The Dead Kids Club is an intense thriller by Rich Hosek. A divorced father narrates how the life of his young son ended too soon. As he drops his son Nick at school, the boy grabs his backpack and rushes to join the other first...

In Empress by François, born in the 1970s, Paris Empress Jones of Haitian heritagelives in Brooklyn. She is beautiful, intelligent, and a self-confessed sex symbol. Empress is totally aware that life is filled with obstacles and she is always willing to take the gamble if...

The Band Room is a coming of age story written by Bob Seay. Angel is a typical teenager and high school football player whose life is turned upside down when he gets a court-ordered sentence of 90-hour community service due to an accidental scuffle with...

Children are more perceptive than we credit them for. Such was the case of Irene, an almost 10-year-old girl who had a beautiful family. Her parents were in love, and she had her companion, a teddy bear. Suddenly, her parents would fight endlessly within earshot...

Paul Buchheit's 1871: Rivers on Fire is an emotionally involving account of true fires--physical and emotional. Set against the backdrop of the historic fires of Chicago and Peshtigo, a married couple is caught up in the flames, and the social issues that come before and...

In Ken Gordon’s Bad Dogs: A Black Cadet in Dixie, we first meet the protagonist Jon H. Quest as the CEO of a mega-successful company. He’s late for the monthly dinner get-together of his mega-successful Black family at their mega-amazing family compound. We will get...

Litost: Sliced Stories is a collection of short stories around a similar atmosphere and mood, written and compiled by author Samir Satam. Written for adult reading audiences owing to their dark emotive themes and the presence of some contextually relevant abusive language, this is a...

It was a cold snowy night and one little orphan was so cold and hungry she couldn't sleep. She walks outside in the cold breezy snow and finds the orphanage owner outside barefoot in the snow. The second night, the same thing happens so the...

Extinction: Fade To Brown by Clarke Given is a science fiction novel that revolves around a future in which the caucasian race is on the brink of becoming a relic of the past, anticipating their demise within just over four decades. Political and social changes...

The Narrows by Mark Zvonkovic takes us back to the late sixties/early seventies in a psychological tale about cult addiction. Larry Brown and his longtime pal Hal, in a Cambridge, Massachusetts bar, witness a ruckus in which two oddly clean-cut young men wrestle with another,...