Forget Me Not by Allison Whitmore is the story of Teddi and Calvin – two young people who should not even be friends but find themselves deeply in love. The story takes place in the early 1940s in a small quiet town in New York...

While I am usually not one for short stories, The Human Condition by Mark Taylor is one of the best books I have read in the last few weeks. This book is a collection of horror short stories, but they are not the kind of...

Predatory Kill: A Legal Thriller by Kenneth Eade is book 2 of the Brent Marks legal thrillers. There’s a killer on the loose, a killer who murdered April’s mother and left her father for dead, viciously beaten. April hires Brent, an attorney of 20 years,...

There's almost nothing I like better than a good murder mystery, especially on a gloomy fall day! And that's just what I got with Killer.com: Book Five in the Brent Marks Legal Thriller Series by author Kenneth Eade. Continuing the story of lawyer Brent Marks,...

The Scent of Something Sneaky is a children’s mystery by Gail Hedrick. Fourteen-year-old Emily Sanders spends the summer working at Baird’s Inn with her friend, Mary. The inn, owned by Mary’s grandmother, Gigi, comes under investigation when a guest is injured and the scent from...

An evil priest in service to the Lord of Chaos is performing gruesome experiments on children and animals, yet a nameless young girl seems to rise above it all in Sorrow’s Heart by G.S. Scott. As this innocent child develops into a young woman, she...

Mick Napier’s Improvise: Scene from the Inside Out is an excellent resource of information on improvisational theater techniques, written primarily for intermediate to advanced improvisers. However, there is much that the novice (such as myself) can learn to develop better techniques in improvisational performance. Starting...

Sci-Fi Scenes and Monster Dreams by Jan Peterson Ewen is a collection of science fiction plays. It begins with Dr Madd, who is an expert in transplanting any head to any body, when the present body becomes old or infirm. The inventor of a time...

"The original purpose of the book was not to teach acting, but to show how to synthesize it to make it more accessible to instructors and their students." That was author/acting instructor, Gavin Levy's goal. And he was successful. Acting is not, as one might...

A young girl, scarred for life from a brutal assault, thrown out of her home by a mother who no longer can stand to look at her – this girl now lives above the comic book store where she works. She hides her scarred face...

Each To Their Own by Diana J. Febry seems like a straight forward mystery novel. Dan doesn’t believe that Kaleigh, his ex-wife’s daughter, died in an accidental fall from a cliff and sets out to find the truth. The problem is that he isn’t the...

The war was over, the Devil Queen Seril cast down, and her defeat and destruction had brought eight long years of grueling fighting to a close. After her conscripted years in the battle, veteran demon hunter Karian Vanador is ready to enjoy some peace. Her...

Set on a distant place called Miasma, human colonists made the marshy and rainy planet their home. We follow the story through the first person point-of-view of three characters; Lanton Mowhay, Tanaka Emi and Mokan. Lanton is a packet-runner. He’s seemingly nonchalant but has quite...

Snapshots From My Uneventful Life is a non-fiction humorous memoir written by David I. Aboulafia. In his introduction, the author theorizes that our memories of past events are really more like snapshots taken in succession, and so the memoirs that comprise this book are his...

Cross Examinations: Crime in Columbus by John Hegenberger is a collection of four short stories, all of which contain the word “ache” in the title. The common element in each story is Eliot Cross, the main protagonist who’s a P.I. and the owner of the...

The Last Night on Earth by Victor Davis is a dystopian short story. David and Kara live in New York City, but not the New York City that you and I know. This is a city set in the future, a city that is barely...

Shiva by Victor Davis is a story that will make you hope that your pet will never run away. This short story is about a beloved pet Husky named Shiva that runs away after moving with the family to a new home. A week later...

A Night at the Lake by Victor Davis is a short horror story. Natalie and Brennan are camping out in the woods. Before they set up their camp, they go for a swim in the lake and end up on another shore. After a few...

Transform to Freedom, Book I: What You Haven't Been Told by Elliot Sabino tackles the most universally accepted explanations for key events throughout history, and presents clear, rational, and well documented arguments that things did not happen as we assume. We take it for granted...

"Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house..." Well, not really. It's a darker version that begins with "It was a black Christmas Eve and all through the world...." The meter of this poem reminds the reader of Clement Clarke Moore's classic 1837...