The Garden Plot Diaries by Endy Wright is a fascinating anthology. Although readers never become privy to the name of the diary owner, we are all captivated by him due to his wit and fun-loving personality. A retired old war vet and avid gardener living...

An old, handmade clock for a school project challenges the bonds between a mother and her daughter. A sixteen-year-old named Leon has lost his mother and can't get along with his grieving father, but someone is watching over him. A satnav has its own opinion...

These Things Happen by Michael Eon revolves around the life of Daniel Zimmer and the challenges he faces, centered on family dynamics, addiction, and personal growth. After a devastating opening scene, the story shifts between periods of Daniel's life, from tense family memories to Daniel's...

Narrated by a deceased family dog, Molly, The Lede to our Undoing by Donald Mengay, provides insight into the lives of Jake and Wren, twins in 1970s rust-belt America. Molly's observations reveal their experiences as they navigate a changing society against a backdrop of civil,...

The Pleasure Seeker by Robyn Michaels follows the life of Singh, who was raised in Africa. His parents had been trafficked out of India to work as servants. Arusha wasn't a big city then, and most people were poor. Singh had an entrepreneurial mind from...

The literary fiction novel Those People Behind Us by Mary Camarillo is set in a suburban neighborhood in Wellington Beach, where a compilation of residents contend with personal strife and intersecting lives. Keith Nelson, having clashed with his father, lives in his car; Ray Murdoch...

The Silent Hen by Helen Montague Foster is a thrilling spy story set in World War II in Egypt and Yugoslavia. Written as a tribute to the author’s parents, the story focuses on the operatives of America’s Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the forerunner to...

In The Universe in 3/4 Time by Leona Francombe, a perpetual night walker, Audrey Nightingale comes across an abandoned piano on the streets of Brussels. She hasn’t played the piano since a mysterious disaster happened three years ago. Her fingers are drawn to the keys....

The Red Fox Ran by December Knight is about an outsider longing to live a normal life. Bay is not a regular high school teenager and is all too aware of that. He knows that time with his normal friends is running out but finds...

Mick and Brady share a fellowship akin to that of blood brothers which comes from three years of participating in everything as a unit. Brady has reservations about Alex, another member of the group whose disturbing background and dark habits do little to endear him...