Three Sweet Love Stories You May Have Missed

From BILL ALIVE, the acclaimed author of CRAGS IN THE SUNSET, comes a short, sweet love story that will leave you radiant…

You know how it is with a long-distance relationship.

Especially when you get close to your (dating) anniversary.

You get thinking, planning, obsessing… how do you make it special for her, even though you're so far away? Too much? Not enough?

Finally, you make your decision, you put it in the mail. Done.

And then, if you're Wendall, you freak the hell right out.

And you start driving north, before it's too late.

If you love sweet romance, and lovers who struggle to face their fears and secret pain, then you won't to miss this lovely little short story.

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From BILL ALIVE, the acclaimed author of INTO THE KILN, comes a unique, moving story of unrequited love…

In a crowded bus station in Denver, a young man named Devin waits alone in the night.

Trying not to think about her. About Monica. How he could always make her laugh.

That, and nothing more.

Just four more minutes now. Before he leaves this city behind him forever.

A bittersweet story of unrequited love, teenage obsession, and what happens next when love doesn't conquer all.

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From BILL ALIVE, the acclaimed author of CRAGS IN THE SUNSET, comes a gentle, ironic tale of unrequited love…

Rick loves Cindy. He knows it. For sure. And he needs to tell her how he feels, right now. Right here. In their (mostly) empty high school gym.

The problem? Cindy already loves her boyfriend. Sean. An awesome dude, who loves her right back.

What exactly does Rick expect to happen next?

A teenage story of unrequited love, set in a tiny private school in the late 1990s, yet steeped in the Victorian traditions of exalted sensibilities, relentless self-analysis, and the doomed obsessions of those dark nights of the soul that may or may not yield to the dawn.

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Master storyteller Bill Alive, author of THE PUNCTUALITY MACHINE, brings you five intense stories of love and relationships:

• In "Dawn", the romantic Rick makes his very first profession of love in his high school gym… to the devoted girlfriend of one of his best friends. But what happens next is the real surprise.
• In "Crags in the Sunset", the lovelorn Devin follows his high school crush to college, but freshman year does not go according to plan.
• In "Kevin and the Foxes", love takes a darker turn, and in a lonely house, high up on a mountain, a marriage nears the breaking point.
• Then, in "Die Auswahl (The Choice)", a time-travel elixir shakes up the stale marriage of a sour power couple… and also causes some rather global unintended consequences.
• Finally, in "Arcanus", when an enslaved teenager in Roman times is trapped on a brutal battlefield, he may seem as far from love as you can get. But his Latin name means "secret", and if he can survive long enough to discover that secret, the truth could change his whole life.

The twist? Alive wrote all these stories in high school.

No, really. (Okay, one in college, but still.)

Curious? Take a look.

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So, what do you make of that title?

The Sofa King… really?

What kind of a story collection is this?

Judge for yourself, Gentle Reader. Here are the five tales that await you, should you be so brave.

In “The Sofa King,” a hapless ex-furniture salesman tells a cautionary tale of the exuberant Harold Kubanda, a one-of-a-kind Customer From Hell.

In “Into the Kiln,” a frantic young Wendall makes a desperate drive across several states to raid the mailbox of his long-time girlfriend Cassie… before she can open a package that he mailed her himself.

In “The Jaded, the Jaundiced, and the Violet,” Jimmy Hanson is a sallow, middle-aged man who has one small joy in his small, slow life. But one year, when autumn comes early, one small choice could ruin everything he's built.

On a stormy night at an inn on a remote island, two employees hear the rumor of a most unlikely threat. Can Edgar pry the truth from “Mad, Mad Malvolio” in time?

Finally, in “Free Soles,” a young office drone named Matthew meets two odd old women on his subway commute who issue a challenge that could threaten his entire worldview. Or even worse… his job.

Prepare for some strange little stories, my friend. I doubt you've read anything quite like these.

If you've a taste for odd characters with bizarre enthusiasms, ridiculous situations, and bemused bystanders, you've plucked the right volume from the shelf.

Get it now.

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