In Derek Chatman's Lipstick, Cocaine & Revenge, eighteen-year-old Geneva works at a Bronx clothing store while her uncle Jerome, known as Rome, runs a drug operation from his social club, The Yard. When a man close to Rome is murdered, a feud with rival dealer...

No One Sleeps by Townsend Walker is a thought-provoking collection of short fiction. ‘Nessun Dorma’, the first of the twenty works in this anthology, personifies suicidal thoughts in a way that forces you to ponder the meaning of life. The following entry, ‘As Ye Sow,'...

Ursula Bloom is the editor of a gutter rag with flagging sales. Desperate to have a win, she decides to print a fake news story about celebrity children’s author Emmie Hobson. The story starts small: a doctored image of an overweight child who died 30...

Chaos is Coming by Dani Donari follows FBI agent David Rickman after a bomb detonates at Atlanta’s MARTA station during the morning commute. Ordered to determine whether the attack is connected to a Charleston park bombing, David discovers that both crimes belong to a wider...

In Paul Martin Midden’s Simple People, Ahmed Winslow has built a quiet life as a Missouri truck driver, keeping his distance from family while secretly producing counterfeit currency in the basement of his rented house. When a plan to filter the money through banks in...

Echoes of the Forgotten Relics by J. Whitaker follows Gildan, a young hunter from the quiet village of Raven, who has always felt destined for something beyond the ordinary life his father expects him to live. After experiencing a haunting dream that urges him to...

Robb Erwin’s A Refuge of Last Resort follows twenty-two-year-old Lorelei Rücker, a former wildlife student trapped in debt bondage at Saino-Blatt, a Florida consulting company built around corporate scams. Lorelei has hyperosmia, which lets her detect odors other people miss, but no warning prepares her...

Nubia Johnson is a disciplined, principled USCIS officer who discovers that her case files and digital badge are weapons in a hidden war in David L. Wadley’s Passport Bro. She has always believed in justice and fairness, even if it is difficult to find justice...

In Bulls, Bears, and Bad Bitches by David L. Wadley, after fleeing Los Angeles under federal pursuit, former USCIS officer Nubia arrives in Atlanta and discovers that her identity has been used to authorize deportations, child removals, and surveillance operations targeting immigrant families across the...

“The boy was an unknown, but Claire thought unknowns could eventually make something of themselves.” Of course she did, because Claire Benson, the protagonist of The Dyer Legacy by Albert Sipes, is goodhearted to a fault. The story begins when Claire narrowly escapes two would-be...