In Strays by Thomas A. Marks, Matt is thinking back on where it all began. His goal in life was to find a cure for cancer and to win the Noble Prize. However, he lost the funding for his cancer research due to dogmatic clashes....

What if you could invent a computer that would be able to predict the stock market? Would you do it and if so how would you ensure that you program it so that it can understand the psychology of the market in addition to the...

Willie Baker isn't a stranger to the streets because he has been living the life of a street person for years. The first time he met Ann, a bag lady, was in the sixties. Then, she shared a story about her former life, a story...

Carson Phillips lives in a small town where the people do not understand or appreciate his brilliance or one-of-a-kind personality. The most important person in his life, his grandma, suffers from Alzheimer disease and no longer remembers who he is. Despite that, he still sees...

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...