Hop Fight by S. Pluck, P. MacCruiskeen, and F. T. Marquardt is an outlandish, absurdist fiction guide masquerading as an official sports rulebook. The authors detail a high-contact, equipment-free sport in which opponents must stand on a single chosen foot and use brute force to...

Love in a Hurry by Mari Jane Law introduces Miranda Morton, a thirty-nine-year-old single mother desperate to give her son, Oscar, a sibling. She conceived through a turkey baster with her gay friend Luke. She has never been kissed, and her romantic prospects are slim...

A Third Tail by David Schecter is a delightful adventure story about two Scottish Terriers and their family. It's been a year since Piper and Mac last went to Grandma's. The two terriers live happily with their human mom, dad, and their twin children, Judy...

Alec Taylor, the Chief Marketing Officer of Biodigm, a biotech start-up, thinks he is successful. At thirty-nine, he not only boasts an athletically toned body but also a house in one of Norwich’s affluent neighborhoods. He looks down upon overweight people and believes they’re lazy....

The Secret of the Smiling Rock Man by Joe Cappello is a collection of 14 short stories that readers will enjoy. All the stories are built around characters his father used to describe as having “rocks in their heads,” people who refuse to settle for...

Some books entertain you, and others, like A. B. Watts’s Become As God, rewire you. Welcome to Modrinia, the Delivered Kingdom, where magic is outlawed and dreaded to the extent that the citizens only refer to it as “the m-word.” Sleep is a thing that...

Daniel J Wright’s Bounty follows Soryn, a Dark Crystal Elf bounty hunter living in demon-ruled Ethorel. A human tracker leads him to Neriana, a woman who has survived fifteen years since the Demon King ordered humanity’s extermination. A living human is worth one hundred million...

Perfectly Yours, Mrs. Wilcox by T.L. Forsyth is set in the 1950s in Willowbrook Heights, where Evelyn Harding arrives with her husband Richard, expecting a fresh start, only to discover that neighborhood life is governed by Patricia Wilcox, the homeowners’ association president. Patricia gives Evelyn...

Cassian Dolton’s They Were Torn Asunder follows 11701, a twenty-five-year-old coal miner in the Rénlèi Republic, where the state placement test decides each citizen’s occupation and social standing. Unable to read, 11701 saves for her two annual days of leave so she can retake the...

Sol by DiVitto Kelly follows Sol, a stubborn senior citizen who has recently retired from running a Queens deli to enjoy his golden years in Miami Beach. A family vacation to his wife Myrna’s ancestral home in Romania disrupts this peaceful retirement when a vampire...