“Over generations, the original idealism has been perverted and evolved into what we have now.” Idealism and lofty goals often become twisted, and Dystopian Paradise, a novella by Marvin Cook, is a perfect example of utopianism corrupted. The story begins simply enough, with 12-year-old Pilar...

Upon his mother's passing, Wolfgang Barnes, a movie producer of some substance, relocates from Portland to Florida to settle his late mother's estate. As he carries out this task, he contemplates how best to put his previous works to use and promptly comes up with...

The White Light Bends by Tiffany Blaine tells the story of four generations of women and their struggles to manage their relationships with others and accept past mistakes. Ruby, the matriarch, suffers from dementia, and her daughter-in-law, Margaret, tries to maintain a relationship with her...

In The Last Revision, Patrick Smith centers on an aging protagonist, Bill, who spends his days tracing the footsteps of his past while confined to an isolated room. Everything changes when the sudden arrival of a childhood journal forces him to look back at the...

An Aspiration to Lie Flat by Stanton Fenwick is a hilarious story of a man with one big ambition in life: to be left alone. But when he wins a corporate sweepstake and is thrust into stardom on the internet, all his plans are shot...

Kohōpeh’s Lotus, Mud, Blade is set in the Siamese city of Vimaya. Moo Hring is a guard whose kitchen knife and public daring make her feared across the market. She secretly loves Preah Ponhea Chan, a Khmer prince pressured by Governor Luang Borommanant to accept...

The Silent Takeover: Artificial Intelligence in Politics by L. Hanson is an innovative political thriller interlaced with satire, historical fiction, and sci-fi. In 2018, unbeknownst to the U.S. electorate, Hammond Trekker, an AI and the first non-human Democratic progressive candidate, entered the U.S. political scene....

“If people would stop murdering other people in molten glass, it would be easier.” Yes, it would be easier, but perhaps these murders are just one issue in Resurrection of the Ruby Skull (Fox Argall Mysteries book four), a novel by Collings MacCrae. The story...

The Outside Voice by C. S. Zolondek is a psychological thriller with a twisty plot and a family that implodes with a secret. In spring in Ann Arbor, Michigan, four-year-old hyperlexic Blythe Daye hears voices in her head, and at first, she thinks it is...

Detective Winston Radhauser faces the worst nightmare that can befall any parent in Susan Clayton-Goldner's A Harbor of Hope. In the dead of the night, someone wounds their stallion, Ameer, in the barn. Radhauser and Gracie go to bed tired that night after having the...