Mill Creek tells the story of the age-old struggle of an adolescent's attempts to understand himself and his world. Peter Martin, the brainy, shy, farm-boy narrator, pious beyond his years, fi ghts a private war: whether to remain with his strict farm people or whether to embrace his best friend's anarchic approach to Mennonite life. Arthur Nyce, with his fl ashy clothes, his repertoire of pop tunes, his dereliction of a school's prescribed piety and his open affection throws Peter off balance again and again. Mill Creek records Peter's fl uctuations between accepting and denying the diverse aspects of these two approaches to Mennonite life. An almost amorous friendship, the threat of the draft (Korean War), the lure of art, a pregnancy and a tragic drowning aid Peter to make compromising moves to pay tribute to his friend Arthur. In the end, Peter resolves to fi nd a way out of what he has come to understand as the religious oppression of his own community. Set on the campus of a boarding school, this wry, affectionate depiction of two boys' struggles towards adulthood illuminates the golden era of conservative Lancaster (PA) Mennonites in the early 1950s. The youth in Mill Creek are pious, sentimental and romantic. They blend a serious intent to imitate their stolid elders and to mock lightly without fully discarding their heritage. Tender and passionate, innocent and sentimental, rigid and heartbreaking, the novel is a requiem for joy.

This is a story like no other. Be prepared to have your imagination tested to the limits. What if supernatural people actually existed? Witness the many changes and obstacles Arthur and his family face just to survive in a world of humans. In their world, we are the different ones. From his earliest memory, Arthur is forced to fight for what others want and trained to follow orders. All he has ever wanted is his family and a safe place to call home. With all the deception, betrayal, and heartache, will he ever be able to see his dreams come true? With his wife Alice by his side, he will face all the dangers that come with desiring peace. Can their love survive what befalls them? Will they overcome all the lies and deceptions of their land? Only time will tell. Warning: There are two sex scenes. One of them is violent.

There has been many horror stories told, many horror stories written, and many horror movies made. But none has ever been or will ever be as horrible as the horror story, PLEASURE OF HELL. The most horriblest horror story ever written. Said to be too horrible for the human mind. A horror story from a soul for sure who had to visit hell to even write a story so horrible. Pleasure of Hell will remain in your conscious mind for many years to come. It will stalk and linger in your subconscious mind for eternity.

From the author of Confidence and The Comedown comes a wildly imaginative story collection about queerness, neurodivergence, sexuality, and self-discovery. Frumkin’s latest book is a deliciously entertaining collection of five genre-defying stories that range from downright hilarious to brilliantly unhinged. Taken together, they celebrate a wide variety of human experiences. In the title story, a queer young adult with bipolar disorder drops out of college in a fog of depression, aimlessly drifting between maintaining their job at a fast food restaurant and dodging their mom’s texts. But when they fall in with a group of sex workers starring in BDSM films, they find radical freedom, love, and community. In other stories, we meet a psychiatrist whose meticulously-maintained life is upended by an Alex Trebek-like voice in his head, an e-girl celebrity who is being courted by a delusional fan, a young boy on the spectrum at odds with a neurotypical world determined to “cure” him, and an elderly woman whose consciousness is being transformed by her oncoming death. With incredible insight, compassion, and honesty, Frumkin unravels each story with tantalizing precision. Sexy and raw—and compulsively readable—this collection offers a look at our innermost selves as we all try to make sense of the world and our place in it.