When a vendor discovers a stowaway in his cart while unloading a vat of wine, he ousts the young boy but the kind inn keeper offers to let him work for his stay. Rendi has run away from his magistrate father's home. His life that...

"Seven Tears" is the story of Birch, a young woman, who was abused by her grandfather when she was six years old. Her mother had also been abused as a child, and her attempts to get help had resulted in her being considered a drama...

In “Sweetest Taboo” we meet Isobel Cruz, a teenager so much in love with her swim coach that she keeps a diary concerning her relationship with him. Years later her daughter finds the diary and asks permission to make it into a book. She already...

The setting is smalltown Hollyhill, Kentucky, in the summer of 1964 and thirteen year old Jocie Brooke has had one of her prayers answered. The family dog, Stumpy, had been killed years before and Jocie wants another dog as her own. She finds ugly, hungry,...

"Strike of the Mountain Man" by William W. Johnstone is a good western cowboy story. There are good guys and bad guys and lots of fastest draw gun battles. Smoke Jensen is the all around good guy, hero of the story. He has a great...

“Sykosa, Part I: Junior Year,” written by Justin Ordonez, is a book about a young girl coming of age. Our young heroine Sykosa is a sixteen year old high school junior. About a year previously she was attacked but avoids discussing it. Her boyfriend Tom...

Fairbanks, now named Sisypuss, a young cat, riddled with FIV from his laboratory days and his days on the road, is now living happily out his days with Booley who has his own physical problems. Fairbanks was born to an old homeless cat mother who...

Seventeen year old Abigail awakens on the morning of November 11, 1990, as she and her friend Emily, who is living temporarily with Abigail and her mother, are to go to work. But Emily's body lies in the room across from Abigail's. She has died...

Just the thoughts of a fifteen year old boy waking up on an African ship with no idea how he got there give me chills, but that is what happens to Jack Sligo in this story. And it is what happened to David Paul Collins...

African-American Duane Freeman has served a seven year prison term for assault and now works as a janitor for Sunnycrest Mental Hospital in Dinuba, California. He worked in the mental health buildings both at New Folsom prison and at Mule Creek State Prison. Competent at...