Justine Avery’s short story, It Gets Easier: A Short Tale of Comical Catastrophe, is a fascinating fictional work. The story begins with Jake repeating his newly-conceived mantra, “It Gets Easier.” He is driving his girlfriend Samantha to an outlying reservoir, in her mother’s borrowed car....

Lady Justice and the Sting by Robert Thornhill provides another dose of the author’s trademark mystery/comedy entertainment. There is a bittersweet aspect to this one, however. While the story itself is fiction, the premise on which it is based is all too real. The story...

The End of Time: A Fabulous Narrative (Volume I: From Waterloo to Meridian) by T.S. Creager is the first in a historical series. Historical time travel to be precise. Dhlara and Jylling are minding their own business, living their lives in a perfectly ordinary modern...

In Frosted Cowboy by Charlene Ross, Laney Delaney is on the rebound from a long-term relationship gone bad. While trying to get her love life back on track, her career as a wedding dress designer falls apart, and she has to find her way as...

Beyond Life (The Afterlife Series Book 2) by Deb McEwan is a suspenseful fiction story with a fresh take on the afterlife. What really happens when we die? Beyond Life is the second book in The Afterlife Series and takes us deeper into the lives...

In a fun, humorous and engaging read that will have special appeal for readers who hold a secret dream of writing a book some day, Booked to Death: An Author's Guide to Publishing and Murder by author PJ Campbell is a great romp through some...

The Cow in the Doorway is a young adult/new adult coming of age novel written by Gino Bardi. Tony Vitelli was not all that sure he really wanted to go to Cornell University despite the excited urgings of his father. He’d feel a lot more...

Plan Bea is the story of a mother and daughter and the many downs and very few ups of their lives. Beatrice (Bea) is the mother, a very cold and angry woman. Annabel (Anna) is her daughter who has a loving marriage to Cole and...

After having just finished reading Your Honor by Eden Wolf, I am left with a non-fading smile. Set in a court room, Your Honor features Izzy Leigh Dunne – former IT Girl – as the plaintiff in a humorous lawsuit against her stalker (the defendant),...

Last Shot: A Short Tale of the Absurdity of Life and Death is a contemporary fiction short story written by Justine Avery. Bernard was a precise and orderly man who was sick and tired of the world. He felt unappreciated and scorned by people who...