The Night Cometh: Fantastical Short Stories by Lorilyn Roberts reminds us that we are all sinners. If we were placed on the stand in front of a judge, how would we fare given all the wrongs we’ve committed in our lives? Would we be sentenced,...

In The Girl and the Lock on Her Heart by Lauren Lee, a girl who lives by herself is on a mission to find the key that will fit the empty lock on her heart. One day, a boy who has a key to his...

The Rainbow Room by Claire Ishi Ayetoro is a short read that is curiously moving with a strong emotional and psychological arc, something you don’t read every day. His name is Jack Taylor. He wakes up in an unfamiliar room with an arrangement he has...

The pain of losing her long-time lover's affection to a rival pushes Natalie Rose to the end of the world literally. Moving to Australia to work for her father has not turned out the way she hoped and she is seriously contemplating returning home for...

The Angel Theory by John Morelli is about Bill Arena, a man disgusted with and depressed by the law. Now aged 55, he is in the middle of a crisis in his career, marriage, and supporting his children. An old friend from his high school,...

The Unvaccinated by Jean Grandbois is a post-apocalyptic look at the world as it could become after the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s been five years since the Coronavirus pandemic and the unthinkable starts to happen – the vaccine meant to protect is leading to massive occurrences...

The Healing Book by Dustin Grinnell is a collection of short, slice-of-life stories about people trying to navigate the various absurdities of life. "An Affable Man" follows a young man disillusioned with his corporate career who finally finds meaning in his life after a chance...

The Brothers Thanatos by Joshua Gamon is an urban fantasy novel with a solid plot and well-rounded characters. Maximilian Thanatos, or Max, was once an agent of a secret society dedicated to protecting ancient mysticism. Now he is a semi-retired detective of the mysterious. However,...

Safa Shaqsy’s The Fourth Reason dives into the mind of Amal, a paranoid schizophrenic. At the age of eighteen, Amal had become pregnant while living with her boyfriend Rob. When she revealed she was pregnant, he dumped her. While living with her mother, she gave...

Sunsky has long been perceived as the highest of all the gryphon citizens and was predicted to be the next ruler of Gryphonia. Worrisome dreams added to her anxiety about her approaching courtship and reign. She remained indecisive about crowning Dreamspinner, the mighty opinicus,...

Sometimes, people have a hard time with impulse control. This can happen due to several reasons, but it is especially prevalent in children suffering from ADHD, autism spectrum disorder, sensory processing disorder, and other similar conditions. The Princess Who Can't Sit Still by Cherise Hurt...

It was the beginning of the nineteenth century and ruthless pirates ruled the seas surrounding China and South East Asia. Just as Europeans were trying to exert their naval and cultural power on the Chinese and others in the region, one group was determined to...

The Mystic Menace by Stephanie Kim Pascaru is a thrilling fantasy adventure set in the plague-stricken kingdom of Camellia. For 300 years, Camellia’s people have suffered under a mysterious curse: glowing claw marks on their wrists and lifespans ending at forty. No one has escaped—until...

Many of us have an inherent fear that stops us from investing our all into following our dreams because self-doubt sometimes threatens to overwhelm our desires. The Surfing Mouse is a short story about a young mouse that faces a challenge just like that. Stefan...

Being a woman in a male-dominated society is challenging, where being a single mom is seen as immoral and a bad societal influence. The Kintsugi Moms by Dr. Haseena Chokkiyil is a collection of stories from single mothers with health issues and their journey toward...

The Fake Fall of Rome by Bruce Shoemaker is a short but comprehensive book where we are presented with the history of humanity from a very different perspective from the one we know. After studying the subject for 15 years, Shoemaker explains how 96 percent...

The Wobbly Wheeled Wagon by Juliet Mandelzweig, illustrated by Jess Bronte, is about a particular wobbly shopping cart in the supermarket that often gets abandoned in the parking lot when shoppers realize its defect. All the shiny, undamaged wagons would often tease, bully, and laugh...

The Roma's Claim (A Dark Roma Mafia Romance Book 1) by Shae Coon focuses on a payment owed to gypsies in 1960. When the gypsies healed Jolene, her mother had to give her to them after she recovered. Instead, Leandra fled Italy with Jolene to...

The Last Football Player is a work of fiction in the science fiction, sports fiction, and interpersonal drama subgenres. It is intended for the young adult reading audience and was penned by author John Blossom. In this inventive and immersive work filled with great sci-fi...

The Abduction is a collection of poems written by Maram Al-Masri and translated by Hélène Cardona. The poems tell the story of a mother whose son is abducted by her husband and returned after many years. They begin with happy poems about her pregnancy and...