Short and Simple: A Collection of Short Stories by R.L. Jones is a collection of stories with various themes such as love, angst and even vampire. The title says it all. Yet, there are some stories that I don’t find simple to understand. “Awakening: The...

Stacey Rourke nailed it on the head when she wrote “Sacrifice”. Fantasy fans will love and applaud it. Step aside Neo, there is a new ‘Chosen One’ in town; her name is Celeste, and she is one tough cookie! With her and her family marked...

“Seven Point Eight: The Second Chronicle” by Marie Habron is the second book in the “Seven Point Eight Series”, a dramatic story with science fiction, fantasy, paranormal and romance elements. In the second chronicle, we learn more about the backgrounds of the characters Ava and...

“Scarlett and the Tat Revenants” by John Kilmerstone features an archaeology professor and one of his students, studying an extinct tribe of Native Americans. However, this story is nothing like whatever image came to your mind when you read that first sentence. Indeed, it is...

Aurora is grieving deeply for her husband Jake. He was killed in an automobile accident and she keeps imagining that he is coming back to bed with her. Her mother's friend Marina has stayed with Aurora after Jake's funeral; she is like a sister to...

“Scarab – Horemheb: The Amarnan Kings Book 5” by Max Overton is another exciting and action-packed episode in the life of the – presumably – fictional Scarab, a daughter, sister, niece, mother, wife, and grandmother to various Pharaohs of ancient Egypt. This chapter in her...

"Sins of the Father" tells the story of two people who are from different worlds. There is Bowen, a child who has had misfortune of the worst kind and there is Aaron who has lived a saintly life but is miserable over his own questionable...

"Shadowman" by Aaron Dennis begins in New Orleans when a young man, who has been partying with his friend, goes out into the street to get some more alcohol. He witnesses a killing in an alleyway, and his entire world changes in that moment. When...

It was a bitter cold snowy night. The power lines were down throughout the area. Jake grabbed his tool belt and flashlight as he exited the cab of his snow cat. He was checking the meter when he first heard the sound. Gong. Gong. He...

Dan Harper is just an ordinary guy, having an ordinary day until he spills sauce on his tie during lunch. When he visits a Humane Society thrift store near his office for an inexpensive replacement, merely touching a secondhand tie triggers a flood of gruesome...