Literary Fiction

A collection of inspirational, transformational, personal growth, spiritual awakening short stories that will leave you with a tune that you can hum in your daily life. Each story takes the reader to a different part of the world to see a crisis through the eyes of the protagonists. The characters struggle to live, love or even to die. But in the end they find Lizbang that births as a seed within them and ripples into eternity.

DOGS WITH BAGELS is a story about the American dream gone bad. It is also a story about mothers and daughters, about female friendships, the struggle to survive in one of the world’s most expensive cities, about nostalgia for places and people one has left behind.

Jeremiah Coffey is a twenty-seven-year-old teacher -- Catholic, conservative and plagued by guilt on account of his relationship with a beautiful bisexual called Aisling O'Connor. Aisling is everything that Jeremiah is not -- feisty and radical, angry and committed. She is a leading figure in the Irish civil rights movement and is planning to help organize a potentially explosive protest march inspired by the US black civil rights activists' Selma to Montgomery marches of three years before. The scene is set for a brutal confrontation to match the 1965 Bloody Sunday in Selma.

Tim, a pastor burdened by a shameful secret, must decide whether to reveal himself at the risk of losing his only daughter and autistic grandson. Also hiding the truth from those she loves is Josephine, a physician whose disabled sister shares a longtime friendship with Tim’s daughter. A captivating tale of the intertwining of two families wrestling with uncertainty and stumbling towards acceptance. “Powerful, engrossing, and enlightening...conveyed so honestly that it took my breath away and gave me a level of understanding I would have thought impossible.” ~ Amazon reviewer.

In The Devil In Us, celebrated writer Monica Bhide weaves spellbinding stories of fate, fortune, and love into lessons for life. A startling train wreck inspires new passion in a disenchanted bride. A prophetic poet's love is hopelessly doomed by addiction. An enchanting woman literally steals a stranger’s soul. These are but three of a dozen haunting, gripping stories in which each compelling character faces the fateful moment that may forever change them. Bhide masterfully weaves pivotal twists and intangible interconnections that bring together disparate threads of hope and sorrow. If you dare, you may recognize the same fears and redemption in your own life.

In a concentration camp for Jewish criminals, the youngest inmate tells the camp's story... "'Athar' is without doubt a remarkable novel - poetic, tough, moving and disturbing. I admired it greatly". Isabella Pereira, Bloomsbury, UK