A troubled teen with an unbearable father and a woman grieving the loss of her son encounter an eclectic cast of characters at a local dog park. With nothing in common but a love of dogs, these strangers become friends and friends become family at Lake Woof, where everyone has a story. Free on Kindle.

Longlisted for the 2025 PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel and Named to Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books of 2024. A tale of high schoolers and their coach creating a basketball team that may save them in ways therapy and medication can’t. Free on Kindle.

How Hot It Be In Hell descends into the hidden impulses people try to outrun—jealousy, obsession, violence, desire, and the quiet urges that twist a life off course. Each poem opens a door into a different human fracture: a lover’s fatal rage, a predator’s watchful hunger, a drunk stumbling toward chaos, a homeless man recounting the slow collapse of everything he held dear. Even the act of writing becomes a reckoning with the shadows that shape meaning, rendered through Drummond’s surreal imagery and genre?bending voice.

As the collection deepens, the tone grows darker, more unflinching, until the final poem, HOT FIRE, tears past individual sins and imagines hell itself breaking loose upon the earth. Drummond blends romance, horror, mystery, and lyrical experimentation into a haunting exploration of how easily humanity slips toward ruin. The result is a compelling, fire?lit journey for readers drawn to poetry that stares directly into darkness and refuses to look away. Free on Kindle.

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“Gripping” – Kirkus Reviews

Based on true accounts of children’s penal colonies that emerged during the 1990s post-Soviet chaos, Going to Zossen is a raw exploration of the bargains ordinary people make under oppressive systems – necessary reading for fans of Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These and Colson Whitehead’s The Nickel Boys.

The year is 1993. In a collapsing post-Soviet mining town, a former serviceman, Vasily Mikhailovich, accepts work as the director of a remote juvenile prison colony. Determined to bring order and empathy to a brutal system, he starts a rehabilitation program for the young boys. But he is soon thwarted by the corruption around him; as he watches the people nearby prosper through deceit and cruelty, he is forced to make a choice: to uphold his principles and risk everything, or surrender them to save his family.

Going to Zossen achieves almost surgical precision in its depiction of the brutal wave of mass child homelessness that swept through Russia after the fall of the USSR – a collapse that produced up to four million “street children,” the quickest deterioration of living standards to happen in any country during peacetime.

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“A timely revelation” – BookLife
“Will embrace even readers who held little prior familiarity with and interest in Soviet affairs” – Midwest Book Reviews
“Compelling … Historical fiction in the richest sense” –Creation Mag $0.99 on Kindle.

If given a second chance at life, would you love differently? Would you mend broken relationships? Would you follow your dreams?

Homeless and estranged from her family, Mary, a guitar savant with big dreams and little hope, is on the verge of letting her life slip away. Just before taking a fatal mix of alcohol and pills, the spirit of a guitar legend appears before her to offer her guidance and a glimmer of hope.

Mary takes advantage of this second chance by getting clean through rehab, falling in love with an actress named Leila, and pouring her soul into her music. When she’s diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor, Mary is faced with the decision of barely living or living harder with the limited time she has left. Navigating her grief with the help of her family, Mary comes through on the other side ready to show the world why her life mattered.

This 14-track playlist of Mary’s life highlights the highs and lows of a tragically beautiful life. With raw wisdom and inspiring philosophy, this story invites readers to look deep within themselves and find the difference between being alive and living. $3.99 on Kindle.

Experience the heartbreak and turmoil of a suppressed population through the eyes of a Black man. Follow this grieving widow as he struggles to find a meaning for life. Witness a tumultuous presidential election; these powerful poems delve into themes of loss, heartbreak, and the struggle for justice. Join our protagonist, a Black writer, as he navigates the darkness and despair of his world. Don’t wait any longer; pick up your copy today and immerse yourself in another raw and poignant journey of Aubrey E. Drummond as he Welcomes you to Darkness. Free on Kindle.

Surviving the Tempest: A Journey from Darkness to Renewal

Are you ready to dive into the storm? The third installment of the Clouded Thoughts saga by the most clouded author of this time has done it again.

Step into a world where pain meets poetry and survival becomes an art form. This deeply moving collection paints the vivid landscape of addiction—not just as a battle lost or won, but as a complex journey marked by storms, scars, and ultimately, the promise of clear skies. Let these poems be your guide through the shadows and light of a struggle many face but few dare to voice.

Every verse echoes the raw truth of the human spirit wrestling with compulsion and the haunting aftermath it leaves behind. From the fractured glass of regret to the fierce clash between addicts and their addictions, each page unfurls a tapestry of feelings—anguish, hope, love, and healing. Discover moments of fragile tenderness and soul-crushing isolation woven together with honest reflections that refuse to shy away from the darkest struggles.

Feel the tension of clouded minds battling for clarity, the delicate heartbreak of Band-Aid Love, and the invisible scars etched deep within. This is more than a book; it’s a testament to resilience, offering solace to those who know addiction’s gales firsthand and to those who seek understanding of its relentless grip. The journey doesn’t end with survival—it transforms into a powerful narrative of reclaiming the self and embracing the strength that rises after the storm.

Are you ready to witness courage in its rawest form and glimpse the faint light breaking through the darkest clouds? Embrace these hauntingly beautiful poems and find your own path toward hope, healing, and renewal today.

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“Yes, the inquisitive hermit out in the delta seems to have unlocked the greatest secret of them all.”

All Mankind once shared the same instinctual connections to the planet as all the other species that thrive, here, on earth. Threading ourselves into the wind, the light, the electromagnetic field and the rhythm of the ocean tides, we were a delicately woven pattern in a wonderous tapestry. In “River Talk (fables of connections lost)” the reader is introduced to Marchon Baptiste, a hermit living in the delta who still possesses these instinctual connections and more. He possesses the ultimate gift and connection to the planet: the language of water. “River Talk (fables of connections lost)” is a journey of profound rediscovery. An epic tale wherein the reader encounters a host of enchanting, humorous and illuminating characters who are attempting to restore a personal and spiritual connection to their wellspring? Earth.
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