C.S. Crane
C.S. Crane

Courtney Stephen Crane is a new voice in the literary fiction genre. He lives in Rochester, NY and has been a writer all his life. This talent found its first outlet as a Creative Director in advertising where he spent several decades. But the creative urge to write never dimmed. After leaving the agency world, he took up writing full time. He is currently working on his third novel.

Books

Ordinatus

The Eternal Enemy, ever seeking the ruin of the Catholic Church, has found an advocate in the highest realms of the Church’s hierarchy; the powerful Archbishop Mitchell Grange.

Secretly, the Archbishop has been directing the rise of a new Reformation to rival the Lutheran schism.

Fr. Robert Hescott is an Episcopalian priest who has converted to...

Catatonia

Catatonia is a penetrating examination of the idea of freedom in the 21st century. It is a spiritual and psychological drama centered around Bella Benfont, a constantly self-analysing young woman caught between her fading loyalty to her mother’s Catholicism and the new idea of freedom espoused by the monomaniacal Nicholas Shelley, the...

Perfume & Cigarettes: 5 stories

In these five stories, a reporter freaks out about a new hire who reminds him too much of himself. A son visiting his mother in a nursing home is crushed by her cryptic visions. An office worker fantasizes about murdering his co-workers. An old woman who disdains her family pays a price. A young man who hates his father is devastated to learn he...