There seemed to be no place to hide for the Clamors, people who possessed magic, in the Kingdom of Vocaris. The King’s guards were getting better at spotting them, and their execution methods were becoming more ruthless. Derron, a laborer in Banlyn, the capital of...

Three Times A Mourner: Personal Essays on Grief and Healing by Fredricka R. Maister is a memoir examining how loss shaped Maister's understanding of family, memory, and identity through the deaths of her father, boyfriend, and mother. In Fifty Years Without a Dad, she looks...

Dry The Rain by Richard Leise is a haunting story that takes you into the mind of a girl who has endured unimaginable trauma. The story is narrated by Mallory, who was kidnapped and subjected to years of abuse and captivity by a man she...

How can one explain the butterflies-in-the-stomach feeling when your crush starts to show an interest in you? Conversely, how does one describe the disappointment and uncertainty that overwhelm you when you face rejection? Kissing Henry by E. Hughes vividly explores these emotions in Penny, a...

The Courtyard by Benjamin Parket and Alexa Morris is a remarkable memoir about what happened to a specific Jewish family during the Holocaust. In this memoir, Bernard recounts how, at first, while living in Paris, he and his Polish-immigrant family only heard rumors of what was happening to...

In D.C. Mallery's Choose, a horrifying, cruel force manipulates Grove Hanson and Kelso Kollen. Although they have not seen each other in years, their past relationship awakened something dark, something that refuses to rest until its deadly demands are met. Now Grove and Kelso are...

In our daily lives, we are immersed in routines, and we fail to appreciate what is around us because of the stress of responsibilities. To get out of this state, we can write a journal that gives us clarity of thought and allows us to...

What do a clergyman's dangerous voyage aboard a ship with mysterious human cargo and an ambitious officer's internal battle to rationalize her superior's orders have in common? They are short stories in Carmelo Rafala’s unusual collection. Read along and be enthralled as a soldier finds...

Where the Deer and the Antelope Play by Rick Donahoe follows the adventures of a man suffering from a terminal illness. With the doctor's diagnosis foretelling an uncertain future, Stewart Waldon arrives in the scenic forests of the Intermountain West, resigning himself to his fate....

In You Can Never Go Back by Lamar D. Vine, John looks back on a decades-long connection with his first love, Tammy. He first knew her as a teen, and it took many years for them to reconnect. She’s in a seemingly unhappy marriage, and...

Three years after the failed annihilation attempt on Earth by Icarus, an alien spaceship, a Centauri battleship intercepts a message from Icarus’ Polit-AI, reporting the treasonous acts of its captain by providing alien technology to Earth inhabitants and protecting human telepaths or mutants. The Centauri...

Little Renee of Sunshine and the Everkind Tales is a children's short story collection by Gael J.B. Orr. In "A Recipe for Trouble," fairy sisters Peyton and Penelope are trying to make a whisperberry pie. When their mother starts humming her favorite cleaning day tune,...

Weirdos Welcome by Cynthia Baseman is a contemporary young adult novel that captures the interior lives of teenagers navigating school, identity, and belonging. Set at Pacific Crest High School, the story alternates between the perspectives of Braden, an anxious overachiever and basketball player, and Rae,...

Busting the AI Bubble by Brian Hall arrives at a time when artificial intelligence dominates headlines, investor chatter, and boardroom strategy. Rather than offering predictions fueled by hype, Hall approaches AI through the disciplined lenses of corporate finance, economic history, and long-form reasoning. The book...

Reena Has Real Wings is an inspirational children's book written by Colleen M Bratley and illustrated by Diego D. Quiroga. It is about Reena, a girl with a smile that brings joy and love, and a heart full of kindness and thoughts of others. She...

The Killer’s Remorse by Jimmy Ray Conner is a historical mystery set in 1960s San Francisco. The story follows homicide detective Holly Webb, who is the city’s first woman to be assigned to the division. Along with her partner, Grant Parker, she’s launching a cold...

Rosie the Silkie Hen is a children’s picture book written and illustrated by Marian Gardner. It follows Rosie, a black-feathered Silkie hen who wishes to wear clothes. She knows this has never been done before. Chickens did not wear clothes, but she was about to...

Sloths and Their Moths by Katie Lee Reinert is a fascinating and charming children’s book about the real-life symbiotic relationship that exists between sloths and several species of moths found living in the fur of sloths. When the sloths of the tropical rainforests of Central...

Chats with a Charlatan by Chris Wilkensen follows Kevin Davis, a therapist in Chicago whose life, both at work and at home, is falling apart. Kevin uses unorthodox methods in his sessions, sometimes giving his patients alcohol and marijuana in an attempt to break down...

The Aspirants by J. Loretta takes a look at a near-future where politics and reality TV have merged with the concept of assisted dying. The story starts right in the middle of a livestream called “That’s EnterAttainment!”, where terminally ill people—dubbed "Aspirants"—turn their final moments...