M. E Purfield

They are the largest minority in the world. They have no rights. They are told how to think, how to worship, and how to socialize. They are children. Some will grow up and repeat the pattern. Some will break from the vicious cycle and use their voices whether it be in the present or in the far, far future. How to Make Friends with Teenage Anarchists is a collection of young adult stories spanning many genres that will make you think twice about children...

It speeds toward Earth. Intent of destruction. Or so they believe. With only a few more days until the violent apocalypse, people in the city jump off their roofs to control their fate. Teenage Isaac seems to be handling the end days well unlike his deteriorating mother. If only Isaac's mom could be like Leo the child-like building janitor. Leo believes they'll all be fine. Or maybe Leo's insane like the rest of them. Maybe Isaac needs to jump off...

A group of white terrorists attacks Jewish Centers all over New York. Alyssa, a teen runaway in and out of Miki Radicci's life and formally part of the skinhead culture, leads her to the latest violent act. Miki almost dies but it doesn't scare her off the terrorists' trail. The elusive Alyssa led Miki to the attack for a reason. To stop American Strong from taking lives for their Neo-Nazi cause and continuing the plans set by Ethan Weisz? Or she...

Blunt Force Kharma is a suspenseful and intense urban sci-fi noir from the author of the long running noir fantasy Miki Radicci series that throws Raymond Chandler into a William Gibson world. Barely making ends meet in Central District, Private Investigator Kelly Kharma takes on the cases others might not. With the police backlogged, a working class mother hires Kharma to find her daughter who didn't come home from school. In another case,Kharma...

Even though Shizuko (Surly Girly) is a healer, she couldn't save her sister and parents. One of a kind and wanted by corporate powers, she lives in hiding and makes friends with kids her own age through the internet. When a respiratory virus spreads through out the world and threatens to kill her best online friend Layla, Shizuko and her guardian Tru pack up the van and drive out to help her. It will not be easy. Racial tensions from the disease run...

From the writer of the Miki Radicci Series and Cities That Eat Islands comes an erotic crime story about two women getting their dues. While waitressing at her new job, she falls for the bosses wife. Now she's helping her escape and hatching a plan to get what is due to them from the husband. This story is taken from the crime collection A Sandwich Can't Stop a Bullet.

Collected here for the first time, the first three young adult novels of M.E. Purfield. A Pentecostal girl not only questions her faith when she meets a Buddhist punk in her school but also what it means to be family in jesus freakz + buddha punx. A guitarist bored with her art runs off to New York to live with her father and join the circus brewing in a time of great cultural change in Breaking Fellini. Delicate Cutters documents a teen girl's struggle...

On a distant planet, private investigator Kelly Kharma wallows in a pit of depression. The love of her life left her and society grows worse. She keeps moving forward, though. To keep her sanity and fixing what she can of society. When she's asked to recover a stolen artifact and protect a dancer from a stalker, she discovers that moving forward might not be the best option. Old enemies and love still won't let her go. Bodies drop and questions...

Collected for the first time are the first 9 short stories in the Miki Radicci series. In these stories you will experience adventures not found in the novels. What does Miki go through after she kills someone and how does it affect her psychic ability, her crossroad of trust between Gray Delisle and Frank Welker, the night she met Lorelei Cox, and others. Also find stories about Gray Delisle, best friend and psychic partner, KC Kasem, psychic healer...

Teen psychic Miki Radicci has worked with Elite on a few murders but this one is different. She must experience the death of a burnt body. No police are not involved. Tel-Com, the corporation that funds Elite, is the client. But Tel-Com has no interest in the burnt body. They want to know who the body saw at the time of his/her death: a twelve-year-old Japanese girl. Going against orders and her own kind, Miki searches for the little girl wanted...