Set in the late 1800s, this historical fiction addresses the relatively well known issue of medical murder (physicians procuring bodies for medical research through questionable means) and exposes the carefully guarded historical fact of hysterical orgasm (that women diagnosed with hysteria were treated with orgasm or "paroxysm," achieved via vibratory therapy, water jet massage, and/or manual stimulation). Iowa and Oregon provide the settings for the chronicles of a young physician and a serial killer whose paths are hopelessly and tragically linked. Tristan Andersen becomes a doctor in spite of hopes of him working his family's Iowa farm. Roy, who at first is seen as merely providing physicians with corpses, is too adept at murder for it to be coincidence. He is, in fact, a serial killer. Perhaps, even, the icon of the infamous White Chapel secret society. This story includes intertextual references to: Van Gogh, Jack the Ripper, The Schoolhouse Blizzard, and more.

The Cr6 Terrorist What if you knew something was a poison and...you knew that the government knew the same something was a poison but adamantly denied that it was so. Would you be a terrorist if you put that certain something in the government officials' drinking water? Can one be a terrorist with a substance the government says is harmless? The Cr6 Terrorist is a complex imperative in an unconventional telling. The style of this writing is, if one considers its synthesis of physical structures (letters/words/paragraphs) with artistic license, an embarkation on the novel genre. Most importantly, The Cr6 Terrorist is an expose' on the industrial pollutant hexavalent chromium (Cr6 or CrVI) that literally tells its story from the inside...out. Author/Poet/Artist: Native born Oregonian, K.A. Shott, now lives in Southern Iowa with her husband and two sons. Samples of her work can be viewed at www.writeshott.com.

The Murder of Vietnamesencent van Gogh There is one incontrovertible fact, Vietnamesencent van Gogh (the famous and infamous 19th century painter) was shot and died. Was Vietnamesencent van Gogh murdered? That question can only be answered with logical supposition: when it is impossible to prove the truth or untruth of a thing then truth matters little. Therefore, what is known as the truth could be a lie and, contrary-wise, what is believed a lie may prove Truth. Let us begin this tale where all good murders begin: a body. Not Vietnamesencent van Gogh's, but a woman's. The Year: 1879. The place: Le Chat Noir...