People I Know by David Joseph is a collection of flash and microfictions that grab the raw essence of the human condition in brief, powerful bursts. Written in gritty, minimalist prose with atmospheric depth, it examines the sharp realities of life. The narratives move across...

In Marcus Conter’s A Light in the Silence, Brazilian musician Mateus has settled in Laval, Quebec, when his father summons him back to southern Brazil. Maria, the mother who held her four sons together, died only three months before her widower, Marlboro, summons them home...

In Índigo, we meet Mark, a young man just drifting through California in the '70s without much of a plan until he starts volunteering at a suicide hotline. While working the phones, he forms a really deep, anonymous bond with a caller named "Greta", a...

In Paul Martin Midden’s Simple People, Ahmed Winslow has built a quiet life as a Missouri truck driver, keeping his distance from family while secretly producing counterfeit currency in the basement of his rented house. When a plan to filter the money through banks in...

Justice is not always neat. It can be quite chaotic. Melvin E. Edwards’ Nuremberg, Mississippi is set against the background of one of America’s most tumultuous times – the Civil Rights era. When Henry Logan is arrested for violating a local law about after-dark restrictions...

In J.M. Woodward’s The Holding, thirteen-year-old Anna and her nine-year-old brother Simon live between their mother’s crowded family home and their father’s basement apartment in central-southern Ontario. Anna finds relief at the barn with Bravo, the horse she rides, while Simon spends every permitted minute...

In The Final Days of Wynter by Carolyne Lark Swayze, readers meet Wynter Lang, a tough, hundred-year-old woman whose comfortable life at a luxury retirement home north of Chicago gets turned upside down after a health scare. After surviving a near-death experience, Wynter decides to...

Craig Brown’s Dignity follows an unnamed boy in Petone, New Zealand, who first approaches Malcolm Beaumont, the council binman everyone calls Bogie, after classmates dare him to steal the man’s Coke. What begins as a childish test turns into an unlikely attachment, formed on a...

All That Was Left Unsaid by Danielle Dragona is a compelling, heart-rending, and deeply emotional portrayal of love, betrayal, family dynamics, and secrets left untold. Katrina Johnson, at seventy years old, is at a crossroads. Her beloved husband Sam has just died of cancer. She...

What Time Has Kept by Elizabeth Hutchison Bernard is a remarkable novel that weaves historical fiction with mystery. The story unfolds in Scotland, in the Victorian era. Sixty-year-old archaeology enthusiast Christian Maclagan indulges her fascination with prehistoric stones, paving her way to recognition by the...