NEW ARRIVALS

THROUGH THE EYES OF A VULTURE (2020)

The new, three-part collection of original works by B. Mikitowicz, Through the Eyes of a Vulture includes a full-length fiction novel, a short epistolary novel, and a book of poetry, all tied together by one central character—Jack Chestnut.

In the Shadow of a Vulture is a story fraught with comedy, imagination, and heart framed in a thought-provoking ode to modern love at the dawn of the 21st century.

The Big Adventures of a Salty Little Man contains the letters and musings of Jack Chestnut, written during his eventful and often disappointing time abroad.

The Song of Her Sea calls out to long-lost lovers and dejected souls with the emotional ebbs and flows of its verse.
ISBN: 978-0991537471

COMPLETED WORKS

THE BIG ADVENTURES OF A SALTY LITTLE MAN (2016)

B. Mikitowicz’s most anticipated work. It contains a collection of laugh-a-minute, editorials written as Ian Mieszkowski, as he travels the world in search of women and a calling. While he finds neither in a timely manner, it remains an incredibly rich and entertaining journey.

Somewhere in between truth and fiction, this story is packed with self-deprecation, clever observations, and unexpected heart. Each chapter funnier than the last, each adventure crazier than the one before it.  
ISBN: 978-0-9915374-3-3

IN THE SHADOW OF A VULTURE: THIRD EDITION (2016) 

If you have an imaginary girlfriend, never confess that you are in love with her. Aside from the fact being incredibly pathetic, she may be a ghost and ghosts are crazy. Also, even if you are a decent artist, it is not recommended that you draw pictures of your imaginary lover because your roommate is liable to use those weird drawings against you as a practical joke. Finally, if you happen to cross paths with an animal that has escaped from the zoo, never feed it; just call the zoo. Strange advice? Certainly. But not to the unflappable Jack Chestnut, an American bartender working in London in 2006. He would tell you the same thing.

“Packed, fast-paced with gritty surprises all over the place.” This book is one of a kind. Given an earnest opportunity or even whim, “In the Shadow of a Vulture” will stay with you like an unforgettable dream.
ISBN:
Copyright: TXu001660235 

HER SEA (2008) 

A book of poetry, Mikitowicz's first, self-published, and best-selling work to date. It is a short story that consists of twenty-seven sequential poems. A tempest of emotions, the tale puts you directly in the anonymous narrator's soul while he tries to win a girls heart, without breaking his own in the process.
ISBN: 978-0-9915374-1-9
Copyright: TXu1705933  

THE LEGEND OF DACHSHUND ISLAND (2006)

A screenplay, a light and satirical horror-comedy about a marooned pleasure cruise on a mysterious and beautiful tropical Island. The handful of survivors soon realizes that the island is infested with hordes of inbred man-eating Dachshunds. Faced with these ferocious wiener dogs, the castaways must kill or be killed while desperately trying to escape.
ISBN: 978-0-9915374-6-4, Copyright: PAu00383299

PAINTING IN THE DARK (2016)

A fictional short story of set in Piazza Santa Croce of Florence.  From her window, which overlooks the square, a study abroad student named Anna becomes intrigued by a mysterious painter who sets up to paint outside her window at night.

PATHETIC.ORG  Mikitowicz is a member of the Pathetic Poet Society

CURRENT PROJECTS

III: PART ONE

(Fiction: Action/Adventure) 

June 6th, 6:30:30 P.M., Casper Mountain, WY.  Dick Cheney sacrifices his first-born son, Ronald, in a successful satanic ritual which results in Dick being anointed the anti-Christ and thrusting the world, as we know it, into cataclysmic apocalypses.

Elsewhere, in East Tennessee, Pac Czerwinski is a small town entrepreneur, video game enthusiast and failed local politician. With the help of his associates he has started a summer camp with 32 counselors. He led an earnest life and focused more on business and his fiancé Anna-May than his significant spiritual side in which he suspects he is a prophet. However, since religion is weird and not coolest thing to talk about, he keeps it a secret. Thanks to Dick Cheney, an otherwise celebratory evening is completely ruined when the local McDonald’s, plummets to hell in a flash-sinkhole, followed by a giant demon-dragon flying out of the smoldering abyss to melt a line of cars, before flying off into the night. Pac, at this point, has a change of heart. As popularity becomes irrelevant, his survival becomes mandatory, and he decides to have a second look at those secret prophesies he’s been jotting down for years...if they can make it home without being torn apart in the chaos.

From a lifelong fan of action, philosophy, science-fiction, fantasy, and politics, this story has it all, does it all, and does it well. Coming Soon.
ISBN: 978-0-9915374-2-6 

CURRICULUM VITAE:  [THE] COURSE OF [MY] LIFE

(Historical Fiction)

Daytona Beach Florida, 1997, Senior Year of High School. Ian Miller is actively trying to fall in love and lose his virginity before the end of high-school. The dawn of social networks provides him with a beam of hope when he meets Arianna. The age when you know it all, yet somehow very few things turn out how you expect.

“Curriculum Vitae”, is a gritty, original and authentic tribute to the era of beepers, three-way calls, and CD cases. A story full of bitter wit, flippant teenage love, and unexpected moments of compassion and deep insight are told through the eyes of a unique young man with a chip on his shoulder.  
ISBN: 978-0-9915374-5-7

CHRONICLES OF THE HAM VOLUME I: SUMMER OF THE AUSHLANDER 

Sometimes it's not just what you see when you are traveling. Rather, it's who you meet, and what you do that changes you. 2002, despite 9/11, the plan was still 9 months working and going to school in Europe. However, under the formation of the European Union, migrant worker programs changed overnight. This affected about 75 Americans, Australians, New Zealanders, Jamaicans, English, Scottish, Irish, South Africans, and Canadians*, including Bart, Dave, Curt, and Chris. Seeing “Plan A” fall apart in four days in was a little depressing for everyone.  But what happened over the next nine months couldn’t be made up. Mikitowicz's only non-fiction. Coming Soon.

(*This number is used for sarcastic value and does not reflect actual data.)
ISBN: 978-0-9915374-4-0

THE DACHSHUND ISLAND HUSTLE

(Comedy)

Action-packed and hilarious, this is the back-story that unravels the mystery of Dachshund Island’s infamous former tenants and their dubious exploits. A story of an unscrupulous trio of used car salesmen-turned-international con-artists and the wealthiest of the world’s most wanted men. They have finagled, raw-dealt and double-crossed everyone from the FBI to the Russian Circus; everyone they have ever met, including each other. Now, all that stands between Life, Death, or Legend is 3 miles of winding roads, beautiful coastline, and 117 people trying to stop them.

This is a relentless, action-packed assault on the funny bone. A one-way ticket through the thoughtfully absurd Dachshund Island Universe that will have you doubled over in laughter, like The Legend of Dachshund Island before it. Coming Soon.
ISBN: 978-0-9915374-6-4