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  • paste
    Russell Helms
    If you like chaos and the confusion of words couched in the mundane and extraordinary, then you will enjoy the narrative journey of Paste. The stems of fruit make swell hats, although tedious to weave. Semi full of wooden flooring. Bellybutton lint always the same blue. Part-time cowboys need not apply. People in South Dakota watch Wheel of Fortune just like we do. ...
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    13,40 €

  • Redlight Daycare
    Russell Helms
    Little fireball Milo Yeats finds himself attending a daycare run by prostitutes. His single mother is at her wits’ end, trying to care for him while training to be a dental assistant. When Milo’s grandfather finds out about the men coming and going at Mrs. Adams’ Daycare, he decides to investigate and averts a near disaster. ...
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    16,66 €

  • Tells of France
    Russell Helms
    Inspired by French Naturalism, these stories set during the latter half of the nineteenth century paint the mundane struggle of daily life. Often dark, and sometimes humorous, Tells of France, portrays malaise and the boldness to overcome life’s cruel slant. From a conspiracy to sell breastmilk to the teasing of an old grandmother with sweets, Helms captures well the vicissitud...
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    19,06 €

  • Squircle
    Russell Helms
    These surreal stories bump heads with a sticky goo of suburban malaise, that feeling of being lost amid progress and material things. From humorous to violent, Squircle seeks to blur perspective and plumb the depths of confusion amid the vagaries of daily life and the struggle to make sense of existence. In that space between a circle and a square, these stories seek to bend re...
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    19,18 €

  • The Grasscutter
    Russell Helms
    From belly button fuzz to paper cuts, the devil is in the little details of life. These stories seek to ground the human species in the forever battle to meet one’s needs and desires. Seemingly innocuous at times and bending to the tune of the mundane, Helms explores the human condition in all its simple but sometimes terrifying glory. ...
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    19,03 €

  • Secret Lives
    Russell Helms
    Everyone has a secret life, perhaps hidden behind a fence or a smile. From tornadoes to cube steak to peanut butter, these fifteen stories explore what it means to be human in an often rambunctious and mesmerizing world. ...
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    19,05 €

  • Nibby
    Russell Helms
    The docile Bomkin named Nibby is recruited to fight the Dagons and protect the Kingdom of Vas, but fears leaving his family home in Landa. He learns he can be an explorer instead and takes off on the adventure of his life, seeking the Crown of Ahran and hoping to find his father, Loqan, who has been missing for a decade. As Nibby travels, he acquires new friends, including the ...
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    19,21 €

  • My Future Wife
    Russell Helms
    Landon travels with his good buddy, Stwewart, to Tirana, Albania, where Stewart is sure that Landon will find love. Landon has Bitcoin on his brain and balks at the attractive and very young ladies that Stewart spots for him. Finally, as their trip nears its end, Landon meets Agnesa at the hostel, and Landon is hooked, forgetting about his grand plans with Bitcoin. ...
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    15,56 €

  • Despots’ Dead Babies
    Russell Helms
    Every time a despot opens their mouth, a dead baby falls out. A dead baby is the most apt and equal image to a despot’s cruel words The stories within are vicious and disturbing. One after another, they numb and desensitize much as the lies and propaganda of tyrannical despots, both living and dead. ...
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    14,75 €

  • Books Are Heavy
    Russell Helms
    On a lark, Peter opens a used book store, Redcup, with high hopes of creating a paradise of words and art, His wife, Katie, is horrified and berates Peter for his irresponsible actions. Plowing ahead, Peter goes all in, assembling a team of oddball volunteers to run the store. After only two months in business, and bleeding money, Katie gets a new job in Kenucky, forcing Peter ...
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    18,74 €

  • Mother Time
    Russell Helms
    Mia is abducted and replaced for the second time, sending Reece on a strange journey to find her on a planet where children are meat. Meanwhile, Markush has a daring plan to give Dahlia the mother she craves, but Dahlia proves hard to handle. Having given her good sister Julia power over the universes, Julia endeavors to right Dahlia’s wrongs, changing the fabric of societies a...
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    18,54 €

  • Anywhere and Everywhere
    Russell Helms
    Reece Myers is trapped in a top-secret facility, Organon, following the murder of what appears to outsiders as his daughter Mia. Reece travels via seizures between universes to a strange town known as Gadam 3981 to find the real Mia, who has been abducted by the mysterious entity Dahlia and replaced by the imposter that Reece has killed. By now, Reece’s wife has filed for divor...
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    19,13 €

  • The Icelanders
    Russell Helms
    In an alternate universe, Reece Myers finds himself in the small Ethiopian village of Gwar, working with an Icelandic medical team and his interpreter Afewerki. The place seems familiar, as he conducts a health survey for his master’s degree. Nurses Svana and Eydis, tasked with weighing local children, are a handful, drinking with the men and raising eyebrows. Their boss, Dr. T...
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    19,33 €

