Trying to digest the extent and implications of Gordon L. Ewell’s injuries is nearly impossible. A career soldier, the master sergeant was severely wounded in an IED explosion in Iraq. After fifty-nine missions, it was the sixth such... Read More

There’s a curious trend among some contemporary poets to produce collections that include annotations, backstory, and personal history. In the introduction to Deidre Alexander’s Making of a Poet: Reflections in Verse, editor J. Ralph... Read More

When it comes to desire, butterflies aren’t only in the stomach—they can also flutter quite strongly a few inches lower. For two characters in Fire’s "To Love a Woman", those butterflies are a constant presence, leading them to... Read More

Everyone who thinks vampires can’t walk around in the sunlight will be surprised to meet Chuck, a red high-top wearing, self-aware do-gooder who happens to be a 642-year-old vampire stuck in an eleven-year-old’s body. In the first... Read More

Of the myriad ways to impress the “chicks,” few are more novel than the one tendered in "Caught in a Flap!", a naughty novel dealing mainly with the nether region of the female anatomy. The author, Des Parunia, a doctor with a... Read More

…Nor Shall My Sword… by Aldreg Welles has the feel of a nineteenth-century British novel. The author’s project, a modern imitation of an old beloved English novel, is successful but flawed. Welles tells the story of an English... Read More

British novelist Nikki Dorakis begins “The Hand of Justice” fantasy series with a novel featuring themes of loyalty, discipline, love, and loss. Highly skilled mage and adviser to his king, Anubis takes on an apprentice to save the... Read More

"The Journeys of Rowena Sunita Singh" is Guy Jones’s unconventional tale of a British woman’s global adventures during the first half of the twentieth century. Rowena endures abuse, loss, danger, hardship, love, and joy as her... Read More