When asked his name, the frightened young boy who has just shot his mama replies: “Earl, honey.” The officer sniggers, except the response isn’t funny. Nor is Earl being sassy. He is simply slow after being brain-damaged by his abusive father years before. It’s episodes...

June Bug Gothic is a motley collection of eighteen Southern gothic tales from Robb Grindstaff, ranging from short stories to flash fiction. The first story narrates how the scent of the magnolia tree on summer nights can bring about sweet dreams. In another one, the...

The Visitor: A Novel by C. D’Angelo is a delightful story for women who love authentic, endearing, and relatable life experiences. The protagonist, 30-year-old Mary Pontrelli, is a stereotypically superstitious, impulsive, and emotional Italian. She rents a store with a studio apartment above it and...

To read Covenant Spring by Christopher Watson is to be transported not just to another place and time, but to a world that is both strange and familiar. Astute readers may recognize it as a world deep within ourselves, the one so many lack the...

Slade by Robb Grindstaff is a unique attempt, using an unusual style and format, to pinpoint and highlight both the light and dark sides of the human psyche. Written as a series of interviews, the story focuses on the incredible survival and life story of...

At Trails End: Homecoming by John Strother tells the story of four unlucky sophomore boys who attend Trails End’s high school. Unfortunately, in their first days, each boy has a fateful encounter with Assistant Coach Anders, earning themselves their respective monikers: Ink, Dusty, Smoke, and...

River of Ashes is the first novel in the St. Benedict series by authors Alexandrea Weis and Lucas Astor. Beau Devereaux is a charming, popular high school guy. The hero quarterback, handsome and rich, Beau is everything you could wish for in a young man,...

Tapestry: A Lowcountry Rapunzel by Sophia Alexander takes place in Greeleyville, SC in 1918. Gaynelle was always the first to rise and it was her favorite time of day when the world belonged to her alone. She enjoyed reading and her Aunt Anna sent her...

Mingo by W. Jeff Barnes takes us to the rugged mountains of West Virginia and coal country not long after the beginning of the twentieth century. Two young boys, Durwood and Bascom Matney, have just buried their mother, alongside their sister. Durwood’s father decides that...

Twenty-five-year-old Margaret Evans did not want pity from anyone, but for the last six years, everyone kept saying, ‘Poor Meg’. All because of her illegitimate little brat, Carin. Margaret considered herself special and wanted people to see it. She hated her parents, hated her stuck-up...