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Beneath a Dying Sun: Western Short Stories

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Step into the brutal, sun-scorched heart of the American frontier. Beneath a Dying Sun collects tales of hardened souls pushed to their limits under a merciless sky.

Meet weary marshals bound by duty, haunted drifters fleeing violent pasts, and ordinary folks caught in the crossfire of progress and greed. Justice here is rarely simple, often arriving at the barrel of a gun or shadowed by betrayal. A relentless lawman corners his prey, only to face unsettling truths. A survivor hunts vigilantes, clinging to the law he once served. A notorious gunman’s silent presence paralyzes a town with fear. A mysterious, growing void threatens to swallow a desert settlement whole. A preacher’s vow of peace is tested by ruthless invaders.

From tense standoffs on dusty streets to desperate flights across unforgiving deserts, these stories explore the heavy cost of survival, the fragile hope of redemption, and the ghosts that ride alongside every man and woman. Loyalties shift like desert sands, secrets fester beneath stoic facades, and the line between hunter and hunted blurs in the shimmering heat.

Discover a West where every choice carries weight, every secret demands a reckoning, and the relentless sun bleaches the bones of the forgotten. Will justice prevail, or will the harsh land claim its due? Find out Beneath a Dying Sun.

Scheduled for release on Oct, 28 2025

The Horror Of It All: Stories

Step into a world where the ordinary bleeds into the unspeakable. Laughton J. Collins, Jr.'s "The Horror Of It All: Stories" unleashes a chilling collection where familiar places-a beloved local theater pulsing with neon nightmares, a rain-lashed roadside bar at closing time, a dusty attic harboring an ancient mirror, even the comforting walls of a family home-become thresholds to pure terror. These tales masterfully twist everyday anxieties into visceral dread, exploring the monstrous potential lurking within shadows, behind locked doors, and sometimes, chillingly, within ourselves. Prepare for relentless suspense, unsettling twists, and haunting imagery that lingers long after the final page, leaving you questioning the safety of every dark corner and the nature of the horrors waiting just out of sight. This is horror that gets under your skin and refuses to let go.

will be available July 22, 2025 on Amazon.com

Paperback - $15.99

Kindle - $9.99

Paper View

Paper View is a visceral, fragmented journey through the labyrinth of existential despair, spiritual disillusionment, and the haunting echoes of love and loss. A raw, poetic manifesto that interrogates the fractured self, divine paradoxes, and the weight of existence. Amidst this spiritual reckoning, the poems bleed with personal anguish. Paper View is a psalm for the disenchanted, a rebellion against inherited myths. It rejects salvation’s cage, finding fleeting solace in the “flickering flames of freedom” and the raw act of survival. The collection leaves readers in the “cathedral of rot,” where the only redemption lies in embracing the scars we mistake for constellations.

Paperback - $11.99

Hardcover - $25.99

Kindle - $7.99

The God Who Breaks: Old Testament Plays of Rebellion and Despair

In The God Who Breaks: Old Testament Plays of Rebellion and Despair, Laughton J. Collins, Jr. reimagines ancient scripture with searing audacity, casting divine narratives into a crucible of existential fury. Through sixteen provocative plays, Collins resurrects figures like Adam, Eve, Cain, and Job, not as pious archetypes, but as rebels clawing against a capricious God—a deity as merciless as He is enigmatic. From Eden’s shattered innocence to the blood-soaked ruins of Jericho, these stories pulse with visceral tragedy, interrogating faith, free will, and the crushing weight of celestial tyranny.

Witness Eve’s defiant laughter as she tastes forbidden knowledge, David and Jonathan’s clandestine love defying dogma, and Job’s raw scream into the void of a silent heaven. Collins’ God is no benevolent father, but a sovereign of riddles and wrath, demanding obedience while sowing despair. Each play crackles with poetic tension, blending myth with modern resonance, asking: What does it mean to be human in a world where divinity breaks its own creations?

For readers of visceral theological drama and philosophical daring, The God Who Breaks is a thunderous challenge to sacred tradition—a testament to the unyielding human spirit in the shadow of a fractured heaven. Dare you confront the God who demands everything and forgives nothing?

will be available from Requiem Press, April 22 on amazon.com.

Paperback - $11.99

Kindle - $8.99

J^M!3 — Anthology: Volume I

J^M!3— Anthology: Volume I is an omnibus collection of all of the poems that I wrote and published before ghost riders in the sky and other lines. This book covers the years 1994-2023 and as far as I know it contains all of my poems from those years, unless I find some hiding in old notebooks somewhere.

This book exists for two reasons:

1. I want it

2. for copyright

The title is slightly different on the copyright registration because as it turns out they do not allow you to use special characters in the title of copyrighted work.