Kohōpeh’s Lotus, Mud, Blade is set in the Siamese city of Vimaya. Moo Hring is a guard whose kitchen knife and public daring make her feared across the market. She secretly loves Preah Ponhea Chan, a Khmer prince pressured by Governor Luang Borommanant to accept...

A grandmother meets a six-year-old boy named Jack at a bus stop as he returns from school. She promises that she will be waiting for him there tomorrow, too. Yet, unexpectedly, something changes, and the bus arrives without the boy one day. Will Bennett gets...

Locking Down Love by Luis Ammerman takes place in a small Vermont town during the pandemic lockdown. Readers are introduced to Bill Cox, a quiet English professor living alone, and his neighbor, Amy Hoover, a hardworking diner employee. His carefully structured, solitary life begins to...

Loner-Style Justice, a novella by Mike Marsbergen in the style of screwball comedy, hits all the right spots in delivering a great story. Joseph Tugger is an unusually big but gentle guy whose mission in life is to solve problems, especially the ones where he...

Finn Parker is an immortal; she’s 4,000 years old, but her metabolism froze, leaving her forever young and beautiful. The reader meets her in London in 1888, at the time of the Whitechapel murders. She has nothing better to do, so she goes on the...

Last Moments by Hirbod Human is a collection of six short stories based on true accounts of the treatment of dissidents in Iran under an oppressive regime. Human, an Iranian, now lives in the United States and, as an artist, hopes to raise awareness of...

Lonely Worlds by Joseph Russell is a captivating short story that follows Felix Aiden Lewis, a young traveler who journeys alone across different worlds. Having been on his own for a long time, he struggles to understand the purpose of his travels. One day, while...

Last Hope by Douglas Van Dyke Jr. is a captivating science fiction short story that follows Gordon Rogers, a mutant with Nullifier powers. His mission is to capture rogue, unregistered mutants. Experienced and determined, Gordon is on the lookout for special mutants whose unique powers...

La Fête de la Vie is a captivating collection of short stories and poems by Jaqueline Miller Bachar. The narrator is at her favorite restaurant in Paris while her mother is dying of cancer in America. A World War II veteran tries to fulfill the...

Love's Gentle Rain is a contemporary romance novella by O.J. Ebubeoha. Amara Okonkwo was supposed to be married to her fiancé, Josh, and living happily with their child in Abuja, Nigeria. However, fate had other plans, and now, Josh and their unborn child are dead,...