Blood and Beads by Ryan Starrett

Blood and Beads by Ryan Starrett

Blood and Beads

by Ryan Starrett

 
Set against the lawless frontier of the early American South, Blood and Beads is a gripping historical novel that explores the collision of brutality and grace. As two ruthless brothers leave a trail of terror along the Natchez Trace, a tormented Catholic priest confronts his own descent into sin through haunting letters of confession. Rich in historical detail and moral complexity, Ryan Starrett weaves a powerful story of violence, redemption, conscience, and the enduring struggle for the human soul.
 
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Ryan Starrett was birthed and reared in Jackson, Mississippi. After receiving degrees from the University of Dallas, Adams State University and Spring Hill College, as well as spending a ten-year hiatus in Texas, he has returned home to continue his teaching career at his alma mater in Madison, Mississippi.

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The Lost Loners of Suburbia by Kenneth Francis

The Lost Loners of Suburbia by Kenneth Francis

The Lost Loners of Suburbia

by Kenneth Francis

After the publication of Kenneth Francis’s urban Absurdist tales of the ‘Cities’, ‘Corridors’, and ‘Dead Beetle’, Francis concludes the trilogy and shifts geographically from the metropolis to the world of small-town suburban gothic. The Lost Loners of Suburbia highlights the alienation of bleak satellite ghost towns in moral and physical decay, those old familiar places of the 1980s to the now overgrown-with-weeds stores, cracked pavement haunts where we once used to meet, but now lie the remnants of boarded-up shopping malls and the once great Pizza Huts where we ate pizzas, drank Coca-Cola and picked tasty treats from the self-service salad trays, where one can now almost hear the distant ghostly echoing sounds of teenage laughter and joyous chit-chat from pretty girls with big hair and wearing wide shoulder pads and batwing sleeves ladieswear, as Katrina and the Waves blasted out “I’m Walking on Sunshine” from the eatery’s Jukebox. Welcome to the suburbia of lost loner souls, with deserted walkways and ominous dark places where strangers lurk with diabolical intent, along with white picket fences and beautiful red roses growing in front of them, amid the dark underbelly of gothic foreboding.
 
 
 
 
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“Kenneth Francis transforms suburban ruins into haunting monuments to memory, loneliness, and cultural decay. These absurdist tales echo with vanished laughter, abandoned dreams, and the unsettling ghosts of places we once called our own home.” – Dr. Sebastian Mahfood, OP, author of The Victim Soul in the Dark Night of Nosferatu

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Kenneth Francis is the current Editor of Mind Matters and a Contributing Editor at New English Review. For the past 30 years, he has worked as an editor at various publications and as a journalism professor at a university. He also holds an MA in Theology and is the author of The Little Book of God, Mind, Cosmos and Truth, The Terror of Existence: From Ecclesiastes to Theatre of the Absurd (with Theodore Dalrymple), and Neither Trumpets Nor Violins (with Theodore Dalrymple and Samuel Hux). His most recent books are Theology in Music: How Christian Themes Permeate Classic Songs, Theology in Film: How Christian Themes Permeate Classic Movies, Cities of the Absurd: Strange Tales from the Dark Metropolis, Corridors of the Absurd: Sinister Tales from the Deep Halls of Power and Dreams, and In the Belly of a Dead Beetle.

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by Kenneth Francis

In this compelling new collection, Kenneth Francis explores the fragile boundary between memory and imagination, despair and hope, alienation and redemption. Populated by unforgettable characters whose lives unfold on society’s margins, these stories weave dark humor, philosophical reflection, and profound humanity into narratives that linger long after the final page. By turns unsettling, compassionate, and quietly transcendent, Francis invites readers to discover unexpected grace amid the broken landscapes of the modern soul.

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“Kenneth Francis possesses a rare gift for uncovering the extraordinary within ordinary lives. With wit, philosophical depth, and deep compassion, these stories invite readers to wrestle with life’s deepest questions while never losing sight of the enduring possibility of grace.” – Dr. Sebastian Mahfood, OP, author of The Victim Soul in the Dark Night of Nosferatu

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Lighting is Everything: A Novel about Ordinary Lives, Extraordinary Grace by Glenn Morrow

Lighting is Everything: A Novel about Ordinary Lives, Extraordinary Grace by Glenn Morrow

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Lighting is Everything: A Novel about Ordinary Lives, Extraordinary Grace

by Glenn Morrow

It begins with a lightbulb joke. The porch bulb that Jerry and Franny are unable to reach is changed by a total stranger. Who proceeds to change their lives.
 
