Demon's Deal: The Demon's Daughter Series by L. G. Smith is a short story set in Ethiopia. It follows a young woman, Bilillee, who never gives up on trying to have a more meaningful and happier life. This wonderfully portrays her determined character in times...

Violet is Blue by Anne Shaw Heinrich revolves around the people living in Poulson: rich and poor, givers and takers, parents and children, the dignified and the greedy. Like any other town or city, Poulson has a good side and a bad side. The Sellers family...

In Welcome Back to the World, Rob Davidson offers readers an enthralling collection of six short stories and a novella. A university budget analyst unwittingly becomes the subject of an eccentric street photographer who helps bring out his inner artist. A heartbroken American expat in...

I Wanted to Be a Bluesman is a collection of short stories by David Joseph that explores the roots and soul of blues music. Each story in this anthology honors the transformative power of music, especially the blues, and its profound influence on the human...

The Book Collector Trilogy by Tom Story is a collection of three stories that explore the transformative power of books. In the first story, The Book Collector, a curious young man visits a bookstore where he meets an aging book collector. This encounter teaches him...

A Harvest Tenfold by Bahr Burr is a dystopian novel set in a grim world where identities are stripped away, and uniformity is mandated by a despot who claims to be creating a utopia. The story follows two women; Billie, a slave, and Morana, a...

Late Light by Michael J. Bowden is a collection of six original short stories. Each one is a stand-alone and they range in length, tone, and, to a certain extent, writing style. In Catalyst, Jeff Pilton investigates a mysterious force that grants ordinary people temporary...

Ruby's Revenge by Christine Gallagher will appeal to fans of romance and women's fiction. Ruby Bixler learns that her husband, Brad, cheats on her. The timid and trusting Ruby doesn't want to believe Brad is having an affair with his assistant, Natasha, but reality hits...

Crosswind by Patricia Boomsma follows Amanda, a college freshman, during a turbulent period of adjustment to a new environment with body image issues, anxiety, and a strained relationship with her mother, Susan, who now finds herself as a single empty-nester in her fifties. Amanda forms...

Honor, glory, and unrivaled grace define Placement by Kimberly Van Sickle. The protagonist is young Charles George Trammel IV, a privileged lad whose background straddles both sides of the proverbial tracks. As Charles sits aboard a Higgins boat (Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel, or LCVP) on...