Edward Eaton gives readers a new take on an old story in Hector and Achilles, a verse drama of the great battle of heroes in the Trojan war. The dramatic dialogue is written in a series of the standard 5-7-5 haiku, lending power and...

Pride always comes before a fall and when you couple that pride with hate and revenge you’ll see that there’s more evil in the world than anyone would care to admit. Evil is lurking in Sundowner County and most definitely it’s lurking in Hyde’s Corner....

There’s not much that can ruin more lives and create more mayhem than hate and hate is exactly what’s brewing in Hyde’s Corner. Not only are the Hydes the owners of nearly everything in the little town but they’re also the arch enemies of the...

When I started reading Hateful Burden - Book One of the Carrier Trilogy by Natalie Gibson, I was immediately drawn into the world of Ramillia, who is the main character of the story as well as the narrator of most of the book. She wakes...

Henry James, also known as Hank, was twenty-one when he and his partner Harry Gilmore decided to homestead. Hank was actually looking for Sharon Dalton too, whom he had fallen hard for while they were living in Farwell, BC, where Hank had a successful freight...

In 1967 in Forrest Town, Arkansas, eighteen year old Alison Tillman finds the body of a dead black man, Byron Bingham, floating in the nearby St.Francis River. Alison is ashamed to be white as she is almost certain that white people caused Byron's death. His...

"Huckleberry Finn Grows Up" by Sam Sackett brings us back to the world of the beloved characters of Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer. Deciding to get away from Aunt Sally's plans to make him behave, Huck runs off to Injun territory leaving his best friends...

"Hammer Come Down" begins in Alabama in the 1830's. President Andrew Jackson has ordered Native Americans to relocate from their eastern and southern American locales to the Western territories. Jason, an African-American bondsman to Tolin Cobb, returns with Tolin from the Seminole wars in Florida...

Slavery. In the twenty-first century it is difficult to imagine relationships among free and owned people. Due primarily to the poor living conditions of slaves on this plantation and the uncaring attitude of the owner, Hester's mother died after giving birth when Hester was just...

Lydia Walcott's life in Ringle, Iowa, was far from easy. She was left in the care of her ruthless brother at the age of thirteen when her parents died. The only solace she found was with an older lady named Aggie Cuttler who befriended her...