The narrator of The K-9 Chronicles: Book One is a sunny-natured drug-sniffing police dog for the Los Angeles Police Department. Born in Germany imported and thoroughly trained he becomes the partner of a narcotics detective named Doc. At... Read More

I thought I was in a prison, but the prison was just myself. We are all caught in ourselves. —Camus, from The Stranger The unconscious mind every so often hands a writer an intact narrative, like Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein or Robert... Read More

Slam. Boom. Smacked back and nodding into eternity. Heavenly narcotic bliss. He was in the womb again home sweet home. This (probably) false memoir depicts prolonged addiction and one man’s sporadic quest to emerge complete. Despite an... Read More

…if there is such a thing as the soul then it is still steeped in mystery and supernature and has yet to be explained… Straight out of Cape Town Izak Botha applies a wide-open mind to the task of pinning down the human soul’s... Read More

A little girl who’s afraid of the dark goes to sleep one night and dreams of a candlestick. “A simple candlestick. Not very old. Just a plain candlestick made of gold.” This candlestick however is not an object in her... Read More

Sometimes it’s impossible to find crime fiction packed with plenty of genital mutilation child murder pedophilia incest necrophilia and splattered grey matter. "Punishment and Sacrifice" offers frustrated under-served sickos a holiday... Read More

Mark Biedebach’s “memoir-based fantasy” is two intriguing stories wrapped into one. In the telling one story is easier to follow but the other is more intellectually challenging. Both however are worthy: one for the... Read More

David Boie no relation to the Thin White Duke plays the questioning straight-man in a multi-subject dialogue with a long-dead pet Thompson. The dog as in the case of the British claymation duo Wallace and Gromit is heavily armed. Not a... Read More