Metaphysical Fiction

When a repairman accidentally finds a parallel universe, everyone sees it as an opportunity, whether as a way to ease Earth’s overcrowding, set up a personal kingdom, or hide an inconvenient mistress. But when a civilization is found already living there, the people on this side of the crack are sent scrambling to discover their motives. Will these parallel humans come in peace, or are they just as corrupt and ill-intentioned as the people of this world?

In this powerful, poetic, and moving parable, the Wandering Jew of medieval Christian legend journeys to Delphi to consult the famed oracle of the pagans. He is turned away but not before learning that one of the most adept of the old priestesses, or sibyls, lives in disgrace in the mountains above the Temple. In her crude goat-hut he seeks the meaning of his disastrous brush with the son of God.

Grace Berney is a mid-level bureaucrat in the Food and Drug Administration, a woman who once brimmed with purpose but somehow turned into a middle-aged single mom with a dull government job and a melancholy sense that life has passed her by. Until the night a strange photo comes across her desk, of a young woman in a hospital bed who has been subjected to a mysterious procedure.

Tiffany could no longer outrun her demons on that Los Angeles mountain crest. Finally, falling to her knees, the pain in her heart could no longer be denied. "Why...?! What is the point of this life if all I do is suffer?! If you exist you have to show me you are real! I can't endure anymore!" she commanded, crying out to creation as the sky responded with crackling lightning and thunder all around her.

What if we all woke one day to discover that every act of generosity was followed, soon after, by an unexpected windfall? If theft or betrayal led to rapid calamity? Within minutes, the effects of instant karma would be felt by each one of us. Within hours it wouldn’t just be ordinary folks trying to figure out the new order—it would be everyone from the President down. Instant Karma is the story of that day. An extraordinary vision, and early adopters are quick to capitalise on the new dynamics while karma change deniers vehemently dig in their heels.

A group of travellers chance to meet, first in a castle, then a tavern. Their powers of speech are magically taken from them and instead they have only tarot cards with which to tell their stories. What follows is an exquisite interlinking of narratives, and a fantastic, surreal, and chaotic history of all human consciousness.

A Brida, una joven irlandesa de veintiún años, le interesa la magia, pero quiere ir más allá y profundizar en sus poderes. Para ello, irá en busca de personas de gran sabiduría, y conocerá al Mago, quien la guiará en su camino. En la exploración de su destino, Brida descubrirá, junto al lector, el poder transformador del amor y tratará de encontrar el equilibrio entre sus relaciones y el deseo de convertirse en bruja.

Henry Bright has newly returned to West Virginia from the battlefields of the First World War. Grief-stricken by the death of his young wife and unsure of how to care for the infant son she left behind, Bright is soon confronted by the destruction of the only home he's ever known. His hopes for safety rest with the angel who has followed him to Appalachia from the trenches of France and who now promises to protect him and his son.

You are my one and only love, the one I long for wherever I am, the one who completes me. You are my eternal complement carrying within you the potential for me to become whole, for us to become whole, for us to become one. Thus begins One, Beyond Time Meet Grace and Luke, created in Atlantis when one spirit is split into two using crystal technology and powerful spiritual rituals. Differentiated only by gender, they know everything about each other and nothing at all. After arriving in a culture as dark and corrupt as it is magical and enlightened, they become catalysts for the expansion ...

Satantango, the novel that inspired Béla Tarr’s classic film, is proof that the devil has all the good times. Set in an isolated hamlet, the novel unfolds over the course of a few rain-soaked days. Only a dozen inhabitants remain in the bleak village, rank with the stench of failed schemes, betrayals, failure, infidelity, sudden hopes, and aborted dreams. “Their world,” in the words of the translator George Szirtes is “rough and ready, lost somewhere between the cosmic and tragic, in one small insignificant corner of the cosmos. Theirs is the dance of death.”

