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The Case for Real Books is a short essay by James J. Caterino, the author of Did That Really Happen? (How Taylor Swift Got Me Through the Pandemic), My Encounter with the Partridge Family, Method Acting, Why I Don't Drink, Make Me Cry, Please, Alex, Jordan. Desiree, and the story behind To Meghan, To Meghan, True Stories, Girl Pop, Romance Stories, Time Travel Stories, Ghost Stories, Reviews and Essays, and much more.

Inspired by pulp fiction, comic books, and real life, Romance Stories is a swoon worthy, entertaining, addictive collection of love stories, ranging from the epic to the intimate, including time travel and supernatural romances, film noir love stories, love at first sight stories, steamy encounters, and much more. Love American Style meets The Twilight Zone in Romance Stories. James J. Caterino is the author of over one-hundred published works including Musical Poetry, Reviews and Essays, True Stories, The Anti-Matter Girl, Pop Star, The Promise, and Time Travel Stories.

Daydreams: Laura and Laurie Update is a sequel, of sorts, to the true story of Laura and Laurie, and a story about the power of daydreaming and hope by James J. Caterino, the author of Escape to Nowhere, Cool Stuff, Night Skies, True Stories, To Meghan, Pop Star, The Promise, and much more.

My Year as a Rookie: How I almost became a cop, is the entertaining, insightful, true, real-life story of how writer James J. Caterino, well, almost became a cop. James J. Caterino is the author of True Stories, My Encounter with The Partridge Family, Cool Stuff, Laura and Laurie, and much more.

Laura and Laurie: The Story of an Epic Friendship and a Tragic Tale of Lost Love is a real-world true story from the life of James J. Caterino, the author of True Stories, Cool Stuff, Reviews and Essays, What If, My Encounter with The Partridge Family, Why I Don’t Drink, The Girl Out of Time, and much more.

Miss Allen is a tribute essay about a special teacher who changed everything for writer James J. Caterino, the author of True Stories, What If, Make Me Cry Please, To Meghan, Laura and Laurie, The Geek Girl and the Quarterback, and much more.

The Story Behind "The Man in the Window" is a special inside revelation about the real-life spooky events that inspired the supernatural action horror short story The Man in the Window. James J. Caterino is the author of Night Skies, The Anti-Matter Girl, Cool Stuff, Escape to Nowhere, True Stories, Time Travel Stories, The Girl Out of Time, Ghost Stories, and much more.

Inspired by a real-life encounter, Believe It or Not: My Hollywood Pitch Meeting is a short story about possibilities, from James J. Caterino, the author of True Stories, My Encounter with the Partridge Family, sort of, California Dreaming: How Not to Become a Hollywood Screenwriter, What If, Why I Don’t Drink, and much more.

Sixteen-year-old Charlie Castro is walking her dog one night when she sees a mysterious light descend from the sky above. She experiences missing time and uses her artwork as therapy to deal with the aftermath of her encounter as she searches for answers. Dr. Revok is one of the original Operation Paperclip Nazi scientists recruited at the end of WWII. Since 1947 he has been privy to a hidden UFO history and now, he must answer to a billionaire brat determined to use those secrets for his own enrichment. Lieutenant Catherine Cahill is a Naval Academy graduate on her way to becoming a ...

Neighbors and Allies: Because sometimes who lives next door is the most important thing in the world, is a true story, a slice of life short work by James J. Caterino, the author of Cool Stuff, Escape to Nowhere, Reviews and Essays, Night Skies, True Stories, and much more.

Barry Baton dies in a car accident and is cryogenically frozen in suspended animation. When the technology to bring him back arrives in ten years, he is revived. He awakens into a Trumpian, fascist nightmare—a dark, dystopian, oppressive world, more terrifying than anything he could have imagined. Written in 2017, first published in 2018, and again in 2019 as part of the Fantastic Stories anthology, Barry’s Run is a tragically prophetic, riveting, cautionary, action-packed science fiction short story from the lurid imagination of James J. Caterino, author Escape to Nowhere, Battle of ...

Fueled by the ugly rhetoric of a new leader, the cold civil war in America escalates until it splits the nation into two separate countries. Champion sprinter and Olympic hopeful Jasmine Pulp is trapped on the wrong side of the dividing line. She must now utilize all of her physical skills and mental toughness to survive behind enemy lines, in hope of escaping this dystopian fascist nightmare, and reuniting with her family on the other side. “The Pledge” is a harrowing piece of relentless action noir by James J. Caterino, the author of “Starfighter”, “Fireflies”, and “...

Chrome Dome is an essay by James J. Caterino, 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, and much more.

Alycia is on the trip of a lifetime. She is deep in the rain forest of the Congo Basin, conducting field research for her doctoral thesis in Anthropology. She leads a team of fellow students and a professor. All is going well until they come across a murderous group of poachers who hold them at gunpoint, determined to torment the group of academics before leaving them for dead. Things get ugly and all appears lost, until, a mysterious bare-chested man appears, giving the poachers more than they bargained for. They say he lost someone in one of the countless American mass shootings. They say...

Kronos is one of the last of his kind. A descendant of the Neanderthal who once thrived throughout Eurasia, his people crossed the same ancient land bridge as the original Native Americans. They have roamed Pacific Northwest forests for thousands of years, and their occasional sightings by humans have become the mythic stuff of the Bigfoot legend. One day Kronos spots a helicopter with hunters, swarming down upon a family of wolves, including his friend Lucca. Kronos runs to the scene, trying to stop the slaughter. But then, the guns of the humans turn upon him. He is wounded, cut off from ...

Anna Payton is a career woman, a mother, and a wife, living an ordinary existence in suburban South Florida. Then one night, during a wave of UFO sightings, she has a close encounter with something from beyond this world. Everything changes. She experiences missing time. She begins to have haunting visions of her twin sister April, a sister who tragically died in a boating accident twenty-seven years earlier at the age of thirteen.What happened to Anna during her close encounter and what does it have to do with her long dead twin sister? Anna needs to find out, no matter what the cost. As ...

An essay by James J. Caterino, the author of Girl Pop, Dreams, True Stories, To Meghan, I Want to Believe, Ghost Stories, The Geek Girl and the Quarterback, The Last Neanderthal, Pop Star, The Girl from the Stars, and Watch the Skies.

Part animal. Part legend. All woman. Caitlin Star: The Trilogy, is a collection of the first three action-packed books in the controversial Caitlin Star series, collected in one volume for the first time ever. All three books are newly edited and contain brand new, never before read scenes. Also included is a ten page sketchbook of illustrations by the author, all exclusive to this special-edition collection. Caitlin Star (book 1) Gunner Star takes on Caitlin as his protégé and trains her in the ways of the Bull Mongoni, a mythic species of hominids that lived long ago. An exciting, brave...

Caitlin Star was once a beaten down but fiery thirteen year-old orphan trained by Gunner Star in the ways of the Bull Mongoni—a mythic species of ancient hominids. Caitlin fought in the Stadium Games and became the leader of a revolution that defeated fascism in the culture civil wars of North America in the days before the apocalypse. But those days of training, Stadium Games with fights to the death, and revolutions, were a long time ago. Now the Bull Mongoni are not mythic. They are real and living in the Congo rain forest with Caitlin and her human, chimpanzee and gorilla friends. And...

Riverboat Steam is a short story about an intense and mysterious romantic encounter aboard a riverboat cruise ship, by James J. Caterino, the author of The Girl Out of Time, My Encounter with The Partridge Family, The Green Girl, The Anti-Matter Girl, True Stories, To Meghan, and much more.