The real life of an airline pilot is often far removed from the public image of a glamorous superhero. Vesa Turpeinen suggests that most of the time they are just human, but sketches an unconventional and highly amusing scenario in FunkyPilot Journals. The author describes...

In Kimberly Wenzler’s Letting Go, after Lucy Buchanan dies, her husband Max raises their son Sammy while attempting to resume his writing career. Lucy narrates as a silent witness to their daily routines, observing as Sammy insists she still visits him, and Max questions how...

“How could I have been so obtuse, so neglectful that my dying son hated me until the end?” For Joe Fredericks, the protagonist of Wayne Feinstein's novel, Turning, it took little effort to be such a sleazeball. Joe is the definition of success in one...

Orlando Chavez's Portrait of a Hollow Man follows a man who ends up trapped in the same routines, glued to technology, and mentally checked out from the world around him. He wakes up early, goes through his phone, eats breakfast, takes care of his aging...

Miracles of the Season by Susan Jean Ricci begins in NYC, where Chloe Twiggins reminisces about the life she used to have before meeting and marrying her husband. She’s late meeting him and their daughter, Lala, at the Rockefeller Center. One of his trees has...

In ISA StoryWorld: Garrett's Becoming by Kristen Peters, Garret is at an age that confuses most people. At twelve, his body has changed considerably. He is tall, his voice is deeper, and his shoulders have begun to broaden. These changes have led people to start...

In A Walk Among Heroes by James McDevitt, T.J. Montgomery had loved Magdalyn for as long as he could remember. When T.J. saw Magdalyn standing beside another man, smiling in a way he thought belonged only to him, his world shattered. T.J. searched for something...

In The Boy with the Butterfly Mind by Lorelei Brush, readers meet Julie, a math teacher juggling her job, marriage, and the nonstop energy of her four-year-old son, Patrick. She feels deeply proud of him, but also worried. His moods range from exuberant curiosity to...

How often are mental health issues pushed under the carpet and ignored? In Breaking Perfect, Elyse Heartwell brings the pain and suffering out of the shadows and into the light. The Dawson family appears perfect on the outside, wealthy and successful, but behind closed doors,...

A Life Worth Living by Don Lehmkuhl follows the story of an eccentric professor and his young protégé over the course of two decades. Kameron Burkhardt attended Saint Augustine's University in Cincinnati, Ohio, in the late 1980s. With youthful vigor, Kameron delved into university life...