Trials and Tribulations by Brian Keith Higgins is a collection of the author's original flash fiction stories, each of which provides a complete story within a remarkably small word count. Each piece reads independently of the next, and while the theme of adversity is the...

When responding to the doorbell at the rectory, Reverend Patrick Donelly is surprised to find two baskets with an infant in each one. When he cannot locate foster parents who are willing to take them in, he takes in and raises the twin boys as...

The Wooden Tokens by Dawn Knox is the story of Annie and Ben, both left as babies at the Foundling Hospital after their mothers decided to give them up for adoption. A kind and loving couple adopts them after losing their twins, and they become...

What an imaginative and surprising read! When I first started reading Tsunami Cowboys by Jadi Campbell, I thought it was a collection of short stories despite being described as a novel on its cover. Each part (or story) in the book is told from the...

The Penalty Box is a short story by Valerie Allen. Three men happen to share a bench at the mall while waiting for the women in their lives. Two are married. One has planned a surprise marriage proposal for his girlfriend. One of the married...

The Doctor of Bellechester by Margaret A. Blenkush, the first book in a series, starts with Doctor Harold Merton arriving in London from the small village of Bellechester on a hot August day in 1959. He is about to meet with his old friend and...

The Dream Room is a romance drama novel by Charlotte Glass. Currently in her mid-twenties, aspiring playwright Allison Cassidy has been in a steady romantic relationship with her childhood friend, Jed Adkins, for the last six years. When Jed took off for Los Angeles to...

There are people in history whom we can thank again and again for the changes that they have instigated and fought for. These people used their bodies and souls, sometimes at great risk, to bring about change. In The Queen of the Platform, we meet...

Allan Davis' The Eye of the Bedbug is a riveting piece of realistic fiction that highlights how a person's mental health and emotional compass can be affected in a fractured family setting. The narrative revolves around the lives of two children: Rebecca (an eight-year-old girl)...

The Sword by Lilypearl Colman is a wonderful exploration of the enchantment, magic, and inherent violence of early Norse culture and family life. Oddný Einarsdóttir was just fifteen when, on a voyage with her foster brother to Iceland to finally be reunited with her father...