Their quiet family home is abruptly upended and filled with movie lighting, illuminating a very different reality. With consequences richly comic and deeply troubling.
 
Here, the unsung technicians of the film-making industry shine in their humanity and expertise. And the Hollywood stars never come out. It’s not about them. It’s about us.
 
And light, in all of its manifestations, is the golden thread woven throughout that builds in emotional and spiritual resonance.
 
Because, after all, lighting is everything.
 
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“Glenn Morrow has crafted a novel that is at once delightful, profound, and deeply human. With wit, warmth, and remarkable insight, Lighting is Everything illuminates the extraordinary grace hidden within ordinary lives, inviting readers to see the world—and one another—with renewed wonder.” — Sebastian Mahfood, OP, PhD, author of The Narrative Spirituality of Dante’s Divine Comedy

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The celebrated author of Things Beloved and Vacation and Other Tales of Enduring Love, Glenn Morrow is the former editor of Storytelling Magazine. He believes that fiction should be a gift that offers hope and clarity. He resides and replaces lightbulbs in coastal Rhode Island with his wife Deborah. www.GlennMorrowBooks.com

 

 

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In Four Seasons, four emerging writers explore the cycles of human experience through stories marked by memory, longing, grief, friendship, love, and hope. Moving through summer, autumn, winter, and spring, the collection reflects the emotional and spiritual landscapes that shape ordinary lives. Rich in atmosphere and literary reflection, these interconnected narratives invite readers into moments of beauty, sorrow, humor, and renewal. Thoughtful and deeply human, Four Seasons is a meditation on time, change, and redemption.
 
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“Four Seasons captures the quiet sacramentality of ordinary human experience with remarkable literary sensitivity. These stories remind us that grace often reveals itself not in triumph, but in memory, longing, suffering, friendship, and the slow renewal of hope.” – Dr. Sebastian Mahfood, OP, author of The Narrative Spirituality of Dante’s Divine Comedy

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by Matthew Richards

Moylett’s Confessions is a compelling historical novel that follows Patrick Moylett, an Irish patriot navigating faith, family, and revolutionary struggle in early twentieth-century Ireland. Based on the unpublished memoir of the author’s great-grand-uncle, Patrick Moylett, this character-driven novel blends historical reality with imagination in an exciting debut.

As the First World War looms, Patrick, a man deeply torn between his love for his family, his Catholic faith, and his burning, often obsessive, passion for the cause of Irish freedom, finds himself an increasingly active leader of the local Volunteers. Here he must navigate the dangerous politics of the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) and the clandestine world of gunrunning.

Patrick’s pivotal role in events is revealed through his journey through the 1916 Rising and the subsequent War of Independence. His story is marked by personal sacrifice as he balances his role as a loving husband and father with the brutal realities of revolutionary life. Framed through moments of confession, Richards masterfully blends political tension with spiritual introspection, revealing a protagonist torn between violence and conscience. As rebellion unfolds and the novel races towards its thrilling conclusion, Moylett must confront his own fears, loyalties, and moral responsibilities, offering a powerful meditation on sin, redemption, and the cost of freedom. 

This exceptional literary debut explores the human cost of the Irish struggle, as well as the complex interplay between faith, morality, and the justification of violence, through the eyes of a man who fought not just for his country, but to maintain his own integrity amidst the madness of war.

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“Moylett’s Confessions is a compelling fusion of history and conscience, where the turbulence of revolution meets the quiet reckoning of the soul, inviting readers into a profound meditation on sin, grace, and moral courage.” – Dr. Sebastian Mahfood, OP, author of The Narrative Spirituality of Dante’s Divine Comedy

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Matthew Richards studied history at the University of Cambridge and brings 25 years of experience in journalism and professional writing, including as a staff reporter at the Financial Times. An alumnus of the Faber Academy’s flagship Writing a Novel course, he has reviewed fiction for The Irish Times and The Tablet. Active in parish life and charitable work, he lives in London with his wife and their three daughters.

 

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