Literary Fiction

From award-winning author Don McQuinn comes Light The Hidden Things, a poignant and beautiful story that will resonate with anyone who has loved someone struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder. 



Back in the seventies, I had a little radio call-in show called “All Good Dogs”, and it was about…you guessed it…dogs! Now, I wasn’t what you’d call a celebrity, but folks did start to get to know me, and I had a decent little following. I did that for a few years before I went on to be the cook at a kids’ day camp. Turned out I was a halfway decent cook, which is about two-thirds better than I was at working the radio buttons. Still, though, it was nice to hear people’s stories, and I do miss it sometimes even to this day. This here is their stories.

Ruth Roth can’t help it. The ancient goddess of obscenity is the driving force in her psyche! Ruth’s up-yours attitude in a baby-boomer society choking on moralism spells trouble. And worn down by a harpyish mother, Ruth conforms—a tragedy for a wild child. She makes a comeback, though, with the help of trusted friends. But when one of them sends her into hell, Ruth faces an apocalypse...

There are only three things in this world that are certain: death, taxes, and babies. Nobody knows this better than Emily McCoy, who works on the busy Labor and Delivery unit at a New York City hospital. As Emily works tirelessly to safely herald baby after baby into the world, she discovers that: 1) Babies never come when you want them to. 2) Babies always come when you don't want them to. 3) You don't know who your true friends are until your baby is sliding down the birth canal.

Uh-oh! When the phone rings at 3AM, America’s first reality TV President faces a nuclear crisis only an even bigger reality TV star can solve. Celebrity Intelligence Agency agent Kim Kardashian flies to London, Russia, and finally the Arctic Circle as she races against time to resolve the crisis.

Sliding Delta is a quest to find legendary musician Mississippi John Hurt and learn to pick the Delta blues that takes a Chicago college boy south of Memphis in the summer of 1965. "Delta blues taste like sweat and cheap whiskey; smell like jail; sound best in a concrete block club with no windows, set back along the river where there's no law after dark."