This tale of a man, his monkey, and revenge is a skillfully crafted story that is entertaining and fun. In "Hard Bite", written in a classic noir style, a car accident caused by a hit-and-run driver changes the life of Dean Drayhart, an... Read More

In David Khara’s "The Bleiberg Project", Wall Street hotshot trader and millionaire Jeremy Novacek is descending into a very dark emotional hole despite his worldly gains. His father’s abandonment when Jeremy was a boy continues... Read More

The year 2012 was one of the worst on record for mass shootings in the United States. Sixteen high-profile shootings occurred in a variety of settings, one an elementary school in Connecticut where 27 people, including 20 children, were... Read More

When readers first meet Janine Mitchell, she stands at an ironing board, proudly steaming and starching military creases into her husband’s uniform, preparing for his 1967 graduation ceremony and swearing in as a police officer.... Read More

When ten-year-old Warren “Thump” Hearst returns from the hospital with his leg irreparably damaged from polio, he resigns himself to a hermetic life in his bedroom without friends or baseball. Because of his mother’s... Read More

Bulla and Rudy may not be the evil next-door neighbors from hell, but they are definitely unpleasant people. If William Terry Rutherford was indeed bullied by such a pathological pair in what he claims is “a contemporary fact-based... Read More

In "Emotional Enlightenment", Jane Birdsell states, “When you understand the thoughts and feelings of another person, you empathize with them.” The difficulty, she says, is that most of us have a hard time acknowledging our feelings.... Read More

From instant enlightenment to conscious departure, the Sixth (and last) Patriarch of Ch’an (Zen) Buddhism, Hui Neng, is the subject of "Master of Zen". From the seventh Century AD, these stories, illuminating the Buddhist “middle... Read More