http://feedbooks.com/list/428 Book written by modern day Americans. Authors who are still breathing and intend to use ebooks as a means to reach their readers. Black Eyed Susan Joseph Devon http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2738 en 2007 True love can develop in a number of ways. Sometimes it happens at first sight. Sometimes it takes warm beer, teenage nights at the beach, misunderstood conversations and a lot of persistence. A little luck never hurt either. Young Adult fiction Creative Commons love romance romance short story New Jersey love story beer beach shore teenage http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2738.png http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2738.pdf http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2738.epub http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2738.mobi New York City Marathon Joseph Devon http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2834 en 2007 The day of the New York City Marathon brings vast crowds to Manhattan. Some come to run the race. Some come to watch the race. Some come to get drunk and watch the race. And some come knowing full well that there is more than one way to run a marathon. fiction short story beer drinking new york new york city people watching marathon http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2834.png http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2834.pdf http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2834.epub http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2834.mobi Liquid Calling Joseph Devon http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2835 en 2007 This story examines the obvious connection between aluminum foil, a Manhattan real estate broker approaching his seventies, and the Cold War. Follow Micheal Morzeny on the last sales call he’ll ever make. fiction york short story real estatemanhattanbrokercold warseniorconspiracy theoryhitmannew yorknew city" http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2835.png http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2835.pdf http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2835.epub http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2835.mobi You’re Allowed to Order Takeout Joseph Devon http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3164 en 2008 This was a strange story in a lot of ways. I had to carve this out of very little. It’s short and it’s minimal, but for some reason I can’t stop thinking about it. Basically we visit with Neil, who has just welcomed his second child into the world, and watch as he tries to find his emotional footing again. fiction Creative Commons family Emotional children short story birth baby http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3164.png http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3164.pdf http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3164.epub http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3164.mobi Uneven Shading Joseph Devon http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3168 en 2008 Marshal finds himself unable to concentrate at work, and what’s worse, he’s come to realize that he’s disappearing from view entirely. When his boss takes note Marshal is sent home to try and figure out where the rest of him is. fiction Creative Commons love romance romance short story love story longing boss work place ghost story http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3168.png http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3168.pdf http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3168.epub http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3168.mobi Private Showing Joseph Devon http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3160 en 2007 A simple story about a man struggling to deal with loss. This is one of the shortest pieces I’ve ever written. This description will be equally short. fiction Creative Commons Art short story loss pool grief pool hall longing http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3160.png http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3160.pdf http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3160.epub http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3160.mobi Light-Years Ahead of His Time Joseph Devon http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3163 en 2007 This story was published out of sequence because I got somewhat derailed during the Holidays by family and then I got sick and blah blah blah. At some point leading up to this story I decided that I wanted to write something about “worm-holes and morons.” This is the result of that wish. science fiction fiction Creative Commons short story worm holes morons time travel http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3163.png http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3163.pdf http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3163.epub http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3163.mobi Continental Drift Joseph Devon http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3165 en 2008 Two people visiting Europe under some not very ideal circumstances wind up brushing up against each other’s lives ever so softly on the moonlit beach of Cannes. fiction Creative Commons love travel relationships france short story divorce beach Europe Cannes vacation separation http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3165.png http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3165.pdf http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3165.epub http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3165.mobi The Pea Pod Gambit Joseph Devon http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3169 en 2008 Atticus and Seth have the perfect setup: a three bedroom apartment with a third roommate who is never around because he is always over at his girlfriend’s house. But when their roommate’s relationship ends Seth and Atticus decide to take matters into their own hands in order to get things back to just the way they were. Blog fiction Creative Commons Humor relationships comedy short story laugh fraternity frat http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3169.png http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3169.pdf http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3169.epub http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3169.mobi Scarface's Burden Joseph Devon http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3162 en 2007 A reworking of one of Jonathan Coulton’s songs. Explore the various inner workings of a mad genius’s compound through the eyes of his most loyal assistant, Scarface. Between maintenance on the golden submarine, keeping the various departments happy, and getting his boss back on his feet, Scarface has plenty to keep him busy during a long winter day. science fiction fiction Creative Commons short story horror genius jonathan coulton skull crusher boss winter mad scientist http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3162.png http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3162.pdf http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3162.epub http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3162.mobi He'll Always Have Paris Joseph Devon http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2779 en 2007 Dorian is the head of a lab researching a breakthrough technology for the treatment of those suffering emotional trauma. But one night he decides that this not-quite-ready-yet treatment would be the perfect thing to fix his failing marriage. Mix The Matrix with the set from the original Frankenstein movie, add a dash of couples therapy, stir, then pour into a tall glass made out of old Twilight Zone episodes and you’ll have a sense of some of the flavors this story calls to mind. science fiction fiction Creative Commons marriage Emotional sci-fi dark fantasy urban fantasy twilight zone divorce matrix frankenstein paris modern fantasy http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2779.png http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2779.pdf http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2779.epub http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2779.mobi The Donkey of Vincento Joseph Devon http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3167 en 2008 I have absolutely no idea how to describe this story. I read a lot. And I’ve read a lot of translations. And they always strike me as being just a