The Pros & Cons of Dragon-Slaying: Collected Stories: Anthony Labriola's collection of stories shows us the battles-fought, lost and won-when we strive to live life to the fullest. In the fabled adventures in both this world and the next, there are m...
These stories, in all their narrative voicings, deal with sorrow and still seek to find life's joys. Despite conflicts, contradictions, sacrifices, surprises and ironies, the haunted and hunted characters try to comprehend death in detail. In so doin...
The Lonely Barber is an urban love story, a dark romance. On the cusp of making business plans for the future, a man nicknamed Lonely clashes with the past. Despite hostility, menace and violence, he seeks his bliss in the city. Love makes its ero...
A novel of resistance. In rage and fury, it is a protest against “the dying of the light.” An old teacher, Leonardo Furioso, nicknamed Fury, sets out to delete his blighted memories of a life filled with misadventures, misdirected passion, an...
What if you woke up one day to find that you were famous? Lord Byron wrote that he woke up one day to find that he was famous. Centuries before, Will Shakespeare woke up to the dawning of his Shakespearean fame. An Englishman in Italian deals with...
A dark fantasy about the settling of old scores, and the longing for intimacy in a mysterious world. On his quest, a young man nicknamed Dragonfly sets out to solve the mystery of savage kidnappings, abductions, arson, and destruction in the Six. ...
In order to expose his clients' life lies, Dr. Clive Wango, real estate tycoon and self-styled psychotherapist, hosts exotic Truth Parties at his multi-million-dollar mansion. Once he gets people in conflict there, he spares no expense to free the...
Anton Sergeevich Antonov and his mamochka, Zoya Ivanovna Antonov, are under secret police surveillance for suspected subversive activities. He is a retired writer who believes he lives an inverted life, like a character out of Gogol. His farcical inv...