The major thread running through Tiny Shoes Dancing and Other Stories by Audrey Kalman is the intricacy of all kinds of emotions of people from all walks of life. Tiny Shoes Dancing, the collection's title, is the first story. It’s about a mother of...

The Side Job by Don Lubov is a short, interesting and realistic story that follows a young mother on a daring journey to save her sickly daughter. Maggie Gomez gets pregnant at seventeen and, abandoned by her boyfriend, she is left alone with the child....

Amish women are very modest in their attire. Dresses are usually a dull blue, green or grey. But red? Scarlet red at that. Crimson red. The color of sin. Or so Ruby believes as does her Amish community who have shunned her for becoming pregnant...

I had a deep affinity for the protagonist of The Jackson MacKenzie Chronicles: In the Eye of the Storm. He is a hero in the strongest American tradition of what that word means. He served in the same Army that I served in, though at...

The Bubble Kids is an historical fiction novella written by N. Chowdhry. Omar's and Adam’s lives were inevitably changed when the attack on the Twin Towers stunned the world. They had been ready to enjoy an afternoon session of cartoons at Omar’s house when their...

The Unfinished Child is an accomplished work of literary fiction by author Charles D.J. Case. In a fragmented narrative that reflects the mind of our unstable narrator, we follow the life path of Aidan Benjamin Conway, a lawyer facing devastating consequences pending a corruption inquiry...

The Wolf and the Lion: A Medieval Novel is the first entry in The Chronicles of the Coin by Alaric Longward. It is a powerful tale with characters of substance, set against the backdrop of feudal Germany in the medieval era, a society characterized by...

Katharine’s sister had gifted her a journal for Christmas in which she would be writing as a garden journal. However, Katharine wondered what she could write about related to her garden, as she believed it to be very little. Therefore, Katharine begins this journal on...

There’s a certain political figurehead, who shall remain nameless, but who never fails to make the evening news reports. When he begins bragging, I either put my hands over my ears or grab the remote to press “mute”. I can’t stand the sound of this...

In The Apotheosis by Darrell Lee, when Dr. John Numen’s father dies suddenly he inherits a major stake in a successful pharmaceutical company. Using the company as a cover, John Numen begins his own medical research which could change human life as we know it....