Freckle-faced four year old Jason Smith sits on the rooftop of his Craftsman-style home in Ruidoso, New Mexico. Jason has a lisp, a wild imagination and a knack for mischief and now he is pretending he is Batman. He jumps off the roof, a twenty-two...

"Ward 2 South" is Terri M. Mitchell's first attempt at fiction. Drawing on her professional credentials and experience as a psychiatric social worker, Ms Mitchell draws eloquent word pictures of the mentally ill patients and staff in a place she calls Warren Psychiatric Hospital. Each...

Kate usually covered what reporters referred to as "bummer" stories, stories that covered “death, destruction and weeping survivors.” She was shocked when the news director assigned her to cover a human interest story. Someone had left a stack of cash amounting to $100,000 in a...

"And They Lived Happily Ever After" is a collection of stories by Crystal Connor. This anthology takes the reader on a multi-faceted trip through non-traditional horror and suspense. Most readers will enjoy being drawn into this collection of tales in such a way that the...

Episode 1, Crash Landing of the Aurora Conspiracy series, is an ideal example of an authentic attention-grabber for the first episode of any type of series. In Crash Landing an unidentified, cigar-shaped metallic object, flying through the air, crashed into the windmill belonging to Judge...

From the front cover to the last page, children will delight in the almost childlike and always colorful and quirky illustrations that accompany Maya & Filippo Play Chef at Sea by Alinka Rutkowska. This tale is another in the series of Maya & Filippo, stories...

It’s Just One of Those Days by Melissa Burke is a well written story that pulled me in immediately. The opening pages are about the main character Liz and she is talking directly to me, sharing her every thought. Liz is having 'one of those...

Poetry and Short Stories by a Bipolar Girl by Melissa Burke is at times beautiful and at times frightening in the vivid descriptions of the deep melancholy and self-destructive feelings of a teenager living with bipolar disease. The pain that she is feeling comes through...

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...

When things get tough, we all look for something or someone to lean on; some turn to booze, drugs or money while others discover that family and friends are best to hold them up. Jevon E. Thompson tells the story of a family struggling to...

Resistance, by Jaye L. Knight, is the first book in the Ilyon Chronicles: a Christian Fantasy series set in the mythical world of Ilyon. There, a small and widespread group of people secretly worship the One True God, Elôm. The majority of the population, however,...

Boom Baby Boom, A Baby Boomer’s Tales of Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll and Recovery by Robert McClellan is, as the title implies, a collection of intimate stories by an American born during the baby boom generation. As the author states in the Interview section...

Adventures of My Brother's Keeper: Let Our Ball Go by Wendy Marie Withers is the delightful story of two brothers, Samuel-Hakeem and William. Both of them do everything together and Samuel, being a year older, likes to teach William new things. One day while playing,...

Sophie and Kiera are twins. In many ways they were very much the same, but they were also quite different. While Sophie was gentle and sometimes timid, Kiera was confident, outgoing and often impatient. However, the two girls were inseparable and one thing they had...

46 by Melissa Burke is a collection of poems written over a period of several years. Melissa is a young woman battling several mental illnesses including bipolar disorder, eating disorder, OCD, and depression. As may be imagined, her poems have a raw power and quality...

Dueling Moons: A Pat Wyatt Novel, Volume 2 is a contemporary paranormal fantasy written by Laura Del. While this is the second book in the series, the author gives enough background material for it to be read as a stand-alone novel. Pat and her werewolf...

We Journey No More is a sci-fi time travel adventure by author Sahara Foley. A teenage couple tear away from society at the opening of this young adult novella near Albuquerque, New Mexico, only to find that fate has handed them a powerful and problematic...

Sister 2 Sister Princess Diaries: Sister Won’t Help by Wendy Marie Withers is a delightful children’s picture book. In this adorable book, Dad reads his two daughters, Aiyana and Dakota, the Bible story of Martha and Mary. The bedtime story closely mirrors the dilemma that...

Dr Abigail Brennaman wakes from an indeterminate period of ‘cryonic suspension’ to find herself in a strange, hospital-like environment which she is informed is called Eden. She is weak and alone, monitored by a sophisticated computer which is able to assist with her recovery using...

Birth of an American Gigolo by Deek Rhew is an entertaining story of a woman scorned by a cheating husband with his secretary, and who plans her revenge in a unique and surprising way. The story had me guessing what would happen next. I am...