Books published by Future Publishing House

The Procurements of Sonny Valentine is a collection of noir detective stories that include adventure, fantasy elements, and occult mysticism.

Also featuring plays by Emma S. Rund, Dylan Kinnett, Barbara Bryan, Cameron Sheppard, Matt Brown, and Andre Thespies. With introduction by Shaun Vain (editor)In the first anthology of this series, Chicago and Baltimore playwrights share short plays written for the stage. Performance-ready new ideas, contained within insightful dialogue and monologues span, the pages of this anthology. Since America earned its title as "the melting pot" by most historians, Future Publishing House combines with playwrights and theatre artistry to create this unequivocally dynamic collection of work. As artists living with the freedom to create meaningful new work, the plays in this first volume inform the beginning of a millennia of performance art. Plays comment on universal themes: Emma Rund's characters in To Fix a Dinosaur deal with conditional forgiveness. The struggle of political power to overcome scientific knowledge comes through in John Joseph Enright's Starry Night. Women's liberation ideas are featured in Easy as Pie by Melania Coffey. Gentrification is discussed in poetic verse in Alexander Scally's Chalked. Jealousy, envy, and the future of humanity are addressed in Dylan Kinnett's Party Planet.A scene from a play by Cameron Sheppard is dramatic and biographicSome pieces in this anthology fall into symbolism, surrealism, and absurdism, such as Barbara Bryan's Leaving the Universe. Other plays are written as melodramas, such as Love, Lust, Lyrics & Stamps by Matt Brown and Andre Thespies.Cover design by Kiirstn Pagan.

Asleep in the Skies is a noir detective novel that includes adventure, fantasy elements, and occult mysticism.

In Volume 1 of Future Publishing House Anthology Series, a collection of short plays and scenes are presented in an easily digestible format. This anthology provides ideas, insights, and styles of today's living playwrights.