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One Shoe and the Golden Medallion

by Emily Asad

“We will transform you into virtuous human beings,” claims eight-year-old Novia, an impoverished Haitian child who reaches enlightenment in Russel Frederick Ahrens’s "One Shoe and the Golden Medallion". When Maury Levet, a... Read More

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A Story of Troy Polyxena

by Emily Asad

For thousands of years, history has repeated the names Odysseus, Achilles, Paris, and Hector, recounting their glorious deeds in the annals of time. Women in these epics are only mentioned in brief passages, despite their influence. H.... Read More

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Katie

by Emily Asad

Battered women often feel trapped in their marriages. Carol James’ "Katie", a Western romance set in both Dodge City and Denver following the Civil War, follows one such woman as she finds the courage to break the cycle of abuse. Katie... Read More

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The Anomaly

by Emily Asad

Everyone wonders what happens when a person dies. The shell decomposes, true, but what about the eternal soul? What further adventures await? Wendy Joyce’s "The Anomaly" throws back the veil that divides the celestial realms of Haven... Read More

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Now What?

by Emily Asad

When Jorl and his wife, Tarla, talked about taking a family vacation, they pictured poolside drinks and late-night dancing, not explosions and enemy invasions. Yet, that is precisely what they encounter in Barbara J. Hamblen’s debut... Read More

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Lefties

by Emily Asad

Grandmothers are supposed to wield rolling pins and trays of cookies, not pistols, knives, and nooses. Yet the grandmother in "Lefties", by Karmel Arbelaitz, is on a mission: Rid the world of men with no morals, especially those who... Read More

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Tainted Child

by Emily Asad

The idea that angels and demons have been warring since before the creation of mankind is nothing new, and neither is the notion that celestial rebels mated with the daughters of men to produce hybrid offspring. In "Tainted Child", by... Read More

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