, there is another contemporary problem - police harassment. This adds to the twenty-first century complexities Angie and Warren are experiencing. The story is set against a three-hundred year-old tale of the white first settlers to encounter Native Americans in the Asheville area and how that affects their lives today. A novella.

A House in the Neighborhood

United States

Gridley Fires Books

Volume 1 of this work recapitulates much of the symbology of Geometric shape, from prehistory through Plato's five primary Geometric shapes. This volume also begins the author's development of groundbreaking work expanding Plato's belief that Geometry underpins the Universe in its entirety.

The Geometry of Universal Mind (Volume)

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

The stories in this collection examine the ways we use imagination to set aside human anguish and move on with our lives. Here baseball opens a passageway to life after death, obsession transforms romantic complexities into a corrupted form of happiness, conquest and empire begets guilt and a healing sacrifice, and the recipients of medical technology deal with the well-meant horrors inflicted on them. In Collateral Damage, the collection's centerpiece, writer John Fromme suffers a mental upset caused by his refusal to confront a family murder he witnessed as a child.

Collateral Damage and Stories

Short Stories & Anthologies

AuthorMike Ink

The upheavals of modern times can render human relationships difficult under the best of circumstances, and sometimes it takes the ironies inherent in those upheavals to strengthen the most intimate of human ties. In his heartfelt memoir, Mustin lays bare the hopes and fears, the joys and tragedies, of romance and marriage in middle age. The story of this couple's life together, set against wife Becca's struggle with cancer, is a searing portrait of late middle age in modern times.

In This Love Together: Love, Failing Limbs and Cancer - A Memoir

Parenting & Relationships