Good poetry makes readers think beyond the obvious. Each word within a line is a building block in the foundation of one stanza and then another. Like the shaping of a Bonsai tree, poets trim extraneous words and syllables until... Read More

The difficult transition home from combat deployment is made more troublesome by society’s lack of understanding that the return to civilian life does not mean that one has given up identifying oneself as a warrior, says Dr. Charles W.... Read More

Carrington Coyle a.k.a. Cinderella cleans house cooks the meals and takes abuse from her evil alcoholic mother and spoiled half-sister. Although it is not billed as a Cinderella story this is a modern version of the old fairy tale that... Read More

On July 9, 1993, Jimmy Scott’s arms and back ached from lifting fifty-pound sandbags all day. He and scores of other volunteers had been working against time and the rising waters of the Mississippi River to secure the levee that... Read More

It is one of the great travesties of the human experience that violence is often perpetrated by those claiming to follow Jesus, Mohammed, and other spiritual leaders who advocated peace. Therefore, the premise of this novel, a genetic... Read More

The winner of the Indie Excellence Award for Fantasy and Science Fiction steers a sure course away from the wreckage-strewn shoals common to the genre delivering a well-conceptualized story which seems to reflect real history yet... Read More

Coming in after the beginning of a soap opera is confusing; one doesn’t quite know who’s who—something even the characters can have trouble figuring out. "Child Secrets" is a soap opera in print the third installment in novel form... Read More

“What wisteria and alcohol are to Faulkner, and fishing and bullfights to Hemingway, rudeness is to Roth,” writes the author. “It seems to be everywhere in his books—a sport and a pastime, often delivered as a rant. Rudeness in... Read More