It is 1829. Kathy, a black slave woman, gives birth to a beautiful baby girl fathered by her wealthy master, Mr. Cartwright, and names her Anastasia. Kathy raises her daughter at her master’s mansion, where she works. Mr. Cartwright dotes on Anastasia, and when he...

The Foundling by Amy Meitz begins in 1978 Detroit, where nine-year-old Sunny Berry has spent years hidden inside a failing apartment. Her mother, Roxanne, insists the child she once loved has been replaced by something evil. Hungry and cut off from the outside world, Sunny...

In The Serpent Stirs by Ankusha Sutey, Indira is a young, cosmopolitan designer from Mumbai who wins an expenses-paid holiday to the eastern coastal state of Odisha, which has a rich historical and architectural heritage. The days pass in a whirl of sightseeing, temple visits,...

Tom Dom’s Dark Kitchen takes us into a rain-slicked city, where a silent, watchful host runs an anonymous, night-only spot hidden among deteriorating downtown buildings. It’s a mysterious restaurant that becomes a sanctuary for broken people—like an arrogant politician, a heartbroken woman, a panicked young...

Falling Through the Net Hole is the second book in the Butterflies On The Net series by Inna Tamir. The story picks up right where Chasing Phantoms left off, with Vera Simkin heartbroken as Adrian finally moves in with his fiancée Kinneret. Just when Vera...

In Mike Michalak’s gripping novel, My Name Is Davis, the world’s political landscape shatters when coordinated stealth air strikes target the military parades of foreign adversaries to instantly end the leadership regimes in North Korea, Russia, and China. With a modified emblem left behind to...

I Was Angry & Now I’m At Peace by Ray Toy centers on Tybalt, a Philadelphia-based pharmaceutical journalist and artist who is fighting to stay afloat amid severe emotional dysregulation. Written as a sequence of intimate journal entries, the book tracks Tybalt’s attempts to heal...

No One Sleeps by Townsend Walker is a thought-provoking collection of short fiction. ‘Nessun Dorma’, the first of the twenty works in this anthology, personifies suicidal thoughts in a way that forces you to ponder the meaning of life. The following entry, ‘As Ye Sow,'...

One Good Thing by Kate Kaminski starts with a parent’s worst nightmare when eight-year-old Janet disappears from a restaurant restroom. She is raised as Madeline in Pennsylvania, growing up into a normal adult with absolutely no memory of being kidnapped by the woman she calls...

In Fractured: The Other Side, author David W Hadley presents a harrowing portrait of a father trying to maintain order while his wife undergoes a full psychological and physical collapse rooted in unaddressed trauma. The mother’s abrupt behavioral shift triggers horrific road-based hallucinations, unmanaged seizures,...