Raphael Redcloak is the story of the life-after death adventures and experiences of Raphael Sanzio d'Urbino, his friendship with Death, and how he came to paint more than the dreams of the living

Montgomery and Ashton St. John are a money-making machine. And, except for the persistent interference of the government, enjoy the spoils of wealth instead of the pursuits of the working class from which they come. But, when "Monty" pursues his own peculiar brand of acquisition, life gets complicated for both of them. Half-way around the world, is a man unlike any they've ever seen. Slaughter Youngblood is a gentleman, a product of isolation and aristocratic upbringing, a throwback to a time when honor and discipline defined a man, who has the misfortune of owning the St. John Islands---land that Monty covets like a starving dog covets red meat. What begins as just another business deal, sets off a chain reaction of violence, revenge, and redemption.

Parker Hunt returns from WWII with a sniper's skill set, and a hunger for success and the love of a beautiful woman. What he gets is the realities of peace---living in the new economic jungle of America that includes a booming defense industry and the spies who exploit its many facets.

When a killer goes to California, he thinks he's found heaven on earth until he meets a gang involved in child pornography that threatens his life and the life of the P.I. he hires to investigate them.

Nineteen quirky, grizzly, sometimes risque and sometimes sweet, not-always-politically-correct stories of death and destruction.

This is the 5th volume of (twenty-seven) short stories, poems, and non-fiction pieces published in 2016.

Proceedings of the LabS TECH Workshop edited by Giovanni Brunetti, Claudio Seccaroni and Antonio Sgamellotti 116 pages, illustrated Contents: Perugino’s Certosa di Pavia Alterpiece: new technical perpectives Perugino’s painting materials: analysis and context within sixteenth-century easel painting Four anomalous pigments in Perugino’s palette: statistics, context, hypotheses Comments on the technique and the material used by Perugino, through the study o a few paintings in French collections The laser profilometry technique: an application for characterising the tools used to apply gesso ground to some panel paintings by Perugino IR-colour scanning reflectography The myth of cartoon re-use in Perugino’s underdrawing: technical investigations The Madonna in Glory with Saints at the Pinacoteca Nazionale of Bologna Perugino’s technique in the Sistine Chapel: analysis of the pentimenti Perugino’s technique in the Sistine Chapel: scientific investigations Bibliography

Seventeen-year old Piper Hampton visits an old newspaper building, takes a corner into the past, and wishes she'd paid more attention to her history classes.What she does remember is all the TV cop/crime shows she's watched, and with her quick wits and the help of the "good guys" she learns what it's like to be an adult in a world speeding towards war, where love and fear can be as dangerous as the Nazi spies who mistake her for a New York investigator for the German American Bund. Who killed Edwina Blackledge, daughter of a Bund-supporting east coast shipping magnate? And where is the 100K she was taking to New York?