Meandering: Stories of Past, Present and Future is a work of fiction in the short story collection subgenre. It features a variety of tales from science fiction to fantasy and speculative themes and was penned by author team Francis Mont and Vera Mont. The works...

In As Time Goes By, W. Royce Adams has written an interesting book about the life of an ordinary person from a very ordinary family that could be anywhere in the world. The narrator of the story has no name but is referred to as...

The Quiet Triumph of Rachel Farrowsworth by Alison Sweeney is a wonderfully-written, moving story about an older woman’s grueling struggle to find a job and stability in her life. For three years, Rachel has filled out hundreds of applications but her job search has been...

A Bridge To Humanity is the story of a Jewish family who went from having an ideal life to suffering the consequences of the Holocaust. Anna Goldman is one of the main characters, a young woman who needed to overcome many obstacles to survive. She...

The Man Who Screams at Nightfall and Other Stories by Rush Leaming is a powerful, gritty, and exquisitely written anthology based upon the author’s own travels (and 93% true so he tells us). The tales take us to some superbly presented settings--Zaire, NYC, Thailand, Spain,...

Not Your Child by Lis Angus has a shocking prologue that describes a motor accident in which the parents were killed and the baby seat was empty. Years later, Daniel Kazan sees two girls in the park. One child reminds him of his deceased daughter....

“We are in this world to climb life’s mountains...” states Tracy Stopler through her fictional self, Tali, in her unique, based-on-fact novel, The Ropes That Bind. Tali believes that we feel our best “when we overcome obstacles” because in the “middle of life’s difficulties lies...

Life is full of both challenges and blessings, and one can seem to overshadow the other at times. In Larry's case, he happens to be swimming in challenges. Larry's marital problems receive the proverbial final nail in the coffin when his wife asks to bring...

Finding The Way by Immigrant Writers Association is a collection of fiction, nonfiction, and essays from thirteen Canadian immigrants. The first in the fiction section of the anthology, Where I Set My Anvil, immediately sets the general tone of the collection. 'The land here, despite...

Shagoon by Victoria Ventris Shea is a sweeping historical novel of life in an Alaskan Tlingit village in the eighteenth century just as the scourge of indigenous people, the colonizers and priests, were first arriving in their lands to change their way of life forever...