Books published by Pelekinesis

"Garden Prayers: Fall" is the fourth collection of drawings made at the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden (now the California Botanic Garden) in Claremont and in Upland, California. As artist T.M. Givens states, "I think I've been producing a self-help book... you know, one that just comes alive or makes you come alive as you read it."

"Garden Prayers: Summer" is the third collection of drawings made primarily at the Botanic Garden in Claremont. These are, as artist T.M. Givens states, "still based on the idea that they are prayers ... what about if I don't have enough good words to let you know what I believe or that I'm thinking ... can you understand that well enough?"

Kendall Johnson served as traumatic stress consultant to emergency service agencies and the military for twenty-five years. Chaos and Ash records one consultant's views from the inside of some of the largest critical incidents.

These essays will provide you with the wisdom of the ages - the insights of Wilde, Austen, Milton, Shakespeare, Cavavfy, both Brontës and all the ancient Greeks. You will know how to dress, talk, organize, decorate and comport yourself in every possible situation, especially in cafés.

"Garden Prayers: Spring" is the second collection of drawings made at the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden in Claremont and in Cambria, California. These are "still part of the meditation I experience while looking at or experiencing or talking to or wondering about or thinking of these living places," says artist T.M. Givens.

The Best Microfiction series provides recognition for outstanding stories of 400 words or fewer. Co-edited by Meg Pokrass, and Gary Fincke, this edition features acclaimed author Michael Martone serving as final judge.

100 cassettes take the reader through a series of impressions of possible music releases over the last fifty years through the eyes of musician/label owner Dennis Callaci.

First published in 1991 comprising short short fictions most written in the eighties, A Modern Way to Die, by Peter Wortsman, "predates the in-vogue term flash fiction, but it's surely one of the cornerstones of the tradition," (according to short form pioneer Pete Cherches).

How much story can fit in 50 words? Hold Still Fast, a collection of 200 stories 50 words and under, explores how far the shortest fiction can travel with the fewest words possible.

Whistler's Mother's Son collects over 100 prose pieces of varying length and styles-from minimalism to satire to noir to children's tale to abstraction to surrealism. The cast of characters includes Hamlet, Gertrude Stein, Fred Flintstone, Mr. Mondrian, a man with two mustaches, and an eternally confused Peter Cherches.

Across The Street From The Ordinary is a collection of recent short fiction. The stories here move through a wide variety of settings, characters, narratives - all not quite conventional.

The sixth collection of flash fictions from Meg Pokrass represents best in class of the short literary form.

"Let Me Tell You How It Isn't" follows the life of 22-year-old Justin Murphy as he searches for his estranged Lebanese father through London. Raised primarily by his Irish Catholic grandparents in Los Angeles, Justin struggles to identify with a Middle Eastern heritage he knows little about and refuses to accept. As a result, he embarks on a booze-fueled journey of self-discovery-but he isn't alone. His Jain girlfriend-a vociferous critic of his drinking-is along for the ride that leads them across Europe and down into the depths of their own relationship."Let Me Tell You How It Isn't" is the story of a young man's internal and familial struggle between Middle East and Far West in a "secondary security screening" world. It is a story of culture clash, identity, and love, all of which can tear a family apart and bring them back together.

The Best Microfiction anthology series provides recognition for outstanding literary stories of 400 words or fewer. Co-edited by award-winning microfiction writer/editor Meg Pokrass, and Flannery O'Connor Prize-winning author Gary Fincke, the anthology features the well-known novelist and short story writer Dan Chaon serving as final judge, an exclusive craft-oriented interview with the great Etgar Keret, and an essay about the current state of microfiction written by Robert Scotellaro. The inaugural edition, Best Microfiction 2019, features eighty seven of the world's best very short stories.

An emotional fiction set on a rural lake in Maine, "Layla and the Lake" explores a labyrinth of faulty ethics, expectations, and boundaries as Layla struggles to mend her messy life and protect her children's future.

Verse fragments and collages describing the Typewriter Underground, a spontaneous sub-cultural phenomenon that appeared with near simultaneity in a variety of cities across the globe in the late 20th and early 21st Century. The Commedia, commonly referred to as "Felt's First Folio," offers a lively picture of life in this subterranean community.

Unfortunately, Thanks for Everything is a collection of poems which follow the bicycle paths, travels, and familial challenges that have shaped the poet. T. Anders Carson's style of conveying the banal into fortitude, mini vignettes into insightful shortcomings and the brazen writing of one who is not afraid. It is a testimony to the will and strength of daily challenges that he sees when facing the mirror. These poems reflect the risk of exposing not only his autumnal trust in mankind but also the stratospheric darkness that befits those who have been exposed to suicide and orphaned young. His work does not shy away from head on hits. The blows are explosive and barren. He ventures into the mined fields working his magic words and finding that 3:00 am solace that carries until the dawn. He is a firm believer on the sun rising on us all.

"Garden Prayers: Winter" is a collection of 20 drawings made at the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden in Claremont, California. These are "conversations with the living things in this living place," says artist T.M. Givens.

Life and death in a baby-boom family: a GI father betrayed by his wife; adored, despised, then ill and at the mercies of a conflicted son.

