Southern Passage by Jim Yonker is set in the 1960s and opens with 18-year-old Buster, who has just graduated from a high school in St. Louis, seeking employment during the summer months as he needs the income to subsidise his college tuition, which starts in...

Author Stevie Turner of The Daughter-In-Law Syndrome is back with Life: 18 Short Stories About Significant Life Events. In this book, Stevie provides stories that appear so real that, as you read them, you may find one that closely identifies either with you or someone...

Do No Evil by Harold J. Fischel is a riveting, mind-blowing story that is both convincing and incredible, well-written and utterly captivating. After his parents’ divorce, all Jason Housten wants is to succeed in his career, and this could mean bad news for the women...

Journey to Colonus, a stupendous novel by Franklin Debrot, is accessible to readers on every level: plotting, character development and revelation, dialogue that is authentic in every way, an empathy for racial and personality differentiation that leaves one wondering about the author’s own, and prose...

Murder: What Difference, At This Point, Does It Make? by Don Trimble, author of the phenomenal Hybris, is another compelling story, a murder story that is every bit different from what readers encounter in the mainstream murder genre. Unable to stand the suffering of elders...

The Soundtrack to Life by Grant Kniefel is a captivating, gritty short story about Jeremy Cabb. To the outside world, Jeremy is a sexy, great professional guitarist, but to those that know him personally, you would have to either love or hate him. Why? To...

Sheila Hurst's Ocean Echoes touches a subject that we as humans, especially those of us surrounded by concrete instead of the ocean, don't pay much attention to: the subject of how we, whether directly or indirectly, affect ocean life in a deleterious way. Ellen gave...

Mrs. Clohiggledy was a stylish older woman who always wore vibrant colored clothing with earrings to match. She could be seen driving a Kia hybrid, but no one except her neighbors knew that she was a hoarder. In Mrs. Clohiggledy’s Clutter: The Story of a...

Crash Gordon and the Illuminati Underground by Derek Swannson takes us on an "illuminating" ride into the dark corners where the global financial elite (the Illuminati) hide out. Its setting is a scenario where an obscure author begins to get some traction in exposing how...

Since My Name is Tookie by Chariss K. Walker is aimed at young adults, and is a story of early childhood sexual abuse, readers need to be sure they can handle the material presented. While there is no doubt in my mind that there are,...