Nathaniel Sewell

At fifty-something, Rob has reached a twilit crossroads. A recent divorcee, he's fled Houston to settle in St. Petersburg, Florida. Now, peering up at the mockingbird singing in a banyan tree, he wonders whether he could have done things differently.Across the road, The Moon looms. Week after week, as autumn fades into winter into spring, Rob finds himself sat at the cosy bar, watching locals and out-of-towners drift in and out, their spectral lives affording brief glimpses into other worlds.Rob talks and listens--he meets UFO conspiracists, South African ship-builders, aging artists, college students, the ill, the mourning--while, out in the world, Houston is swallowed by floods, the #MeToo movement shakes America, and, beyond the Florida coast, Hurricane Irma grows ever closer.Savoring each fleeting encounter, Rob ponders the changing world and his own place within it. By the time Irma hits, plunging Florida into chaos, he barely recognizes himself--and when the mockingbirds gather once more in the banyan tree, he realizes an even greater change is yet to come.

It should have been a day to remember: in the meadows beyond the school summer camp, Bobby had his first kiss. But when a slung rock shatters his friend Breck's front teeth, Bobby must be punished... He'll spend the rest of his life trying to forget Assistant Principal Diabolus and the terrible things that happened in that lonely cabin.The years pass in a haze. Diabolus haunts Bobby and his friend Willis like a specter, preying on their bodies when backs are turned. By the time he graduates, Bobby is a shell of the man he might have been; he spends his days and nights stumbling between college bars, his thoughts drifting again and again to suicide.But when Ardee, an old girlfriend on her way home from college, finds Bobby passed out in the street, his journey toward recovery--and revenge--can finally begin.Bobby's Socks is the moving story of one man forced to confront his abusive past, and is a sober reminder that, through love and healing, suffering can be transcended--and evil confronted.

It has been decades since Bobby last saw his mother. Now, his sister calls, and he knows before she even speaks--the old woman is finally dead. He'd expected to feel nothing; but death, Bobby knows, has a funny way of surprising you. Now, after all these years, he leaves California's sunny cliffsides behind and heads back to the blue mountains of Kentucky, where his buried memories lie hidden among the dogwoods.When Bobby's wife Rebecca first finds his grandfather's diaries in the dusty rooms of their family home, Bobby is hesitant--he's learned the hard way to let the dead rest. But as Bobby reads more about his grandfather's life in California during the depression, the more excited he becomes. The old man's words seem to hide some quiet, essential truth and, without really knowing why, Bobby finds himself driving Route 66 in his beloved 1929 Pearce Arrow, hoping to find in the Californian haunts of his grandfather's past something to chase away his own lingering demons.But the road ahead is long and winding, and the forests of home are never as far away as they seem. The Appalachian looms on the horizon, and Bobby will learn that, sometimes, finding the truth means following your roots.

How do you take your coffee?Ms Prosperina is a genetic monster trying to take over the world by spiking the coffee at her Starry Eyed Coffee Hut chain ... and she'll stop at nothing.It's up to her unwitting creator, the geneticist Professor Quan, to stop her. In an attempt to correct his mistake, Professor Quan creates a network of people with the power of true love genetically coded within them. They alone might resist Ms Prosperina's attempt to change the course of humanity.Everything hangs in the balance when Eddie, altered at birth by Quan's genetic mutation powder, fails to follow his pre-ordained destiny. The trauma of his father's death has left Eddie drifting through a meaningless life and has caused him to stray from Quan's master plan.Will Quan succeed in helping Eddie regain the light behind his eyes and will they succeed in foiling Ms Prosperina's evil plans?Could the world really end at General Beauregard's 24-hour fried chicken restaurant?

A tragic window of childhood death opens at summer camp within the hills of Appalachia as Mr. Diabolus sexually assaults nine-year-old, Robert.Robert's brain traumatized, a shame-based gene was switched on as a gentle whisper within Robert's mind said - KILL YOURSELF. But Robert got lucky one day at school when he met a new girl, Ardee, a happy tomboy of a girl, she renamed him, Bobby, her Bobby.Ardee moves away, years pass as Robert descends into mediocrity. Ardee, now a woman, stumbles back into Robert's life. A sequence of events unfolds after Ardee convinces Robert to seek help from Dr. Richie when she accidentally finds out about his tragic childhood.Ardee's motherly instincts kick in and she does what every abused child prays for - she hunts down a predator, she defends her Bobby.