The Healer by John Thomas Tuft melds elements of the supernatural with horror to deliver a wonderful story. The narrative opens with an emergency in the hospital. Gideon Waters enters the ER and is confronted with chaos following a tragic accident. He learns that his...

In Forest High by Bob Boone, nine stories offer slice-of-life portraits of teachers with secret lives, checkered pasts, bad habits, fleeting romances, surprising depths, and questionable values. You know, like most of us. I thought the story called Coach was especially poignant, largely because of...

A Warrior's Heart: Convocation is the third book in the Warrior’s Heart trilogy by L. Neil Thrussell. Set in the Marshall Islands, it completes the story of the friendship and mentorship between a young pilot named Graham and Akio, an elderly WWII Japanese soldier marooned...

A Thoroughly Bad Individual by Michael Biehl introduces us to a few characters we might consider bad, though he manages to give all of them redeeming qualities. But corporate attorney Stanton Florey might be well advised to avoid the former college buddy whose conduct reflected...

Henry Bradfield travels home with his family to visit his parents, only to find them clearing out all their old stuff in a garage sale. He isn't bothered until he discovers some of his most precious childhood mementos are the fastest-moving items. Trying to secure...

Neon Lights and Plane Tickets: Sci-Fi Poetic Prose Collection is a work of fiction in the dystopian, poetry, and metaphysical writing subgenres. It is best suited to the general adult reading audience owing to some moderate references to horror and violence. Penned by author Elsbeth...

In The Willing Edge by Lauren Anne Davis, after losing everything they possessed, Angela and her family relocated to Bolton, Kansas, to start again. Angela applied at Reynolds Bar-B-Q as a waitress to become self-sufficient and earn her own money. Angela waited on a large...

The Sharecropper's Son by Bobby Dan Cobbs follows the life of Dusty, a young man trapped in the cycle of poverty and oppression in rural Alabama. In the cotton fields, Dusty is consumed by a family's history of exploitation stemming from slavery's aftermath, dreaming of...

In Kidnapped in the Woods by Deena Alexander, Rachael Davenport, a journalist, has gone stealthily into the woods in search of a young woman being held captive in a cabin. In the darkness, she creeps in and rescues the girl, Jane, but it won’t be...

In Saving Raine by Marian L. Thomas, the author has written a most unusual romance, to say the very least. The story unfolds as seen through the eyes of the main character and how her world starts to unravel after the death of her husband...