Bøger af Mizeta Moon

The feature story, The Quest, revolves around the search for an object with healing powers that instantly transform those who touch it from negativity to pure love. Romance and adventure ensue as the protagonist joins a centuries old quest. The co-feature is a portrait of a serial killer operating in the Portland metro area. How he came to be and his terrible actions are exposed in a gritty, somewhat unsettling tale of depravity and mayhem. In between are sixty-three flash stories that encompass multiple genres: sci-fi, love, revenge, and tales of small-town America, to name a few. The idea of entering the Kaleidoscope is that the variety of emotions and situations revealed allow for a wide range of readers to find something they enjoy. Adult language is employed where it fits the characterizations but isn't used as a replacement for proper verbiage in the majority of the pieces. The flash stories average less than a thousand words and are perfect for short attention spans or busy people unable to invest time in novels.

Monkey Casserole is a delight to the senses, combining humor, pathos and wonder to create a sumptuous feast of 33 entertaining stories: a great diversity of people, animals, places, and ideas. The lead story, by Howard Schneider, Monkeys in the Mango Trees, is set in a rural village in India and highlights the unprecedented accomplishment of a determined young woman. Howard's nine other stories span a wide variety of situations, from living off the grid to an unexpected Christmas Eve rescue. Mizeta Moon contributes fifteen of her wide-ranging short stories that take us into fascinating worlds of human nature. Linda Burk give us seven stories from her vivid imagination delving into both animal and human behavior.

Snapshots is a collection of forty flash-style fiction stories, half of which are by Howard, the others by Mizeta. Although some of the stories are from prompts used for writing during Writers Unite sessions at the Hollywood Senior Center, most stem from ideas conjured up independently by the authors. They range over a wide variety of settings, characters, view-points and situations, and range from less than one page up to four.The collection is a journey through the minds and eyes of a wide variety of characters, providing a momentary glimpse into their divergent worlds. The stories are perfect for a quick read, anytime, anyplace. Some will bring smiles, others, maybe tears, but all are intended to make you think, or feel, and hopefully will tempt you to read another one.