As boys Azerier and his pals grew up in Washington Heights New York studying the uniforms of soldiers navy officers and marines that happened through their neighborhood. When Gary improperly identifies a marine in casual khaki dress his... Read More

In Hollywood getting to the top can be murder. Star-studded foul play abounds in Bernard Harland’s mystery/suspense novel "Death Circles the Square" in which homicide and desire complicate the London premiere of a romance movie. The... Read More

“A one-in-a-million thing had happened again” Kellee Stone writes. “My babies were gone from my life forever and so was the house.” Stone’s alter ego the barely fictionalized Ann Deane Teal suffers through unthinkable loss in... Read More

Charley is part of a loving accepting family. As a baby “…Charley did not know that he could not walk or run / To him it was enough to have his family and their love.” "A Race for Charley" gives a hopeful view of a child living... Read More

Penelope Bernard’s tax-dodging husband a software hundred-millionaire crashes her against the rocks of a pre-engineered divorce trial easily manipulating false testimony from her hopelessly dependent younger sister and even the... Read More

"While Waiting" positions expectations by invoking Hoosier poet James Whitcomb Riley; its stories present couples at dances relishing their evenings to the tune of “In the Mood” and “Darkness on the Delta.” The war generation... Read More

“In a nutshell corporate survival is about competence and relationships just like the Marines” author José Astorga writes. “If I were to come up with a very short recipe for survival or success it would have to be: Competence... Read More

“Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify simplify.” *—*Henry David Thoreau That line becomes the mantra of a mom of two in her early forties with a career as a university administrator in Wisconsin. Sheila excels at meeting... Read More