Two love stories are explored in Pleasure and Power: sibling and romantic love. The siblings are Maddie and Ruby, who live in “darktown” in this age of segregation. When Maddie is hit on the head by a baseball, the sisters’ mother and their own lives...

“These long hours were for them, not for his ego.” Dave Thompson works hard to provide for his family, sacrificing his time with them. It causes a strain in his relationship with his wife of 18 years, Debbie. He’s aware of the problem, and he’s...

Readers will be swept away by Montmartre Stairs: A Paris Love Story by Douglas Warren. A staircase, two characters, and an accident. The story opens with a meet-cute between John and Michelle during a midsummer night in Paris and from that moment on readers will...

Green September by Ray Vernon challenges your principles. Major Kevin MacAllister plans to do the unthinkable. After receiving a substantial inheritance from his Great-Uncle Bertie, Kevin’s destiny changes drastically. Not only does his uncle bequeath him money, but in his last will and testament Herbert...

Robyn Branick's 19 is a very short story about a girl in college. One day, out of the blue, she wakes up in the hospital to find out she has had a seizure. The discovery of the struggles she has to go through every day...

In Justifiable Demise by W. Lawrence Johnston, a woman kills herself after discovering her husband has a son by another woman. William can’t bear to look at Kyle, his son by his wife, wanting only Ferrell, the son he has by Tiffany. Throwing Kyle out...

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...

Following a catastrophic event that wiped out much of the world's population, pockets of civilized society struggled to survive while the uncivilized, the criminal, the sadistic, the human-animal survivors raged across the country, committing every kind of immoral, senseless, and vicious act ever created by...