In Ryan Masters’ Above an Abyss, ‘Trampoline Games’ tells of the inferno-summer of 1986 in Sandy, Utah, a suburb of Salt Lake City, where Jacob, the new 12-year-old in town, meets and befriends Finn Levy, a rebellious and eccentric red-haired kid who sports a...

Annie and the Outlaw by Nancy Schumacher is an entertaining tale as Annie Callahan and Cane Smith come to terms about raising young Mark. Annie has cared for him since he was a newborn, but Cane is his biological father and demands custody. The one...

Hope and her young son, Jake, are on a journey around the country, taking in the sights and learning as they go. Hope is homeschooling Jake as they travel. In reality, they’re running away. At least Hope is. When the car breaks down and requires...

ABCs of Horror by Anmol Rawat is a horror anthology packed with 26 short stories. The theme of ABCs of Horror is that each title represents a letter in the alphabet, a clever feat. Each short story features a different horror plot. A couple of...

Raymond leads a happy, normal life. He has a successful career in a commercial building supply company, a marriage of 12 years to Gwendolyn, and has a great father-son relationship with his 11-year-old son, Justin, who loves to make airplane and rocket models. When unexpected...

A Distant Moon by Erik DeLeo is the prequel to his Sentience trilogy. The novella introduces ex-fighter pilot Reg and his trusty robot sidekick RAUL (an unimaginative name for the mechanoid’s trade name Robotic Assistance Unit Limited) as they crash land on an uninviting and...

With thematic threads and certain plot elements reminiscent of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol and the long holiday movie classic It’s A Wonderful Life, D.L. Finn’s short-short book, A Long Walk Home, offers a feel-good antidote to potential seasonal doldrums, as well as a cautionary tale...

Alice by Bibiana Krall is a short supernatural story about a young girl, Bibiana, who works at a homeless shelter: Beth Manna. As Bibiana checks the list, she notices a resident who has no other family, a rarity in Beth Manna. Bibiana is a former...

Approaching Footsteps is an anthology of suspense novellas written by Patricia Flaherty Pagan, Rita Banerjee, Donna Hill, Jennifer Leeper and Megan Steusloff. In The Reiger File, by Jennifer Leeper, Tom Reiger, a small-town young man with dreams of becoming a private investigator, takes his leave...

A Holiday by Gaslight: A Victorian Christmas Novella by Mimi Matthews is a short historical romance set in England during the 1860s. For Sophie Appersett, the daughter of an established, but almost bankrupt baronet, life isn’t easy in this time of tremendous change. After her...