"A nonlinear look at aspects of California history, Hier and Brantingham explore topics including the geologic past, the age of the mastodons, early Native Americans presence, and the present age"--

Alice, a writer of comic prose, is an elderly widow with no heirs who had kept her wealth a private matter. A HAIRPIECE NAMED DENIAL explores her unique plan to give away seven million dollars. Set in a small town on the Great Plains in the 1980s, the story captures Alice's offbeat humor as she interacts with a young man who holds a B.A. in Philosophy and wears an Elvis-pompadour hairpiece. A HAIRPIECE NAMED DENIAL, the debut novel by S. Sal Hanna, is a comic work that harbors serious insights into the human condition.

The imaginary author/teacher/father Sidney Fein (1942-1984) was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His family's fortune came from the business of clothing women of modest means. He attended elementary school in Philadelphia. When he was twelve, his family moved to New York City. He earned a bachelors' degree from Columbia University, where he concentrated in the study of languages and literature. He went on to study at the University of Pennsylvania, from which he received a doctorate in philosophy in 1964. Fein was married in 1966. His daughter, Maya Nunfi Fein, was born in 1967. He and his wife separated in 1973 and divorced shortly thereafter. Fein raised Maya on his own. Thanks to an inheritance, he had independent means which allowed him to write and also to accept occasional teaching appointments.Fein published three books: Diptych on Terrestrial Representation (1973), Want, Desire, and Need (1977), and Aristocratic Democracy (1983). In addition to his books, Fein produced a quantity of verse and fiction, much of it unpublished and some published under pseudonyms. Pseudonymity is just one of the themes of the collection but its scope is wide and unpredictable. Among the thirty-five pieces are a keynote address, short stories, poems, essays on a variety of philosophical and literary subjects, including the work of other imaginary authors. Each piece is accompanied by remarks from the scholar who, at the behest of his daughter, has edited the papers left behind by Fein on his death at the age of forty-two. The book includes a preface from the actual author and a postscript that includes a retrospective essay on Fein's work by an imaginary critic along with notes for the new book Fein was just beginning when he died.

In this sequel to 2016's "Right of Capture," Judge and Roan discover new instincts-and new horrors-along a path that leads them to a Mandan reservation, where booming oil and gas operations are the perfect cover for Dimond's newest industrial project. To save millions of lives, Roan and Judge must stop him.

Compilation of newspaper columns published in the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin (Ontario, Calif.) from 2001-2005

Similarity, relationship, and comparison thread this new collection by Anaheim Poet Laureate and Prize Americana-winning author, Grant Hier. This collection is thoughtful, well-wrought poetry that simultaneously connects the unexpected and reveals to us places of resonance.

It's the summer of 1986 in Orange County, California, and ten-year-old Thomas Kabiri's father has just left for Iran to attend a funeral. With no school in session for the next few months, and Thomas's mother working two jobs to keep the family afloat, Thomas can live like Fountain Valley's answer to Huck Finn, spending his unsupervised days playing basketball at the local park, where an assorted cast of local characters come to shoot hoops, argue about pop culture, and tell tall tales so grandiose they would put Walter Mitty to shame.However, everything changes when Thomas befriends Earl Lewis, an ex-professional basketball player who has arrived in town to look for a former teammate who vanished ten years earlier. As Earl slowly becomes the second father Thomas needs at this point in his life, Thomas, with his encyclopedic knowledge of the Southern California playground basketball scene, helps Earl in his search to find his long-lost friend. As Thomas and Earl's quest takes them all over Southern California, Thomas slowly begins to learn about the world that exists beyond the basketball court, and what he ultimately wants his place in that world to be.The Prince of Orange County is, like Nick Hornby's About A Boy and Sherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, a work that captures the sometimes funny, sometimes painful, always colorful experience that is growing up, and it does so with an unwavering affection for its large and diverse cast of characters.

Circa is a dark comedy featuring Henry Colmes, a high school sophomore trying to find his place in school and life. In alternating chapters, it is also the story of Henry as a thirty-something cub reporter trying to track down an elusive cult leader in order to interview him for the man's own obituary.Alluding to the timelessness of tragedy, Circa offers an examination of our collective desperation for meaningful context in which to place and rationalize the actions we take.At once heartfelt, tragic, and surreal, Circa, the debut novel from author Adam Greenfield, looks at the pivotal moments in a person's life that lead them to make the decisions they can never take back and, ultimately, never forget.

"The Lonely Young and the Lonely Old" is a collection of lyrical fictions. Told in the words of unnamed narrators, each story gives voice to the easily dismissed, speaks from the center of an almost paralyzed intensity, desperately searching for articulation and belonging, beautifully capturing simplicity and generosity with poetic brilliance.

The Difference Between is a collection of 66 poems that invite comparisons between seemingly disparate words, ideas, or things. Sparked by the poem "The Importance of the Whale in the Field of Iris" by Pattiann Rogers, this series similarly pairs and juxtaposes to create surprising parallels and previously unimagined relationships. While most these poems start with the anaphora, "The Difference Between," by the end of the book it's clear that this is as much a confirmation of our interconnectedness, an exploration of what Whitman calls the "vast similitude" that spans, holds, and encloses everything.

In these poems, tales told by multiple narrators, wayfarers move through a sparsely populated terrain, finding hardship, beauty, peril, the ineffable. Some are escaping events beyond their control, some choose to roam, and others stay in place, delving into the interior landscape.