Sean Boling

Live Oak Charter Academy is the latest elixir to arrive in the valley. Drought cycles, crop yields, and market forces have left a trail of previous solutions: an army base, a state mental hospital, a...

As the inaugural birth in service to the Anchor Baby Terrorist Training Program, Abraham represents different things to different people. He is a way to make money, a means to leave an oppressive...

Four strangers wind up on the road together. One of their acquaintances hears the story and would like to tell it in writing, but wonders if he is the right narrator for the job. He seeks help from...

Stanford and Dodge are both looking for redemption, each having arrived at their current purgatory via extremely different paths: Stanford from the top-down, and Dodge from the bottom-up. Dodge...

Book One of The Current Mr. Orr, in which Devin Orr's clone learns anything is possible in the afterlife, but our baggage from earth comes with us. He was only supposed to help Devin multitask in...

Doing the right thing feels good. It feels even better when you can put it on your college application. Esme has been designing her life with this in mind since elementary school, so when an...

Book Two of The Current Mr. Orr, in which he wonders if he visited the afterlife after all. It seemed real. One of the few people who knows his identity suspects he really was there, and approaches...

Three novelettes and five short stories that explore how people battle the animals around us and inside of us to try to get what we want, try to keep it, and try to get it back.Author: Sean...

Book Three of The Current Mr. Orr, in which traveling back and forth between the present and the beyond reveals that what we leave behind matters much more than what comes next. Ruining a life is...

Twain has always been able to work a room. He's also good at avoiding the room where his mother progresses more deeply into Alzheimer's, thanks to the live-in care he is able to hire. When it seems...

Writing a book can lead to a kind of immortality. Maybe he took that too literally by writing a book about being immortal. He wonders if there is a place for it. Maybe he should have made immortality...

They both want to change some minds in the wake of losing their little boy in a school shooting. Megan has devoted her time to advocating for gun legislation. Quentin has come to believe the only way...

Devin Orr commissioned a clone for time management, so that the tech tycoon could be two places at once. One of those places turns out to be the afterlife, as the process of storing him while not in...

Feeling old doesn't bother Fina that much. Feeling useless is the problem. Her marriage is on cruise control, her stepdaughter resists the comfort she so obviously needs (and Fina so desperately...

Field and Lulu were the best of childhood friends, bonded by their challenges growing up together in the Special Education program in a coastal valley known for wine and ag tourism. But even their...

Of all the indicators of a housing bubble, the biggest may be how many people are willing to buy into a housing development as remote as Rancho Hacienda, a walled community built next to a rickety...