A bit more than halfway through Celeste Bowers’ memoir celebrating her daughter’s life, she notes that even several years after young Christina’s death, “People still ask me, ‘How do you do it? How do you keep your faith after... Read More

"Shadows and Fire" is set in a future in which mankind shares the world with genetically engineered beast-people. Both human and so-called “supernatural” society are in dire straights: Humans are under the repressive yoke of the... Read More

In Modern Disciples (Volume I), Ian Anderson conceives a brilliant concept: invite the reader to drop into the hallowed halls of the pantheon of gods—Odin, Zeus, Brahma, Horus, Quetzalcoatl, Amaterasu. But all is not well in the realm... Read More

Contemplating whether John Wayne ever went to a baby shower is of high rank among idle thoughts enlisted for literary—or at least journalistic—service. And Ben Killingsworth put it to good use in one of the 101 weekly columns he... Read More

In "All Points North", author Shelby R. Lee presents thirteen short stories in a stream-of-consciousness style employed by Faulkner and other southern writers. The author dives headlong into the psychology of the human experience in an... Read More

In this second installment of Maggie Allen’s Totoboan Trilogy, Virginia Wilson cannot remember the surreal world she visited in Africa. Tormented by nightmares and visions, she believes that returning to Totoba will bring her the... Read More

Ever since William Golding’s Lord of the Flies was published, the fascination of placing humans in a environment where their animalistic nature reveals itself has permeated many genres of fiction. The Return: Book One of the Totoboan... Read More

Everything Jon Saboe has tossed into the salad bowl that is "The Days of Lamech" can be found somewhere else on the literary grocer’s shelf, yet somehow he blends these old and familiar ingredients to make a tasty new dish. That such... Read More