Stanley Paden

This raw and candid memoir, "I Hate Saint Louis," channels the simmering frustrations of city life through a cast of vividly drawn characters. From overworked baristas and disillusioned tutors to ambitious rehabbers and eccentric patrons, their...

What begins as a virtual escape becomes a war for reality itself.When nineteen-year-old Jim enters Return to Egypt, an advanced virtual reality program designed to recreate ancient civilisations, he expects to encounter history, language, culture, and...

A father’s greatest fear is not losing his child, but realizing too late that he never truly knew him.Jim seemed to have everything: success, fortune, and stability, years after escaping the Egyptian maelstrom. However, dreams of a son he was told...

Frozen for centuries. Revived into a world where death is illegal and freedom is extinct.In The Box, Stanley Paden delivers a gripping tale of a man awakened from cryogenic sleep into a society ruled by synthetic life, debt-based survival, and...