In Caryn Green’s Better Angel, a sixty-six-year-old Chicago journalist sets out in 2017 to cross America by train while researching a story about the Transcontinental Railroad. Lost in Washington, DC, she meets a lanky thirty-one-year-old man who claims to be Abraham Lincoln, physically returned from...

In Baseball, Birthday, and Ten-Cent Beer by Gregg Sapp, Solomon Zuch loves baseball, and his favorite team is the Cleveland Indians. The Indians' management runs a lottery for home games to pick birthday boys to serve as honorary ballboys. Plans were made for the entire...

Breathe Easy by Tammy Donahue is a touching story about Ann Montgomery, who was brought up in the countryside of Southern West Virginia. She married her childhood sweetheart, Bobby, and just as they were celebrating that they were soon going to be parents, tragedy struck....

Beauty of Colors: Poems by Cleanne Johnson reminds us of the beauty found around and within us that we often overlook and take for granted. The poet talks about the need to appreciate people based on their character and not their skin color. She encourages...

Black Widow White Horse by Carmine B. Littleworth follows the story of two women from very different backgrounds who form an unexpected bond. It's been a year since Mari lost her husband, Cedric, to Boston PD's brutality. Jean Stinson Lloyd, an elderly White woman, had...

Bad Americans: Part II by Tejas Desai continues the bold and unflinching exploration of American life that made the first volume so memorable. This time, the narrative unfolds through Olive Mixer's unusual pandemic getaway in the Hamptons, where twelve very different guests are brought together...

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,...

In Burn Everything Then Forget It by Boston Teran, many people are unaware that there are underground teams that work in the shadows for government services. Among them are Bill Castle and Charlie Warsh. Their children, Viola and Bill, are both Puerto Rican, the former...

Dolly Parton once said, “If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one,” and that’s just what Annie does in Blooms by Terri Depue. Her already tough day in Seattle takes a turn for the worse, causing her to make a life-altering...

Bad Americans: Part I (The Human Tragedy, Volume 2) by Tejas Desai is an anthology of stories that collectively form a novel, narrated by various individual characters from all walks of life and experiences, who are invited to the mansion of a wealthy billionaire. The...