Following the ousting of President Travvis E Donnelly from power, the US was run by a military junta. The People’s Second Amendment Militia (2 AM), an outlaw group dedicated to fighting far-right extremists, received intel about a planned operation by Donnelly’s loyalists called Allegiance America,...

Accidental Prostitute by Jac Buchanan explores the toxic relationship between a damsel in distress and a knight in shining armor. An unnamed person whose gender is not mentioned goes to pubs to escape their unsafe home. They feel safe in a crowd of strangers and...

The Music Within Your Heart by Isaac Samuel Miller is the story of Sophia as she walks down memory lane. The first big shock of Sophia’s life came when her brother’s mutilated body was found in a lake, and she could do nothing. Sad and...

Beatrice Knight’s Alverstone: A Regency Family Saga of Love and War concerns Marquess Jasper Alverstone, who doesn’t want to marry Angelica Thorne, despite encouragement from his mother. He finds the woman has no compassion for others. Meanwhile, Charlotte Winford is trying to discourage Squire Henry...

I know from personal experience how difficult it is, even in a short story, to create a fictional character based on real-life events and make readers fully relate to that protagonist’s emotions and decisions in a twisty murder mystery. But that is what D.F. Kennedy,...

Melanie to the Rescue and Other Unlikely Tales by Carol June Stover is every short story lover’s delight. Each of the fifteen works in this anthology is heavily character-driven. The titular Melanie to the Rescue focuses on a romance author, Lorraine Woodruff, who becomes more...

Cold Blows the Wind by Catherine Meyrick is a poignant and thought-provoking tale set in bustling Hobart Town, Australia, in 1878. The story follows protagonist Ellen Thompson, a spirited young woman with a baby, torn between her attachment to her family and her desire to...

The Chancer is a comedy by Fiona Graham. Donnie, who was raised on a farm near a tiny Irish village, had dreamed of becoming a Hollywood star. Donnie’s younger sister was the only member of the family who thought that he could succeed as an...

Isabelle B.L brings readers a stimulating collection of flash fiction and poetry with this enthralling anthology, Prickly Pears. A swarm of butterflies converges upon a fiery lamp to witness a moth's fatal attraction to its glow culminate in its ultimate end. A young golden-haired girl...

All Jaime and Dustin wanted was to live in peace and be able to love each other; however, that seemed too tall an order in Love Beyond Death by Alderin Ordell. Dustin finally loses his cool after seeing his beloved come home battered and bruised...