  • Finding Her
    Russell Helms
    Back from Ethiopia, Emma Smith discovers if the rape has resulted in pregnancy and continues to pursue a relationship with Reece Meyers, whose engagement to Kristin seems more in peril with each passing day.  ...
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    20,75 €

  • Half Smile
    Russell Helms
    Reece Myers has been shot in the head and evacuated from Ethiopia back to Alabama, his fiancée Kristin in shock. As Reece fights to regain his life, with humor, and puzzle his relationship with God, the romance with fellow clinic nurse Emma back in Ethiopia overshadows his engagement and spells trouble. As Reece recovers and reexamines life with Kristin, Emma longs for him and ...
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    19,46 €

  • Struggle Me This
    Russell Helms
    Godo, Ethiopia, 1986, and Reece Myers has been shot in the head and evacuated back to Alabama, his fiancée Kristin in shock. As Reece fights to regain his life, the budding romance with fellow clinic nurse Emma back in Godo overshadows his engagement and spells trouble. As Reece recovers and reexamines life with Kristin, Emma longs for him and soon meets her own tragic fate.  ...
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    18,79 €

  • Famine
    Russell Helms
    It’s 1986, and the famine machinery is humming in Ethiopia. It’s been two years since the greatest famine of the twentieth century has been uncovered with the deaths of half a million and counting. Clinic nurse Emma Smith, alone and rattled in the remote village of Godo, hears that a new nurse, Reece Myers, is coming and welcomes him with open arms. What begins as a working rel...
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    19,23 €

  • Fade
    Russell Helms
    Michael is dismayed to learn that a colleague’s step-daughter has committed suicide. Michael had had thoughts of asking her out but felt the age difference was too great. Against all odds, Michael sets forth to bring Anna back by dating her ghost. Anna’s mom Mandy is terrified but hopeful, but Anna’s step-dad Tom is angry and unsure of Michael’s intention. Michael takes Anna ou...
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    19,61 €

  • Depression Since Prozac
    Russell Helms
    The true self, in the face of depression, is the medicated self. Depression renders us incapable of living a full life free from dogged thoughts of gloom, despair, and even thoughts of self harm. Prior to Prozac, depression was a fuzzy concept that carried much social stigma. Now, more than thirty years since its release, Prozac and depression are household words. Prozac made i...
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    16,09 €

  • Knife
    Russell Helms
    Tightly knit, these five stories weave an unholy melange of revenge and ultimate kindness—a Frankenstein tale, vignettes wired together, spanning a thousand years of language, birth, cruelty, justice, and incest. ...
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    14,98 €

  • Pianotown
    Russell Helms
    Disturbing and comical, Pianotown lays fame to a giant cat and kidnapped hitchhikers. When in doubt, the eclectic inhabitants of this surreal and twisted world consult messages on cans of hairspray scattered about town. The stories are often brutal and wrapped in dark humor. Not for the faint of heart or kidney.  ...
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    13,74 €

  • Ayahuasca! (or not)
    Russell Helms
     Disappointed by a failed mortgage, Daniel treks to the jungles of Peru for an encounter with the legendary ayahuasca. He’s been warned that his medications are a deadly mix with the juice of the sacred vine, but he’s up for the challenge anyway. ...
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    9,93 €

  • The Infirm
    Russell Helms
    After viciously attacking a judge, while giving him a pedicure, Jack escapes the domed city of Pan, Alabama, and begins his quest to free his secret love Lura from the grips of the Infirm, the grotesquely disabled leaders of his world—an over-the-top literary adventure in gothic Southern malaise. ...
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    16,00 €

  • Knob
    Russell Helms
    Oh, what a wonderful e-mail! Decline of the able-bodied greeter. Carefully hidden among the potatoes. Hot pear. Tooth strikes sink. My child is pretty. Is that your thatch? U.S.S. Pajama Bottom. Ectopic fantasy. Cat refuses to swallow hair, dies young. Save all Teds. The birthday party across the street functions without us, apparently without any weird or ill effects. Catheter...
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    9,08 €

  • Sprinkle Cheese
    Rusell Helms / Russell Helms
    Pregnant with Bobby Hartwig’s child, Thai nurse Silliporn tracks him down to Alabama where, having survived a jump from a bridge in Bangkok, Bobby’s back home taking care of stroke-victim Harold Suggs and falling in love with his gorgeous granddaughter Bee. The tiny Suggs’ house turns pressure cooker beneath the stingy gaze of Harold’s game-show addicted wife Nadine and a helpf...
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    15,69 €