Many of us commute daily to work or school. Often the trip is monotonous and uninspiring. One evening William Benchley finds his commute anything but boring. After leaving work at Cal State LA, he takes the Metrolink Express home. Looking forward to dinner with his wife, events soon spiral out of his control. Forced off the train at gunpoint, he is robbed of his ID and keys to the University. Left with nothing but questions, he struggles to make sense of it all. Benchley call

A member of The Committee—a mysterious worldwide think tank—discovers problems in their international operations. Their many programs are drifting into chaos and may soon threaten world stability. The Committee needs help finding the source of the threat. William Vargas and Mickey Evans are tasked to investigate a computer breech and report back. What they find exposes a puzzle and an organization more diabolical than anyone could have imagined.

After leaving a Chicago pub a little early one chilly night, Evan McGilvray is feeling a bit low.He is in a hurry to get home and certainly wasn't planning on taking a badly beaten man back to his apartment. The mysterious fellow named Rabbit seems harmless enough, but Evan soon has doubts about his guest. The story of Rabbit is only one of the tales. Other stories included: Encyclopedia of Murder is a story that provides a look into the mind of a serial killer; Dazed is an

This collection of shorter pieces may surprise or shock, depending on your view of life. The mind restructures and interprets the way we see and experience all that surrounds us...but is it reality? Delusions often seem just as real. By acting, we have made our choice—but can we ever be certain that we have chosen correctly? Short Stabs and Silent Screams treads through areas of mystery, evil and confusion. The unexpected becomes grist for the mill. In these stories, common p

Peter Higgins is caught up in a confusion because he seems to have traveled through time. He and his companion, Dora, kept a journal tracing a path from a small Kansas town to the jungles of Mexico, Central America and various Mayan ruins. He meets the author, Greg Porterfield at a truck stop near the Mexican border and throughout the night Higgins relates his strange experience. On the journey Higgins and Dora encountered other travelers and unusual characters. He swears the

Travel-writer RK Simmons meets a beautiful and intriguing woman while on assignment in Alaska. Their mutual interest in mystery stories leaves him with one half of a raggedly torn $2 bill and a strange old photograph. After the woman goes missing under unusual circumstances, the police suspect murder. The resulting adventure pulls Simmons and a companion into a web of travel, confusion and intrigue. Nothing is clear, as Oriental gangsters give chase across country on the Empi

Who hasn't dreamed of traveling with a carnival? It probably sounds like it would be a lot of fun. Riding the rides, playing the carnival games and eating the food you can only find at the the county fair... It is every kid's dream. Fair Days and Carnival Nights is the story of a summer in 1990 that I spent traveling with the All Alaskan Racing Pigs from California to Alaska and back. It is a journal of the author's experiences and features color photos from that exciting sum

In Long Shadows, a mining engineer and his descendants are caught up in events spanning the American continent and beyond. The adventure begins after Horrace Braddick receives a telegram during a poker game in Alaska. Ling Chow, a mysterious and powerful figure needs his help to blast a tunnel through a mountain. Ling Chow is in possession of a vast fortune in ancient gold bars hidden in a mountain cave. The gold could save the United States from bankruptcy during the Panic o