Pocol Press

...in God's Flower Garden is a sensitive and uncompromising short story set that explores questions about the nature of God and the capacity of human love, relationships, and morality. In the novella...

Baseball's greatest players and personalities spring to life in this collection of succinct poetic portraits by one of America's leading baseball writers. Drawing on a mix of research and...

A Collection of Friends by Saugus, Massachusetts author Tom Sheehan is a unique memoir; a collection of nostalgia, reflections, and impressions that give loving tribute to family members and others...

Dr. Gary Phillips, an inveterate and increasingly disenchanted emergency physician, reports for a busy night shift in the ER at a community hospital in Pittsburgh. On this frenetic evening, he...

Michael Lindstrom's wife of almost thirty years has died from breast cancer, and in the aftermath, he decides to take a leave of absence from his teaching job and travel around the United States to...

Without pretension, this all-too-real collection of soul searching fictional tales about Vietnam highlights the sacrifices made by young men and women in time of war. At times absurdist and at other...

John Launer served in the United States Army during the Vietnam War. All Expenses Paid 2.0 summarizes All Expenses Paid as how to become a Combat Infantryman, then continues with the second half of...

Displaying his usual gift of narrative, Tom Sheehan again embarks on a journey of storytelling excellence. Two dozen tales herein explore the destructive power of war, cops and robbers, fables, and...

"As Many Hands As God" is the fourth short-story collection by critically acclaimed literary fiction author Brian Ames. The book's 19 stories survey wide-ranging landscapes - both tangible and...

Baseball Magic is a short fiction collection of eleven original baseball stories by Jay Martin. Believing baseball to be an almost sacred event, author Jay Martin explores the game with a reverence...

For gamers that participate in tabletop baseball, compiling statistics has always been labor intensive. But, it doesn't have to be. Here then is the Baseball Statistics Helper: Efficiency Tips for...

Baseball Stats and Stories: Confessions of a Tabletop Simulation Gamer documents over 50 years of playing and enjoying tabletop baseball simulation games. Beginning in the late sixties and continuing...

Believers is a short story collection that vividly examines surprising people and their belief systems. Leslie's intricate stories delve into the often odd behaviors of snake handlers and voodoo...

After a long day ridin', ropin', and sometimes rustlin', cowpokes love to stop by a local saloon to wet their whistles. Card playing, loose talking, and fighting always ensued, some in good fun and...

Author Tom Sheehan has stated that as a young man he owned five typewriters at one time. Inside each one were stories and fables, including many western yarns. Although he's given up the typewriter...

Bill of Frights is a short fiction horror collection of fourteen tales. When darkness slowly descends on the Nation's Capital, and a full moon balances among ancient oaks, a mist begins to form in...

Ride along shotgun with prolific author Tom Sheehan as he blazes new western tales across the prairie. In this collection, his 7th with Pocol Press, Sheehan pens moralistic short stories brimming...

As a young man, Thomas F. Sheehan eagerly devoured the old stories of cowboys, cattle, canyons, and creeks that aided our American west-spread growth, much like those B&W giants of old western movies...

Defending Infinity is a tragi-comedy by Ken Janjigian. Van Arakalian has been playing it safe for many years. He has a proper job, a loving fianc?e and suburbia is calling. However, soon after his...

The classic 19th century base ball narrative features Earl "Ducker" Draves, a fictional yet all-too-real young player who recounts his remarkable 1884 base ball season and his whirlwind rookie...

They're known as Storm Devils and Peat Fairies, Skunk Apes and Were-Panthers. They sinuate through ficus hedges and tunnel under beach towels. They lurk in the mangroves and springs. Some you can...

Seventy years ago, 11,000 American soldiers landed on a tiny, frozen, snow-swept rock 750 miles east of Siberia to take back US property-Attu Island. A tiny 35 by 20 mile dot on the map, Attu...

This short fiction collection by storytelling master Thomas Sheehan explores the human condition from soaring heights to depraved depths and everything else in between. If John Donne had not penned...

God's Mountain is set in a poor Samurai-era village in ancient Japan. Severe food shortages often forced older people to go to God's Mountain to die so their children would not starve. By sacrificing...

Head Full of Traffic dishes nearly two dozen tales of deliciously dark doomsday scenarios. Author Brian Ames, only a year removed from his Smoke Follows Beauty release, delivers again a tour-de-force...

In the Garden of Long Shadows is a short fiction collection of two dozen works by literary master storyteller Thomas F. Sheehan. Drawing on his favorite themes of love and war and deep personal...

Using poetry, reflection, contemplation and meditation, Journey into Healing presents a holistic approach to healing. It guides readers on a journey that encourages us to look deeply into ourselves...

Just Joe: Baseball's Natural, as told by his wife highlights the extraordinary career of South Carolina's Joseph Jefferson Jackson, more well-known as "Shoeless Joe." Related from the imagined...

The tragicomic story of the 1899 Cleveland Spiders, baseball's futility leaders and winners of only 20 out of 154 games that season. Meet some of the most colorful men ever to wear a major league...

Sacred Voices: Women of Genesis Speak breathes life into the heroines of Biblical times. The Biblical women tell their own stories in lyrical verse. Understand their thoughts, actions, feelings, and...