Calling Mr. Nelson Pugh by Christopher Opyr is a crime thriller. One lonely night in a hotel room, we are introduced to Mr. Pugh, who is on a business trip. His wife and two daughters are at home in the United States. Mr. Pugh explains...

Murder at Manzanar by Steve Zimcosky is the story of a former police officer, now Private Detective Tom Sipowicz, operating in Cleveland. Tom’s latest investigation pertains to the life of the Sakura family who lived in the Japanese Intermittent Camps during WWII, specifically the Manzanar...

Allan Cook's Death at Monksrest centers on a journey to England that Liz Reid, an L.A.-based financial fraud investigator, historian, and Chaucer enthusiast, couldn't resist taking. She immediately flew to London to meet her colleague Charlie, who whisked her off to Monksrest estate, located in...

Perception by Unique Williams is the story of Caleb Fisher. He is the head of a special forces team tasked to enter the mountainous Afghanistan region and conquer the US opponents who used the locale to escape and attack the US forces. Although Caleb was...

Gender by Anne Harding Woodworth is two short novellas in rhyme and free verse form questioning the meaning of gender. The first story is about a young woman Martina who wants to join her father when he joins the monastery, and because she has no...

From page one, Last Chance Lane gets your blood pumping and your mind running in circles. Jennifer R. Kim leaves you questioning everything. What is reality? Do we exist in the protagonist’s mind? The story is told from a first-person viewpoint leaving you enmeshed in...

I love this anonymous opening quote: “Sometimes you will never know the true value of a moment until it becomes a memory.” How true. Life is like that: full of auspicious moments that flitter past almost undetected until, somewhere along the way, one of these...

Grandmother’s Devil And Other Tempting Tales, written by Marty Malin and illustrated by Diane Slade, is a unique collection of short stories that focus on grandmothers. There are six short stories in this anthology: Grandmother Sits, Grandmother’s Predictions, Grandmother of God, Grandmother Naked, Grandmother’s Devil...

From Humbug to Humble: The Transformation of Ebenezer Scrooge is an enchanting novella by Stephanie Verni. This thought-provoking story surmises how Ebenezer Scrooge, from Dickens’ beloved classic A Christmas Carol, may have lived his life as a changed man. Amelia, the great-great-granddaughter of Tim Cratchit,...

When Maria dies, her friend and protagonist of Gift for the Messenger: An Illuminating Journey by Fireflysue feels the desire to create a private ceremony to honor her. She also realizes that Maria wants her to know that she approves of her intention to go...