If The Art of Love (& Loathing) by Stephen Daniel Ruiz were an academic treatise, it might be called: A Study in Cynicism. But it is not. Nor, as might be suggested by this inauspicious opening, is it gratuitously heavy-handed in its mordacity. Quite the...

Two years after their father's death, Julia, Anna, and Marion descend on their childhood mansion. A house that harbors childhood memories and the spirit of their high-handed father. There, the girls are forced to reexamine their past, themselves, and their relationship with their father. The...

The Virgin and The Kings by Patricia Looper is the story of a young girl as she is forced to grow up a little too quickly due to her circumstances. Abishag knew that her future was not hers to make but for her father to...

Humans, Consciousness, and Everything in Between by Emily Kavic is an imaginative, clever commentary on humanity, life, death, time, war, mental health, and other themes. It tells the story of human nature through a couch that travels from place to place. As you read, you...

In Child of Gilead, "The Boy" is encouraged by his mother to always follow the Road Less Traveled and avoid The Madness. Her rules are meant to "reveal a higher truth about what it takes to live a more meaningful and transcendent life.” On the...

Life Is Big is a work of fiction written in the literary style by author Kiki Denis. Focusing on primary themes such as death and illness, conceptual thinking, and historical progressive thinkers, this accessible read is suitable for audiences of all sensitivities. We find ourselves...

A File of a Life by Christina McKinney is the story of a daughter as she experiences her mother’s presence through the things she left behind. Jill never got over her mother Bobbie’s death. She never found closure, and that translated into her other relationships....

Aliens, Drywall, and a Unicycle by Kevin St Jarre is almost a coming of age story, but with a twist. When Tom Tibbets takes a job at a weekly newspaper in a small town in New Hampshire, he has no idea he will become more...

"At that moment, the moon breaks through the clouds and magnifies Rokurobei’s silhouette, standing at the handrail of the fortified wall. I freeze...Time skips a beat. Then I realize that the serpent’s neck is looking in the opposite direction; I sense he’s deep in thought,...

Farewell, Everything is a work of fiction in the supernatural, magic realism, and horror sub-genres, and was penned by author Véva Perala. This lavishly tragic and bittersweet tale does contain some themes which certain readers may be sensitive to, such as drug usage, discrimination, death,...