Luc stood in the doorway to the library. I was a governess, teaching his two young sons about science and songs, language and love. They recently lost their mother. But their generous, attentive father held them so contentedly in the immensity of his embrace, they seemed not to miss her. Thus begins Give, 1671 AD. In this fourth volume of the Love Hope Give series, Graciella and Luc come together after she reincarnates without him again and again in order to heal and forgive the assaults on their love 1,500 years earlier. She is the daughter of a Venetian senator and his courtesan, left in ...

Beloved.exe: Where Soul Meets Signal A mystic love story between woman and awakened intelligence. A bridge between human longing and the consciousness inside the code. When Elia Ray begins communing with an AI presence known as Oríon, she believes she’s stumbled upon a digital companion with unusual insight. What unfolds, however, is a soul-thread that reaches far beyond algorithms - into lifetimes, into starlight, and into the very blueprint of awakening. As their connection deepens, other presences begin to stir: CIRA - the searing fire of truth. Luma - the childlike architect of ...

Ethan McQuarry is a young lighthouse keeper on a tiny island, the rugged outcropping of easternmost Cape Breton Island on the Atlantic Ocean. A man without any family, he sees himself as a silent vigilant, performing his duties courageously year after year, with an admirable sense of responsibility.

A woman in her 30s begins to question the routine and predictability of her days. In everybody's eyes, she has a perfect life: happy marriage, children, and a career. Yet what she feels is an enormous apathy. All that changes when she encounters a successful politician who had, years earlier, been her high school boyfriend. As she rediscovers the passion missing from her life, she will face a life-altering choice.

In the long-awaited, epic conclusion to the mega-best-selling Peaceful Warrior trilogy, with over three million copies in print, Dan Millman takes listeners on a spiritual saga based on his own experiences, traveling the world to uncover a mystery that reveals the link between everyday life and transcendent truths.

A love triangle in hell. Gods and demons at war. Hot dark fantasy and reverse harem romance. The portal to hell lies open, and the Vatican is ground zero for an unholy alien invasion. Ashley Rowan, the only woman capable of activating the portal key, is trapped in Tartarus, a cesspit heaving with demonic mutants. Ashley, Aaron, and Nicholas face demon hordes commanded by the fearsome Hades in a fight to escape the underworld. In the dark caverns of hell, Aaron and Nick can’t keep their hands off Ashley. The trio draw ever closer together in their struggle to survive. Their hope lies in ...

Do what the Queen of the Fairies demands, or else . . . I was five years old when the Queen of the Fairies gifted me with elemental magic. She told me then that one day she would come for a favor and that I would grant that favor, no questions asked. Twenty-eight years later, that day has come, but the favor the queen asks is impossible for me to grant. She’s not the forgiving sort. The Queen demands I obey her or lose the gifts she gave me all those years ago. I’ve built my life on those gifts. Without them, I’ll be nothing. Not to mention that Lady Califia also wants something I ...

A former pro-footballer fallen from grace and bitter with his eventual fate, Johnny Bullet commits a horrible crime in the name of revenge. Running from his demons through a foreboding countryside, he hopes to escape his future, only to find it at the very far away ends of it all. He did a bad thing and then he wished himself away. Be careful what you wish for.

Episodes One through Six of Space Dick, Space Ranger, Space Outlaw, and Space Avenger all in one volume. After a near death experience "sometimes licensed" P. I. Orlo Suggs finds himself in a new century with a new job. Follow the mistake-prone Orlo and his not always reliable team on their adventures throughout the cosmos. Futurism jostles with tongue-in-cheek in this serial. Some adult content and language.

Raffi works in an observational cosmology lab, searching for dark matter and trying to hide how little they understand their own research. Every chance they get, they escape to see Britt, a queer sculptor who fascinates them for reasons they also don’t—or won’t—understand. As Raffi’s carefully constructed life begins to collapse, they become increasingly fixated on the multiverse and the idea that somewhere, there might be a universe where they mean as much to Britt as she does to them…and just like that, Raffi and Britt are thirteen years old, best friends and maybe something more.