Ethan Holmes takes a witty and often humorous look at real life and the many instances in which we are offered choices that will lead us down this path or that one. Everything from advertising, media and religion to family, friends and work causes us to confront myriad choices; choices about possessions, what we want, what we need, who we associate with, what we will be in life. Everything from TV commercials to your upbringing as a child invites you to come over and sit in a warm tub of crap to help you make those choices. Want, need, should have and must have live right next door to inadequacy, perceptions of self-worth and what others think of you. What would your life be like if you started making different choices? What would happen if you stopped accepting invitations to sit in other people's tubs of crap and stopped issuing them to others? Read the well-received Live Your Life in a Crap Free Zone by Ethan Holmes to see if it's time for you to make different choices and travel a different path.

A collection of eight intriguing, slightly askew short stories from the mind of Ethan Holmes, author of Earth's Blood, The Keystone and Live Your Life In A Crap Free Zone. The Box; A man gets a strange box and a bit more than he wished for. Spooked To Death; Two women decide to find out once and for all who is trashing their back yards. A Very Small Town; Life in a small town can seem quite desirable but it's not always what it seems to be. Two Paragraphs: A depressed writer meets a ragamuffin street urchin who claims her name is Death. Who's In Charge Here?; Norman Wright is having a difficult time maintaining control of his life after meeting Sarah. The Man Who Ate Popcorn; George is lonely, angry and addicted to popcorn. Have Some Cookies and Milk: Three boys who get bullied on a daily basis by Jake decide it's time for this to end. Make and Model; Jeff and Marta are looking forward to the birth of their little girl but get a bit more than they were expecting.

This is not your common earthquake. This isn't a city getting jostled around and the survivors digging out the dead. It's not about the power going out for a week and then all is well again. This is Earth; ripe for the most catastrophic seismic event man has ever seen. Thousands of years of unreleased pressure setting the stage for a cataclysm that will change the entire planet and cause the human race to confront the looming possibility of its own extinction. In the aftermath of massively destructive tsunamis, violently active volcanoes, powerful tremors and seasons turned upside down, survivors struggle against a rapidly changing planet and those who would do anything to live another day. Earth’s Blood transports the reader around the world and into the lives of everyday people. Some will live to tell a story; many will not.