When I started reading Copenhagen, the first story in Told From the Hips, a collection of short stories by Andrea Amosson, I was immediately drawn into the emotional turmoil of its character. A bicycle ride through the old city to visit a Chilean flea market...

A Secondhand Lie is the first book in Pamela Crane’s Killer Thriller Series. The story is a murder mystery mixed with family secrets. Twenty-two years ago, Landon Worthington finds his little sister’s body in their home. During that same time, his loser of a father...

Wow! Just, wow! That’s what I thought when I finished reading If…Lost or Found by author Jackie Mae. Follow the story of Sabrina, a woman who’s on a grand adventure, traveling the world. But issues from her past haunt her, and she must return home...

A Reaper of Stone is the first novella in the An Echo Of The Ascended series by Mark Gelineau and Joe King and centers around an idealistic warrior girl named Elinor. Her time in the academy isn’t much different than real life in regards to...

Population of Loss: Four Tales of the Martian War (Martian War Chronicles Book 1) by Michael and Shell DiBaggio is an interesting dystopian collection about the Martian wars. It features four separate stories about various characters who are important to this setting, and each of...

Get a Grip by Kathy Flann is a collection of short stories that evoke a sense of love and loss and share a connection in human despair. The book opens with Neuropathy, which sets the mood right away as a bitter and somewhat mentally impaired...

Lantern by Chess Desalls is a Young Adult novella that tells the story of what happens when teenager Tori discovers a strange lantern in the grounds of her grandmother’s property. It’s days away from Halloween and Tori, her three-year-old brother, and their parents are visiting...

Roger Rapel has written a story that I could just not put down in his book Seat 3F. Martyn, from the United Kingdom, goes on a business trip to Spain. During his flight, he becomes enamored with his attractive seat-mate. His seat on the plane...

Contemplations by Lisa M. Gott is an anthology of short fiction and poetry. The first piece in this anthology is the poem ‘Broken’. It’s a frank evocation of loss and separation between two people. It is just a short poem, but it lingered in my...

No one could explain the pillars on the alien planet Zarmina. Vast, overwhelming and impossibly built, the two pillars are taller than any tree known to exist in human history. A group of scientists has been trying to take a sample from the pillars for...