Layla is mortified when she messes up her ABC’s at school. All the children make fun of her, tease her and laugh at her. Even though she started her day on a positive note, doing yoga with her parents and building her inner strength, she...

Ren Ellis's Confirm Humanity and Other Stories is a collection of short stories, flash fictions, and microfictions filled with questions, intrigue, tears, and hope. Ranging from familiar to fantastical, the settings and the characters are diverse. 'Deluge' starts the collection, set in the far future...

In My Book of Revelations, Gerry Burke entertains us with fantastical, imaginative stories including marvelous moments of murder, mayhem, mystery, and much more. Each story is filled with interesting facts and fiction compiled by historians and the author. The book contains information on everything from...

A mother battles her fear to save her daughter from intruders in the thriller Dark was the Night by Tania Lorena Rivera. Lucie has an abnormal fear of the dark. It has haunted her since childhood. After years of battling it, Lucie's husband Michael convinces...

Lost and Found: Book 1 of the E Apocrypha by Alex Andre follows Yun-mi, a young woman living in a broken world after all the technology has been wiped out and people are barely surviving. Under the tutelage of Kim Joon Woo, Yun-mi trains to...

As & When is a work of fiction in the post-apocalyptic thriller subgenre and it serves as the second installment to The E Apocrypha series. It is intended for the general adult reading audience owing to moderate but non-graphic references to sex and violence, as...

“Animals have the amazing ability to be exactly what we need them to be.” Many of us have had the pleasure of experiencing this special bond that can exist between an animal and ourselves. I know I have. We might think that we’re saving the...

Prey Without Ceasing is a southern gothic horror novella written by Andrew Franks. Raised in an ultra-conservative household with a strict authoritarian pastor for a father, seventh-grader Dalton has been groomed his entire life to take over the reins of his father, Gary. Whether getting...

My Dad and the Dragon, written by Montserrat Coughlin Kim and illustrated by Rebekah S Cheresnick, is a children's picture book revolving around a boy called Cameron and his family in the aftermath of a cancer diagnosis. The dragon is the cancer and the family...

The Grumpy Caterpillar: A Wise Baby Book by Mark Schustrin is an adorable picture book for young children. One day, a caterpillar is feeling sad about himself. He thinks he is ugly and feels as if people don't like him very much. But the caterpillar...

In Andrew Fortin’s moving novella, The Gracious Gift, a man struggling with alcoholism finds an abandoned baby at a dumpster at a desperate time in his life. His find changes the baby’s life and his own in ways he could never have imagined. After closing...

The 5-Time Rejected Gamma and the Lycan King by Stina's Pen is a lengthy paranormal romance that is well worth the read and features compelling characters and a well-articulated conflict. In this novel, the destiny of two phenomenal characters is set on a collision course...

Kiboko Projects is an umbrella for several cultural exchange projects that spans the three continents of Africa, Russia, and North America. Since 1999, the organization has developed and expanded its program with Mark Scheflen as the Artistic Director and Jill Raufman as Executive Director....

The Titan Protocol is a work of fiction in the military and action subgenres. It is best suited to the adult reading audience and was penned by author David Scott. In this tense and gripping contemporary military tale, we find ourselves deep in the thick...

Raise the Dead by Tony Fuentes and C.S. Kading is a paranormal thriller set in a fictional medieval world. Necromist Emilio Kane can interact with the dead. But he never ever thought that Marisol Failla, Queen of the Kingdom of The Reach, would be the...

The Lady of the Loch is a paranormal mystery novella for preteens by Ryan Vernel. Twelve-year-old Tyler Buckland is not excited at the prospect of his family's upcoming move from Oxford to the remote town of Lochview in Scotland. However, when he learns about the...

Fleur La Salle had been raised by her loving grandparents Eileen and Joe Lewis in the beautiful town of Antigonish. She had moved away to marry Arthur Boden but her marriage eventually fell apart. She realized how much better she was away from her passive-aggressive,...

Blanca Hernandez had always been the one taking care of her little brother after they lost their mother. She braved the grinding cycle that is the foster care system to stay with Mateo and keep him safe. The opportunity arose and she gladly took it,...

Truth is an introspective poetry collection by Ruben Huys. Through this mesmerizing collection of poems and writings, Huys covers various aspects of life that make it meaningful and worth living. Whereas poems like "Routine" touch on the seemingly mechanical patterns in which people sometimes find...

Tree of Lives, written by Elizabeth Garden and with artwork by Barbara Brose, is a work of women's fiction in a hybrid historical-contemporary setting that follows the account of one woman's journey to self-empowerment in the face of immense adversity. Through the detailed life of...