Pillars of Creation by Carlos Nicolás Flores follows Yoltic Cortez, a young Chicano college dropout, as he embarks on an existential journey along the Texas-Mexico border, questioning faith and identity, and searching for meaning in a world where God seems absent. After witnessing a traumatic...

“You cannot teach what you do not know. You cannot know what you never learned.” Time and experience can be the best teachers, but it takes a willingness to learn. The Two Olive Martini, a novel by Lance T. Weil, is a perfect example of...

When Gibraltar finds himself in a hospital with three men who appear eager to leave before sunset, he thinks he is having a nightmare, unaware that without them, he would meet a fate worse than death. It takes an unaging body, a sighting of vampires,...

Salvatore Cataudella’s The Noema Field: Explorations in Consciousness is a magnificent prose poem narrative. The author uses computer-savvy technical language imaginatively to offer hope that the dilemma of the AI world we are entering can eventually solve the challenge of creating AI systems that have...

Invariant by A.G. Sullivan boldly asks: “What would you change if given the chance?” This is a lush, seamless, and complex yet accessible narrative encompassing many elements: a mysterious dying man, a cryptic list (seemingly in code), an undulating journey toward clarity for anti-hero David,...

Estate: To My Once Dear Child by J. Andrew Shelley is a darkly comic literary novel that digs deep into the emotional mess that comes with inheritance. We're with Timothy as he inherits his late mother’s estate. He thinks it’s going to be a simple...

Millionaire Janitor by Lorn Bergstresser is a compelling story that follows Horatio Jefferson, a man raised by a determined single mother who instilled in him the values of respect and hard work. Through Horatio's journey, readers will learn important financial and moral lessons about life....

The Taking of the Hike by Timothy J Moriarty is a quirky, clever comedy. Lyle Speckman wakes up in a strange woman’s bedroom wearing nothing but his boxer shorts and with no memory of how he got there. From that bizarre beginning, Lyle’s misadventures spiral...

Guard in the Garden: Fables of Finlestia by Z.S. Diamanti begins with a terrifying battle in Galium, in which Felton Hudlom is badly injured. Months had passed since the tragedy, and things were slowly returning to normal, despite the severe devastation caused by the dragon's...

The amazing thing about life is how time and experiences can heal certain hurts and provide solutions to our seemingly overwhelming problems. Home 313, beautifully written by B Z, tells the story of a successful businessman named Bill Stone, who identifies himself as Adam. Throughout...