After a brief conversation with her mother, Rose’s entire life begins to unravel. What she thought was just missing money morphed into the end of her marriage and a new chapter in her life. Looking around her soon-to-be-former home, Rose realizes just how blind she...

Socrates said, ‘The unexamined life is not worth living.' Starting from that premise, Donna Baier Stein creates characters who are questioning who they are and how they really fit into the world and families around them in her thought provoking anthology, Sympathetic People. Examining feelings...

This set of marvelously taut short stories in Nobody’s Looking by J.R. Miller creates more of a tapestry of themes than a formation of discrete tales. With the deftness shown by a confident, sure-handed writer, the author explores the convoluted but continuous crawl, walk, and...

James Mulhern’s supernatural story, Molly Bonamici, revolves around Molly, a high school senior. Molly is in for a big surprise when she follows her grandmother to visit a faith healer in a less than stellar neighborhood in Boston. Lady Jane, the faith healer, tells Molly...

The Berkeley Girl: Rendezvous in London - A Novella and Other Stories of the '60s by Elise Frances Miller is a novel that some people might take as a romance, but it is much more than that. More of a woman’s story to find herself...

Jamie hadn't seen her father, Bernard Mattson, for years. They had drifted apart, but things had been about to change. They had planned to reunite, but then his murder put a stop to the plan. But murder is not the only thing she finds in...

The Art of Writing is a nonfiction self-help writing/publishing book by Peter Yang. While teachers continue to impress upon their students the importance of writing, Americans are increasingly uncomfortable with the written form of communication aside from texting and hurriedly sent emails. Yang acknowledges that...

Exile and Kingdom Come: Elysium by Gregory Wallace features a collection of poems with themes of surrealism, human encounters, nature, perception, and a lot more. The poems are divided into three parts, each comprising poems that are short and succinct, written in a style that...

Lost Horses by Mark Saha is a collection of stories based upon true-to-life human emotions and characters involved in situations that range from the heartrending tale of a college student suckered into a deal in “Wide River” to the humorous situational misdirection in “Why Men...

The Mourning Report by Caitlin Garvey is raw with edges of true honesty that you won’t read anywhere else. A non-fiction memoir, Garvey sits her audience down to listen in as she interviews five people who were part of her mother’s passage from life to...

Dare Not Tell by Elaine Schroller is a beautifully written and psychologically engaging historical novel that follows a couple as they deal with trauma from war. It has been two decades since Joe Parker, an Australian war hero, left the trenches of war, and while...

All Hope of Becoming Human by Lonnie Busch is a science fiction thriller that revolves around multiple characters who encounter dangerous unearthly occurrences following an earthquake. On a site exploration. archaeologist Rebecca Duccati uncovers a mysterious metallic object that attracts the attention of Homeland Security....

Is there any hope for a woman who thinks she is oatmeal in human form? Sam might not think so, but Em and Tali, the woman she was not-so-secretly crushing on, think so, and they are determined to help her see the best version of...

After the Hunt is a debut poetry collection by Devin McGuire. The subjects are diverse: relationships, dealing with loss and personal musings on just about everything in the world today. McGuire’s reflections on his home and love of nature are also penned – whoever loves...

Lost Girls goes through a variety of stories from different women; they range from love to heartache, to grief, to making themselves heard and the importance of leaving the past behind. An unmarried young woman finds solace and comfort in a breast feeder’s support group,...

Settling an old score held Matthew Wilcox in a haunting grip that prevented him from love or finding peace in Deadman’s Lament. Linell Jeppsen unravels the story of a boy who lost his parents and his home at an early age and then found a...

Animal Land: An Allegorical Fable by Leland James is the story of all the animals who live peacefully, but the peace is threatened when crocodile like creatures attack along with other strange creatures. The citizens of Animal Land think that if they stay out of...

At the Seams by Pamela Gwyn Kripke is a story about family secrets. Told from the main character's perspective, Kate Nichols, it begins with an impactful life-altering scene. Kate is eight years old when she learns from her mother that she’d had an uncle who...

The Pale Flesh of Wood by Elizabeth A. Tucker is a beautifully written family saga that spans multiple years and explores the long-lasting effects of a decision made by Charles, a patriarch. It began when Charles returned home from the war a changed man, with...

To Begin Again by Jen Knox is a collection of short stories and essays. Due to the length of short stories and essays are very difficult to develop the meat of the plot or situations. However, Knox had no problem with the task. The common factor...