Music From a Strange Planet: Stories by Barbara Black is a work of fiction and a short story anthology in a variety of subgenres. It is best suited to the adult reading audience or mature YA readers. In this varied and enjoyable collection, the author...

Music Notes is a collection of seven short stories about singers from varied backgrounds trying to get by in a world where the pursuit of art and success sometimes produce mixed results. Written by J.J. Maze with some eye-catching line drawings by Indonesian illustrator Ryan...

Mother Knows Best is a short story by Valerie Allen. Bobby has finished high school and is working as a dishwasher in a restaurant to pay for his car insurance while he continues to live at home. His parents Maggie and Jimmy are extremely agitated...

Kevin Hopson guides his readers down Mean Streets, a fast ride full of action and mystery. Gary Thompson, a driver for a local chemical company, returns from a business trip, and his girlfriend, Sandra Gonzalez, calls him to a diner to meet with her. He...

Maggie's Story by Diana Stout tells us about a young girl from the Bowery, an impoverished suburb of New York. The events take place at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries. Maggie lives in poverty. She struggles to get...

Murder at Manzanar by Steve Zimcosky is the story of a former police officer, now Private Detective Tom Sipowicz, operating in Cleveland. Tom’s latest investigation pertains to the life of the Sakura family who lived in the Japanese Intermittent Camps during WWII, specifically the Manzanar...

I love this anonymous opening quote: “Sometimes you will never know the true value of a moment until it becomes a memory.” How true. Life is like that: full of auspicious moments that flitter past almost undetected until, somewhere along the way, one of these...

The title of this book intrigued me which is why I chose it. I have always been fascinated by magpies and this book certainly did not disappoint. Magpies and Murder by Steven Gossington is wonderfully written in an easy-to-read style that develops at a fine...

Manav, The Human by Ravi Ranjan Goswami is a great read that reshapes our mindset concerning politics and people. When the righteous are in power, the people rejoice. But when the wicked are in power, the reverse is the case. In this amazing book, Chagan...

Most of us know the story of Medusa. She is the woman with snakes as hair who turns men to stone when they look into her eyes. She is killed by a hero, chosen by the gods, that uses the reflection of a shield to...