Tristan Martin’s The Elements follows four young women in New York as they meet through Hip-Hop and its different forms: rapping, breakdancing, DJing, and graffiti. Natasha is a shy teenager who keeps her rhymes private and works up the nerve to perform on stage. Christina...

Traveler by Alien Vega is an inspirational, emotional rollercoaster of a read. Josef finds himself in deep contemplation about the meaning of life when a feeling nudges him to check out the attic. There, he discovers a book from his grandfather’s collection that tugs at...

“This was the pattern—hope, creation, corruption, destruction. Always the same ending.” Painful failure and seven frightful creatures torment an aged Creator in The Lord's Canvas by Stephen Wayne. The story unfolds in an endless void, where nothing exists save a canvas of creation waiting to...

“She knew she was good. And it appears the good are not rewarded. The good are damned.” This statement rings true in The Curses We Keep, a novella by Dakota J. Miller. The story begins in darkness as an old hag drags a rope...

The Devil in the White Mountains by Mark Smeltz tells a terrifying story set in the Himalayas. Lt. Col. Grant Morrison is serving in the British Raj when he's sent to the Himalayas. A remote village is under siege by a man-eating leopard, and Morrison...

The Crossing by Adrian Cox is the story of a young woman struggling to survive the baggage of her past. Mary Patterson is on the Great Eastern Highway with her thumb out and a small brown leather suitcase at her feet. She notices a Volvo...

Colin Powell once said, “A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination, and hard work.” That quote is the very essence of Tryouts by Peter J. Stavros. It’s the story of a ninth-grade boy living in a small town who wishes to...

The Illuminated by Alexander Semenyuk is about a man born in a post-apocalyptic world and his dog, Toko. They brave a long journey in a world where humans are mostly extinct, and wild, mutated creatures exist. The protagonist’s family all succumbed to diseases or attacks...

In The Walker by Robert E. Kearns, Mr. McCabe has retired at the age of 61. He had given his life to one company where he had worked all his life. He is a shy person who has never married, so he is all alone....

The Lighthouse of Fools by Stephen Wayne begins with the collapse of Bradford-Wellington, which pushes Thomas Harker into relocating his family to desert land, where he starts the construction of a lighthouse. While the family starts anew, Thomas’s vision draws a small circle of unexpected...