When Amber Black was six years old, she heard the story of Cain and Abel. The story moved her so deeply that she has sought to maintain a close relationship with God ever since. After going through various life experiences, she has come to understand...

Bodies of Water by Marylee MacDonald is a collection of original short stories. Each story ranges in length and content, but all are about people whose lives change when water enters the equation. In The Ark Encounter, Pearl loses her house to a hurricane, then...

The Energy Edge by Eric Reiners is a helpful guide for anyone who feels like the daily grind is quietly chipping away at their sanity. The author shows you how to stop forcing yourself into an unnatural schedule and instead structure your day around what...

If you have ever tried explaining how macroeconomics affects global warming to an eight-year-old, you know how quickly their eyes glaze over. In A Kid’s Guide to Economic Activism for the Climate, author Kimberly Haidinger takes on that challenge by dropping readers straight into a...

What Time Has Kept by Elizabeth Hutchison Bernard is a remarkable novel that weaves historical fiction with mystery. The story unfolds in Scotland, in the Victorian era. Sixty-year-old archaeology enthusiast Christian Maclagan indulges her fascination with prehistoric stones, paving her way to recognition by the...

In Nola Z's Divide by Shunya, after senior product manager Maya is fired from a Seattle technology company, every digital record of her employment disappears. She soon learns that Project Kala, the mental wellness platform she helped build, has been transformed into a system that...

All That Was Left Unsaid by Danielle Dragona is a compelling, heart-rending, and deeply emotional portrayal of love, betrayal, family dynamics, and secrets left untold. Katrina Johnson, at seventy years old, is at a crossroads. Her beloved husband Sam has just died of cancer. She...

Samuel Colabufo’s The Mitigator centers on Joseph "Goody" Goodness, a man who carries a deep psychological scar from his childhood that manifests as an intuitive radar for tracking human rage. When he senses someone about to snap, he moves in to intercept the violence before...

“Everyone knew what they were. Humanoid in shape, monstrous in behavior. Creatures with no soul, no conscience, no desire beyond destruction.” The menace is clear in KOA: Dark Systems by Chris Bankus, a sci-fi tale set in the cold of space sometime in the future....

In Asher Shines Bright: A Journey of Hope and Light by Kristina Gibbons, we are introduced to Asher, a young fox, who feels sad and lonely on the night of Oakmeadow’s Festival of Lights, while everyone around him is happy. Ary, his friend, notices this,...

Ronnie Sacco’s The Resonance Crossing is set in the authoritarian surveillance state of Dominia, and it follows a low-tier reclamation worker named Luca Ashbourne. In a world where people are forbidden to feel and where emotion is medicated, scored, and suppressed by the National Dominia...

Love Twists and Knots by Jo-Anne Carriere is a truly delightful romance set amongst the sun, sand, and excitement of the French Riviera, and the lifestyle of the rich and famous. Genny is a Canadian sales rep who is holidaying with her girlfriends in the...

In Wade Prull’s Black Tank, Gary is a former infrastructure specialist who has spent four years traveling alone in the motorhome he chose with his wife Claire. At Ridgeline State Park, the afternoon light matches a place Claire once circled in their road atlas, but...

Literary Echoes: Short Story Analyses by Fiza Pathan is an educational study of short fiction that teaches readers how to examine the details authors put into their stories. Pathan considers Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” by looking at the village ritual as a social practice accepted...

Love in a Hurry by Mari Jane Law introduces Miranda Morton, a thirty-nine-year-old single mother desperate to give her son, Oscar, a sibling. She conceived through a turkey baster with her gay friend Luke. She has never been kissed, and her romantic prospects are slim...

Killing Time, by M.W. Taylor, begins with the discovery that reincarnation is a fact and that past lives can be accessed through a connection to the present. But as so often occurs in newly developed sciences, they tend to have a downside: they are not...

Falling Through the Net Hole is the second book in the Butterflies On The Net series by Inna Tamir. The story picks up right where Chasing Phantoms left off, with Vera Simkin heartbroken as Adrian finally moves in with his fiancée Kinneret. Just when Vera...

In Forward Only, David Watson recounts growing up in Texas with his grandparents, Grandma and Pawpaw, whose home gave him his first sense of belonging. Losing Pawpaw at twelve changes that home, and adolescence is marked by a habit of leaving whenever he cannot see...

T.K. Toppin’s The Dark Without follows Dr. Esme Morrant, a genealogist-anthropologist in 7631 whose discovery of an ancient journal threatens everything humanity believes about Sibyl, the woman credited with leading civilization out of a ruined Earth. Scientific testing dates the journal a thousand years earlier...

In Web of Obsession by Ann Dunbar, Sunny Rivers was famous as America's sweetheart. But she longed for something more personal. Sunny wanted a place where she truly belonged and someone who loved her. When Sunny met Antonio, she believed she had found what she...