little off and missing just a little something. Somehow, with this story, I wound up trying to capture that odd sense of not quite understanding what is happening while reading a classic story from another language. A donkey, a village, a festival, and a simple stupid story of love. fiction Creative Commons love village romance translation short story Historical love story donkey festival party foregin http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3167.png http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3167.pdf http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3167.epub http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3167.mobi The Rags Joseph Devon http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3159 en 2007 It’s not often that you get to see what happens when a modern day writer attempts to rewrite a literary masterpiece using a laundromat as his setting and talking clothes as his characters. This is probably a good thing. But for those of you who ever wondered what that might look like, this is your story. fiction Creative Commons short story laundromat james joyce the dead dead class struggle clothes fashion http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3159.png http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3159.pdf http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3159.epub http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3159.mobi Jacob Checks Out Joseph Devon http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3161 en 2007 A confused narrator tries to piece together the life of one of his oldest friends, Jacob. Various parts of Jacob’s life are held up to the light, from childhood through present day, as friends try to find the cracks that eventually led to Jacob’s unconventional exit. fiction Creative Commons short story narrator first person http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3161.png http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3161.pdf http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3161.epub http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3161.mobi Knots Joseph Devon http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3166 en 2008 In the course of my job I’ve given a lot of baths to little girls. There aren’t a lot of jobs where this can be considered a normal thing, but as a nanny that’s how it goes. Over the past few years there are few things I’ve come to dread more than having to comb out my girls’ hair once bath time is done. I put myself in their shoes one day and the idea for this story came about. Simple and touching. fiction Creative Commons family relationships kids short story mother baths hair nanny manny daughter mother daughter http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3166.png http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3166.pdf http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3166.epub http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3166.mobi The Ant King and Other Stories Benjamin Rosenbaum http://feedbooks.com/book/2872 urn:isbn:1931520534 en 2008 Short Fiction Science Fiction Fantasy Collections A dazzling, postmodern debut collection of pulp and surreal fictions: a writer of alternate histories defends his patron’s zeppelin against assassins and pirates; a woman transforms into hundreds of gumballs; an emancipated children’s collective goes house hunting. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/2872.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2872.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2872.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2872.mobi Zombie Richard Kadrey http://feedbooks.com/book/2640 en 2002 Short Fiction Horror Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/2640.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2640.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2640.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2640.mobi Refuge Richard Herley http://feedbooks.com/book/3025 en 2008 Novels Science Fiction Thriller Like The Penal Colony, this is a thriller set in the near future. It is twelve years on from a global plague. John Suter believes himself the sole survivor. He has gradually come to terms with his fate and has settled into a steady and self-reliant daily routine. One morning he finds a mutilated body in the river near his house. In his terror, Suter knows he has no choice but to investigate. What he discovers upstream stretches his endurance to its limits and forces him to reassess not only his own humanity, but also his place within the human family he had once believed extinct. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/3025.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3025.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3025.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3025.mobi My Own Kind Of Freedom Steven Brust http://feedbooks.com/book/2217 en 2007 Novels Science Fiction Set in the universe of Firefly. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/2217.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2217.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2217.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2217.mobi Ensemble S. P. Elledge http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3527 en 2009 Thirteen short stories. fiction short stories short stories literary http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3527.png http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3527.pdf http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3527.epub http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3527.mobi Small Stories Small Stories http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2705 en 2008 101 very short stories, some comic, some dark - each one written to provide a quick entertaining read. Great for reading on any mobile device. funny fiction short stories comic stories dark weird comedy surreal nanofiction microfiction absurd strange collections computer games http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2705.png http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2705.pdf http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2705.epub http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2705.mobi The Letter Joseph Devon http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3891 en 2000 Naming your main character Tom means something in American literature. The Ghosts' of Sawyer and Joad haunt that character from page one. But in The Letter, instead of hiding behind the memorable characterizations of past ‘literary Toms,' Joseph Devon attacks this notion of the proud, stoic, and resourceful hero in modern times. After an unspeakable accident leaves Tom Quint without a shred of hope, he must reluctantly explore not only the world he passes in his ragtop, but the life that has passed him by. And like his literary predecessors, Quint's reluctance to adapt is what makes his struggle to survive so compelling. national “New “New York” “Glacier Park” Jersey” “South Dakota” “Continental Divide” “Mark “Mark Twain” Twain” “adolescent” “california” “fiction” “creative commons” “friends” “road trip” “smoking” http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3891.png http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3891.pdf http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3891.epub http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3891.mobi Probability Angels Joseph Devon http://feedbooks.com/userbook/4688 en 2009 Matthew Huntington’s problems seem to keep growing. Not only is he seeing things in garbage cans but his mentor doesn’t think he’s working up to his full potential, his best friend can’t offer any solace but drunken confusion, and his wife is dying in Central Park. Of course, the fact that Matthew himself died over two decades ago isn’t helping things. And then things start to really go wrong. Come explore the world of Matthew and Epp and see what a samurai from Feudal Japan has to do with the course of modern physics, what a two-thousand year old Roman slave has to do with the summit of Mount Everest, and what a dead man from Brooklyn has to do with the fate of the world. science fiction fantasy Blog fiction Creative Commons 21st Century devon “New York” brooklyn “physics” “murder” “angels” “dark fantasy” ”immortal” http://feedbooks.com/userbook/4688.png http://feedbooks.com/userbook/4688.pdf http://feedbooks.com/userbook/4688.epub http://feedbooks.com/userbook/4688.mobi