The Swim by Jo A. Hiestand is billed as a prequel to her novels featuring the former police detective Michael McLaren. Teenager Michael and his best buddies, Sean and Jamie, are sweltering in a British summer when the idea of a swim in one of...

For Jock Mitchell, it has been five long years away from his loved ones. A prisoner of war at the infamous Stalag XXa, he has gradually learned to find joy in the little things if he wants to retain any hope that one day he...

A chess game within a chess game and metaphors within metaphors make up The Pawn Against The King, a short story by Giorgos Katsoulas. As a powerful despot searches for a game worthy of his supposed magnificence, he encounters a lowly commoner bearing a wooden...

In Your Biggest Fan, Jeremy Rosenholtz depicts the psychological undoing of the main character, who happens to be an unnamed, middle-aged high school teacher. The man develops an unhealthy obsession with a contemporary pop star. He even addresses a series of letters to this well-known...

Dead Daddy Issues by Corrin DaCosta is a dramatic exploration of family, fate, and personal reckoning. The story follows Leia Sparks, a tarot reader, who returns to her conservative hometown to rebuild relationships with her children after losing custody. Burdened with guilt over her father's...

The Threefold Cord by James Alan Anderson is the harrowing tale of three young boys brought up in the rural hinterlands of Manitoba, Canada by an abusive father who was caught up in a religious cult and a mother who was frequently emotionally absent. Twin...

AJ Docker is already preoccupied with a mysterious organization's impending takeover attempt of the hospital's services where he works when he is called into the emergency room to assist in saving the life of a patient with gunshot wounds. Despite his best attempts, the patient...

Between the Clouds and the River by Dave Mason tells the moving story of two characters whose lives are connected by the aftermath of World War II. Bernhardt Lang is a German officer forced to confront the brutal realities of war. His journey gradually shifts...

The Dryburgh Chronicles: Part 1, The Existence of Shadows by L.P. Halliday follows the quiet yet curious Lillian Darling and her research partner Edgar Falkirk as they seek to uncover the truth and clear the names of those who were once accused of witchcraft and...

The Road to Marietta by Karla Jordan follows August Violet Finnegan, a little girl in 1930s Chicago, whose upbringing has been marked by neglect and instability due to her father's reckless lifestyle as a “traveling salesman.” His work as a runner meant frequent abandonment, and...