Neanderthal Sunset is a historical fiction novella by Steven Burgauer. Strong Arms is the leader of his increasingly depleting clan. He strives to fulfill his duties as mate to Big Curl, father to Wide Smiles, Fast Foot, and their siblings, as well as hunting and...

Wayne Clark’s El Gordo follows a veteran private investigator, Humph, as he attempts to unravel a highly complex and troubling criminal conspiracy operating in New York’s post-war jazz community. Everything starts when a talented neighborhood musician and painter named Roberto turns up dead. The murder...

Orange and White by Richard J. Reese is a short story about the Holocaust. In 1943, Reinhardt Schroeder was member of the SS, someone who took great pleasure in killing Jews for the Nazi regime. Schroeder was tasked by his superiors to dismantle "Chamber II"...

Queer Justice by Alex Charns is a historical legal novel that blends fiction with real figures and events from the turbulent political climate of the 1960s. The story centers on a young attorney, Mitch Pilsudski, who is assigned to represent George Smith, a teenage defendant...

The Laboratory Assistant by Natalia Loya introduces us to the Solokova sisters, Mariya, Sophia, and Darya. Former aristocrats, they have fallen on hard times after the death of their father. Consumption is running high in the city, and their mother is a victim. In a...

It is the summer of 1984. Instead of sending his fourteen-year-old son, William “Will” Timmons Junior, to summer camp like his peers, William Sr., a high-flying executive at Walton B. Woodward’s Sons, a brokerage firm in the heart of Philadelphia, brings him to his workplace....

In Stan Haynes’s And Slavery No More, as the Civil War pushes toward its third year, Montgomery Tolliver serves inside President Abraham Lincoln’s administration while helping manage Union weapons production at a critical juncture. Lincoln privately debates whether presidential war powers can legally free enslaved...

What happens when duty forces two strangers together? In The Gamble by Karen Black, readers are taken to Texas in 1895, where Emily chooses to honor her father by agreeing to an arranged marriage, hoping to save his struggling ranch. She’s spent years working like...

In Brandon Fisichella’s The Corpse War of 1793, when the sergeant marches into the Norfolk town of Stowlham with a British regiment, expecting routine garrison duty during the Napoleonic era, he instead enters a town already collapsing beneath attacks carried out by the dead. Soldiers,...

In Looking for Henry Turner by W.L. Liberman, Mo and Birdie, Gold Investigations’ partners, have several tasks to complete. When the story opens, they have just located a card dealer, employed by a local racketeer, John Fat Gai, dead in an alley. Gold’s brother, Eli,...