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Pulpy supernatural horror short story from James J. Caterino the author of The Séance, Psychic Murder Incorporated, Time Travel Stories, The Promise, Pop Star, Watch the Skies, The Last Neanderthal, The Girl from the Stars, 50 Films, and much more.

Thirteen-year-old Anna escapes the horrors of Nazi occupied Warsaw and joins the underground. Under the guidance of a resistance fighter known as the Captain, she learns to survive, to cope with devastating loss, and to fight back. Every day is a challenge, and every mission is a battle against impossible odds. Then one night two allied planes fall from the sky, and everything changes in this action-packed, epic tale of despair, heartbreak, hope, and the triumph of the human spirit. “The Promise: A World War II Story” is a riveting, decades-spanning, sweeping story, and an emotionally ...

A essay about the work of actress Megan Ward from Dark Skies, Tick Tock, General Hospital, and much more. James J. Caterino is the author of over one-hundred published novels, essays, and short stories including Escape to Nowhere, The Art of Listening to Music, My Encounter with the Partridge Family, Method Acting. Cool Stuff, True Stories, I Want to Believe, Romance Stories, and much more.

Supernatural horror short story from James J. Caterino, the author of Starfighter Year 1, Pop Star, The Promise, Time Travel Stories, The Girl from the Stars, Watch the Skies, The Last Neanderthal, and much more.

Feeling isolated and lonely during a pandemic quarantine, writer Jimmy Barton throws himself into a new project, a graphic novel called 1987. It is the story of Jennifer, a lost love from his past that never was. As he writes and draws, the focus of his work intensifies and becomes obsessive, until one day, he draws Jennifer into his life for real, straight out of the pages of 1987. Jennifer the Sketchbook Girl is a delightful, addictive, funny, suspenseful, and romantic tale of imagination from James J. Caterino, the author of Super Hornet 1942, The Green Girl, The Mesomorph, and The Girl ...

The year is 1983 and something strange is going on in Cross Creek, Pennsylvania.After a devastating family tragedy, Emma moves across the country at the start of her freshman year of high school. Grief-stricken, isolated, and harassed by local bullies, she is feeling lost and lonely. One day, she takes a shortcut home from school through the woods and encounters a group of strange, otherworldly, flying orbs of light that she dubs “the fireflies”. She feels a deep connection to them as her interaction with the fireflies continues, bringing her new hope, wonder, startling insights, and ...

Reviews and Essays: Cult films, underrated movies, forgotten TV shows, pop culture, and other cool stuff is the fourth non-fiction review book from James J. Caterino, the author of Pop Culture Musings, 50 Films That Mattered to Me and Why, and Fantastic Films, Cult TV Episodes, and Perfect Pop Songs. In this book Caterino covers the neglected 2023 blockbuster The Flash, the underrated Jessica Chastain vehicle Miss Sloan (2016), the misunderstood Passengers (2016), cult movies like Joe Dante’s Piranha (1980), Amazon Women on the Moon (1987), Pump Up the Volume (1990), Sam Raimi’s The ...

Girl Pop is an essay about my favorite sub-genre of music. James J. Caterino is the author of Jordan Rose and the Tomb of Resurrection, The Anti-Matter Girl, Dreams, True Stories, To Meghan, I Want to Believe, Ghost Stories, Pop Star, Time Travel Stories, The Girl from the Stars, and much more.

Jack Tripper is a man obsessed with the past and the road not taken. When he is given a chance to go back and change things, he finds out that time travel is far more complicated, and emotionally painful, than he had ever imagined. And now, he is Lost In Time. Lost in Time is another wild, engaging page turner from the imagination of James J. Caterino, the author of Super Hornet 1942 and Pop Star.

33 Songs is just that, 33 original pop songs written by James J. Caterino, the author of Pop Star, Miami Noir 1987, 50 Films, Lost in Time, Super Hornet 1942, Fireflies, Fantastic Stories, The Girl From the Stars, The Last Neanderthal, The Green Girl, and so much more.

When college student Jim takes an acting class, he learns the true meaning of getting into character and receives an unforgettable lesson in acting, life, and most of all, love. Based on a true story, Method Acting is a short story about lost love by James J. Caterino, the author of To Meghan, I Want to Believe, and The Geek Girl and the Quarterback.

Sharon is an archaeologist who discovers an ancient Native American burial site. But one of the remains does not belong there, a skeleton from the recent past. Sharon is mesmerized by the skeleton and drawn toward a ring on the decayed corpse. She takes the ring, puts it on her own finger, and it changes her. She begins to have visions of a past event, a violent, traumatic attack. The visions and the power of the skeleton ring take over her life. Her only way to stop it is to solve the dark mystery behind it all, no matter how dangerous and deadly it may become. “The Skeleton Ring” is a...

Alex becomes Alondra and Alondra becomes Alex in The Anti-Matter Girl, a rousing new body-switching, alternate universe, dramatic, science-fiction comedy adventure from James J. Caterino, the author of Dreams, True Stories, To Meghan, I Want to Believe, and The Last Neanderthal.

The crayon blue sky. The calm, clear, glassy water. And a destination that included lunch on the water and a famous bikini contest. It was the ultimate South Florida day for five guys to be out on a boat. But soon alcohol and unforeseen events turned this perfect day into an absurd nightmare and a dark, comic adventure. Why I Don’t Drink is a harrowing and hilarious true story from the pen of James J. Caterino, the author of To Meghan, Method Acting, and The Geek Girl and the Quarterback.

A girl from the year 2080 travels back in time to the present to save us from ourselves in the mind-blowing epic “Super 8 Images: A Time Travel Story”. An illustrator at an ad agency creates a drawing of a woman taking a selfie for a smart phone ad campaign. Then he comes across a real-life, living version of the exact same woman in “The Selfie”, a romantic science fiction thriller. Sixteen year-old babysitter Gina Zeneski takes the kids for a day at the amusement park and gets more than she bargained for in “Rollercoaster”, a pulse-pounding story of harrowing action. A weekend ...

One night while cleaning out the garage, John finds an old address book and discovers it possesses a powerful link to the past, beyond anything he could have imagined. The Address Book is a short story by James J. Caterino, the author of Ghost Stories. The Girl From the Stars, Reviews and Essays, Pop Star, The Promise, The Anti-Matter Girl, To Meghan, True Stories, Time Travel Stories, and much more.

Am essay on legendary Hall of Fame quarterback Dan Marino by James J. Caterino, the author of True Stories, To Meghan, I Want to Believe, The Anti-Matter Girl, On Writing, Girl Pop, and What If.

An illustrator at an ad agency creates a drawing of a woman taking a selfie for a smart phone ad campaign. Then he comes across a real-life, living version of the exact same woman in “The Selfie”, a romantic science fiction thriller. Sixteen-year-old babysitter Gina Zeneski takes the kids for a day at the amusement park and gets more than she bargained for in “Rollercoaster”, a pulse-pounding story of harrowing action. A cult space opera TV series becomes real life for super fan Alex Bell in “Starfighter”. A greedy oil executive gets a lesson about life and love in “The Green ...

Supernatural horror short story from James J. Caterino, the author of Pop Star, The Promise, Time Travel Stories, The Girl from the Stars, Watch the Skies, The Last Neanderthal, and much more.

A writer at a comic book convention buys an illustration of a beautiful woman he has seen in real life. He becomes obsessed with finding out who this mysterious femme fatale is. The closer he gets to finding her, the more dangerous his search becomes. Jade is a page-turning, thrilling short story from James J. Caterino, the author of The Andromeda Girl, The Man in the Window, Riverboat Steam, The Girl Out of Time, Ghost Stories, and much more.