All Randy wanted was a simple part-time job. The Bread Company, a restaurant, seemed like the perfect place to work; it promised a safe, mindless job. But strange people claiming to be inspectors of one sort or another invade The Bread Company’s sanctuary, not to...

Clarissa: The Flight of a Monarch Butterfly, by Maria Elena Lavaud, highlights the grim reality of domestic violence that many women have come to endure. Clarissa’s husband used his wealth and influence in unspeakable ways against her and she suffered the worst kind of domestic...

What if you had an all-knowing advanced AI that brings out the worst aspects of your character and helps you bury your darkest secrets? The Hotchkiss by Pierre Lawrence may be the answer to that question. This sci-fi satire opens with Charles Crenshaw celebrating his...

Calling Mr. Nelson Pugh by Christopher Opyr is a crime thriller. One lonely night in a hotel room, we are introduced to Mr. Pugh, who is on a business trip. His wife and two daughters are at home in the United States. Mr. Pugh explains...

Murder at Manzanar by Steve Zimcosky is the story of a former police officer, now Private Detective Tom Sipowicz, operating in Cleveland. Tom’s latest investigation pertains to the life of the Sakura family who lived in the Japanese Intermittent Camps during WWII, specifically the Manzanar...

Allan Cook's Death at Monksrest centers on a journey to England that Liz Reid, an L.A.-based financial fraud investigator, historian, and Chaucer enthusiast, couldn't resist taking. She immediately flew to London to meet her colleague Charlie, who whisked her off to Monksrest estate, located in...

Perception by Unique Williams is the story of Caleb Fisher. He is the head of a special forces team tasked to enter the mountainous Afghanistan region and conquer the US opponents who used the locale to escape and attack the US forces. Although Caleb was...

Gender by Anne Harding Woodworth is two short novellas in rhyme and free verse form questioning the meaning of gender. The first story is about a young woman Martina who wants to join her father when he joins the monastery, and because she has no...

From page one, Last Chance Lane gets your blood pumping and your mind running in circles. Jennifer R. Kim leaves you questioning everything. What is reality? Do we exist in the protagonist’s mind? The story is told from a first-person viewpoint leaving you enmeshed in...

I love this anonymous opening quote: “Sometimes you will never know the true value of a moment until it becomes a memory.” How true. Life is like that: full of auspicious moments that flitter past almost undetected until, somewhere along the way, one of these...