Meet Ella Boudreaux, a self-confessed nag. By no means –- as Ella herself insisted –- is she a negative person. Persistent might be a better word; she is the kind of person you'd ask for directions if you were lost, or provides you with a...

Sleeper by Sophia Frazier is really a rather unique book. As written, a young woman awakes to find the power had gone off overnight, so her alarm clock failed to wake her. Jumping out of bed, she ran to the shower, only to discover there...

Devil Let Me Go by Nathan Robinson is an exceptionally good collection of previously published short stories. Many of these fall into the “horror” genre, but not all. The final story, for example, would more closely associate with paranormal romance, although it is not at...

Invasion of Privacy and Other Short Stories is a collection of Jim Liston's tales and vignettes. The title story, Invasion of Privacy, is about Jim Gotweb, a computer geek who has a little computer store which he runs with his wife until she's stabbed and...

Ethan is a sentient software who always dreams of visiting the real world which he can only glimpse through the Internet. His wish comes true when he is granted access into the Flesh. However, the procedure is not without a hefty cost. When his father’s...

Salted With Fire by Nancy LaRonda Johnson is about the transformation of a woman from worldly to spiritual values. It is a sort of confessional theme with the author letting you peek into some of her most personal stories and episodes in her life. Flash...

Mark Wiseman dreads life without his beloved wife, Orchid, who died due to an accident. It seems his last chance to bring her back comes in the form of a mysterious stranger who calls himself the Necromancer. The offer is clearly ominous from the start....

Nine Lives by Dave Dumanis is an intriguing concept collection of short stories. In Breakfast at Tiffany’s, the character Paul Varjak is a writer who hasn’t successfully written anything for years. His last published work was a collection of vignettes entitled Nine Lives. Dumanis’s book...

When Melinda Dawson found out she was pregnant, her parents promptly packed her up and shipped her off to a home for unwed mothers. Forced to give up the child she nearly died to deliver and without any sign from her boyfriend Greg Hart, Melinda...

In Cutting Right to the Chase, Chase Williams is an import/export executive at Ernesto Ceccarelli’s Cashmere in Turnesia, a beautiful medieval city in Italy. Yet, as a former officer of Scotland Yard, he’s always at the right time and the right place to stop crime....