Filip Cvetkovic’s Mars And Venus: Veni, Vidi, Vici is a riveting historical and character-driven story set in the ancient Roman Empire. The story begins with the early months of the Roman conquest of Britannia. Marcus Gaius Severus Treius leads ten thousand Roman soldiers deep into...

Few other pet species share our lives as intimately as dogs do. They can be trained to perform a huge variety of roles. But in exchange for their loyalty and devotion, we owe them compassionate care through each stage of life. This means not only...

All Things Green by John Westren is a story on two levels. Jack Adams has a major problem to solve, which will impact his life and that of his family, who depend on him. He has promised to defend the pharmaceutical company he works for...

“The company engineered desire and sold it as experience.” But in Tobacco City, a novella by author Ricardo Novaes, the company did much more than that: it disguised a hellish dystopia as success. Meet Matheus Reis, a power-hungry corporate cog ravenous for advancement no matter...

It had been three years of daring missions for Onsan Vorga as an agent of Skaperen the Creator, and now he was ready to step aside from his duties and look after his pregnant wife, with whom he lived in the Trannsa-Eaglais Citadel. However, the...

In J.E. Spina’s In a Second, Athena Stone wakes up in a hospital after a violent car crash during a storm and insists her boyfriend Justin was with her, though authorities claim she was found alone. As she recovers, fragments of memories surface that point...

“How could I have been so obtuse, so neglectful that my dying son hated me until the end?” For Joe Fredericks, the protagonist of Wayne Feinstein's novel, Turning, it took little effort to be such a sleazeball. Joe is the definition of success in one...

Crow: The Luck of Charm by Surya Prakash Shrivastava is a short story about the connection between a boy and a crow. Yash lives in an urban environment, with chaotic traffic and construction noise just outside his window. Inside, chaos comes from his arguing parents....

Miracles of the Season by Susan Jean Ricci begins in NYC, where Chloe Twiggins reminisces about the life she used to have before meeting and marrying her husband. She’s late meeting him and their daughter, Lala, at the Rockefeller Center. One of his trees has...

Colm O'Connor's Ballyloo's Finest: A Tale of Chaos and Charm is a delightful, eccentric journey into the fictional Irish village of Ballyloo, where chaos reigns. The story centers on Guard Ollie Berry, a well-meaning but often hapless officer tasked with maintaining order in a town...