The Dancing Barber by AC Michael is a novel with powerful historical hints about a Ukrainian who was able to survive and even escape the worst of the cruelties of the Soviet communist dictatorship. This story is set against the backdrop of the Soviet Union...

Black Market Prawns is the first book in the Sam, Jake and Dylan Want Money series by Sam Bowring. From an apartment on the 42nd floor of Hazy Towers – one of the most rundown buildings in existence – Sam ignores requests from Dylan to...

Denele Campbell’s novella, The Journal of Admiral Wade and Other Short Stories, is a nice collection of prose. In Parker’s Cross Roads, a sullen woman's life changes when she goes for a walk in the woods and finds herself back in time helping wounded soldiers...

Rebecca Monhollon’s Mischief on the Mountain is a story set late in the nineteenth century on a homestead in Tennessee in the shadow of what the locals called the Smoky Mountains, though the name was still unofficial until 1934. A mixture of history, pathos and...

Ian Chapman is a magazine reporter who has a problem standing up for himself. He shoulders the workload for many of his colleagues just to avoid the confrontation of saying no. When his longtime girlfriend, Alicia, tells him that they’re going to get married, he...

“The flower that follows the sun does so even on cloudy days.” – Robert Leighton. Grudges, Goldenrods, and Ghosts, Volume 3 is from the Petal Pushers Mystery Series by Tina D.C. Hayes. Darci Shelton finds an old key buried in the cellar of her flower...

In Early Birds, a very sweet and lovely story by debut author Janetta Fudge-Messmer, readers will be treated to a fun and funny romp with a group of engaging retirees as they traverse the countryside, with God and Willie Nelson along for the ride. Betsy...

Justine Avery’s short story, It Gets Easier: A Short Tale of Comical Catastrophe, is a fascinating fictional work. The story begins with Jake repeating his newly-conceived mantra, “It Gets Easier.” He is driving his girlfriend Samantha to an outlying reservoir, in her mother’s borrowed car....

Lady Justice and the Sting by Robert Thornhill provides another dose of the author’s trademark mystery/comedy entertainment. There is a bittersweet aspect to this one, however. While the story itself is fiction, the premise on which it is based is all too real. The story...

The End of Time: A Fabulous Narrative (Volume I: From Waterloo to Meridian) by T.S. Creager is the first in a historical series. Historical time travel to be precise. Dhlara and Jylling are minding their own business, living their lives in a perfectly ordinary modern...