Through his historical fiction novel, Sycamore Drive, Charles Michael Casper explores unpleasant truths, but in this case with a focus on the long-term ramifications of priestly pedophilia on victims, perpetrators, and whistle-blowers. The whistle-blower is a younger priest, Watson, torn by indecision regarding the confidentiality...

Pete Dawson, a British man in his mid-fifties, is dealing with a number of changes in the past few years. He was recently divorced; his ex-wife moved to New York and only one of his grown children lives with him, while the other two live...

Splintered Heart: A Red Dust Novel by Linda Dowling is a sweeping tale of abuse and heartache seen through the eyes of a thirteen-year-old girl growing up poor in the Sydney suburbs in the 1960s. Lisa was a typical, slightly rebellious girl until the day...

I stood in awe of the amazing writing skills of William H. Coles in Illustrated Short Fiction of William H. Coles: 2000-2016. This collection of short stories will not leave you with that fuzzy feeling of happy endings, but you will view humanity in times...

Coconut: Brown on the Outside, White on the Inside by Manuel Padilla Jr is the story of the Rodrigos family, a middle-class Mexican/American family living in the Los Angeles area of California and having to deal with the prejudice and racism inherent in the color...

In Thaine Chase's A Reader’s Apéritif: A Petite Assortment of Flash Fiction & Short Stories, eclectic characters come alive in ten equally eclectic tales. “A number of red dots danced on my chest, they had me dead to rights. But I knew the snipers couldn’t...

How To Be An Adult: Funny Little Stories is written by Ralph Bismargi. Jax Tyler Mann, “JTM,” is a forty-seven-year-old man with a seventy-year-old body. He also possesses the brain of a five-year-old, but oftentimes is far more slow-witted and short-tempered to adapt and move...

Indivisible by Julia Camp is a serious book. You know a book is serious when there’s a suicide on page two and when tears are streaming down your cheeks on page three. Charlie and his best friend Wes enlisted together in the war in Afghanistan....

Onansburg, Iowa by Peggy Lammers is the story of a man who learns to live once again after he lost his wife. Sonny Dawson feels lost without his wife Polly. She died suddenly, and Sonny has no idea what he will do now. The funeral...

Jaundiced Justice by Capt. Paul Barrett is a social commentary novel with brilliant aspects that still resonate today. Henry Hall grew up in a sheltered life on an Ohio farm inherited by his parents. He never attended public school, and his parents took turns in...