Books by Author Michael Lane

Michael R. Lane, 2023

C. J. Cavanaugh’s PI partner is on vacation. C. J. anticipates a relaxed six weeks during her absence. The local DEA is short of field operatives. The Portland DEA Director asks Cavanaugh for help. C. J. is assigned to a surveillance detail on a drug distribution hot spot. What Cavanaugh witnesses during his shift forces him to butt heads against a Portland Narc and Oregon’s lethal drug czar. So much for a relaxing six weeks.

Michael Lane, 2023

Abraham and Winona Stone are proud owners of Willie’s Market, a modest urban grocery store in a thriving working-class community. In the year following the long, hot summer of nineteen-sixties America, Willie’s Market provides more than produce for their neighbors. The store is also a vibrant mecca for neighborhood gossip and spirited debates. Intriguing, poignant, tragic, and uplifting stories are thrust against a fiery backdrop of civil unrest.

Michael R Lane, 2024

Dan Bluford is the Director of Polar City Single Organism Research Lab Facilities. Unable to stay awake on his drive home after work, Dan stops at a coffee shop for a pick-me-up. Shortly afterward, Dan awakens in a strange hospital room on a distant planet, where he is informed that he is part of an exchange student program.

Michael R Lane, 2024

From “Case 121” and “Silver Anniversary” to “Coma,” “The Last Serious Man,” and “Fogbound,” Long Journey Home takes the reader on distinctive, eclectic, winding journeys through the astonishing complexities of devotion, relationships, longing, lust, and love with a dash of detective mysteries tossed in for additional spice.

Michael Lane, 2023

UFOs and God is not single-themed but a medley of tales. Some of these stories are sharp-edged, others cozy, and a few add a pinch of humor. From farm to urban, from World War II to the Digital Age, UFOs and God spotlight the tender underbelly of the human condition in all its glory and despair.

Michael Lane, 2023

Emancipation is a compelling compilation of stories focusing on a broad cross-section of Americans. Their narratives of virtue, mischief, faith, immorality, morality, commitment, and perseverance bridge generational gaps and make whole a humane patchwork in an otherwise ambiguous life-scape. In a society where quick labels are selective means of branding one’s character, the individual suffocates. These stories embrace our differences, revealing we have more common threads that bind than differences that divide.

Michael R. Lane, 2023

The haiku emerged in Japanese literature during the 17th century. A poetic arrangement consisting of 17 syllables composed of three corresponding lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables. The original art form focused on the natural world. A number of the haiku in this collection stray from that tradition. Addressing a wide variety of subjects while maintaining at their core a desired emotional response. While I endeavored to write a haiku a day for 366 consecutive days, my efforts were in vain. A haiku, like every artistic creation, will come in its time as did each in this collection. Nonetheless, I hope you enjoy “A Leap Year of Haiku.”

Michael Lane, 2023

Sandbox offers loose sand sprinkled onto eclectic wet wanderings at play in the mind of a humble poet.

Michael Lane, 2023

While the poems in this volume were written over many years — from the 1970s until the month of publication — the collection was compiled, edited, and refined between February 2016 and June 2017. I hope you enjoy Mortal Thoughts as much as I did in its creation.

Michael Lane, 2023

Sensuality is the lure, while Love is the hook. One likes to play. The other takes charge. The writings in Love & Sensuality explore Sensuality and adoration in its classic and ethereal forms.